The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, is risking the renewed anger of the Labour leadership by attacking the party's higher education policies.

In a strongly-worded foreword to a report on further and higher education in the Capital, Livingstone states his "irrevocable" opposition to charging students tuition fees of any kind, in contrast to the government's policy of retaining fees and increasing them to up to £3,000 a year from 2006/07.