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Ed Miliband and Ed Balls speeches on reducing university tuition fees; ENGLAND: West Yorkshire: Leeds: Leeds College of Music:INTEd Balls MP (Shadow Chancellor) along and taking seat / Rachel Holland (President of University of Leicester Students' Union) speech SOT / Ed Miliband MP (Labour Leader) arriving to applause and shaking hands with audience members / Ed Miliband MP (Labour Leader) speech SOT**Speech transcript: check against delivery**- Today is about the young people of Britain.And all who care about them right across the generations.I have listened to you.And today I pledge the government I lead is going to work with you to change your future for the better.Four years ago I said the Promise of Britain – that the next generation will do better than the last – was being betrayed.Some people doubted it.Few doubt it today.For all the talent and ambition of our fantastic young people, we are a country where it is now almost taken for granted that young people will find life harder than their parents.We are going to turn that around.And it is true wherever you look at the prospects in Britain today.Services for children in the early years in decline.Class sizes growing in our schools.The number of apprenticeships for the young actually falling.Young people leaving university saddled with greater and greater debt.Many unable to find stable and well-paying jobs.And it is harder and harder for those just starting out to find a home of their own.The promise of Britain is being broken.Today we say enough: it is time to restore the promise of Britain.And what has happened over the last five years is not just bad for young people themselves.It is a disaster for Britain.Because a country where the next generation is doing worse is a country in decline.All that talent.Ambition.Hope for the future.Going to waste.Plans put to one side.Dreams dashed. ...