The Liberal Democrats»
broken tuition fees pledge is the most spectacular example - but the «no» campaign has both governing parties covered.
This is as clear a broken promise by Boris as Nick Clegg's
tuition fees pledge, and equally as brazen.
A small example: I know that a LOT of us have privately and publicly given Nick Clegg a piece of our minds over
the tuition fees pledge.
As if an apology, distributed, remixed and recently digitally marketed, wasn't enough, Nick Clegg in a Q+A session today was again confronted with not only the issue he has apologised for — reneging on
his tuition fee pledge — but also on the very nature of the apology itself.
Nick Clegg tried to cheer his troops by apologising for
his tuition fees pledge, which ended up being remixed and made into a song.
Lib Dem Cabinet minister David Laws told the Today programme that every Liberal Democrat MP has «collective responsibility» for
the tuition fees pledge - despite 21 Lib Dem backbenchers having rebelled against the reform.
The Liberal Democrats planned to abandon
their tuition fees pledge before the general election, it has emerged.
Clegg's apology over breaking
his tuition fees pledge will benefit his party, marginally at least, come 2015 when it is time for the next round of manifesto pledges.
It is why he went into the coalition negotiations ready to drop his party's
tuition fees pledge - and much else besides - but with electoral reform as non-negotiable.
Breaking
his tuition fees pledge could cost Nick Clegg his seat — if Sheffield Hallam students rally against him at the polls