Video: Nick Clegg says 'sorry' for breaking tuition fees promise In the video posted to Youtube, the Liberal Democrat leader Mr Clegg will admit that "many" of the party's supporters "have strong - and pretty mixed reactions" to some of the party's actions in Government. He said thta he meets "people who are disappointed and angry that we couldn't keep all our promises - above all our promise not to raise tuition fees." To those people, I say this: we made a promise before the election that we would vote against any rise in fees under any circumstances. But that was a mistake. It was a pledge made with the best of intentions - but we shouldn't have made a promise we weren't absolutely sure we could deliver.