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When I meet people around the country

It's obvious that many of you have strong, pretty mixed reactions,

to some of the things the liberal democrats have done in government.

Many of you tell me that you're glad that at a time of real economic uncertainty

we put aside our political differences to provide our country with stable leadership.

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But I also meet people who are dissapointed and are angry that we couldn't

keep all our promises we couldn't keep all our promises

above all our promise not to raise tuition fees

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and to those people I say this

we made a promise before the election

that we would vote against any rise in fees

we would vote against any rise in fees

we would vote against any rise in fees

it was a pledge made with the best of intentions

the best of intentions

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but we shouldn't have made a promise

we weren't absolutely sure we could deliver

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I'm sorry, I'm sorry

I'm so, so, sorry

There's no easy way to say, i'm sorry, i'm sorry

I'm sorry, I'm sorry

I'm so, so, sorry

There's no easy way to say, i'm sorry, i'm sorry

When we're wrong we hold our hands up,

but when we're right we hold our heads up too,

you learn from your mistakes and that's what we will do,

I accept that won't be enough for everyone but I owe it to you,

you learn from your mistakes and that's what we will do

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I'm sorry, I'm sorry

I'm so, so, sorry

There's no easy way to say, i'm sorry, i'm sorry

I'm sorry, I'm sorry

I'm so, so, sorry

There's no easy way to say, i'm sorry, i'm sorry

We are sorry, we are sorry

The liberal democrats are sorry

There's no easy way to say, we are sorry, we are sorry

We are sorry, we are sorry

The liberal democrats are sorry

There's no easy way to say, we are sorry,

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And, if we've lost your trust,

that's how I hope we can start to win it back.