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article_snippet: That's a promise we made to the British people.'
article_snippet: When we made that comment ... we were very clear that was what we wanted to do.
article_snippet: that comment remains the objective towards which the Prime Minister and others are working.'
article_snippet: When the latest figures were released last week, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today said the Tories must now 'quite rightly suffer the embarrassment' of breaking the promise.
article_snippet: Sunder Katwala, director of the British Future think tank, said: 'If the Prime Minister remains in denial about the broken target, the Prime Minister is setting the Prime Minister up for five more years of failure.
article_snippet: It is already clear there is next to no chance of meeting the same target in this Parliament either. '
article_snippet: It's absurd to think that anyone would believe the promise if the promise's made again. '
article_snippet: There is a simple political moral to this tale: careless promises cost trust.'