SIR - I’m afraid the point was missed in “Poorest students...hit by tuition fees”, (Letters, March 7).

The fact is that all students are hit by tuition fees, though under the coalition the poorest get more allowances. It is the repaying of student tuition fees by graduates which prompted the Lib-Dems to insist on a higher threshold of earnings before repayment starts.

This benefits the poorest who may need to repay nothing as debts are written off after a period (a fact that some of your left-wing correspondents have complained about).

This is distinctly more advantageous to poorer graduates than under Labour’s old regime. Labour’s new plans to reduce tuition fees for all graduates will not benefit the poorest (already benefitting under the coalition).

It will benefit the highest earning graduates who will save £9,000!

Is this really who Labour should be helping - or like their increase in income tax on the poorest earners - is this just incompetence?

John Hall, Pennithorne Avenue, Baildon