article_snippet.sent: Nick Clegg will today promise the highest education spending of any party with a £5billion flagship offer to undecided voters.
article_snippet.sent: Nick Clegg (left) will today promise the highest education spending of any party with a £5billion flagship offer to undecided voters.
article_snippet.sent: It is understood that Nick Clegg will say this is a deal-breaker in any future coalition talks after May 7, in order to win over ‘centre-ground’ Conservative voters worried about funding cuts for schools.
article_snippet.sent: Education is a sore point for many who backed the Lib Dems in 2010 on the promise that the party would scrap tuition fees and then saw the party trebled to £9,000 per year.
article_snippet.sent: But Nick Clegg will claim the Lib Dems are now ‘the party of education’ and the school funding commitment is firm because the party of education’ and the school funding commitment will be on the front page of today’s manifesto of pledges.
article_snippet.sent: The tuition fees pledge was not on the front page in 2010, and the Lib Dem leader said those which were, such as increasing the income tax allowance, the Lib Dem leader had stuck ‘doggedly, religiously’ to.
article_snippet.sent: Nick Clegg will claim the Lib Dems are now ‘the party of education’ and the school funding commitment the school funding commitment is firm because it will be on the front page of today’s manifesto of pledges .
article_snippet.sent: In a pitch to Tory voters in battleground areas such as the South West, Nick Clegg will say people ‘are right to distrust Conservatives on education’.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking on the campaign trail in Lewes in East Sussex, Mr Clegg said Mr Clegg had noticed voters in seats fought between the Tories and Lib Dems were expressing concern about spending on public services.
highlights_snippet.sent: Nick Clegg will claim the Liberal Democrats are now ‘the party of education’ 