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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/lib-dems-could-lose-50-of-voters.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Nick Clegg's personal rating has plummeted, a new poll claims" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-lib-dems-could-lose-50-of-voters.jpg" alt="Nick Clegg's personal rating has plummeted, a new poll claims"/></a></p>
<p>Nearly half of Liberal Democrat voters are ready to abandon the party over its backing for a hike in tuition fees, according to a poll.</p>
<p>Leader Nick Clegg&#8217;s personal ratings have also collapsed since he decided to renege on his general election pledge to oppose any increase.</p>
<p>The scale of the damage sustained by the Lib Dems from the issue was evident in research by Ipsos MORI for the News of the World.</p>
<p>Some 29% of those who previously voted for the party said they were much less likely to do so in future as a result of the u-turn, while 17% said they were somewhat less likely.</p>
<p>In April two-thirds of the public rated Mr Clegg as trustworthy, leading to him being hailed as the most loved politician since Winston Churchill.</p>
<p>But now, after making compromises to join the coalition and become Deputy Prime Minister, his standings have been turned on their head. Just a quarter of those questioned believed he could be trusted, compared to 61% who thought the opposite.</p>
<p>By contrast, the Tories have fared far better, with just a tenth of their voters saying they would be less likely to support the party in future. Some 41% find Prime Minister David Cameron trustworthy &#8211; only two points lower than before the election.</p>
<p>The poll also found widespread concern about the rise in tuition fees to a maximum of £9,000. Nearly two thirds of respondents opposed higher charges, with just 28% in favour.</p>
<p>Three out of four people thought it would make teenagers from deprived backgrounds less likely to go to university, and 46% of parents admitted the higher charges would put them off sending their children to university.</p>
<p>Ipsos MORI interviewed a representative sample of 809 adults from across Great Britain by telephone on December 9-10 2010. Data were weighted to match the profile of the population.</p>
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