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Ed Davey: Lib Dems are winning back trust after 2010 U-turn on pledge to scrap tuition fees
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6/29/2024
Ed Davey: Lib Dems are winning back trust after 2010 U-turn on pledge to scrap tuition fees
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You're reminded of all the time is the fact that Liberal Democrats promised to curb student fees
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and in fact you ripped up that promise and they were tripled. If there's somebody watching now
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who's angry about austerity and angry about the level of student fees why should they trust Ed
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Davie? Well there were very difficult decisions that's true and that was probably the most
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difficult one and Liberal Democrats got punished. I lost my seat along with many many colleagues
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and we've had three tough elections and I've had time to really reflect on that
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and there are two big lessons I've learned from that experience more broadly. The first is don't
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promise something you can't deliver and as leader with the manifesto for a fair deal you've got on
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the table there I've made it clear that everything in there can be delivered practical, costed and
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so on. So that was the first lesson. We will come to that. The second lesson was we needed to
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rebuild trust because you say people might say well why can we trust him? We needed to really
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work on that. When I became leader in my acceptance speech I said we needed to wake up and smell the
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coffee and we needed to talk to people in their communities to find out what their problems were
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and make sure we had answers for them and that's what we've done and I think through this
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Parliament, whether it's the Parliamentary by-elections we've won in Conservative heartlands,
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whether it's the local elections we've won where we've performed extremely well, pushed the
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Conservatives to the third place, I think yeah I think we are.
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