John Savage has said his experience of managing big budgets would help him achieve this election promise.
Earlier this week Mr Clegg apologised for breaking his pre-election promise not to support an increase in tuition fees.
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By keeping her election promise to slash income taxes, she has made it necessary to raise money in other ways.
In November 1997 the Government was about to exempt Formula 1 racing from its election promise to ban all tobacco advertising.
Enda Kenny, the new prime minister, has recoiled from acting on his election promise to make the bankers share the pain.
With noise levels rising, Mr Clegg hit back at Ms Harman's claim his pre-election promise to increase police numbers was not being fulfilled.
Mr Clegg has said earlier this week that he "massively regrets" being in a position where he cannot deliver on his election promise.
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In a party political broadcast last year, Mr Clegg said sorry that the Liberal Democrats "did not stick" to their pre-election promise not to increase fees.
But they expected Mr Bush to honour his election promise to appoint a Supreme Court justice in the mould of an Antonin Scalia or a Clarence Thomas.
Conservative rural affairs spokesman Tim Yeo said he was now looking to Mrs Beckett to clarify Mr Blair's pre-election promise that Britain was in the "home straight" against foot-and-mouth.
He decided that the only possible hope of redemption was through confession - to admit that he'd made an election promise he knew he had little, if any, chance of delivering.
On tuition fees, Mr Clegg stopped short of saying it was one of his biggest political regrets, but said he regretted that it was a pre-election promise which the party could not deliver on.
Flaherty broke his Conservative Party's election promise not to impose any additional taxes on the trusts, which are able to pay out most of their earnings as dividends to unit holders without paying tax on the corporate level.
On the campaign trail last year, Pena Nieto vowed to reduce violence and said he'd take a different tack -- an election promise that played well with voters in a country weary of a drug war with a growing body count.
The BBC understands discussions are continuing in Whitehall about whether it is possible to limit pensioner benefits - such as the winter fuel allowance, bus pass and free TV licence - without breaking Prime Minister David Cameron's election promise that he would preserve them.
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Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy briefly unsettled by asking why he was breaking an election manifesto promise not to introduce top up fees for students.
As a result, Mr. Cameron is under pressure to agree to promise a referendum in his party's next election manifesto, a promise his Liberal Democrat coalition partners and the Labour opposition may feel compelled to match.
The Labour Party's election manifesto did promise to "provide primary pupils with wider opportunities to learn.. a foreign language".
But thanks to creeping taxes and additional business regulations, Britain's growth rate in recent years has sagged to the Continent's levels, prompting Prime Minister Tony Blair, with an eye to next year's election, to promise regulatory relief.
An election that seemed to promise nothing less than the remaking of British politics may end up being much less transformational than that.
His backbenchers want him to promise a Commons vote on the issue before the next election, but there will be no such promise in the Queen's Speech tomorrow.
He campaigned for election in 2002 with a promise to cut income tax by a third, and this is still official policy.
For example, during his first term, Woodrow Wilson made every effort to stay out of World War I, and he won re-election in 1916 on that promise.
The Tory promise in the election to ring-fence health spending and increase it in real terms every year even during a period of public spending cuts was distinctive and much-touted during the 2010 election campaign.
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He made a respectable showing in the 2005 election, gaining notoriety with a promise to pay cash handouts from oil revenues to every citizen.
As he sat down, supporters were getting emails urging them to join a new campaign, not this time to win an election, but to fulfil its promise.
For Democrats, the bill's tax increase makes good on their party's marquee promise in the 2012 election to raise taxes on upper-income Americans and not the middle class.
If this is the case, the third hundred days might look much less like the promise of the 2008 election and more like the political world that Obama wanted to transform.
The First Minister says that it is deferred to the latter half of the present Parliamentary session at Holyrood because that was the promise made during the election campaign - which is true.
The Conservatives are trying to get two election wins out of the current referendum promise timetable and it will be easy to judge if it is a strategy too far.
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