But on issues of taxation, public spending, and other key economic issues, students were found to be to the right of the population at large.
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Just 45 per cent of students said that the top rate of tax should be 50 per cent or more, far less than the 56 per cent of the general public who agreed with this statement.
On the issue of nationalisation, students were far less likely to support bringing utility companies back into state ownership.
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