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The BBC issued an on-air correction this morning, after a Tory MP made an inaccurate claim about Labour's stance on tuition fees.

Former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan suggested Labour had dropped their commitment to axeing tuition fees for university students.

Labour included the commitment in their 2016 election manifesto, budgeting £9.5 billion for it in their costings.

But speaking to Radio 4's Today Programme, Ms Morgan suggested they'd buried the idea because it would cost too much.

She said: "I think pretty soon after the election, as far as I can remember, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell both said: ‘Oh, well, we’re not sure we’re going to abolish it.’

"It was all, you know, a promise made in the heat of an election that they knew was absolutely unaffordable and I think young people know that too."

The claim went unchallenged during the interview.

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But Labour's Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell tweeted a correction, saying: "Tory Nicky Morgan on @BBCr4today misrepresents Labour’s tuition fees policy and goes unchallenged by interviewer John Humphries but BBC refusing to correct. So let’s make it clear once again to the BBC and everybody else, Labour will abolish tuition fees."

As the programme drew to a close, Humphrys corrected Ms Morgan on air, saying: "Ms Morgan suggested that Labour had suggested after the election that they could not afford to abolish student fees in England.

"Labour have been in touch with us to point out that that’s wrong and they are committed to abolishing those fees.”

Senior Tories, including Theresa May have frequently claimed Labour had walked back on a commitment to wiping out student debt in recent months.

That's a different claim, referring to existing debt rather than new fees.

But it's also wrong.

Jeremy Corbyn has never made a commitment to wiping out student debt. He said he would be "looking at ways that we could reduce that, ameliorate that, lengthen the period of paying it off , or some other means of reducing that debt burden."