In the 2001 general election campaign, there was a clear winner among the complaints to Labour candidates on the doorstep: university fees. Tony Blair himself admitted to being taken aback by the hostility over the introduction of tuition fees and the scrapping of maintenance grants, one of the first major decisions of his new administration in 1997. So one of the first major decisions of his second administration was the commitment to "find a better way to combine state funding and student contributions".

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