:00:26. > :00:31.Welcome to our final round up of the Conservative Party conference,
:00:31. > :00:36.here in Manchester, indeed our final round up of the party season
:00:36. > :00:40.2011. One year ago, David Cameron told the Conservative conference
:00:40. > :00:45.that the British economy was out of the dangers are. Today, in the run-
:00:45. > :00:50.up to his speech, we learnt that economic growth had slowed to zero,
:00:50. > :00:55.that the recession was deeper than we had thought, and that the
:00:55. > :00:59.eurozone crisis had just entered an even more dangerous phase. Mr
:00:59. > :01:07.Cameron made his speech against the backdrop of the grimmest economic
:01:07. > :01:11.outlook since the IMF bailed out of this country in the mid- 1970s.
:01:11. > :01:19.Here are the highlights. I do not underestimate how worried people
:01:20. > :01:25.feel. But the truth is, the Government now, we need to be
:01:26. > :01:30.energised, not paralysed by gloom and fear. Half the world is booming.
:01:30. > :01:35.Let's go and say to them, so many of our communities are thriving.
:01:35. > :01:44.There is so much that is great about our country, so let us reject
:01:44. > :01:54.the pessimism, let us and bring on the can-do optimism, and fight for
:01:54. > :01:58.
:01:59. > :02:03.a better future for our country, Now, of course, that starts with
:02:04. > :02:10.our economy. As we meet here in Manchester, the threat to the world
:02:10. > :02:16.economy, and to Britain, is as serious as in 2008, when world
:02:16. > :02:20.recession loomed. The eurozone is in crisis, the French and German
:02:20. > :02:25.economies have slowed to a standstill. Even mighty America is
:02:25. > :02:33.questioned about her debts. It is an anxious time. Prices and bills
:02:33. > :02:38.keep going up - petrol, electricity, the weekly shop. On the news it is
:02:38. > :02:43.job losses, cutbacks, closures. You think about tuition fees, house
:02:43. > :02:50.prices, the cost of a deposit, you wonder how our children will manage.
:02:50. > :02:55.Of course, government can help, and this one is. The answer is
:02:55. > :03:00.straightforward but uncomfortable. This was not a normal recession, it
:03:00. > :03:06.was a debt crisis. It was caused by too much borrowing, by individuals,
:03:06. > :03:13.banks, businesses, and most of all, by governments. The only way out of
:03:13. > :03:17.a debt crisis is to deal with your debts. That's why households are
:03:17. > :03:21.peeing down the credit card and the store card bills. It means banks
:03:21. > :03:26.getting the books in order, and it means governments all over the
:03:26. > :03:29.world cutting spending and living within their means. Our whole
:03:29. > :03:35.deficit reduction programme is really just one big bail-out of the
:03:36. > :03:39.last Labour government. We have been subjected to a kind of
:03:39. > :03:43.national apology Tour by Labour these last few months. Sorry for
:03:43. > :03:47.sucking up to Gaddafi, for not regulating the banks, for crushing
:03:47. > :03:53.civil liberties, for failing to go green, for not building enough
:03:53. > :03:57.houses. But nothing, not a peep, on the thing they really need to say
:03:57. > :04:07.sorry for, wasting billions and billions of your money. No apology
:04:07. > :04:16.
:04:16. > :04:24.Do you know what the shadow Chancellor said last week? That
:04:24. > :04:29.Labour did not spend any more money than they had available. Ed - use
:04:29. > :04:36.spent �428 billion more than you had available. And there is only
:04:36. > :04:46.one conclusion you can draw from this - we must never ever let these
:04:46. > :04:47.
:04:47. > :04:51.people anywhere near a our economy ever again. So, to the unions
:04:51. > :04:57.planning to strike over public sector pensions, I say this - you
:04:57. > :05:01.have a very right to protest, but our population is ageing, our
:05:01. > :05:06.public sector pension system is unaffordable, the only way to give
:05:06. > :05:11.public sector workers a decent, sustainable pension system, which I
:05:11. > :05:16.want to, and to do right by the taxpayer, is to ask public servants
:05:16. > :05:21.to work a little longer and to pay a little more. That is fair. What
:05:21. > :05:31.is not fair, what is not right, is going on strike and hitting the
:05:31. > :05:31.
:05:31. > :05:41.very people that are helping to pay for your future pension. There is
:05:41. > :05:48.
:05:48. > :05:51.too much can't-do sogginess around. We cannot go on with the rigid,
:05:51. > :05:57.outdated employment legislation of the past. I know that people will
:05:57. > :06:07.say, what about workers' rights? We must not forget the most important
:06:07. > :06:08.
:06:08. > :06:12.right of all, the right to have a This government is providing
:06:12. > :06:19.funding for an extra 250,000 apprenticeships across this
:06:19. > :06:23.Parliament. But we're not getting enough back from big business. So,
:06:23. > :06:27.here is a direct appeal - if you want skilled employees, we will
:06:28. > :06:31.provide the funding, we will cut the red tape, but you have got to
:06:31. > :06:41.show the leadership and give us the apprenticeships this country so
:06:41. > :06:45.
:06:45. > :06:50.Our businesses need the space to grow, literally. And that is one of
:06:50. > :06:54.the reasons we are reforming our planning system. It is hard to
:06:54. > :06:59.blame local people for opposing developments, when they get so few
:06:59. > :07:04.benefits. We are changing that. I know people are worried about what
:07:04. > :07:08.this means for conservation. Let me tell you, I love our countryside, I
:07:08. > :07:15.would never do anything to put it at risk. But we have got to get the
:07:15. > :07:18.balance right. To those who oppose everything we do, my message is
:07:18. > :07:27.this - take your arguments down to the JobCentre, because we're going
:07:27. > :07:32.to get Britain back to work. In Britain today, we do have a group
:07:32. > :07:38.of schools which are utterly intolerant of failure, where 90% of
:07:38. > :07:44.pupils get five good GCSEs. Yes, private schools. You have heard me
:07:44. > :07:48.talk about social responsibility. I want to see private schools and
:07:48. > :07:53.academies in the state system. Wellington College does it, Dulwich
:07:53. > :07:57.does it, others can, too. The apartheid between private and state
:07:57. > :08:01.education is one of the biggest wasted opportunities in our country
:08:01. > :08:11.today. Let it be us, the Conservative Party, who help to
:08:11. > :08:16.
:08:16. > :08:20.I am incredibly fortunate in leading his party -- leading his
:08:20. > :08:30.party. I have had incredible support from all of our previous
:08:30. > :08:36.leaders. In this party, we do not boo our leaders. We are proud of
:08:36. > :08:42.what they have done for our party and for our country. A few months
:08:42. > :08:47.ago, we were all shocked by the scenes on the streets in London and
:08:47. > :08:52.in other parts of the country. But perhaps almost the most shocking
:08:52. > :08:58.thing is that people were not that surprised. There was no great call
:08:58. > :09:03.for a public inquiry to find out what had gone wrong. Instead, I
:09:03. > :09:08.think you could hear the angry, insistent, overwhelming cry of the
:09:08. > :09:12.country shouting to its leaders - we know. One of the things that
:09:12. > :09:16.people want his speedy justice. After the riots, those responsible
:09:16. > :09:22.were put straight into court, and tough sentences were quickly handed
:09:22. > :09:27.out. I have made it clear to the police, the prosecution services,
:09:27. > :09:37.the Ministry of Justice, that if we can do that then, let us do it all
:09:37. > :09:42.
:09:42. > :09:48.But we all know that the problems go deeper. That is why my driving
:09:48. > :09:51.ambition in politics is to build that bigger, stronger society. I
:09:51. > :09:56.stood before a Conservative conference once, and I said it
:09:56. > :10:02.should not matter whether commitment was between a man and a
:10:02. > :10:07.woman, or a man and a man, or a woman and a woman. You applauded me.
:10:07. > :10:14.Five years on, we are consulting on legalising gay marriage. To anyone
:10:14. > :10:18.who has reservations, I say this - yes, it is about equality, but it
:10:18. > :10:22.is also about something else, commitment. Conservatives believe
:10:22. > :10:27.in the ties that bind us, that society is stronger when we make
:10:27. > :10:30.vows to each other and we support each other. I do not support gay
:10:30. > :10:39.marriage in spite of being a Conservative, a support gay
:10:39. > :10:42.marriage because I am are Conservative. -- I am a
:10:42. > :10:46.Conservative. Next year we're going to welcome the world for the
:10:46. > :10:51.Olympics and for the Queen's diamond Jubilee. These two events
:10:51. > :10:54.so a lot about Britain - tradition and maternity all-in-one. Today, we
:10:54. > :10:58.can choose to be a country that back on its feet and striding
:10:58. > :11:04.forward, playing down our debt and earning a living, getting people
:11:04. > :11:07.off welfare and into work, breaking new ground in education with
:11:08. > :11:12.excellence for Everyone. Britain never had the biggest population,
:11:12. > :11:18.the largest land mass, the richest resources, but we had the spirit.
:11:18. > :11:22.It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the
:11:22. > :11:32.fight in the dock. Overcoming the challenge, reinventing ourselves,
:11:32. > :11:34.
:11:34. > :11:37.confounding the sceptics! That is what we do. It is called leadership.
:11:37. > :11:42.Let this time of challenge be turned into a time of opportunity.
:11:42. > :11:46.Not sitting around watching things happen and wondering again, but
:11:47. > :11:50.standing up, making things happen, and asking, why not? We have the
:11:51. > :11:55.ideas, we have the people, and now we have a government which is
:11:55. > :12:05.freeing those people, backing those ideas. Let us show the world some
:12:05. > :12:12.
:12:12. > :12:16.fight, let us pull together and Most commentators did not regard it
:12:16. > :12:19.as his finest conference speech, and many were surprised that he did
:12:19. > :12:23.not dwell more on the precarious international financial situation,
:12:24. > :12:28.which could turn out to be even more serious than the financial
:12:28. > :12:32.meltdown of 2008. Perhaps the speech can best be summed up by the
:12:32. > :12:35.old wartime slogan, keep calm and carry on. I spoke to the Foreign
:12:35. > :12:44.Secretary, William Hague, after the speech and suggested to him that
:12:44. > :12:50.Britain really was back in the I don't think it would be fair to
:12:50. > :12:55.say that. The triple A credit rating was maintained when other
:12:55. > :12:59.countries were being reduced. I think it is fair to say that the
:12:59. > :13:02.global economic danger zone has been enlarged, if you like, but it
:13:02. > :13:08.would be the wrong attitude to say we are back in the danger zone, and
:13:08. > :13:12.the economy has been growing. defect is a disorderly default in
:13:12. > :13:16.Greece -- but if there is a disorderly defaulting Greece and
:13:16. > :13:21.there are no measures put in to stop the contagion, we will be
:13:21. > :13:25.swept up in that. Virtually the entire western world would be
:13:25. > :13:30.affected, very seriously. I often use the analogy of the Belding
:13:30. > :13:34.building with no exit the we have to support the quenching of the
:13:34. > :13:37.fire. George Osborne was there at the finance ministers' meeting in
:13:37. > :13:45.Luxembourg last week and was producing some of the ideas as well
:13:45. > :13:51.as urging them before the G20 summit to take the necessary action.
:13:51. > :13:55.Of course it involves a recapitalising the banks and making
:13:55. > :14:02.sure the euro-zone country work more closely together. The if there
:14:02. > :14:08.is a burning building with no exits, had you put the fire out? You have
:14:08. > :14:12.to use all your resources. How do you getting? That may be taking the
:14:12. > :14:18.matter for a bit far. It is your metaphor. The serious point is
:14:18. > :14:22.there is no clear exit. The Eurozone is a symptom of a wider
:14:22. > :14:27.problem of debt and deficit in Western nations because the
:14:27. > :14:32.Eurozone is not well designed it really shows the pressure. It
:14:32. > :14:35.applies in the United States as well. It applies in this country
:14:35. > :14:39.where the deficits have been too great and we are dealing with that
:14:39. > :14:45.and we have seen the Prime Minister, the man who gives the necessary
:14:45. > :14:52.leadership. But she cannot give the leadership to the Eurozone. We are
:14:52. > :14:57.not part of it. Unlike the banking crisis in 2008 where because of
:14:57. > :15:02.London's position we were a central part of this we are now spectators
:15:02. > :15:07.or, at best, sensible critics from the sidelines. Hopefully we are
:15:07. > :15:12.sensible critics. We are a bit more than spectators. It does involve us
:15:12. > :15:19.and because we are one of the principal players in subscribing to
:15:19. > :15:23.the International Monetary Fund... However when the IMF takes action,
:15:23. > :15:28.Britain is part of it. We have increased our subscription
:15:28. > :15:33.accordingly, so we are more than spectators. And as a big player in
:15:33. > :15:38.the financial world I think what the Chancellor of Britain says he's
:15:38. > :15:42.taken seriously. The throughout the conference people have told us
:15:42. > :15:46.although growth is anaemic, growth has carried on, but that has turned
:15:46. > :15:51.out not to be true. It is true the growth figures have changed. There
:15:51. > :15:55.has been no growth. Over the last year the economy has grown. So when
:15:55. > :15:59.ministers have told us the economy has growing, it turned out with
:15:59. > :16:04.revision they were wrong. This economy is not growing. We don't
:16:04. > :16:09.have the figures for now, of course. We have them for the nine months
:16:09. > :16:13.until the summer. Do we expect things to be growing? I am not
:16:13. > :16:17.going to forecast economic figures. Over the last year the economy has
:16:17. > :16:22.not grown. It has not grown since the end of the third quarter of
:16:22. > :16:25.last year. The figures have been revised but they're still has been
:16:25. > :16:29.growth in the economy. Of course we won the economy to grow more
:16:29. > :16:33.strongly and that is what so many of these measures are about. You
:16:33. > :16:39.look at the housing figures and the announcement the Prime Minister
:16:39. > :16:43.referred to, 200,000 more homes, but 400,000 new jobs. These are the
:16:43. > :16:48.sort of announcement necessary to help growth, which is of causes low
:16:48. > :16:52.or anaemic, whatever expression you want to use. It is zero at the
:16:52. > :16:59.moment. We will see what the figures show when it comes to this
:16:59. > :17:02.quarter. Why does the government says we should pay down credit card
:17:02. > :17:06.debt and household debt when the government is adding half a
:17:06. > :17:12.trillion pounds to its own debt? One of the things we are doing is
:17:12. > :17:15.bringing government debt under control. It is going up because of
:17:15. > :17:20.the inheritance we have. I think everyone agrees that what George
:17:21. > :17:26.Osborne has announced in the Budget brings down the government deficit.
:17:26. > :17:33.But debt is heading for almost 1.5 trillion. So wide you get tomorrow
:17:33. > :17:38.-- borrow more and we have to pay off our credit cards? There are two
:17:38. > :17:42.points in this. We are saving �85 billion over four years from
:17:42. > :17:47.government spending so the stock of debt will not go over as quickly
:17:47. > :17:52.over previous plans. The deficits are bring board down. We are not
:17:52. > :17:56.telling people what to do with their credit cards. People have
:17:56. > :18:00.been paying down a credit card bills. And an economy that is
:18:00. > :18:06.vulnerable to high levels of debt, the bank level, the government
:18:06. > :18:10.level, that is vulnerable in this situation. A subdued conference?
:18:10. > :18:19.Are you a bit worried? I think this was a confident conference. The
:18:19. > :18:24.fact we have had the biggest argument over CHC is a successful
:18:24. > :18:28.conference. Realistic, but optimistic. Realistic but an
:18:28. > :18:32.optimistic speech from the Prime Minister. We might be fighting the
:18:32. > :18:37.quick -- economic equivalent of war, but we are still fighting real wars
:18:37. > :18:41.in Afghanistan and Libya. So up popped the Defence Secretary Liam
:18:41. > :18:47.Fox to explain away the defence cuts which so annoyed his party
:18:47. > :18:51.faithful. This is a flavour of what he had to say. Not a day passes
:18:51. > :18:58.without me thinking how lucky I am to work with the men and women in
:18:58. > :19:03.uniform, or how humble die down by the great responsibility. That is
:19:03. > :19:08.why I am determined to get the Ministry of Defence back into shape
:19:08. > :19:13.after more than a decade of chaos and a Labour. We always knew it
:19:13. > :19:19.would be hard, especially with a �38 billion black hole in the MoD
:19:19. > :19:23.budget. But the national deficit left behind by Labour also has a
:19:23. > :19:32.direct impact on our national security and our standing in the
:19:32. > :19:35.world. You can be strong if you're broke. That is what Labour always
:19:35. > :19:41.fails to understand. George Osborne has Binstead fast in his
:19:41. > :19:46.determination to deal with the deficit -- has been that Stead fast
:19:46. > :19:50.-- and he has my support. The nation lives within its means and
:19:50. > :19:54.every department has to do its bit, but even after the MoD contribution
:19:54. > :19:58.to deficit deduction -- reduction, we still have the 4th largest
:19:59. > :20:06.defence budget in the world. And we continue to be one of only five
:20:06. > :20:13.countries out of 28 in NATO meeting our 2% GDP obligation. Libya has
:20:13. > :20:18.shown that Britain remains a global player. Our armed forces carried
:20:18. > :20:23.out the evacuation of more than 1,400 UK and other nationals. The
:20:23. > :20:27.RAF contributed 20 % of all coalition airstrikes. The Nato-led
:20:27. > :20:31.mission will continue. That is until we are satisfied that the
:20:31. > :20:36.people of Libya are no longer threatened by remnants of the
:20:36. > :20:40.former regime. And although the campaign is not yet over, the
:20:40. > :20:45.Libyan people can now shape their own destiny in a way that was
:20:45. > :20:51.unthinkable to them even six months ago. There are those in Europe who
:20:51. > :20:59.are calling for the EU to take a greater role in Europe's security.
:20:59. > :21:03.Let me tell you, Europe already has a guarantor of its defence. It is
:21:03. > :21:08.called NATO. It is nonsense to duplicate and diverge from NATO at
:21:08. > :21:18.a time when resources are scarce, and the last thing we need is more
:21:18. > :21:23.
:21:23. > :21:28.What really riles so many Tories is that while defences being cut, the
:21:28. > :21:30.foreign aid budget is being increased will stop I asked the
:21:30. > :21:35.International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell what it was like to
:21:35. > :21:39.preside over the most unpopular policy at the conference. I think
:21:39. > :21:43.it is getting better understood, and increasingly popular. Some of
:21:43. > :21:48.the polling suggests it is the case. I had the chance to make a speech
:21:48. > :21:52.at the conference on Sunday where I set out the reasons for this, that
:21:52. > :21:55.even in these extremely difficult economic times we have a plan which
:21:55. > :22:01.stands by our commitments on developments and we do this because
:22:01. > :22:04.it is the right thing to do, and the national interest. Do you
:22:04. > :22:09.accept there could be circumstances where you can keep to the
:22:09. > :22:14.commitment? It is a commitment predicated on the size of the
:22:14. > :22:18.national cake, not a fixed figure. That is the right commitment to
:22:18. > :22:21.make and we have set out quite clearly, as George Osborne did
:22:21. > :22:25.earlier this year, what our spending plans are and we have
:22:25. > :22:29.every intention of sticking to the plans. But if the economy goes into
:22:29. > :22:34.recession, which is now a possibility, because you don't have
:22:34. > :22:36.to blame the government for that, and if the Eurozone goes into
:22:36. > :22:40.meltdown and unemployment starts to soar and living standards collapse
:22:40. > :22:47.even more, we will still continue with our commitment to spend
:22:47. > :22:51.billions on oversee the -- overseas aid? We are clear on this, and it
:22:51. > :22:55.is the right thing and you see the British support across this to the
:22:55. > :23:00.disaster in the Horn of Africa where although times are more
:23:00. > :23:05.straitened than the past, people asked -- are more general. It is
:23:05. > :23:08.part of the British character, but it is part of national security.
:23:08. > :23:12.The budget goes to ensure we are more secure. The security is not
:23:12. > :23:15.only gain by guns and bullets but also by training the police in
:23:15. > :23:20.Afghanistan, building up government structures in Middle East, getting
:23:20. > :23:24.girls into school in the Horn of Africa. The youth except that if
:23:24. > :23:27.the conference was a Democratic gathering -- do you accept that if
:23:27. > :23:31.the conference was a Democratic gathering them about 70 % of the
:23:31. > :23:35.people they would rather stop the collapse in police numbers and the
:23:35. > :23:39.cuts in defence than finance your department's budget? Do you accept
:23:39. > :23:44.that is the reality? They may be wrong or right, but that is the
:23:44. > :23:47.reality? The I think the number of people in the Conservative Party
:23:47. > :23:50.there have reservations about the development budget is falling all
:23:50. > :23:54.the time, and the reason is we are getting across the point that it is
:23:54. > :23:58.the right thing to do and in our national interest and we have made
:23:58. > :24:02.our plans which clearly were set out by the government and have
:24:02. > :24:05.secured international recognition and respect, which is why we have
:24:05. > :24:08.German rates of interest although we have Greek levels of debt, and
:24:09. > :24:12.those plans include giving strong support to the police and making
:24:12. > :24:17.sure the front line is preserved and making sure we have strong
:24:17. > :24:22.defence forces of the country, which was the result of the vote
:24:22. > :24:27.last year, and standing by commitments and not Balancing books
:24:27. > :24:31.on the back of the poorest people here in Britain or overseas. Sombre
:24:31. > :24:36.and muted sum up the Dome -- mood in Manchester this week except from
:24:36. > :24:41.a brief flap about a cat. We asked Quentin Letts of the Daily Mail for
:24:41. > :24:44.his take. Leadership for a better future, that is the slogan in
:24:44. > :24:49.Manchester. But it was a leader from the past to start to the
:24:49. > :24:53.conference of. William Hague. Last year he had a streaky time with the
:24:53. > :24:56.activists. There had been a row about him sharing a bedroom with a
:24:56. > :25:02.special adviser, but this year the relationship between William Hague
:25:02. > :25:06.and the activists is back on. Good speech. Now we are embarked on the
:25:06. > :25:11.most difficult, challenging and urgent task of our lives. To take a
:25:11. > :25:15.country that Gordon Brown and all of the people called Edu who ran
:25:15. > :25:25.the Labour Party to make it strong and confident again, and that is
:25:25. > :25:27.
:25:27. > :25:32.what we are determined to do. That is a magnificent sight. Real
:25:32. > :25:36.tweak. Fantastic examples of the old-fashioned Tory. On the whole,
:25:36. > :25:40.the activists here, if they are activists, have been suited chances,
:25:40. > :25:46.the smell of Commerce, what happened to the Tory party of the
:25:46. > :25:51.shires? The Tory conference is the only time we ever see Steve Hilton,
:25:51. > :25:57.the Svengali like figure in Downing Street. Sometimes we spot the man.
:25:57. > :26:02.And there he was, rare footage, showing him with an influential
:26:03. > :26:08.backbencher. Was he leaning on him? Last week you said the government
:26:08. > :26:12.policy was incoherent and inconsistent. What has changed?
:26:12. > :26:16.you can see consistency in a speech and it is a huge step forward. It
:26:16. > :26:21.will be widely welcomed by people in the country. You have not been
:26:21. > :26:25.nobbled by Downing Street? You know me well enough. Talking to back
:26:25. > :26:30.pensions is not the only arm bending it goes on. Look at this --
:26:30. > :26:35.backbenchers. Look at this. That is the sort of thing the Treasury does
:26:35. > :26:40.to statistics. Let's be honest, all politicians dream of standing here
:26:40. > :26:44.at the door of Number Ten. One who dreams it more than those days
:26:44. > :26:49.Boris Johnson. The Mayor of London gave his routine speech, so routine
:26:49. > :26:53.that some of it were reheated from last year, but the delegates liked
:26:53. > :26:58.him and he goes down very well. But is he really credible for this
:26:58. > :27:03.place? I'm not convinced. We are also insisting on homes big enough
:27:03. > :27:11.for families with children and rooms that are big enough for human
:27:11. > :27:15.beings rather than whole bits. -- Hobbit. None of us are getting any
:27:15. > :27:19.smaller, as you might have noticed. Boris lacks the seriousness of
:27:19. > :27:25.George Osborne. The Chancellor gave a speech about deficit reduction
:27:25. > :27:28.and did have the patina of gravity. Yet his speech did not somehow lift
:27:28. > :27:31.off. The activists gave him respectable applause, but the
:27:31. > :27:36.clapping was no stronger than you would find at a county cricket
:27:36. > :27:46.match. We are in a debt crisis. It is not a normal recovery. You
:27:46. > :27:49.
:27:49. > :27:52.So we reach the end of conference season and I cannot say on Surrey.
:27:53. > :27:55.There has been a decadence here. It was the same as the Labour
:27:55. > :27:59.conference and the Liberal Democrats. We have not been able to
:27:59. > :28:04.take the cameras into the bars late at night but the drinking has been
:28:04. > :28:08.sybaritic and the lobbying, I tell you, if the voters and viewers of
:28:08. > :28:14.Britain knew what went on at these events they would be horrified.
:28:14. > :28:18.That is it from Manchester, indeed for the party conference courante -
:28:18. > :28:22.- coverage on 2011. The day the Prime Minister tried to convince us
:28:22. > :28:25.there would be good times ahead but only after we got through the
:28:25. > :28:30.horrendous economic outlook. The Tories left Manchester today
:28:30. > :28:37.knowing that their political fate depends on how well Mr Cameron and
:28:37. > :28:40.his team whether the gathering economic storms. I'll be back with
:28:40. > :28:44.The Daily Politics on BBC Two tomorrow at noon and I'll be back