Because everyone cares so much about tuition fees, don't they? But last time I looked it was Tony Blair's Labour government which first brought in tuition fees – without any mandate to do so. And they weren't punished. And it was Tony Blair who, with no mandate, raised tuition fees. Again, without being punished in the polls. And it was the Tories who proposed raising tuition fees yet again after 2010 and once again they have not been punished by the electorate.