• John Savage has said his experience of managing big budgets would help him achieve this election promise.

    BBC: John Savage

  • Earlier this week Mr Clegg apologised for breaking his pre-election promise not to support an increase in tuition fees.

    BBC: Lib Dem conference: Clegg promises to push for wealth tax

  • By keeping her election promise to slash income taxes, she has made it necessary to raise money in other ways.

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  • In November 1997 the Government was about to exempt Formula 1 racing from its election promise to ban all tobacco advertising.

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  • Enda Kenny, the new prime minister, has recoiled from acting on his election promise to make the bankers share the pain.

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  • 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.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • Mr Clegg has said earlier this week that he "massively regrets" being in a position where he cannot deliver on his election promise.

    BBC: Clegg refuses to say if he will abstain on tuition fees

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

    BBC: Fresh disease outbreak in National Park

  • 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.

    BBC: Nick Clegg's gamble over tuition fee apology

  • 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.

    BBC: Nick Clegg reveals he was given a 'big green onesie'

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

    BBC: Welfare spending to be cut by ?4bn, says George Osborne

  • 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.

    BBC: Oh the sincerity of it all.

  • 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.

    WSJ: Cameron Main Threat to Britain In Europe

  • The Labour Party's election manifesto did promise to "provide primary pupils with wider opportunities to learn.. a foreign language".

    BBC: Parlez-vous francais?

  • 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.

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  • An election that seemed to promise nothing less than the remaking of British politics may end up being much less transformational than that.

    ECONOMIST: Election results

  • 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.

    BBC: Lawson says the unsayable

  • He campaigned for election in 2002 with a promise to cut income tax by a third, and this is still official policy.

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  • 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.

    CNN: Obama can still build 2nd term legacy

  • 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.

    BBC: Conservative conference: clearer idea on health spending

  • He made a respectable showing in the 2005 election, gaining notoriety with a promise to pay cash handouts from oil revenues to every citizen.

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  • 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.

    BBC: Taking to the world's biggest bully pulpit

  • 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.

    WSJ: U.S. Budget Compromise Deal Reached

  • 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.

    CNN: Commentary: Why Obama's plans are stalled

  • 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.

    BBC: Nicola Sturgeon targets unionists

  • 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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