Originally published @ 11:43 pm, Thu 4th Nov 2010
Edward Miliband: ... The Prime Minister has talked a lot about restoring trust in politics. What does he expect of members of his Government who gave cast-iron guarantees to their voters six months ago that they would vote against a rise in tuition fees?
The Prime Minister: What I would say to everyone who is part of the Government is that I think that they have all taken some courageous and difficult decisions to deal with something that, frankly, we all want.
Except of course, that those who were courageously defending the difficult decision to have tuition fees at all during the last General Election were losing votes to opponents who were swearing that they didn't need to have tuition fees at all.
The Lib Dems more than once are thought to have considered changing their policy, but each time decided they'd prefer to courageuosly pick-up protest votes from students and their families, probably to the tune of winning some university seats that they may have otherwise lost (e.g. Manchester Wythenshaw).
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