LONDON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The violence that greeted a move to increase college tuition in Great Britain "is totally unacceptable," the British prime minister said.
British lawmakers narrowly passed a measure Thursday that would dramatically increase university tuition. Rioters in the wake of the vote broke the windows of a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife Camilla Parker Bowles, who were uninjured in the incident.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the British people are entitled to express themselves peacefully and in public but the demonstration-related violence Thursday was "totally unacceptable".
"It is clear that a minority of protesters came determined to provoke violence, attack the police and cause as much damage to property as possible," he added in a statement. "They must face the full force of the law".
Cameron defended the tuition raise, saying it would open British universities and improve the education system.
"They will create a dynamic university sector that can compete with the very best in the world," he said of the increase, which is planned for 2012. UPI
