ACT leader David Seymour maintains fees-free tertiary education is on the scrap heap if his party gets sway after October's election.
It comes after National this week reserved its position on the policy, saying it won't abolish the promise despite campaigning for that in 2020.
Seymour says this is about taking a principled position.
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