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I’m old so can remember Blair announcing in 1999 a target of getting 50% of people to university (today we’ve just got there and now he says 70% would be better). In 1990 it was 25% that went.
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Blair came in and just abolished the grant completely.
I think that was part of the idea of getting more folk to go to university by expanding loans rather than a means to exclude: I suppose it's part of the idea that individuals should be able to invest in their own future, rather than the dangerously subversive notion that as a nation we might consider education as an investment in the country's future.
The move to tuition fees that went along with it was based on a study/report (Dearing, according to Wikipedia) - no idea what the terms of reference were though.
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True but I was a student at the time and remember the Tory plan was to stop when it was 50% loan 50% grant.
Blair came in and just abolished the grant completely.