Conference Special

:00:35. > :00:41.Morning, folks. Welcome to our final Daily Politics conference special.

:00:41. > :00:46.Praise the Lord. The setting, Manchester. The occasion, the Tory

:00:46. > :00:57.Party conference. Today's big event, David Cameron's speech to the party

:00:57. > :01:00.faithful. The prime minister is expected to take to the stage in

:01:00. > :01:03.about half an hour's time. We'll have his speech live and

:01:03. > :01:06.uninterupted. Expect clear battle lines to be drawn between the Tories

:01:06. > :01:10.and Labour ahead of the general election. Mr Cameron's theme: Labour

:01:10. > :01:14.has tacked to the left, the Tories now occupy the centre right. Profit,

:01:14. > :01:15.Mr Cameron will say, is not a dirty word.

:01:15. > :01:19.The Education Secretary's been getting fit at an Austrian fat farm!

:01:19. > :01:22.And he's ready for a fight - with the teaching unions. We'll be

:01:22. > :01:27.getting Michael Gove's reaction to the Prime Minister's speech. And

:01:28. > :01:35.conference just wouldn't be conference without the thoughts of

:01:35. > :01:39.sketchwriter Quentin Letts. You have got the big, blue banners sorted,

:01:39. > :01:46.the nipples, the invitations have been sent out. Then someone has to

:01:46. > :01:49.go and spoil it. All that in the next two hours of public service

:01:49. > :01:55.broadcasting at its finest, and with us for the duration, a Tory grandee.

:01:55. > :02:01.In fact, it doesn't get much grander than this. Someone who likes to lord

:02:01. > :02:11.it over the political jungle, Michael Heseltine, no less. Now, if

:02:11. > :02:14.like me, you've been up since six reading the newspapers, you'll know

:02:14. > :02:18.that Mr Cameron doesn't dream of deficits and decimal points. Which

:02:18. > :02:28.is a bit of a relief to know. He dreams instead of helping people get

:02:28. > :02:31.on in life. Mr Cameron will say today that "it's businesses that get

:02:31. > :02:34.wages in people's pockets, food on their tables, hope for their

:02:34. > :02:36.families and success for the country". "Profit, wealth creation,

:02:36. > :02:40.tax cuts, and enterprise are not dirty, elitist words". Where have I

:02:40. > :02:46.heard all that before? In every one of your conference speeches. And

:02:46. > :02:54.every Tory's throughout history. Land of opportunity. It is deja vu

:02:54. > :02:58.all over again. But that is because it works. It is the great driving

:02:59. > :03:04.motivation of society. Couldn't he come up with something new? If you

:03:04. > :03:09.have got something better, change it. If it ain't bust, don't fix it.

:03:09. > :03:14.Ken Clarke said in today's Guardian in his usual help away that it will

:03:14. > :03:19.be a tall order for David Cameron to win the next election. It will be a

:03:19. > :03:24.tall order, because the Lib Dems scuppered the boundary distribution,

:03:24. > :03:30.but it is possible. And on balance, it is likely. But you always say

:03:30. > :03:38.that about elections. You told me that in 1997, when it was clear you

:03:38. > :03:43.were going to get dumped. It was a private conversation. You and I

:03:43. > :03:46.never have private conversations! But I think in the next election,

:03:46. > :03:50.the battle lines have been predictable for the three years.

:03:50. > :03:54.They are working out extremely well. They are the same battle lines that

:03:54. > :03:58.are always the essence of an election. If things are going well,

:03:58. > :04:04.don't let the other guy remit. If things are going badly, time for a

:04:04. > :04:08.change. There is Mr Cameron, hand-in-hand with Samantha Cameron,

:04:08. > :04:13.walking from one of the conference hotels. Looks like maybe he has come

:04:13. > :04:20.out of the Midland, the main conference hotel, right in the heart

:04:20. > :04:23.of Manchester. She has had an incredible revival in the centre of

:04:23. > :04:28.the city and is generally regarded by people who go to these

:04:28. > :04:33.conferences that Manchester is the top city to host these conferences.

:04:33. > :04:37.There are also Birmingham and Liverpool, but I only report what

:04:37. > :04:40.people tell me. And they are crossing what people call the

:04:40. > :04:47.piazza. Maybe you didn't know that Manchester has a piazza, but it

:04:48. > :04:52.does. There is a huge railway station in the centre of town which

:04:52. > :04:58.has now been converted into this magnificent new conference centre.

:04:58. > :05:07."Hard-working people", but not hard-working at grammar, since they

:05:07. > :05:09.managed to miss out the hyphen. But expensive public schools, you don't

:05:09. > :05:12.learn to spell properly. Do you expensive public schools, you don't

:05:12. > :05:23.think ordinary people have yet to feel the benefits of this economic

:05:23. > :05:30.recovery? No. For a very obvious reason. So you agree with Mr Clark

:05:30. > :05:33.that they are not yet feeling it? They are not yet feeling it, because

:05:33. > :05:38.the recovery has been slower than anybody wanted. When the economy

:05:38. > :05:48.becomes more buoyant, the number of jobs will rise, and then wages will

:05:48. > :05:50.rise following demand. By the next election, unless something goes

:05:50. > :05:55.wrong with the international markets, like oil, people will find

:05:55. > :06:01.their wages have increased in real terms. But you have seen so many

:06:01. > :06:04.elections where this has been important, particularly for the

:06:04. > :06:09.Conservatives to do well. People will have to feel that their living

:06:09. > :06:14.standards are rising once more by 2015. Yes, but they will. Sitting

:06:14. > :06:20.governments don't win elections if people feel they are getting poorer.

:06:20. > :06:23.As I was saying, time for change is when the economy is not delivering

:06:23. > :06:28.what people want. Don't let the other guy ruin it is when you have

:06:28. > :06:32.been delivering rising living standards for 18 months before the

:06:32. > :06:39.election. It has to start happening now, and it is, particularly for

:06:39. > :06:40.those who are finding jobs. But in the growth and recruitment

:06:40. > :06:45.those who are finding jobs. But in advertising going on, which is now

:06:45. > :06:50.rising, I can see that we will have rising employment. As the market

:06:50. > :06:54.tightens, wages will improve and living standards will follow. What

:06:54. > :06:59.do you think of the politics of journalists asking politicians, do

:06:59. > :07:09.they know the price of a loaf of bread? They have always done that.

:07:09. > :07:14.Does it matter? Not at all. It might matter a flick of a finger on

:07:14. > :07:18.polling day, or the day before. But what is the price of a loaf red?

:07:19. > :07:27.There is not a thing called red any more. And we don't buy pints of

:07:27. > :07:31.milk. I like bread. I see in the papers that supermarkets are talking

:07:31. > :07:37.about 47p for the cheap stuff. But you can go up to three or £4 for a

:07:37. > :07:46.loaf of bread, and everything in between. I remember when there were

:07:46. > :07:53.no choices. There was a white loaf. Then you could ask the question. But

:07:53. > :07:57.that was so long ago. Before my time. But not before my time. Not

:07:57. > :08:02.that was so long ago. Before my long to go before the prime minister

:08:02. > :08:06.takes to his feet. Probably around 20 minutes, so let's get a sense of

:08:06. > :08:11.the mood in Manchester with James Astill from the Economist and Times

:08:11. > :08:16.columnist and Grazia litter glad to Gaby Hinsliff. James, has it been a

:08:16. > :08:22.good week for the Tories? It has been a reasonably good week for

:08:22. > :08:29.them. Mr Cameron does not have the questions against his authority that

:08:29. > :08:33.he had last year. The mood is resigned, or quietly contented with

:08:33. > :08:40.his leadership. People are watching the economy, of course. But they are

:08:40. > :08:46.generally hopeful that the economy recovery will get stronger. His

:08:46. > :08:51.speech is following that context, it is not as good as it should be, but

:08:51. > :08:56.not as bad as it might be. Gabby, Ed Miliband's speech last week changed

:08:56. > :08:59.the direction of conferences and laid down a challenge for the

:08:59. > :09:04.Conservatives. Do you think they have and said that this week? That

:09:04. > :09:08.is what we will see today. If Ed Miliband was talking last week

:09:08. > :09:12.breadline Britain, people who are desperate, then Cameron is talking

:09:12. > :09:16.to what you might call the bread-maker owning classes, or at

:09:16. > :09:20.least people who aspire to have a bread-maker, a more comfortable, but

:09:20. > :09:23.still anxious class of people. This conference is surrounded by Thatcher

:09:24. > :09:29.memorabilia will stop it is the first one since she died. He will be

:09:29. > :09:33.trying to recapture that sense of aspiring people who work hard, but

:09:33. > :09:36.also to recapture some of the excitement around politics. I was

:09:36. > :09:42.listening to in Duncan Smith last night and missing about how exciting

:09:42. > :09:47.it was to be a Tory under Thatcher. People are not carried away here.

:09:47. > :09:51.There is a sense of that in the extracts we have seen, because David

:09:51. > :09:55.Cameron is obviously keen not to focus on things like deficit

:09:55. > :09:59.reduction, or not only that anyway, because he needs to offer something

:09:59. > :10:06.more and be more optimistic. You get that sense? That is certainly the

:10:06. > :10:11.sense of the extracts we have seen, but he needs to convince us. We know

:10:11. > :10:15.he can do a good rhetorical turn . We know he can make a set piece

:10:15. > :10:21.speech and make an argument, but we need something more urgent and

:10:21. > :10:26.interesting. The challenge of David Cameron's careerist to make ordinary

:10:26. > :10:34.people believe he cares about their problems and understands them. At

:10:34. > :10:39.the same time, he needs the support from his party. Those are two urgent

:10:39. > :10:43.things. Understanding is something we have not really seen from him

:10:43. > :10:48.yet. What about UKIP? How have they dealt with the challenge from the

:10:48. > :10:55.right, and what does he need to do in the speech to answer that

:10:55. > :11:00.challenge? I would not say he has to address that challenge. Nigel Farage

:11:00. > :11:07.has been a bigger draw here on the fringe. That is what many Tory MPs

:11:07. > :11:10.would like to hear about from David Cameron today, something that makes

:11:10. > :11:14.them feel that UKIP will not eat into their votes. That is not about

:11:14. > :11:19.Europe, it is about all the issues of disaffection that UKIP are

:11:19. > :11:21.picking up on. UKIP seem to have adopted the Tory manifesto from 30

:11:21. > :11:27.years ago wholesale, which appeals to a lot of older Tories. Do you

:11:27. > :11:35.think Boris mania has deflected a bit? Yes. It clearly has. Cameron

:11:35. > :11:42.set the tone yesterday himself by saying that he would welcome Boris

:11:42. > :11:51.back to Parliament. It shows that Cameron feels more secure than he

:11:51. > :11:56.has done. I suspect it also shows that he knows that the enormous

:11:56. > :12:02.excitement about Boris last year after the Olympics has dissipated a

:12:02. > :12:05.bit. We are going to talk now about something that has dominated the

:12:05. > :12:09.last few days, which is the row between the Daily Mail and the

:12:09. > :12:13.Labour leader Ed Miliband over the paper's article claiming that Ed

:12:13. > :12:17.Miliband's father Ralph Miliband hated Britain. Last night, the

:12:17. > :12:23.paper's deputy editor clashed on Newsnight with Labour's Alastair

:12:23. > :12:26.Campbell. We will hear and excerpt of that interview, starting with the

:12:26. > :12:31.deputy editor admitting it was perhaps a mistake to have a picture

:12:31. > :12:35.of Ralph Miliband's grave next to the headline, grave socialist. It

:12:35. > :12:39.may be that the publication of that picture was an error of judgement on

:12:39. > :12:43.our website. When Ed Miliband complained about that on Saturday

:12:43. > :12:51.evening, he spoke to me personally and I arranged that picked Joe to be

:12:51. > :12:56.rude. I think using that picture was an arrow of judgement. -- I arranged

:12:57. > :13:02.for the picture to be removed. Can you justify that headline? Did Ralph

:13:03. > :13:11.Miliband hate Britain, having fought in the war for them? Yes or no?

:13:11. > :13:19.Ralph Miliband's values... You don't support what the piece said, do you?

:13:19. > :13:24.His views were anti-static to many peoples views... Fairly explosive

:13:24. > :13:26.clash on Newsnight. Gaby Hinsliff, your thoughts on the fact that the

:13:26. > :13:32.Daily Mail felt dead did have to put your thoughts on the fact that the

:13:32. > :13:36.somebody up to defend the original article? That is unusual. The Daily

:13:36. > :13:40.Mail does not usually put senior executives on air will stop it was

:13:40. > :13:44.interesting that it was not Paul Baker who went up. The Daily Mail

:13:44. > :13:48.have published a selection of readers' letters, and a large number

:13:48. > :13:55.of them feel it was wrong to go after someone's father, rather than

:13:55. > :13:58.after them. They do recognise that Ralph Miliband fought in the war. He

:13:58. > :14:04.was a Holocaust survivor. You don't take things like that lightly. The

:14:04. > :14:09.Daily Mail is explaining itself to its readers, if not Alastair

:14:09. > :14:12.Campbell. What about Ed Miliband? Even David Cameron said he

:14:12. > :14:19.understood somebody wanted to defend their own father, even if it was as

:14:19. > :14:25.public as Ed Miliband made it. I think this will prove helpful for Ed

:14:25. > :14:34.Miliband. His televised explanation of what he was doing, showing how

:14:34. > :14:40.incensed he was, I thought he was impressive. People will sympathise

:14:40. > :14:49.with and admire him. This could be a significant change in the way the

:14:49. > :14:54.country views him. Michael Heseltine, did you feel sympathy for

:14:54. > :14:59.Ed Miliband? Yes, I did. First of all, this arose from a diary entry

:14:59. > :15:03.when the guy was 17. It was written at a time when the big political

:15:03. > :15:07.issue was Communist, on the one hand, fascist on the other. And it

:15:07. > :15:13.is a quite different climate to the one we know today. But I have to

:15:13. > :15:19.say, Alistair Campbell's point was fair, nothing happens in the Daily

:15:19. > :15:22.Mail which Paul Dacre does not determine personally. He has done a

:15:22. > :15:28.profile both of Nick Clegg and of Ed Miliband, through one of his

:15:28. > :15:31.supporting journalists, which are hatchet jobs. There is no way you

:15:31. > :15:37.can describe it in any other way. And that is during the period of

:15:37. > :15:41.their conferences. I personally felt this was carrying politics to an

:15:42. > :15:46.extent which is just demeaning, frankly. The headline was not

:15:46. > :15:50.justified? Bootle it was not justified, and it is completely out

:15:50. > :15:55.of context. As everybody knows, the guy fought for this country, and we

:15:55. > :15:57.now live in a totally different world to those times, when it was

:15:58. > :16:03.all about the clash between coming is and fascism. Let's be frank,

:16:03. > :16:07.Stalin did some most appalling things, but the Russians turned the

:16:07. > :16:16.Second World War. So, it has been a year to remember.

:16:16. > :16:19.The Prime Minister has had to tread a difficult path, keeping everybody

:16:19. > :16:23.happy, including his coalition partners and the right of his party.

:16:23. > :16:27.Not an easy task. What would Margaret Thatcher make of it all? We

:16:28. > :16:33.have been to a former Conservative club to find out some opinions on Mr

:16:33. > :16:44.Cameron's year. This report contains some flash photography.

:16:44. > :16:50.Margaret Thatcher was a political giant, the most successful

:16:50. > :16:54.Conservative leader in modern times. She won three elections in a row,

:16:55. > :17:01.and this April, she passed away, but even in death, Lady Thatcher towers

:17:01. > :17:08.over her successors. Today, we lost a great leader, a great Prime

:17:08. > :17:12.Minister and a Great Britain. Margaret Thatcher did not just lead

:17:12. > :17:15.our country, she saved our country. Margaret Thatcher was a proven

:17:15. > :17:23.winner, but is David Cameron? After all, he did not win in 2010, and he

:17:24. > :17:29.may not in 2015, either. Now, there are three main reasons why this is

:17:29. > :17:34.the case, so, what are they, and how can he convince Conservative MPs and

:17:34. > :17:42.Tory members in the Conservative clubs and associations that he has

:17:42. > :17:46.got a plan to deliver victory? The first problem for Cameron is the

:17:46. > :17:50.grip of the Liberal Democrats on the seats they hold. In February, Nick

:17:50. > :17:56.Clegg's party held the marginal seat seats they hold. In February, Nick

:17:56. > :18:01.of Eastleigh in a by-election. Cameron's second problem is

:18:01. > :18:08.Labour's resilience. In November, Labour took a four Conservatives

:18:08. > :18:11.seat in Corby, in a by-election, a reminder that Labour is uniting the

:18:11. > :18:15.left by picking up the support of left-wing people who used to vote

:18:15. > :18:21.Liberal Democrat. It is also a reminder that the electoral battle

:18:21. > :18:25.ground favours Labour. But while the left is uniting, the right is

:18:25. > :18:31.divided. They did Cameron faces the new threat of UKIP. They did not

:18:31. > :18:35.just beat him in Eastleigh, but in the Rotherham and Middlesbrough

:18:35. > :18:41.by-elections as well. UKIP is David Cameron's the problem. In May, Nigel

:18:41. > :18:46.Farage and UKIP won more than 150 council seats in the local

:18:46. > :18:52.elections. Nigel Farage, of course, celebrated in the pub. This is

:18:52. > :18:55.absolutely marvellous. Nonetheless, Cameron is fighting back. Tory

:18:55. > :19:02.backbenchers have cheered up, buoyed by Labour's falling polls, by the

:19:02. > :19:07.benefits, where the deportation of the terror suspect Abu Qatada, and

:19:07. > :19:11.by the Prime Minister's backing for a private member's bills brought in

:19:11. > :19:17.by James Wharton, a Conservative backbencher, to bring about a

:19:17. > :19:23.referendum on Britain's EU membership, which Cameron had

:19:23. > :19:26.promised. I am delighted to be taking this bill forward. It means a

:19:26. > :19:28.lot to a lot of people across the country. It is a big issue and a

:19:28. > :19:36.significant one, which deserves to be debated.

:19:36. > :19:43.The Same Sex Marriage Bill became law, but not before more Tory MPs

:19:43. > :19:49.voted against it than for it. Many were very unhappy. Some claimed

:19:49. > :19:54.party members were leaving in droves. And then, just when things

:19:54. > :20:00.were looking up, and Tory MPs were getting more cheerful, came Syria.

:20:00. > :20:05.Parliament spoke, and I think Parliament made clear its view,

:20:05. > :20:09.which was that it does not want a British involvement in military

:20:09. > :20:13.action, so we will proceed on that basis. But I think that is right, to

:20:13. > :20:16.have a strong view, put forward a strong case, and then to listen to

:20:16. > :20:22.Parliament. David Cameron lost the Syria vote not just because of the

:20:22. > :20:24.votes of Labour MPs, but because enough Conservative MPs did so, too.

:20:24. > :20:28.Their bottom line was that they enough Conservative MPs did so, too.

:20:28. > :20:32.simply did not trust him not to get Britain entangled in another Iraq

:20:32. > :20:37.war. That sums up David Cameron's problems with his party - it is all

:20:37. > :20:43.a matter of trust. You see, those MPs just did not trust him on the EU

:20:43. > :20:47.Referendum Bill that is why he is backing the James Wharton bill. The

:20:47. > :20:53.Europe issue, which proved so difficult for Mrs Thatcher, is

:20:53. > :20:59.proving no easier for her successor. Is there any growth in that box,

:20:59. > :21:03.Chancellor? But if there is one area where the Conservatives have a lead,

:21:03. > :21:08.it is the economy. As those elusive green shoots begin to show through,

:21:08. > :21:13.voters feel safer with George Osborne's hand Mattila, than that of

:21:13. > :21:16.Ed Balls. The economy is not in full recovery mode, but if it is by 2015,

:21:16. > :21:21.that will surely give David Cameron recovery mode, but if it is by 2015,

:21:21. > :21:25.his best chance of winning. A weak opposition and an improving economy

:21:25. > :21:29.- the Conservatives have got reasons to be cheerful. But can David

:21:29. > :21:34.Cameron really overcome the problems I have described? If he can't, will

:21:34. > :21:37.he try to form another coalition with Nick Clegg after the next

:21:38. > :21:43.general election? I cannot help wondering, if that happens, what

:21:43. > :21:45.Margaret Thatcher would have thought about it.

:21:45. > :21:53.Let's get the thoughts of two prominent Tory backbenchers are in

:21:53. > :21:59.Manchester, Harriet Baldwin and Peter bone. Baldwin and bone, it

:21:59. > :22:05.sounds like provincial lawyers, or a musical act, or maybe both. If Mr

:22:05. > :22:10.Cameron could not win in 2010, what makes you think he could win in

:22:10. > :22:15.2015? Well, I think what we have got to focus on is continuing to rescue

:22:16. > :22:20.the economy from Labour's recession and build on the early signs that we

:22:20. > :22:27.are seeing, make sure that jobs are continuing to be created by private

:22:27. > :22:30.sector firms. We have seen 1.4 million private sector jobs created

:22:30. > :22:34.since the election, so make sure that those jobs are ones where

:22:34. > :22:38.people can continue to increase their skills and their wages in due

:22:38. > :22:46.course. Jobs where people can save for pensions, and where... All

:22:46. > :22:49.right, do not go through the whole list! None of that may win you the

:22:49. > :22:52.election, even if it all comes to pass. Can you tell me, who is the

:22:52. > :22:56.last sitting Prime Minister who increased his share of the vote? If

:22:56. > :23:00.you look back in UK history, the increased his share of the vote? If

:23:00. > :23:04.answer is Harold Wilson, but if you look abroad, and you look at the

:23:04. > :23:09.advance of centre-right parties around the world, you can see

:23:09. > :23:12.examples in New Zealand, in Canada, and recently we have seen the

:23:12. > :23:17.Australians vote for a centre-right party, Norway... These were all

:23:17. > :23:21.getting rid of incumbents, they were not vetting rid of the left, they

:23:21. > :23:27.were just getting rid of incumbents, and you are the incumbents. Peter

:23:27. > :23:34.Bone, you have a particular problem, because for the first time, you go

:23:34. > :23:38.into an election where the right is seriously split tween the

:23:38. > :23:43.Conservatives and UKIP - how big a threat is UKIP to the Conservatives

:23:43. > :23:48.losing marginal seats? I take that as a different point of view. I

:23:48. > :23:51.think it is a great opportunity. If our problem was that all of the

:23:52. > :23:56.voters were looking at centre-left parties, we would have no chance at

:23:56. > :24:00.the next election. But the voters are looking at centre-right parties.

:24:00. > :24:09.So if anyone should be worrying, it is Ed Miliband. He has not got a

:24:09. > :24:14.pond to fish in. But they are well ahead but you know, Andrew, at this

:24:14. > :24:24.stage in the Parliament, that has no import whatsoever. So, Lord

:24:24. > :24:27.Ashcroft's poll of the Tory marginals, which shows you losing

:24:27. > :24:29.Ashcroft's poll of the Tory these marginals because a chunk of

:24:29. > :24:37.your vote goes to UKIP, that is not going to happen? You know, Andrew,

:24:37. > :24:40.that is if there was a general election tomorrow, and it will not

:24:40. > :24:46.be tomorrow, it will be in 18 months time. I then, we will have won over

:24:46. > :24:49.the centre-right vote, which is what I guess David Cameron will start to

:24:49. > :24:54.do with his speech in a few minutes' time. Harriett Baldwin, do you think

:24:54. > :25:00.there should be an electoral pact with UKIP at a constituency level?

:25:00. > :25:03.No, I think the Conservatives will field candidates in every

:25:03. > :25:06.constituency, as Conservatives. But I am sure that the sensible voters

:25:06. > :25:10.in Wellingborough, where Peter will be standing as a Conservative

:25:10. > :25:14.candidate, will recognise what a great MP he has been and back him

:25:14. > :25:18.again. Well, that is very controversial to say that! Peter

:25:18. > :25:24.bone, would you like to have a pact with UKIP in your constituency? I am

:25:24. > :25:31.a Conservative and always will be, and I will be on the ballot paper as

:25:31. > :25:34.a Conservative. I will answer your question - I would like UKIP to

:25:34. > :25:38.endorse me, I would like the Liberals to endorse me, I would like

:25:39. > :25:42.Labour to endorse me, if they see common sense. Well, what is the

:25:42. > :25:49.difference between you and UKIP? You have even got a UKIP Thai jig on,

:25:49. > :25:54.almost. You know this tie, it is one the Australians gave us when we

:25:54. > :25:59.allowed them to beat us at cricket. That is a long time ago! So, what is

:25:59. > :26:04.the difference between you and UKIP? This is the point I made at

:26:04. > :26:08.the beginning, there is this huge centre-right vote, and we need to

:26:08. > :26:12.unite it. Whether that is done by a pact, or by an understanding, or

:26:12. > :26:16.whether we just get those people who are thinking of voting UKIP back to

:26:16. > :26:20.us, it is a huge opportunity. If we do not do that, we have a problem

:26:20. > :26:24.electorally. But this is the challenge the next 18 months. You

:26:24. > :26:32.are not on the centre-right, Tech, you are on the right! Thank you, I

:26:32. > :26:41.am glad you corrected me on that. --. Peter Bone Thank you for that

:26:41. > :26:44.plug, but the actual situation is, we are a broad church, and anyone to

:26:44. > :26:47.the centre-right should vote Conservative, but we have to

:26:47. > :26:50.persuade people were thinking of voting UKIP that we have a

:26:50. > :26:55.centre-right vision. And that is what I think the Prime Minister will

:26:55. > :27:00.start doing today. And the alternative is a very Socialist

:27:00. > :27:04.Labour Party, that it has been reported that there has been a

:27:04. > :27:11.record trade in Manchester during your conference in lobsters at

:27:11. > :27:15.expensive restaurants - lobsters the food of hard-working people? I have

:27:15. > :27:19.not seen a single one myself. But I am very proud that we have put £25

:27:19. > :27:25.million into the Manchester economy this week, and created a look was

:27:25. > :27:29.that your own money? I would like to thank the police also... All right,

:27:29. > :27:37.all right, you have plenty of time to do that. Peter Bone, is lobster

:27:37. > :27:43.the food of hard-working people? I hate lobster, my money went in the

:27:43. > :27:53.local Subway. I did not know Manchester had a tech subway. The

:27:53. > :27:59.restaurant chain! Though you are, Baldwin and Bone, you got the part.

:27:59. > :28:05.Thanks for joining us. Moving away from the type of food which has been

:28:06. > :28:09.on offer in Manchester... In the 17th century, the peasants went on

:28:09. > :28:14.strike because they had too much salmon to eat. That's true. There

:28:14. > :28:19.was a lot of salmon in the rivers, and they got it a after day. Who

:28:19. > :28:24.knows, with artificial breeding, what might happen with lobsters? We

:28:24. > :28:27.will worry about that on another occasion. Could I just ask you

:28:27. > :28:33.briefly about UKIP? The line is going to be, to Tories who are

:28:33. > :28:37.thinking that they might put their cross next to the UKIP candidate in

:28:37. > :28:42.2015, if you vote UKIP, you will get labour, that will be the Tory line,

:28:42. > :28:48.won't it? It is true. How else do you persuade people not to vote for

:28:48. > :28:52.UKIP? I think you very clearly articulate what you believe in, and

:28:52. > :28:59.you have a vision based on what you believe in, but the basic, that

:28:59. > :29:09.issue is that there is no room for a protest vote without a price. The

:29:09. > :29:13.price is Ed Miliband. What about policies which people like Peter

:29:13. > :29:19.Bone and others in his party who agree with him on issues like Europe

:29:19. > :29:23.might believe in, are those sorts of things, like the marriage tax break,

:29:23. > :29:26.which might persuade people to stay within the Tory fold? I think Europe

:29:26. > :29:29.which might persuade people to stay is somewhere down about ninth in the

:29:29. > :29:33.list of issues that people care about. The election next year will

:29:33. > :29:37.attract a lot political attraction, it will have a derisory turnout.

:29:37. > :29:44.People just are not that interested. It is a sort of media hype type

:29:44. > :29:48.issue. And the marriage tax break, a good policy? It is a fine policy, it

:29:48. > :29:51.is not going to make a great deal of difference, but it is important in

:29:51. > :29:54.is not going to make a great deal of one respect - Cameron promised it

:29:54. > :29:59.and he has delivered it. That is an important credibility issue, as is

:29:59. > :30:02.his gay marriage proposal. Very controversial, particularly in the

:30:02. > :30:07.Tory party, but to a section of the electorate, a promise kept. There

:30:07. > :30:12.are some Tory MPs who are synthetic to the idea of deals done with UKIP

:30:12. > :30:14.locally, at a constituency level, there is some confusion on the UKIP

:30:14. > :30:20.side as to whether they would sanction that or not - what do you

:30:20. > :30:31.say? Beware of what happens to your pivotal vote in the centre ground.

:30:31. > :30:34.We have seen UKIP's before, with all of its representatives on the

:30:34. > :30:38.continent, they are even daring Germany now, on a small-scale, they

:30:38. > :30:42.are there in Holland. You always have these right-wing, racist

:30:42. > :30:47.operations, pandering to the lowest, and eliminate in politics.

:30:47. > :30:51.And that is what is happening. But when it comes to a general

:30:51. > :30:56.election, the choice will be very simple, and this is where the

:30:56. > :31:01.strength of Cameron lies - do you want Ed Miliband Prime Minister, or

:31:01. > :31:06.do you want David Cameron? Are you saying UKIP is racist? Of course it

:31:06. > :31:11.is racist. Who doubts that? The language, the rhetoric, the

:31:11. > :31:15.membership, who doubts it? Mr Farage is a racist? I did not say that, I

:31:15. > :31:26.said his party is very attractive to a racist agenda. Everybody knows

:31:26. > :31:31.that. Let's not pretend there is an agenda for that. I lived through

:31:31. > :31:36.Enoch Powell's era, and the emotion his speech aroused at that time with

:31:36. > :31:40.certain elements not just in the Conservative Party, but the dockers

:31:40. > :31:45.and the Smithfield Porters, that a gender is there in every society,

:31:45. > :31:52.all the time. At your peril do you stoke it up. Just like Powell's

:31:52. > :31:55.speech, it was misleading. It gave the impression that you could change

:31:55. > :32:02.the fortunes of society, that they could go home, preferably with

:32:02. > :32:07.someone pushing them home. That is inconceivable. Boris Johnson won

:32:07. > :32:12.London with a 50% ethnic electorate. Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield,

:32:12. > :32:17.they are now approaching 30%, some areas higher. That is the

:32:17. > :32:24.constituency which the Conservatives have got to fight in and win in, and

:32:24. > :32:28.if they think they can peel off to a sectoral, narrow south-east of

:32:28. > :32:32.England, there is a high electoral price to pay, and it will be paid

:32:32. > :32:38.why those who will not stomach any association with UKIP and will move

:32:38. > :32:44.out into the middle ground. Let me into rock. The prime minister will

:32:44. > :32:47.be speaking shortly. Let's go to Manchester and our political editor

:32:47. > :32:50.Nick Robinson. I get the impression that the specific prominence that Mr

:32:50. > :32:56.Miliband gave last week to freeze energy prices and a couple of other

:32:56. > :33:01.promises will be met not by the equivalent, but by more general

:33:01. > :33:06.rhetoric about recovery from Mr Cameron? Today, that is true. In the

:33:06. > :33:08.long-term, leading up to the Chancellor's Autumn statement, his

:33:08. > :33:12.long-term, leading up to the mini Budget, you will see other

:33:12. > :33:17.measures on the coalition government designed to deal with the so-called

:33:17. > :33:21.standards of living Rob. They may try to bring down train fares. In

:33:21. > :33:27.the longer term, they may try and do something about the energy market,

:33:27. > :33:32.too. There are suggestions that the government is considering getting

:33:32. > :33:36.the taxpayer to pay for the green part of peoples energy rather than

:33:36. > :33:40.the consumer. But today, you will get no Lizzie promises of that sort.

:33:40. > :33:45.You will get a rhetorical assault on aid and band and Ed Balls. The prime

:33:45. > :33:49.minister will claim there were wrong about land A and plan B. He will say

:33:49. > :33:55.they are trying to -- trying to change the subject about standards

:33:55. > :33:56.of living. He will say they are making an attack on the idea of

:33:56. > :34:00.business profit and enterprise, making an attack on the idea of

:34:00. > :34:05.which will be deeply damaging to the economy and in the long-term, make

:34:05. > :34:12.us all poorer. We have briefed about phrases like" land of opportunity"

:34:12. > :34:20.and so on. Sounds like he is recycling one of Michael

:34:20. > :34:23.Heseltine's old conference speeches. It did well for you over a long

:34:23. > :34:32.time! He used give the same speech every year as well. Are you asking

:34:32. > :34:38.him or me? I am speaking to you, Nick. The truth is, there is that

:34:38. > :34:44.sense of Back To The Future at this conference season. For a while, when

:34:44. > :34:48.parties were so converged in the centre ground, some of the public

:34:48. > :34:53.said, we can't distinguish them. It is striking to see how the Labour

:34:53. > :34:57.Party, desperate to get more definition for Ed Miliband,

:34:57. > :35:01.desperate to show that he is strong, ended up with a position in which,

:35:01. > :35:04.on the one hand, they work revealing popular policies to deal with the

:35:04. > :35:09.cost of living problem, but at the same time, allowed their enemies to

:35:09. > :35:13.portray them as opposed to business. The Tories see a huge

:35:13. > :35:16.opportunity in that. There is a sense of reassurance in the

:35:16. > :35:21.Conservative Party after a pretty uncomfortable year in which this

:35:21. > :35:25.party began to look at its leader and think, you are not really one of

:35:25. > :35:29.us, and Nigel Farage sounds like one of us. They are now beginning to

:35:29. > :35:34.find their Mojo a bit again, in part because they see Ed Miliband and

:35:34. > :35:36.say, that is the enemy. We understand him. When they arrived,

:35:36. > :35:40.say, that is the enemy. We there was a massive march here.

:35:40. > :35:45.About 50,000 people were protesting against cuts and reforms to the

:35:45. > :35:50.NHS. There was a sense almost among some Conservatives of, oh, yeah, we

:35:50. > :35:54.remember those days, when people shouted at us. We like that, it

:35:54. > :35:58.means we stand for something. And there were also memories of Margaret

:35:58. > :36:02.Thatcher, who died this year. So there is a sense in which his party

:36:02. > :36:07.was very edgy just a few months ago, and feels slightly better about

:36:07. > :36:11.itself than it did. There is a sense that he is being pulled in two

:36:11. > :36:15.different directions. If the Tories think Labour have moved to the left,

:36:15. > :36:19.his natural instinct would be to say, we will occupy the centre

:36:19. > :36:23.ground. On the other hand, people will say, we have got UKIP out there

:36:23. > :36:29.and we need some red meat for the right. You will see an attempt to

:36:29. > :36:35.give both. It is up to others to judge whether it is possible to do

:36:35. > :36:38.both. Unlike Michael has little time -- Michael Heseltine, who said to

:36:38. > :36:43.you that UKIP were pandering to racism, you have not seen that sort

:36:43. > :36:48.of attack from the Tory front bench. They rarely use the name UKIP. I am

:36:48. > :36:52.certain that David Cameron will not mention UKIP or Nigel Farage. He

:36:52. > :36:57.will not attack those tendencies within his party. Their conclusion

:36:57. > :37:00.in the Conservative Party has been that the only way to win back

:37:00. > :37:05.people, many of whom they regard as naturally their own, is with some

:37:05. > :37:12.blunt statements. You have seen the rather Orwellian slogans outside the

:37:12. > :37:17.conference. " Crime down, welfare cuts" . They have to say to these

:37:17. > :37:20.people, you might not like David Cameron. You might not like the

:37:20. > :37:26.trend Britain is going in, but there are things you say you care about,

:37:26. > :37:30.and they are being delivered. On the other hand, David Cameron tries to

:37:30. > :37:34.occupy the centre ground with the emphasis in his speech not on the

:37:34. > :37:38.economy bit, but also on welfare and education. He will make great play

:37:38. > :37:41.of the fact that Ed Miliband had remarkably little to say about

:37:41. > :37:46.education in his speech last week. On welfare, the Tory claim is that

:37:46. > :37:50.the main thing he has to say is that he would reverse cuts rather than

:37:50. > :37:54.tackle the problems of welfare dependency. Whether this attempt to

:37:54. > :37:58.straddle a move to the right and a move to the centre at the same time

:37:59. > :38:03.as possible, we will see. The telegraph's Ben Brogan, in his news

:38:03. > :38:06.letter this morning, he says this conference season has changed the

:38:06. > :38:11.terms of the political debate, largely thanks to Mr Miliband. It

:38:11. > :38:15.has ended the kind of new Labour, centrist Conservative, Lib Dem cosy

:38:15. > :38:20.consensus where the arguments were on the head of a pin. There is now

:38:20. > :38:23.clear water between the parties over what they are arguing about. It is

:38:24. > :38:32.almost back more to the discourse of the 60s and 70s. Is he right? Well,

:38:32. > :38:39.it suits both of the big two parties to argue that. It suits Labour to

:38:39. > :38:42.say they are proposing a very different economic settlement. It

:38:42. > :38:45.suits the Conservatives to say that, too. My note of caution is

:38:46. > :38:49.that when you get below the rhetoric, as I was trying to do in

:38:49. > :38:53.an interview with the prime minister yesterday, I said to him, do you

:38:53. > :38:58.attack Ed Miliband because he is interfering with the market when he

:38:58. > :39:02.says he would freeze elections depresses? No, says David Cameron.

:39:02. > :39:07.He says, we are interested in lower electricity prices. So the attack

:39:07. > :39:12.the Tories make is that it is just a practical thing. They say this is a

:39:12. > :39:16.short-term fix that will not work, rather than an ideological fix. If

:39:16. > :39:21.you look at Labour and what they are saying on the economy, for all the

:39:21. > :39:25.suggestions that can be summed up as left-wing, you still see a party

:39:25. > :39:29.saying that if it came to power in 2015, it would match the Tories'

:39:29. > :39:33.spending plan, at least for the first election year. It would not

:39:33. > :39:38.borrow to increase today spending. So rhetorically, yes, there is a big

:39:38. > :39:46.gap. But be wary of suggesting that there is a vast gulf in what these

:39:46. > :39:51.parties would do or talk about. Thanks. We will let you get into the

:39:51. > :39:57.hall for Mr Cameron's arrival in a minute or so. Mr Heseltine, the big

:39:57. > :40:03.conference speech, is it quite what it was? I remember in the Winter

:40:03. > :40:10.Gardens in Blackpool, an amazing, huge room for 5000 people, tiered so

:40:10. > :40:18.you get a great atmosphere, that was the place to give a conference

:40:18. > :40:26.speech. It was a privilege. That was where I did my 1981 speech about

:40:26. > :40:33.blacks in Britain. They were born here, they live here, they vote

:40:33. > :40:38.here. And the Tory party cheered it. Did you expect them to? No. I was

:40:38. > :40:43.apprehensive, but I knew it had to be said, and I have never been so

:40:43. > :40:48.proud of the Tory party. Let's now go through as the Tory faithful get

:40:48. > :40:55.to their feet as the prime minister arrives on the platform of this

:40:55. > :41:00.cover must Manchester -- Kavanagh 's Manchester conference centre.

:41:00. > :41:04.Samantha Cameron, a little in the shade their, applauding her

:41:04. > :41:09.husband. Let's now go to Manchester and listen to the Conservative

:41:09. > :41:16.leader addressed the Conservative Party conference. Thank you.

:41:16. > :41:19.This week in Manchester, we've shown this Party is on the side of

:41:19. > :41:22.hardworking people. Helping young people buy their own home. Getting

:41:22. > :41:26.the long-term unemployed back to work. Freezing fuel duty. Backing

:41:26. > :41:32.marriage. Cutting the deficit. Creating jobs. Creating wealth. Make

:41:32. > :41:34.no mistake: it is this Party with the verve, energy and ideas to take

:41:34. > :41:39.our country forward. And I want to the verve, energy and ideas to take

:41:39. > :41:50.thank everyone here for the great week we've had. When we came to

:41:50. > :41:59.office, we faced a clear and daunting task: to turn our country

:41:59. > :42:03.around. In May 2010, the needle on the gauge was at crisis point.

:42:03. > :42:09.People were talking about this country in a way they had not done

:42:09. > :42:13.for decades. But three and a half years later, we are beginning to

:42:13. > :42:18.turn the corner. The deficit is falling. Our economy is growing. The

:42:18. > :42:25.numbers of our fellow countrymen and women in work are rising. We are not

:42:25. > :42:31.there yet, not by a long way. But, my friends, we are on our way. I

:42:31. > :42:36.want to thank the people who have done the most to get us this far.

:42:36. > :42:39.You. The British people. Never giving up. Working those extra

:42:40. > :42:50.hours. Coping with those necessary cuts. You. British business. You

:42:50. > :42:53.kept people on in the hard times. You iInvested before you knew for

:42:53. > :43:07.certain that things were getting better. Together, we are clearing up

:43:07. > :43:11.the mess that Labour left. But I have a simple question, to the

:43:11. > :43:15.people in this hall and beyond it. Is that enough? Is it enough that we

:43:15. > :43:22.just clear up Labour's mess and think "job done"? Is it enough to

:43:22. > :43:30.just fix what went wrong? I say - no. Not for me. This isn't job done.

:43:30. > :43:34.It is job begun. I didn't come into politics just to fix what went

:43:34. > :43:38.wrong, but to build something right. We in this party: we don't dream of

:43:38. > :43:44.deficits and decimal points and dry fiscal plans. Our dreams are about

:43:44. > :43:51.helping people get on in life. Aspiration, opportunity. These are

:43:51. > :43:57.our words, our dreams. So today, I want to talk about our one, abiding

:43:58. > :44:01.mission. I believe it is the great Conservative mission that as our

:44:01. > :44:20.economy starts to recover, we build a land of opportunity in our country

:44:20. > :44:26.today. Now, I know it'll be tough. People were asked, have we got what

:44:26. > :44:30.it takes? If you saw the pictures of me on the beach in Cornwall, you

:44:30. > :44:38.will know one thing - I have got the stomach for the fight! In his speech

:44:38. > :44:44.last week, Ed Miliband promised that he would never be photographed with

:44:44. > :44:49.his shirt off in public. Ed, after hearing that speech, here is the

:44:49. > :45:01.deal. You keep your shirt on, I will keep the lights on. I know we've got

:45:01. > :45:04.what it takes in this Party. Some people say "can't be done".

:45:04. > :45:20.Conservatives say "what's to stop us?". They said we couldn't get

:45:20. > :45:23.terrorists out of our own country. Well, Theresa knew otherwise, and

:45:23. > :45:27.that's why Abu Qatada had his very own May Day this year, and didn't it

:45:27. > :45:30.feel good seeing him get on that plane? Some people said the NHS

:45:30. > :45:37.wasn't safe in our hands. We knew otherwise. Who protected spending on

:45:37. > :45:39.the NHS? Not Labour - us. Who started the Cancer Drugs Fund? Not

:45:39. > :45:52.Labour - us. And by the way - who started the Cancer Drugs Fund? Not

:45:52. > :45:57.presided over Mid Staffs, patients left for so long without water, they

:45:57. > :45:59.were drinking out of dirty vase? People's grandparents lying filthy

:45:59. > :46:04.and unwashed for days? Who allowed that to happen? Yes, it was Labour,

:46:04. > :46:18.and don't you dare lecture anyone on the NHS again.

:46:18. > :46:24.and of course, people say a lot of things about Europe. You will never

:46:24. > :46:28.be able to veto an EU treaty. You will never cut the EU budget. And if

:46:28. > :46:32.you did any of these things, you would have absolutely no allies in

:46:32. > :46:37.Europe. Well, we proved them wrong. I vetoed that treaty, I got Britain

:46:37. > :46:43.out of the EU bailout scheme, and yes, I cut that budget. In doing all

:46:43. > :46:46.of this, we have not lost respect, we have won allies to get powers

:46:46. > :46:51.back from Europe. And that is what we will do. And at the end of it,

:46:51. > :46:55.yes, we will give the British people their say in a referendum. That is

:46:55. > :47:08.our pledge - it will be your choice, in or out.

:47:08. > :47:16.And of course, we know what one person said about us recently. You

:47:16. > :47:19.just heard the Russian official, who said, Britain is just a small island

:47:19. > :47:27.that no one pays attention to. Really? Let me just get this off my

:47:27. > :47:30.chest one more time. When the world wanted rights, who wrote Magna

:47:30. > :47:34.Carta? When they wanted representation, who built the first

:47:34. > :47:38.Parliament? When they looked for compassion, who led the abolition of

:47:38. > :47:42.slavery? When they searched for equality, who gave when their

:47:42. > :47:49.freedom was in peril, who offered blood, toil, tears and sweat. Today,

:47:49. > :47:54.whose music do they dance to, whose universities do they go to, whose

:47:54. > :47:58.football do they watch? People of every religion, young and old,

:47:58. > :48:02.straight and gay, whose example do they aspire to? I have not even got

:48:02. > :48:14.onto the fact that this small island beat Russia in the Olympics last

:48:14. > :48:18.year, or, wait for it... Or of course, that the biggest selling

:48:18. > :48:30.vodka brand in the world is not Russian, it is British, Smirnoff,

:48:30. > :48:39.made in Fife. So, yes, we may be a small island, but I tell you what,

:48:39. > :48:44.we are a great country. Obviously, having said all that, do not expect

:48:44. > :48:50.me to go an rustling with Vladimir, next time I see him. But I do want

:48:50. > :48:54.to make this area 's point about our place in the world. Following that

:48:54. > :48:56.vote on Syria in the House of Commons, some people said it was

:48:56. > :49:01.vote on Syria in the House of time for Britain to rethink our

:49:01. > :49:07.role. I am sorry, but I know God -- I do not agree. If we shrunk from

:49:07. > :49:11.the world, we would be less safe and less prosperous here in the United

:49:11. > :49:15.Kingdom. The role we play, the organisations that we belong to, and

:49:15. > :49:19.yes, fact that our defence budget remains the fourth largest in the

:49:19. > :49:22.world, all of this, it is not about national vanity, it is about our

:49:22. > :49:26.national interest. When British citizens, our fathers, mothers,

:49:26. > :49:32.daughters, when they are in danger, whether it is in the deserts of

:49:33. > :49:38.Algeria or the city of Nairobi, then combating international terrorism,

:49:38. > :49:40.it matters to us here. When five of the world's fastest-growing

:49:40. > :49:45.economies are in Africa, then trading with Africa, helping Africa

:49:45. > :49:50.to develop, with aid, that matters to us, right here. At the heart of

:49:50. > :49:51.all of this work, the finest Foreign Secretary I could possibly have,

:49:51. > :50:10.William Hague. As you heard in that great speech

:50:10. > :50:13.just now, around the world, we really do matter, as a United

:50:13. > :50:19.Kingdom - England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Now, the date

:50:19. > :50:23.for the referendum has been set, the decision is for Scotland to make.

:50:23. > :50:28.All the arguments, about the economy, about the currency, I

:50:28. > :50:32.believe they make an unanswerable case for the United Kingdom. But

:50:32. > :50:37.today, I want a more simple message to go out to the people of

:50:37. > :50:43.Scotland, from us here, in this hall, from this party, from this

:50:43. > :50:47.country, from England, and yes, from Wales and Northern Ireland as well,

:50:47. > :50:52.and it is this - we want you to stay. We want us to stick together.

:50:52. > :50:57.Think of all the things we have achieved together, all the things we

:50:57. > :51:12.could do together, the nations as one, our Kingdom united.

:51:12. > :51:18.For 12 years now, men and women from all parts of these islands have been

:51:18. > :51:22.serving their country in Afghanistan. Next year, the last of

:51:22. > :51:26.our combat troops will be coming home, having trained up the Afghans

:51:26. > :51:33.to look after their own country. More than a decade of war, a

:51:33. > :51:36.sacrifice beyond measure, from the finest and bravest Armed Forces in

:51:36. > :51:42.the world, and I want us today to stand, to raise the roof, right

:51:42. > :51:43.here, right now, to show just how proud of those men and women all of

:51:43. > :52:59.us are. So, we in this room, we are a team,

:52:59. > :53:03.and this year, we said goodbye to one of our team. Margaret Thatcher

:53:03. > :53:08.made our country stand tall again, at home and abroad, rescuing our

:53:08. > :53:13.economy, giving power to our people, spreading homeownership,

:53:13. > :53:27.creating work, saving the Falklands, winning the Cold War, an amazing

:53:27. > :53:31.record. I was sitting next to her at a dinner once, and as ever, she was

:53:31. > :53:35.totally charming, and she put me at ease. After awhile, I said to her,

:53:35. > :53:39.Margaret, if you had your time in government again, is there anything

:53:39. > :53:43.you would do differently? Quick as flash, she looked at me and said,

:53:43. > :53:51.you know what, I think I did pretty well the first time around. But I

:53:51. > :53:55.think we can all agree on that, and we can all agree on this - she was

:53:55. > :54:10.the greatest peacetime Prime Minister our country has ever had.

:54:10. > :54:16.Margaret Thatcher had an almighty mess to clear up when she came to

:54:16. > :54:19.office, and so did we. And we must never forget what we found - the

:54:19. > :54:23.biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history, the deepest

:54:23. > :54:26.recession since the Second World War, but it was not just the debt

:54:26. > :54:32.and the deficit that Labour left, it was who got hurt. Millions coming

:54:32. > :54:35.here from overseas, while millions of British people were left on

:54:35. > :54:43.welfare, the richest paying lower tax rates than their cleaners,

:54:43. > :54:47.unsustainable, debt fuelled banks booming, while manufacturing with

:54:47. > :54:50.underweight. The north falling further behind, towns where a

:54:50. > :54:54.quarter of people lived on benefits. Schools where eight out of ten

:54:54. > :54:58.children did not get five decent GCSEs. Yes, they were famously

:54:58. > :55:00.intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich, but

:55:00. > :55:04.tragically, they were also intensely getting filthy rich, but

:55:04. > :55:08.relaxed about people saying stuck on welfare year after year, intensely

:55:08. > :55:10.relaxed about children leaving school without proper

:55:10. > :55:15.qualifications, so they could not get a job at the end of it. That was

:55:15. > :55:18.it, that was what they left, the casino economy meets the welfare

:55:18. > :55:24.Society meets the broken education system, a country for the few, built

:55:24. > :55:25.by the so-called party of the many. And Labour, we will never let you

:55:26. > :55:44.forget it. These past few years have been a

:55:44. > :55:51.real struggle, but what people want to know is this aspect was the

:55:51. > :55:56.struggle worth it? And here is the honest answer - the struggle will

:55:56. > :56:02.only be worth it if we as a country finish the job we have started. In

:56:02. > :56:05.finishing the job means understanding this - our economy may

:56:05. > :56:08.be turning the corner, and of course, that is great, and we still

:56:08. > :56:12.have not finished paying for Labour's debt crisis. If anyone

:56:12. > :56:19.thinks that is over, done and dealt with, they are living in a fantasy

:56:19. > :56:23.land. The country's debt crisis, created by Labour, is not over.

:56:23. > :56:28.After three years of cuts, we still have one of the biggest budget

:56:28. > :56:34.deficits anywhere in the world. We are still spending more than we

:56:34. > :56:40.earn. We still need to earn more, and yes, our government still needs

:56:40. > :56:44.to spend less. I see that Labour have stopped talking about the debt

:56:44. > :56:49.crisis, and now they talk about the cost of living crisis, as if one was

:56:49. > :56:53.not directly related to the other. And if you want to know what happens

:56:53. > :56:56.if you do not deal with the debt crisis, and how it affects the cost

:56:56. > :57:02.of living, just go and ask the Greeks. So, finishing the job means

:57:02. > :57:07.sticking to our course until we have paid off all of Labour's deficit,

:57:07. > :57:10.not just some of it. And yes, let us run a surplus, and this time, we fix

:57:10. > :57:13.the roof when the sun is shining, as run a surplus, and this time, we fix

:57:14. > :57:26.George said in that brilliant speech on Monday.

:57:26. > :57:30.To abandon deficit reduction now would throw away all the progress

:57:30. > :57:34.that we have made. It would put us back to square one. And

:57:34. > :57:39.unbelievably, that is what Labour now want to do. How did they get it

:57:39. > :57:42.into this mess? Too much spending, too much borrowing, too much debt.

:57:42. > :57:48.And what did they propose last week? More spending, more borrowing,

:57:48. > :57:54.more debt. They have learned nothing, literally nothing, from the

:57:54. > :57:57.crisis they created. But finishing the job is about more than clearing

:57:57. > :58:02.up the mess we were left. It means building something better in its

:58:02. > :58:04.place. In place of the casino economy, one where people who work

:58:04. > :58:09.hard can really get on, in place of economy, one where people who work

:58:09. > :58:13.the welfare Society, one where no individual is written off, and in

:58:13. > :58:19.place of the broken education system, one that gives every child

:58:19. > :58:24.the chance to rise up and succeed, our economy, our society, welfare,

:58:24. > :58:30.schools, all reformed, all rebuilt, with one aim, one mission in mind -

:58:30. > :58:35.to make this country, at long last and for the first time ever, a land

:58:35. > :58:39.of opportunity for all. For all. So, it makes no difference whether

:58:39. > :58:42.you live in the North for the South, whether you are black or white, a

:58:42. > :58:46.man or a woman, the school you went to, the background you have, who

:58:46. > :58:53.your parents were, what matters is the effort you put in. And if you

:58:53. > :58:56.put in the effort, you will have the chance to make it. That is what the

:58:57. > :59:12.land of opportunity means, that is what finishing the job means.

:59:12. > :59:19.Of course, I know that in politics, there are others talking about these

:59:19. > :59:23.things, but wishing for something, caring for something, that is not

:59:23. > :59:27.enough. You cannot conjure up a dynamic economy, a strong society or

:59:27. > :59:32.fantastic schools, with a stroke of the Minister's pen. It takes a

:59:32. > :59:37.mixture of hard work, common-sense, and above all, the right values.

:59:37. > :59:41.When the left say, you cannot expect too much from the poorest kids, do

:59:41. > :59:45.not ask too much from people on welfare, business is the problem,

:59:45. > :59:50.not the solution, here in this party, we must say, that is just

:59:50. > :59:54.plain wrong. If you expect nothing of people, that does nothing for

:59:54. > :59:57.them. Yes, you must help people, but you help people by putting up

:59:57. > :00:01.ladders that they can climb through their own efforts. You do not help

:00:01. > :00:07.children by dumbing down education, you help them by pushing them hard.

:00:07. > :00:11.Good education is not about equality of outcomes, but bringing out the

:00:11. > :00:14.best in every child. You do not help people by leaving them stuck on

:00:14. > :00:19.welfare, but by helping them stand on their own two feet just why?

:00:19. > :00:24.Because the best way out of poverty is work, and the dignity that

:00:24. > :00:30.brings. We know that profit, wealth creation, tax cuts, enterprise,

:00:30. > :00:34.these are not dirty, elitist words. They are not the problem. They are

:00:34. > :00:38.the solution, because it is not government that creates jobs, it is

:00:38. > :00:42.businesses. It is businesses which get wages in people's pockets, food

:00:42. > :00:55.on the tables, and yes, success for our country. There is no short cut.

:00:55. > :01:02.There is no short cut to a land of opportunity, no quick fix, no easy

:01:02. > :01:06.way to do it. You build it, business by business, school by school,

:01:06. > :01:12.person by person Tom patiently, practically, painstakingly, and

:01:12. > :01:15.underpinning it all is that deep, instinctive belief that if you trust

:01:15. > :01:21.people and give them the tools, they will succeed. This party at its

:01:21. > :01:24.heart is about big people, strong communities, responsible businesses,

:01:24. > :01:28.a bigger society, not a bigger state. It's how we've been clearing

:01:28. > :01:29.up the mess. And it's how we're going to build something better in

:01:29. > :01:45.its place. So let's stick with it going to build something better in

:01:45. > :01:48.and finish the job we've started. A land of opportunity starts in our

:01:48. > :01:55.economy. The chance to get a decent job. To start a business. To own a

:01:55. > :01:59.home. And at the end of it all - more money in your pocket. To get

:01:59. > :02:01.decent jobs for people, you've got to recognise some fundamental

:02:01. > :02:14.economic facts. We are in a global race today. No one owes us a living.

:02:14. > :02:18.Last week, our ambition to compete in the global race was airily

:02:18. > :02:21.dismissed as a race to the bottom - that it means competing with China

:02:21. > :02:29.on sweatshops and India on low wages. No - those countries are

:02:29. > :02:32.becoming our customers, and we've got to compete with California on

:02:32. > :02:34.innovation, Germany on high-end manufacturing, Asia on finance and

:02:34. > :02:38.technology. And here's something else you need to recognise about

:02:38. > :02:41.this race. The plain fact is this. All those global companies that

:02:41. > :02:45.employ lots of people - they can set up anywhere in the world. They could

:02:45. > :02:50.go to Silicon Valley. To Berlin. And yes, here in Manchester. And these

:02:50. > :02:55.companies base their decisions on some simple things: like the tax

:02:55. > :02:58.rates in each country. So if those taxes are higher here than

:02:58. > :03:03.elsewhere, they don't come here. And if they don't come here, we don't

:03:03. > :03:11.get those jobs. Do you get that, Labour? British people don't get

:03:11. > :03:14.those jobs. Last week, Labour proposed to put up corporation tax

:03:14. > :03:17.on our biggest and most successful employers. That is just about the

:03:17. > :03:24.most damaging, nonsensical, twisted economic policy you could possibly

:03:24. > :03:50.come up with. We will fight it every step of the way. I get to visit some

:03:50. > :03:53.amazing factories in my job. One of my favourites is Jaguar Land Rover,

:03:53. > :03:57.not just because they actually let me get in a car and drive it around

:03:57. > :03:59.on my own. Quite dangerously, actually. I drove a mini off the

:03:59. > :04:03.production line. It was a huge treat, but when I got to the end, I

:04:03. > :04:07.turned the wrong way, although you will be relieved to know on this

:04:07. > :04:14.occasion, I turned right, rather than left. But the reason I find

:04:14. > :04:19.these places so fulfilling its because I meet people who are so

:04:19. > :04:23.proud of their work and aircraft Manship, the fact that what they are

:04:23. > :04:29.making cells around the world, that it is the best of British design and

:04:29. > :04:32.engineering. So when Ed Miliband talks about the face of big

:04:33. > :04:38.business, I think about the faces of these hardworking people. Labour is

:04:38. > :04:42.saying to their employers: "We want to put up your taxes, don't come

:04:42. > :04:45.here - stick your jobs and take them elsewhere". I know that bashing

:04:45. > :04:59.business might play to a Labour audience. But it's crazy for our

:04:59. > :05:02.country. So if Labour's plan for jobs is to attack business, ours is

:05:02. > :05:09.to back business. Regulation - down. Taxes - cut for businesses large and

:05:09. > :05:12.small. A new industrial policy that looks to the future - green jobs,

:05:13. > :05:23.aerospace jobs, life science jobs. We've made a good start: 1.4 million

:05:23. > :05:26.new jobs created in our private sector since we came to office, and

:05:26. > :05:31.that is 1.4 million reasons to finish the job we've started. In a

:05:31. > :05:35.land of opportunity, it must be easier to start your own business.

:05:35. > :05:46.You heard from Jermaine, and incredibly inspiring story this

:05:46. > :05:50.morning. To all those people who strike out on their own, who sit

:05:50. > :05:53.there night after night, checking and double checking whether the

:05:53. > :05:56.numbers stack up, I say I have so much respect for you - you are

:05:56. > :05:59.national heroes. I'll never forget watching Samantha do just that -

:05:59. > :06:03.winning her first customer, sorting out the cash flow, that magic moment

:06:03. > :06:08.when she got her first business cards printed. I was incredibly

:06:08. > :06:19.proud of her then, and I am incredibly proud of you now. People

:06:19. > :06:23.setting up new businesses need finance. That's why we've brought in

:06:23. > :06:27.start-up loans. They need their taxes cut - and we're doing it - up

:06:27. > :06:33.to £2000 off your National Insurance bill for every small business. And

:06:33. > :06:36.it's working. Let me tell you how many businesses have started up in

:06:36. > :06:44.Britain since the election: over 300,000. That is 300,000 more

:06:45. > :06:52.reasons to finish the work we've started. In a land of opportunity,

:06:52. > :06:56.more people must be able to own a home of their own. You know that old

:06:56. > :07:02.saying, your home is your castle? Well, for most young people today,

:07:03. > :07:07.their home is their landlord's. Generation Y is starting to become

:07:07. > :07:11.Generation Why Do We Bother? Millions of them stuck renting when

:07:11. > :07:17.they're desperate to buy. I met a couple on Sunday - Emily and James.

:07:17. > :07:20.They both had decent jobs, but because they didn't have rich

:07:20. > :07:24.parents, they couldn't get a big enough deposit to buy a house. And

:07:24. > :07:29.let me tell you where I met them. In their new home, bought with our Help

:07:29. > :07:36.to Buy mortgage scheme. It was still half built, but they showed me where

:07:36. > :07:40.the kitchen would be. Outside, there was rubble all over the ground, but

:07:40. > :07:43.they'd already bought a lawn-mower. And they talked about how excited

:07:43. > :07:55.they were to be spending a first Christmas in a home of their own.

:07:55. > :07:59.That is what we're about, and this, the party of aspiration, is going to

:07:59. > :08:11.finish the job on home ownership that we've started. In a land of

:08:11. > :08:14.opportunity, there's another thing people need, the most important

:08:14. > :08:17.thing of all, more money in their pockets. These have been difficult

:08:17. > :08:21.years. People have found it hard to make ends meet. That's why we've

:08:21. > :08:25.frozen council tax, and why we are freezing fuel duty. But we need to

:08:25. > :08:33.do more. I know that. We've heard Labour's ideas to help with the cost

:08:33. > :08:38.of living. Taxes on banks they want to spend ten times over. Promising

:08:38. > :08:43.free childcare - then saying that actually, you've got to pay for it.

:08:43. > :08:47.And an energy promise they admitted 24 hours later they might not be

:08:47. > :08:50.able to keep. It's all sticking plasters and quick fixes, cobbled

:08:50. > :09:10.together for the TV cameras. Red Ed and his Blue Peter economy. Britain

:09:10. > :09:13.can do better than that lot. To raise living standards in the long

:09:13. > :09:23.term, you need to do some major things. You need to cut the deficit

:09:23. > :09:29.to keep mortgage rates low. You need to grow your economy, get people

:09:29. > :09:37.jobs, and yes - cut people's taxes. I want people to keep more of their

:09:37. > :09:41.money to spend as they choose. We've already cut the taxes of 25 million

:09:41. > :09:44.hardworking people, and yes - that is 25 million more reasons to finish

:09:44. > :09:47.the job we've started. And while we are on taxes, let me get one thing

:09:47. > :09:53.straight. I don't know whether you caught the Lib Dem conference a

:09:53. > :09:57.couple of weeks ago. No? I missed a bit, too. But they were tried to

:09:57. > :10:00.take all the credit for these tax cuts, as though they had been

:10:00. > :10:06.twisting our armed to do it. Well, memo to the Lib Dems. You lecturing

:10:06. > :10:08.us on low taxes is like us lecturing you on pointless constitutional

:10:09. > :10:13.tinkering. We're Tories. We believe in low taxes. And believe me - we

:10:13. > :10:37.will keep on cutting the taxes of hardworking people. And here in

:10:37. > :10:41.Manchester, let me say this. When I say a land of opportunity for all, I

:10:41. > :10:45.mean everyone, north and south. This country has been too London-centric

:10:45. > :10:48.for far too long. That's why we need a new North-South railway line. The

:10:48. > :10:57.fact is this. The West Coast mainline is almost full. We have to

:10:57. > :11:00.build a new railway, and the choice is between another old-style,

:11:00. > :11:04.Victorian one or a high speed one. Just imagine if someone had said,

:11:04. > :11:07.no, we can't build the M1, or the Severn Bridge, imagine how that

:11:07. > :11:10.would be hobbling our economy today. HS2 is about bringing North and

:11:10. > :11:13.South together in our national endeavour. Because think of what

:11:13. > :11:17.more we could do with the pistons firing in all parts of our country.

:11:17. > :11:21.With its wind and wave power, let's make the Humber the centre of clean

:11:21. > :11:24.energy. With its resources under the ground, let's make Blackpool the

:11:24. > :11:30.centre of Europe for the shale gas industry. With its brains and

:11:30. > :11:33.research centres, let's make here in Manchester the world leader in

:11:33. > :11:35.advanced materials. We're building an economy for the North and South,

:11:36. > :11:39.embracing new technologies, producing things and selling them to

:11:39. > :11:45.the world. So make no mistake who's looking forward in British politics.

:11:45. > :12:00.We'll leave the 1970s-style socialism to others. We are the

:12:00. > :12:05.party of the future. We're making progress. You know how I know that?

:12:05. > :12:25.It's every week, at Prime Minister's Questions. There was a time when I'd

:12:25. > :12:29.look across to Ed Balls, and there he was, shouting his head off, doing

:12:29. > :12:32.this with his hands, screaming that the economy was flat-lining, ,and

:12:32. > :12:36.all with such glee. But recently, it's gone a bit quiet. Could it be

:12:36. > :12:39.because there was no double dip and the economy's now growing? Well,

:12:39. > :13:00.I've got a gesture of my own for Ed Balls. And don't worry - it's not a

:13:00. > :13:03.rude one. Jobs are up, construction is up, manufacturing is up, inward

:13:03. > :13:05.investment, retail sales, home-building, business confidence,

:13:05. > :13:08.consumer confidence - all these things are up. And to anyone who

:13:09. > :13:11.wants to talk our economy down, let me tell you this. Since this

:13:11. > :13:15.conference began, over 100,000 jet planes have soared into the sky on

:13:15. > :13:19.wings made in Britain. Every single day in this country, over 4,000 cars

:13:19. > :13:22.are coming off the production line - ready to be exported around the

:13:22. > :13:25.globe. Last year, Britain overtook France as Germany's top trading

:13:25. > :13:28.partner, not bad for a nation of shop-keepers. And that's the point.

:13:28. > :13:31.Exports to China are up, eExports to Brazil are up, exports to India,

:13:31. > :13:35.Russia, Thailand, South Korea, Australia - all up. So let us never

:13:35. > :13:42.forget the cast-iron law of British politics. Yes - the oceans can rise,

:13:42. > :13:45.and empires can fall, but one thing will never, ever change. It's Labour

:13:46. > :13:59.who wreck our economy and it's we Conservatives who clear it up.

:13:59. > :14:08.A land of opportunity means educating our children, and I mean

:14:08. > :14:13.all our children. It's OK for the children who have parents reading

:14:13. > :14:17.them stories every night. And that's great, but what about the ones at

:14:17. > :14:21.the back of the class, in the chaotic home, in the home of the

:14:21. > :14:25.drug addict or alcoholic? We need these children - and frankly, they

:14:25. > :14:28.need us. That's why three and a half years ago, one man came into the

:14:28. > :14:45.Department of Education, ,Michael Gove. There he is. He has this huge

:14:45. > :14:48.belief in excellence and massive energy, like a cross between Mr

:14:48. > :14:52.Chips and the Duracell bunny. Let's look at the results. Let's see what

:14:52. > :14:56.Chips and the Duracell bunny. Let's the bunnies achieved. More students

:14:56. > :15:00.studying proper science. More children learning a foreign

:15:00. > :15:07.language. He's ended the dumbing down in exams. For the first time,

:15:07. > :15:11.children in our schools will learn the new language of computer coding.

:15:11. > :15:14.And we're sending a clear message to children: if you fail English and

:15:14. > :15:18.maths GCSE, you're going to have to take and retake them again until you

:15:18. > :15:22.pass. Because as I tell my own children, there's not a job in the

:15:22. > :15:27.world where you don't need to spell and add up properly. Unless you want

:15:27. > :15:40.to join Labour's front bench economic team, of course. And It is

:15:40. > :15:48.not a career I would recommend. Ultimately, and Michael understands

:15:48. > :15:52.this, really raising standards means innovation, it means choice, it

:15:52. > :15:58.means giving passionate people the freedom to run our schools. Heard

:15:58. > :16:06.about it this morning. And that is what free schools are all about. I

:16:06. > :16:11.will never forget sitting in the classroom, the next school that this

:16:11. > :16:15.brilliant chain has set up, and I met a mother there who said to me,

:16:15. > :16:19.this is what I have dreamt of for my child's - proper uniforms, high

:16:19. > :16:23.standards, really high expectations. This is going to give my child a

:16:23. > :16:26.great start in life. When Michael Howard asked me what job I would

:16:26. > :16:34.like in the shadow cabinet, I said education, because what Michael is

:16:34. > :16:38.doing now, these are the kinds of things I came into politics to bring

:16:38. > :16:42.about. They are magnificent, these schools, it is great what we are

:16:42. > :16:46.doing, we must keep it up. And do you know what is extraordinary about

:16:46. > :16:52.these free schools? Label's official policy is to be against them. But

:16:52. > :16:56.get this, there are Labour MPs who are backing them in their own local

:16:56. > :17:02.areas. And not just any Labour MPs. I promise I am not making this up -

:17:02. > :17:07.the shadow Education Secretary, Stephen Twigg, has backed a free

:17:07. > :17:12.school in his own city. But me give you a day in the life of Stephen

:17:12. > :17:15.Twigg. At 8am, I am on national radio, saying, free schools are

:17:15. > :17:21.terrible. But come the afternoon, I am back home with my placard,

:17:21. > :17:26.shouting, what do we want? A free school. When do we wanted? Now.

:17:26. > :17:29.Isn't it unbelievable? But isn't it always the way with the left, they

:17:29. > :17:39.do not like privilege, unless of course it is for their own children.

:17:39. > :17:45.Well, we in this party must be ambitious for all our children, and

:17:45. > :17:51.we must finish job we started. We have now got technical colleges run

:17:51. > :17:54.by great companies like JCB. I say, let's have one of those colleges in

:17:54. > :18:03.every single major town in our country. We have had 1 million

:18:03. > :18:08.apprenticeships start under this government, and you heard this

:18:08. > :18:14.morning from Samantha. I say, let's set a new expectation, as you leave

:18:14. > :18:18.school, you have a choice - go to university or do an apprenticeship.

:18:18. > :18:22.And while we have got children leaving school not able to read,

:18:22. > :18:27.write or add up properly at the end of primary school, let us set this

:18:27. > :18:28.ambition for our country, let us eliminate illiteracy and give

:18:28. > :18:45.everyone of those children a chance. And my friends, as we do all this,

:18:45. > :18:49.we must remember, the most vulnerable children of all. There

:18:49. > :18:55.are thousands of children every year who broke up in homes where nappies

:18:56. > :19:02.and bedclothes go unchanged, and where there cries of pain go

:19:02. > :19:06.unheard. These children just need the most basic opportunity of all, a

:19:06. > :19:12.loving family. Two years ago, at our conference, I told you about our

:19:13. > :19:17.determination to speed up adoption. This past year, we saw record

:19:17. > :19:24.numbers finding permanent, loving homes. 4000 children adopted. And

:19:24. > :19:37.that is 4000 more reasons to finish the job that we have started. And as

:19:38. > :19:43.we keep on with this, we should remember who is on the front line. I

:19:43. > :19:46.have to take some tough decisions in my job, but none are as tough as

:19:46. > :19:53.whether to break up a family and rescue a child, or try and stitch

:19:53. > :19:55.that family back together. Social work is a noble and vital calling. I

:19:55. > :20:01.that family back together. Social will never forget, after our son

:20:01. > :20:05.Ivan was warned, social worker, sitting patiently in our kitchen,

:20:05. > :20:09.and telling us the sort of help that we might need. This government has

:20:09. > :20:13.helped to get some of the brightest graduates into treating, we have now

:20:13. > :20:18.pledged to do the same for social work. So let us now in this hall

:20:18. > :20:19.here it for Britain's social workers, who do such a vital job in

:20:19. > :20:44.our country today. The land of opportunity needs one

:20:44. > :20:50.final thing - welfare that really works. We know how badly things went

:20:50. > :20:55.wrong. Our fellow citizens working every hour of everyday to put food

:20:55. > :20:59.on the table, asking this - why should my taxes go to people who

:20:59. > :21:03.could work, but don't, or to those who live in homes that hard-working

:21:03. > :21:08.people could never afford? Or two people who have no right to be here

:21:08. > :21:13.in the first place? And I say this to the British people - you have

:21:13. > :21:17.every right to be angry about a system which is unfair and unjust,

:21:17. > :21:22.and that is why we are sorting it out. We have welfare, capped housing

:21:22. > :21:30.benefit. We insisted on new rules so that if you reject works, you lose

:21:30. > :21:34.benefits. Let us be absolutely clear - as Boris said in that great speech

:21:34. > :21:38.yesterday, the problems in our welfare system and immigration

:21:38. > :21:42.system, they are inextricably linked. If we do not get our people

:21:42. > :21:46.back to work, we should not be surprised if millions wants to come

:21:46. > :21:51.here to work. But we must act on immigration directly as well, and we

:21:51. > :21:57.are. Capping migration, clamping down on the bogus colleges, and when

:21:57. > :22:02.the immigration bill comes before Parliament, we will make sure that

:22:02. > :22:06.some simple and fair things which should always have been the case

:22:06. > :22:20.will be set in stone. If you are not entitled to our free National Health

:22:20. > :22:24.Service, you should pay for it. If you have no right to be here, you

:22:24. > :22:30.cannot rent a flat or a house, not of the council, not off anyone else.

:22:30. > :22:34.When you are a foreign prisoner, you should pay your own legal bills. And

:22:34. > :22:36.if you appeal, you must do it from your own country, after you have

:22:36. > :22:54.been deported, not from here. And on these huge national problems,

:22:54. > :22:58.we are making progress. Immigration has come down. On welfare, not only

:22:58. > :23:01.are there more people in work than ever before, but the number of

:23:01. > :23:05.households where no one works is at its lowest rate since records began.

:23:05. > :23:09.households where no one works is at And I want to thank the most

:23:09. > :23:10.determined champion of social justice that this country has, Iain

:23:10. > :23:30.Duncan Smith. Iain Duncan Smith understands that

:23:30. > :23:33.this is not about fixing systems, it is about saving lives, and that is

:23:33. > :23:38.why we have got to finish the job we have started. There are still over 1

:23:38. > :23:42.million young people not in education, employment or training.

:23:42. > :23:48.And today, it is still possible to leave school, to sign on, find a

:23:48. > :23:54.flat, start claiming housing benefit and opt for a life on benefits.

:23:54. > :23:58.Isn't it time for bold action here? We should ask, as we write our next

:23:58. > :24:03.manifesto, if that option should really exist at all. Instead, we

:24:03. > :24:06.should give young people a clear and positive choice - go to school, go

:24:06. > :24:11.to college, do an apprenticeship, get a job, but we have not to offer

:24:11. > :24:23.to college, do an apprenticeship, them something better than just

:24:23. > :24:28.choosing the dole. And let know one paint ideas like this as callous.

:24:28. > :24:31.Think about it. With your own children, would you dream of just

:24:31. > :24:38.leaving them to their own devices, not getting a job, not training,

:24:38. > :24:43.nothing? No, you would do anything to get them on their way, and so

:24:43. > :24:57.must we. So, this is what we want to see - everyone under 25 earning or

:24:57. > :25:02.learning. And we know, we know that on this, as on everything else,

:25:02. > :25:05.Labour will fight us. But we must remember, we are giving people real

:25:06. > :25:12.opportunities. I have had people say to me, I am back on my feet, I feel

:25:12. > :25:17.worthwhile. One wrote to me, saying, now I can tell my some that his dad

:25:17. > :25:22.really does something. This is what our party is about. We do not

:25:22. > :25:25.patronise people, but a benefit cheque in their hand and pat them on

:25:26. > :25:30.the head, we look people in the eye as equals, and say, yes, you have

:25:30. > :25:34.been down but you are not out, you can do it, we will give you that

:25:34. > :25:37.chance. That is why we will say today that it is this party which is

:25:37. > :25:41.fighting for all of those who are bitten off by Labour. It is this

:25:41. > :25:45.party which is for the many, not the few. Yes, the land of despair was

:25:45. > :26:01.Labour, but the land of hope is Tory.

:26:01. > :26:09.So, we have done some big things to transform our country, but we need

:26:09. > :26:12.to finish the job we have started. We need to go further, to do more

:26:12. > :26:17.for hard-working people, to give more children a chance, back more

:26:17. > :26:23.businesses, help create more jobs. I am clear about how that job will

:26:23. > :26:29.best gets done. It requires a strong government, with a clear mandate,

:26:29. > :26:32.which is accountable for what it promises and yes, what it delivers.

:26:33. > :26:37.And I want to tell everyone here what that means. When that election

:26:37. > :26:44.comes, we will not be campaigning for a coalition, we will be fighting

:26:44. > :26:45.head, heart and soul for a majority Conservative government, because

:26:45. > :27:04.that is what our country needs! You know there are some strange

:27:04. > :27:07.moments in this job. When I was just a few months in, a member of my

:27:07. > :27:11.staff rushed into the office and said, Prime Minister, you have

:27:11. > :27:15.really made it, they are burning an effigy of you on television.

:27:15. > :27:19.Actually, the first time it happened, they did not spell my name

:27:19. > :27:23.right. They do not make that mistake any more. But you do not do this to

:27:23. > :27:30.be popular. You do it cause you love your country. I do the best I can,

:27:30. > :27:36.and for me, it comes back to some simple things - country first, do

:27:36. > :27:41.what is decent, think long-term. There is an old story which is told

:27:41. > :27:46.about a great Hall in Oxford, near my constituency. For hundreds of

:27:46. > :27:49.years, it stood there, held up with vast oak beams, and in the 19th

:27:49. > :27:54.century, those beans needed replacing. And do you know what they

:27:54. > :27:59.found? 500 years before, someone had thought, those beans, they will need

:27:59. > :28:05.replacing one day, and so they had planted some oak trees. Just think

:28:05. > :28:08.about that. Centuries have passed, Columbus had reached America,

:28:08. > :28:14.gravity had been discovered, and when those oak trees were needed,

:28:14. > :28:18.they were ready. Margaret Thatcher once said, we are in the business of

:28:18. > :28:22.planting trees for our children and grandchildren, all we have no

:28:22. > :28:26.business being in politics at all. That is what we are doing today, not

:28:26. > :28:32.just making do and mending, but making something better. Since I got

:28:32. > :28:33.to my feet, almost 100 children have been born across our country,

:28:33. > :28:39.to my feet, almost 100 children have children of wealth and children of

:28:39. > :28:42.none, children of parents in work, and children of parents out of

:28:42. > :28:46.work. For every single one of those newborn babies, that is pledged

:28:46. > :28:52.today that we will build something better, a land of opportunity, a

:28:52. > :28:56.country built on that end during principal that if you work hard,

:28:56. > :29:04.save, played by the rules and do your fair share, then nothing should

:29:04. > :29:07.stand in your way. A new economy, a new welfare system, a new set of

:29:07. > :29:10.values in our schools, not just fixing the mess we inherited, but

:29:10. > :29:17.building something better. We have got a year and a half until that

:29:17. > :29:20.election, until Britain makes a choice, move forward to something

:29:20. > :29:24.better go back to something worse. But I believe that if this party

:29:24. > :29:28.with all we have, then this country will make the right choice. Because

:29:29. > :29:32.we always have before. Whenever we have had the choice of giving in to

:29:32. > :29:36.some shabby, from eyes or pushing forward to something better, we have

:29:36. > :29:40.said, this is Great Britain, the improbable hero of history, the

:29:40. > :29:45.country that does not give in, that knows there is no such thing as

:29:45. > :29:51.destiny, only our determination to succeed. So, I look forward to our

:29:51. > :29:56.future, and I am confident. Beyond this all, there are millions of

:29:56. > :29:59.hard-working people who renew the great in Great Britain every day, in

:29:59. > :30:03.the way they work, the way they give, the way they raise their

:30:03. > :30:08.families. These are the people we have alongside us. Together we have

:30:08. > :30:12.made it this far. Together, we will finish the job we have started. And

:30:12. > :30:19.together, we will build that land of opportunity.

:30:19. > :30:28.STUDIO: and the faithful get to their feet. The prime minister spoke

:30:28. > :30:34.for just under an hour. No new policy announcements. A reiteration

:30:34. > :30:36.of themes we had been told in advance, well worn Conservative

:30:36. > :30:41.themes. We got all the phrases that were leaked to the media last night.

:30:41. > :30:46.Land of opportunity, profit not a word. The prime minister bringing

:30:46. > :30:49.his wife onto the stage now to take the applause of the conference.

:30:49. > :30:55.Quite a lot of Labour and Miliband bashing going on. The Labour

:30:55. > :30:58.government of years gone by, he attacked for a casino economy and

:30:58. > :31:02.welfare Society and broken education system. Then he bashed the current

:31:02. > :31:08.Labour leadership for bashing business. His constant plea was to

:31:08. > :31:16.be allowed to finish the job. He gave strong support for the

:31:16. > :31:21.high-speed train project, and he revealed the staggering revelation

:31:21. > :31:26.that he wants an overall majority. Quite unusual for a party leader, I

:31:26. > :31:34.suppose. I think he just wanted to reassure the Conservative Party

:31:34. > :31:38.faithful that while they suspect he likes coalition, he said no, I want

:31:38. > :31:43.an overall majority at the next election. So, we did not really

:31:43. > :31:49.learn anything new, but we learnt the general pitch of the

:31:49. > :31:55.Conservatives as they had up to the 2015 election, which is, we are on

:31:55. > :31:58.the way, the recovery is here, don't hand the keys back to Labour, let

:31:58. > :32:04.the Conservatives finished the job with an overall majority. So, they

:32:04. > :32:09.used to give very long standing ovations, but not any more. Even at

:32:09. > :32:13.Conservative conferences, they have sat down and the speech is over. Our

:32:13. > :32:21.man who was listening to it all, let's go to him. What did you make

:32:21. > :32:27.of it? I will say this quickly before I am surrounded by delegates,

:32:27. > :32:32.but I don't think this was one of Mr Cameron's more memorable speeches,

:32:32. > :32:35.and almost deliberately so. It was a sort of holding pattern speech where

:32:35. > :32:39.the core message seemed to be come hang on in there, we can get through

:32:40. > :32:46.this, but there is quite a way to go. I was struck by this,

:32:47. > :32:51.pre-briefing. We were told that it would strike on to mystic note, a

:32:51. > :32:55.sense of a dawn beginning to break over the arid plains of austerity.

:32:55. > :33:08.It was a sober speech in many ways, Mr Cameron saying, we are not

:33:08. > :33:10.thereby a long way. If we deviate off the course, look at what

:33:10. > :33:12.happened to our Greek friends. In that sense, the message was, we will

:33:12. > :33:14.happened to our Greek friends. In have two keep making difficult

:33:14. > :33:17.economic decisions, and there is a long haul to go. There were the

:33:17. > :33:22.obvious crowd-pleasing moments, attacks on Labour, Red Ed and Blue

:33:22. > :33:32.Peter economics. There was that riposte to President Putin's jibe,

:33:32. > :33:37.saying, we beat you in the Olympics, and where is the bestselling vodka

:33:37. > :33:44.made? In Fife. There were good pieces to it, but quite a tough sell

:33:44. > :33:49.for a Tory party activist, which is, we will have to keep doing this. It

:33:49. > :33:55.is going to be difficult, hang on in there. Do we have a clear idea, as

:33:55. > :34:04.the English conference season comes to an end, of the dividing lines

:34:04. > :34:09.between the parties as we head into what will probably be the longest

:34:09. > :34:15.election campaign in British history? We have a clear sense from

:34:15. > :34:19.here of what the Tory pitch will be, which will basically be, it's the

:34:19. > :34:25.economy, stupid, and we are the ones who know how to run the economy.

:34:25. > :34:29.Their argument about the cost of living is that the only way to deal

:34:29. > :34:35.with the crisis is not quick fixes with freezing gas prices or doing

:34:35. > :34:39.more on childcare. The only way to solve the cost of living crisis is

:34:39. > :34:44.to sort out the economy, because that is the only way people will

:34:44. > :34:49.stay in jobs and get paid and mortgages will stay low and

:34:49. > :34:57.businesses will grow and so on. In other words, their argument is,

:34:57. > :35:02.trust us with the economy. That is a difficult argument when living

:35:02. > :35:08.standards are still being squeezed, which is why I think this speech was

:35:08. > :35:12.largely a holding speech. It was not the big oratorical flourish before

:35:12. > :35:15.the next election. It was pretty much, we are moving in the right

:35:15. > :35:18.direction. The economy is slowly turning, but we are nowhere near

:35:18. > :35:24.there yet. It was an appeal for turning, but we are nowhere near

:35:24. > :35:28.patients in many ways, which is always a difficult sell. People want

:35:28. > :35:33.things now, they want a good times. Mr Cameron can't offer that.

:35:33. > :35:36.Instead, he has this offer that he is leading us to this land of

:35:36. > :35:41.opportunity, a sort of biblical allusion to the commerce land. But

:35:41. > :35:56.it is still a way away, and he pretty much told people it was.

:35:56. > :35:59.Michael Heseltine, I have had politicians on the left and right

:35:59. > :36:06.promise me the land of opportunity since I was in short trousers. When

:36:06. > :36:11.am I going to get there? Well, by any standards, if you look back over

:36:11. > :36:15.decade after decade, standards rise. But the important part of that

:36:15. > :36:21.speech to me was that no one can now say we don't know what David Cameron

:36:21. > :36:26.believes in. He has spelt out in the clearest, most articular language is

:36:26. > :36:33.passionate concern for the whole spectrum of society. There were

:36:33. > :36:40.interesting sections about social workers, about the need to provide a

:36:40. > :36:46.dramatic improvement in the low levels of education in the West

:36:46. > :36:51.schools, a salute to the military. And to social workers. I mentioned

:36:51. > :36:55.that. He believes in it passionately. This was a one nation

:36:55. > :37:04.speech, in my view a very thorough and honest beach. -- speech. He did

:37:04. > :37:09.not say it is all fine. He said, it is a hell of a past, and I am not

:37:09. > :37:13.going to kid you into thinking we have achieved everything. What he

:37:13. > :37:16.said was realistic and passionate, and it was across-the-board and

:37:16. > :37:23.appealed to the middle ground, exactly what he should do. So you

:37:23. > :37:29.are no doubt that David Cameron is foursquare in your tradition of the

:37:29. > :37:31.Conservative Party? He is a one nation Conservative. That is why the

:37:31. > :37:36.Conservatives have done so much better since he became leader. Of

:37:36. > :37:42.course, he has not finished the job, but my view is that that is the

:37:42. > :37:52.right appeal, clearly and soberly presented, and I was impressed with

:37:52. > :38:00.the comprehensive nature of his speech will stop but he is a one

:38:00. > :38:05.nation Conservative with one seat in Scotland and no seats in any major

:38:05. > :38:09.city in the north. You have few seats in Wales. You are essentially

:38:09. > :38:15.a party of the South and the Southeast. That is the party David

:38:15. > :38:21.Cameron inherited. My own view is that that is the speech that could

:38:21. > :38:27.turn the corner. It is a huge task, but in my view, he charted the

:38:27. > :38:31.course. But he has this difficult balancing act. I was speaking

:38:31. > :38:35.earlier to Nick Robinson, that on the one hand it is perceived,

:38:35. > :38:41.rightly or wrongly, that Labour has moved to the left on the Mr

:38:41. > :38:45.Miliband, so Mr Cameron, being a natural centrist, will want to

:38:45. > :38:49.occupy that ground. That was partly what he was trying to do today. On

:38:49. > :38:52.the other hand, the real threat to him comes from his right flank. How

:38:52. > :38:59.do you occupy the centre ground and sea off the threat of UKIP in the

:38:59. > :39:03.marginal seats? Face them down. If they want Miliband, they have just

:39:03. > :39:14.got to vote UKIP. It is a simple equation. My own view is that faced

:39:14. > :39:22.with that stark decision which will become apparent by polling day, most

:39:22. > :39:28.Conservatives will come back because they can't stomach that process. It

:39:28. > :39:37.is a tough call for the prime minister, though, to say we are the

:39:37. > :39:40.aspiration party, when the social base from which the Conservative

:39:40. > :39:45.Party draws its people gets narrower and narrower, the appeal of the

:39:45. > :39:53.party regionally gets more and more narrow. It is going in the opposite

:39:53. > :39:58.party regionally gets more and more direction from the rhetoric. But you

:39:58. > :40:01.should salute that, because that is a leader, that is integrity, that is

:40:01. > :40:05.analysing the problem and addressing the real problem which you have

:40:05. > :40:13.described, the lack of northern representation. But is Mr Cameron's

:40:13. > :40:16.challenge. Did he run from it? No. Did he pander to the extreme right?

:40:16. > :40:21.No. It was an impressive speech. Did he pander to the extreme right?

:40:21. > :40:26.Let's go to Education Secretary Michael Gove. He was described as a

:40:26. > :40:36.combination of Mr chips and the juror sell Bunny -- your cell

:40:36. > :40:41.Bunny. Michael Gove, welcome to the Daily Politics. What did Mr Cameron

:40:41. > :40:45.tell us that we did not know already? He told us that there is a

:40:45. > :40:49.straightforward choice at the next election between going backwards to

:40:49. > :40:54.the 1970s or embracing the future. The most of us, that was clear

:40:54. > :41:00.beforehand, but we saw an articulation of what image are to

:41:00. > :41:05.Conservative government can achieve -- a majority Conservative

:41:05. > :41:09.government can achieve. That made me embrace a renewed relish for the

:41:09. > :41:13.fight. David Cameron laid out a programme to make us a land of

:41:13. > :41:17.opportunity, a country which can have the world's best education

:41:17. > :41:22.system and the world's most innovative economy. We knew that was

:41:22. > :41:26.what he wanted already. I am not sure that told us anything new. It

:41:26. > :41:34.was a policy free conference speech should. Do you think these sorts of

:41:35. > :41:37.things will catch on? The whole point about conference speeches is

:41:37. > :41:39.things will catch on? The whole that they are not there to please

:41:39. > :41:43.journalists, they are there to make an argument. The argument the prime

:41:43. > :41:47.minister made is the argument the country will have to wrestle with

:41:47. > :41:51.over the next 18 months. Forward or back. For a lot of people who had

:41:51. > :41:55.the chance to hear the prime minister, they will not be checking

:41:55. > :42:02.off on a list every new policy, like the journalists. People will be

:42:02. > :42:07.listening to a prime minister articulating with clarity, force,

:42:07. > :42:10.authority and passion, a course this country needs to take in the future.

:42:10. > :42:14.There were elements of the speech which people may not have

:42:14. > :42:17.appreciated. We are changing the curriculum in our schools to make

:42:18. > :42:21.sure every child can learn to code. I am sure people do not appreciate

:42:21. > :42:25.the extent to which there is a manufacturing revival going on in

:42:25. > :42:32.this country, and I am sure people also don't appreciate how much this

:42:32. > :42:36.government is doing to help those at the front line of public services,

:42:36. > :42:39.social workers. I suspect you did not know that this government is

:42:39. > :42:45.investing in attracting the very best into social worker in an

:42:45. > :42:50.innovative scheme which deserves the support of all of us. If you had had

:42:50. > :42:54.a pound for every time you heard party leaders talk about the land of

:42:54. > :42:58.opportunity and profits not being a dirty word, you would be a rich man

:42:58. > :43:03.and you can retire, couldn't you? Mrs Thatcher said the facts of life

:43:03. > :43:12.are Conservative, and sometimes it is important for leaders to remind

:43:12. > :43:17.us of some of those principles. Among some, there can sometimes be a

:43:17. > :43:21.certain cynicism about politics, a belief that they are all the same.

:43:21. > :43:27.Act Chile, over the last fortnight, we have seen a cage was between one

:43:27. > :43:30.party leader, Ed Miliband, who is looking back nostalgically to the

:43:30. > :43:37.1970s and state control, price control, wage control, and another

:43:37. > :43:42.prime minister who is embracing the future, who is part of a broad

:43:42. > :43:45.consensus now among world leaders that in order to ensure that our

:43:45. > :43:50.people have the best opportunities in the future, we need to improve

:43:50. > :43:55.our education so that every child has access to a high quality

:43:55. > :44:02.academic education, and we also need to grow our economy to take

:44:02. > :44:07.advantage of the opportunities of globalisation. Energy prices are

:44:07. > :44:10.crippling families on average and below family incomes. If I ask Mr

:44:10. > :44:14.Miliband what he will do about it, he says he will freeze energy prices

:44:14. > :44:18.until he sorts out the market. How many paragraphs will you need to

:44:18. > :44:28.explain what you are going to do about it? We are going to sort out

:44:28. > :44:35.the market. How? As you are aware, energy is a complex and highly

:44:35. > :44:39.regulated area of the economy. You are making this up as you go along.

:44:39. > :44:46.You don't know how you will sort out the market, do you? Well, I am not

:44:46. > :44:51.the Energy Secretary. But I do know that we used to have a significantly

:44:51. > :44:54.larger number of energy companies under the last Conservative

:44:54. > :44:58.government. It was produced to six under Labour. I know the market

:44:58. > :45:03.needs to be changed to ensure that we have greater competition. I know

:45:03. > :45:08.we need to liberate industry to take advantage of the shale gas

:45:08. > :45:11.revolution on our doorsteps. I know we need to make sure that

:45:11. > :45:19.microgeneration works, which means making sure tariffs are right. A lot

:45:20. > :45:25.of paragraphs. Of course, Andrew, but you can't have it both ways. You

:45:25. > :45:30.ask me to talk about policy briefly. You can't. You ask me to sum up the

:45:30. > :45:37.policy, I did. You said I don't know what I am talking about, and I

:45:37. > :45:41.explain it in detail, and now you say it is too much. Andrew, I do

:45:41. > :45:53.everything I can to satisfy you. Some folk just will not take yes for

:45:53. > :45:59.an answer. it is reported that you are tended in Austria, and you had

:45:59. > :46:02.your mobile phone is taken away, and you came back with a pair of

:46:03. > :46:13.lederhosen style swimming trunks - say it is not true. Not all of it is

:46:13. > :46:17.true. Well, that is what your no, she did not report that. The papers

:46:17. > :46:21.reported I had lost two stone, I am afraid, I only lost one. As the

:46:21. > :46:26.Prime Minister said in his speech, we have got to finish the job.

:46:26. > :46:32.Should the Daily Mail apologise for Ed Miliband for what he said about

:46:32. > :46:37.his father? No, newspapers should not apologise to politicians for

:46:37. > :46:40.being robust. We need a free press, a press which is robust and

:46:40. > :46:44.sometimes raucous, and which by definition will sometimes offend.

:46:44. > :46:51.Unless you have a free press, you do not have an effective check on the

:46:51. > :46:53.arrogance of politicians, so, I do not think politicians should tell

:46:54. > :47:01.newspaper editors how to do their job. I think newspaper editors are

:47:01. > :47:05.effectively doing their job when they upset us. And you are not

:47:05. > :47:10.influenced in that view by the fact that your wife makes a larger salary

:47:10. > :47:14.out of writing a column for the Daily Mail? My wife influences me in

:47:14. > :47:20.many areas, but my views about the Daily Mail? My wife influences me in

:47:20. > :47:23.media are on the record. I have the opportunity to appear in front of

:47:23. > :47:26.Lord Justice Leveson, and I explained to him why I believed in a

:47:26. > :47:29.free press come and I will make that case whenever I have the

:47:29. > :47:39.opportunity, as I think it is a very precious freedom, and I think it is

:47:39. > :47:42.a bad thing if politicians tried to cajole or colour as or influence

:47:42. > :47:47.editors. What we should do is to make our argument to the people, to

:47:47. > :47:51.the public, and make sure that a free press has the rights to be

:47:51. > :47:54.vigorous, walkers, and yes, of course, at times, upsetting, but

:47:54. > :47:58.that is the price we pay for liberty. One final point on

:47:58. > :48:02.education, the teachers have been on strike this week over your plans to

:48:02. > :48:08.introduce performance related pay - in no view, is teaching a vocation,

:48:08. > :48:16.or is it a career choice motivated by financial reward? It is a

:48:16. > :48:18.vocation. But one thing I know is that the headteachers who are

:48:18. > :48:22.responsible for running the best schools in the country tell me that

:48:22. > :48:24.performance related pay is a vital tool in making sure that all

:48:24. > :48:29.children can get the very best education. We had a teaching union

:48:29. > :48:32.leader from America's" yesterday, and he said initially he was opposed

:48:32. > :48:38.to performance related pay, but eventually, he accepted the case,

:48:38. > :48:42.and now, Washington, DC has moved from being one of the worst areas

:48:42. > :48:45.for education in America to be in one of the most improved. Speak to

:48:46. > :48:50.Amanda Phillips, who teaches in the East End of London, and who runs a

:48:51. > :48:54.brilliant primary school there. And another fantastic headteacher from

:48:54. > :48:57.the Midlands. Both of them will tell you that performance related pay is

:48:57. > :49:00.a way of making sure that every child gets the best possible

:49:01. > :49:07.education, and making sure that good teachers get paid more. Can we have

:49:07. > :49:12.a cast-iron guarantee that you will not wear your lederhosen when you

:49:12. > :49:15.come onto the Sunday politics? You have a cast-iron guarantee, Andrew.

:49:15. > :49:19.But one thing I would like to do would be to invite you to join me in

:49:19. > :49:22.pledging that over the next few weeks, both of us will try to do

:49:22. > :49:25.pledging that over the next few everything we can in order to try to

:49:25. > :49:29.be as fit and healthy as possible, because over the next sex sex romps,

:49:29. > :49:33.there is a fight for the future of this country, -- over the next 18

:49:33. > :49:37.months, there is a fight for the future of this country, and people

:49:37. > :49:46.want you, Andrew, to be ready for that fight as well. Are you after

:49:46. > :49:50.that Austrian spa? If he is paying. I think it is 2000 quid or

:49:50. > :49:59.something. So, what did the party faithful make of Mr Cameron? I know

:49:59. > :50:03.a man who can find out. Over to you, Adam. Yes, let's see what the

:50:03. > :50:06.delegates thought. You have been waiting patiently - what did you

:50:06. > :50:10.think of the speech? I thought he did fantastically well. He put a

:50:10. > :50:19.clear dividing line between him and the Labour Party. I was struck by a

:50:19. > :50:22.lot of it being a response to Ed Miliband, so does that mean a bigger

:50:22. > :50:25.band is setting the terms of the debate? Not necessarily, but Ed

:50:25. > :50:30.Miliband gave a very assured, good performance, identifying some key

:50:30. > :50:34.issues. So, for Cameron to ignore that would have been folly. But

:50:34. > :50:39.there was also a lot of other stuff which was clearly designed for the

:50:39. > :50:42.cameras and broadcasting outside, a patriotic approach, which I think

:50:42. > :50:46.was the right approach for him to take in this case. Frarncis Maude,

:50:46. > :50:54.having a celebratory cup of tea. We will leave you to it. What was your

:50:54. > :50:59.highlight of this speech? I loved the policies which were coming out

:50:59. > :51:04.for people of my age, 22. Weighing houses, education, it is so

:51:04. > :51:06.important. It is only our party which is showing a positive and

:51:06. > :51:13.inclusive vision for Britain. Anything missing from the speech?

:51:13. > :51:16.No, I think he covered everything we needed to hear, and gave us a clear

:51:16. > :51:20.dividing line, whereby we are the party of opportunity, and the party

:51:20. > :51:26.for the whole of Britain, as opposed to Labour, which is the party of the

:51:26. > :51:31.few. We have got is very retro who wants to speak to The Daily Politics

:51:31. > :51:33.live? What did you think of the speech? Absolutely brilliant. He

:51:33. > :51:37.said everything that we all need to speech? Absolutely brilliant. He

:51:37. > :51:41.know, reminding us of our roots, opportunity for everybody. When are

:51:41. > :51:45.we going to be living in this land of opportunity? We have started. We

:51:45. > :51:50.have a long way to go, David Cameron said that, and he is right. We are

:51:50. > :51:54.only three and a half years into a government. Some people, the way

:51:54. > :51:58.they say, you would think we have been in for a long time. We are

:51:58. > :52:03.putting right what Labour got one, and it is taking some time, but we

:52:03. > :52:09.are getting there. Briefly, land of Hope is Tory, do you think so?

:52:09. > :52:23.Absolutely. This is the only party that gives hope. Now, finally, spare

:52:23. > :52:26.a thought for that penniless, abused breed, the political sketch writer,

:52:26. > :52:31.locked in the conference equivalent of livestock crates, fed on a diet

:52:31. > :52:35.of warm, continental white wine, could be worse, and the odd press

:52:35. > :52:39.release, poised for the dramatic event which may or may not happen.

:52:39. > :52:43.They have not had a proper night's sleep for a month. One of the

:52:43. > :52:47.finest, Quentin Letts, has been dutifully following events for us.

:52:47. > :52:50.He has escaped from his great for this final dispatch, and we would

:52:50. > :53:03.like to warn viewers that there is flash photography in this report. --

:53:03. > :53:04.from his crate. You have got the blue banners sorted, the invitations

:53:04. > :53:09.have been sent out, then someone has blue banners sorted, the invitations

:53:09. > :53:13.to go and spoil it. Ladies and gentlemen, I am talking about

:53:13. > :53:16.gate-crashers, attention seeking individuals trying to barge their

:53:16. > :53:23.way into David and George's party. And they did not even have the

:53:23. > :53:29.decency to bring a bottle of Blue Nunn. The first culprit, Nigel

:53:29. > :53:34.Farage, muscling in on the fringe events, whispering words into the

:53:34. > :53:40.ears of the Eurosceptic Bruce group, seductive words, like,

:53:40. > :53:44.election pact - positively indecent! You are causing mischief, aren't

:53:44. > :53:50.you? No, I am here to have a proper debate. You are teasing the

:53:50. > :53:54.Conservative Party, gate-crashers number two, Alistair Campbell, Tony

:53:54. > :53:56.Blair's nasty old spin doctor, who barged into the conference to

:53:56. > :54:01.campaign on alcohol awareness, and barged into the conference to

:54:01. > :54:09.to wait the few Tories. Nobody was safe. And continuing love for Mrs

:54:09. > :54:13.Thatcher provided more discomfort, when party members were invited by

:54:13. > :54:17.this programme to nominate their all-time favourite Prime Minister by

:54:17. > :54:24.dropping blue balls into The Daily Politics mood box. Who has got more

:54:24. > :54:28.balls, you Mrs Thatcher? Cheeky. But still, they could rely on the old

:54:28. > :54:31.foot soldiers, couldn't they? That did not seem to be the case when the

:54:31. > :54:36.Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, received a full frontal assault from

:54:36. > :54:39.a couple of ancient Fusiliers, both party members, who took exception to

:54:39. > :54:45.their regiment being disbanded in the defence cuts. We are fortunate

:54:45. > :54:49.indeed to have the best Armed Forces in the world, with the finest and

:54:49. > :54:54.the bravest men and women serving in them. They are serving us now, as

:54:54. > :55:00.they always serve us, round the clock. Would you like to sit down? I

:55:00. > :55:05.will come and talk to you happily later on. Let me complete my speech.

:55:05. > :55:07.This conference has been a bit more serious, for want of a better word,

:55:07. > :55:13.This conference has been a bit more Thatcherite, then in recent years.

:55:13. > :55:15.It is a bit like being at a gathering of accountants and

:55:15. > :55:21.actuaries. Some of the conference gags have been a bit like that, too.

:55:21. > :55:34.David and Ed Miliband, the greatest sibling rivalry since the Bible - -

:55:34. > :55:39.Kane and not very able. Abu Qatada looked at him and asked, is crazy

:55:39. > :55:44.may flying with me? I admit I was crazy, raising with the European

:55:44. > :55:47.court of human rights. But when it comes to stealing the limelight,

:55:47. > :55:53.there is only one man with the necessary showbiz sparkle, shimmy

:55:53. > :55:59.neon -- shimmying onto the dance floor, Boris Johnson. Not so long

:55:59. > :56:05.ago, I welcomed the former French Prime Minister Alain Juppe, and he

:56:05. > :56:09.told me that he was now the mayor of Bordeaux. I think he may have been

:56:09. > :56:13.when he was Prime Minister as well. It is the kind of thing they do in

:56:13. > :56:20.France, a very good idea, in my view... What he said was... ! Joke!

:56:20. > :56:24.How to sum up the week? I could tell you about Margaret Thatcher ironing

:56:24. > :56:27.board covers which had to be taken off the shelves because they were

:56:27. > :56:30.not heat resistant, I could tell you about David Cameron and his

:56:31. > :56:33.bread-making machine, I could tell you about these lovely teddy bears

:56:33. > :56:37.from the Conservative visible at a group. But really, this week has

:56:37. > :56:41.been about money, welfare, jobs, money, money, money. That is how

:56:41. > :56:46.they are going to play the next few months. So, lads, looks like you are

:56:46. > :56:57.going to have to go out to work. Sorry about that. Well, I think

:56:57. > :57:01.Quentin Letts can join us now. This is a great moment, because the long

:57:01. > :57:05.three weeks of the conference season is now over, so we are feeling a

:57:05. > :57:11.certain liberation, and I am sure you viewers may feel the same. Of

:57:11. > :57:14.course, it is not quite over for the English conferences, as we always

:57:14. > :57:17.have to say, but how did this Tory conference compared to the last

:57:17. > :57:27.three? Well, very different people here. The more loony elements seem

:57:27. > :57:31.to have disappeared, and they seem very serious and resolute and

:57:31. > :57:36.determined to get on with what they are doing. This speech today was the

:57:36. > :57:39.same, Suba, rather solid, not exciting. You could not accuse it of

:57:39. > :57:42.same, Suba, rather solid, not being revolutionary, but that was

:57:42. > :57:46.probably the idea. -- Sauber. It was a contrast to that rather wild, mad

:57:46. > :57:53.speech which Miliband gave last week. Cameron being in the centre

:57:53. > :57:57.ground, grown-up and solid. We will let you go and enjoy your freedom,

:57:57. > :58:02.your liberation, in Manchester. Michael Heseltine, final four from

:58:02. > :58:07.you? I think Cameron staked his claim to the centre ground. It was

:58:07. > :58:11.not, as Quentin said, all about money, it was about caring for a

:58:11. > :58:17.whole raft of people, in social work, in the military, in schools,

:58:17. > :58:18.who are essentially public sector, at the forefront of the battle to

:58:18. > :58:23.improve social conditions, and at the forefront of the battle to

:58:23. > :58:27.Cameron cared passionately. No one can ever say again, we do not know

:58:27. > :58:33.what he stands for. That is it for today. It is the end of the English

:58:33. > :58:38.conference season. The Scottish Nationalists are meeting, strangely

:58:38. > :58:42.enough, in Scotland. Thanks to viewers on the News Channel for

:58:42. > :58:47.watching. Jo will be back tomorrow. I will be back tomorrow night on

:58:47. > :58:55.This Week. James Langdale will have all of today's conference highlights

:58:55. > :59:02.on BBC Two after Newsnight. So, that is it, we will be back tonight, not

:59:02. > :59:04.us, but the team will be back, with the round-up, after Newsnight.

:59:04. > :59:08.Bye-bye.