| | | Monday, 24 August | | | By 43% to 34%, Britons in principle support reducing fees for EU students to get better trade terms | | | | i News today leads with reports that Andy Burnham is open to cutting university fees for EU students as a bargaining chip for a better Brexit deal | | | | In principle, the public are more likely to support such a move than oppose it, by 43% to 34% | | | | Most Green (59%), Labour (57%), and Lib Dem voters (57%) are in favour, compared to only 30% of Tories and 15% of Reform UK voters | | | | | | | | | | With Andy Burnham making his first visit to Ukraine since becoming prime minister, the front pages today reported that the UK is gifting Ukraine secret blueprints for long-range missile components | | | | Today’s poll shows that the public are in favour of such a move, with 53% supporting giving Ukraine blueprints for hi-tech weapons systems so they can manufacture them themselves, more than double the 25% who are opposed | | | | The majority of Lib Dem (75%), Tory (62%), Labour (62%) and Green voters (55%) support passing on weapons blueprints, while Reform voters are split, with 40% also in favour but 44% opposed | | | | | | | | | | Yesterday saw reports that a motion drawn up by the Green Party's crime and justice working group would call for tasers and pepper spray to be removed from police officers | | | | The proposal – since withdrawn – would not have found favour with the public, with 80% of Britons saying police should be allowed to carry tasers and the same number saying they should be allowed to carry pepper spray | | | | While most voters for all main parties say police should be allowed to carry tasers and pepper spray, Green voters are notably less likely to say so (58%) than others (79-95%) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |