- Ultimately it comes down to what you're going to say at the next election. Would you rather say "we broke our pledge but at least things are better" or "everything's still shit but at least we kept our pledge"?
- Too much analysis was still treating breaking the tax pledge as “just another unpopular decision” rather than recognising consequence of breaking a promise which defined an election for the public. If is correct the govt won’t now break it they may have avoided a deeply scarring loss of public trust
