By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk
* University funding – a dress rehealsal for the cuts to come?
* Next Left takes a look at the “new politics” approach to university finance…
* Bash bankers, not the poor, says Mary Riddell in the Telegraph.
* Steve Richards doesn’t believe that Osborne will get his 25% cuts.
* Dozens of maternity and casualty wards will close – despite Tory claims that front-line services would be preserved.
* TUC warns on youth unemployment.
* More benefit changes to come, says IDS.
* And tributes have been paid to Labour peer Lord Acton, who died yesterday.
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