I think it's fair to say the Tories have since had a change of heart. Apparently it was their idea all the time:
And yes, before the inevitable below-the-line comments start: tuition fees, tuition fees, tuition fees, repeat ad infinitum. There, saved you the trouble. Which gives us enough time to remember what the top Lib Dem priority in 2010 was…
* Stephen Tall is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, a Research Associate for the liberal think-tank CentreForum, and also writes at his own site, The Collected Stephen Tall.