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EXCLUSIVE: Conrad Landin reports from Glasgow

STUDENT leaders were slammed yesterday for prioritising “going to gala dinners” over supporting striking lecturers.

Opening the National Union of Students (NUS) conference yesterday, the organisation’s president Shakira Martin vowed to “make student poverty history.”

But leftwingers said Ms Martin had failed to offer “meaningful support” to university staff on their strike over pension cuts.

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