AT the recent election many newly registered young voters rallied to Jeremy Corbyn (and again at Glastonbury this weekend) taken in by his promise of utopia.

Students were understandably enamoured by the thought of free tuition at university.

I have heard some on television saying this is their right. I don’t understand this at all.

Nobody has a right to anything unless they earn the money and pay for it. Free tuition is a utopian ideology but it isn’t really free.

Free tuition for a student simply means somebody else is paying for it. No student has a right to expect this.

In an ideal world it would be good but this isn’t an ideal world.

Furthermore students are only at university for an average of three years. After this they will be in the workplace for 40-plus years.

Once they understand the impact of Jeremy Corbyn’s spending promises on their earnings (much higher taxes and interest rates) they will realise that paying back student debt at ultra low interest rates and having them cancelled after 30 years whether or not they have paid them back in full was much closer to utopia than a Corbyn government.

The 1970s Labour government which Corbyn wants to emulate resulted in the highest rate of tax reaching 98 per cent, including the so-called investment income surcharge, and resulted in Margaret Thatcher being swept to power in 1979 to save the country.

Students voting Labour is like the proverbial turkeys voting for Christmas.

Tony Taylor, Grassholme, Woodthorpe, York