:00:10. > :00:18.Good evening, and welcome to our highlights of today's play here at
:00:18. > :00:24.the Conservative Party conference in Manchester. Today, we learned that
:00:24. > :00:35.David Cameron doesn't know the price of a loaf of bread because he bakes
:00:35. > :00:50.his own. Boris Johnson doesn't know the price of a pint of milk - but he
:00:50. > :00:51.doesn't milk his own. With so much in common, could Boris follow in
:00:51. > :00:54.David's footsteps? At last, a reasonably well delivered
:00:54. > :01:02.conference gag - at least they liked it. And he told me that he was now
:01:02. > :01:14.the mayor of Bordeaux. I think he may have been the mayor when he was
:01:14. > :01:18.the Prime Minister of France. Joke! Joke!
:01:18. > :01:19.Also, today, Iain Duncan Smith says unemployed
:01:19. > :01:30.Today, it was different for Boris Johnson, and all because - back to
:01:30. > :01:36.parliament with open arms. Now, clearly, Boris Johnson is an
:01:36. > :01:46.electoral asset that David Cameron doesn't want to waste. Many wondered
:01:46. > :01:55.if the Prime Minister is up to something. Would you like to see
:01:55. > :02:01.Boris back at the next election? I love Boris. Would you like him to
:02:01. > :02:07.come back? He's got a huge contribution to make. He will get a
:02:07. > :02:17.warm welcome from me. In his speech, the Mayor of London
:02:17. > :02:27.cracked some jokes and won the familiar adulation that is due a
:02:27. > :02:36.traditional conference darling. There were no fireworks. He was very
:02:36. > :02:44.loyal, and some observers were a little underwhelmed. What of his
:02:44. > :02:46.future? Not so long ago, my friends, we welcome all sorts of wonderful
:02:46. > :02:54.resume entries to City Hall, but not so long ago, I welcomed the former
:02:54. > :03:16.French Prime Minister, Mr Alain Juppe. He cruised in hadcomed
:03:16. > :03:26.He didn't pull his punches. It is the British - this is what he said,
:03:26. > :03:33.not me, don't throw things at me. It is the British kids particularly, he
:03:33. > :03:40.said, "I've never seen anything so wet behind the ears." Now, I can see
:03:40. > :03:44.looks of apoplectic - well, no, I can't, really!
:03:44. > :03:47.I can see looks of sort of sad acknowledgement. That's what I can
:03:47. > :03:57.see. We've got the London murder rate
:03:57. > :04:06.down to levels not seen since the 1960s, and you're not only 20 times
:04:06. > :04:14.more likely to be murdered in Rio as you are in London, four times more
:04:14. > :04:20.likely to be murdered in New York, you're twice as likely to be
:04:20. > :04:24.murdered in Brussels, in sleepy old Brussels, as you are enquire London!
:04:24. > :04:27.APPLAUSE Presumably, with lobster picks!
:04:27. > :04:30.Anybody here from Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire? Well
:04:30. > :04:34.done, Prime Minister! LAUGHTER Congratulations.
:04:34. > :04:40.You belong to the third most competitive region in Europe. Well
:04:40. > :04:44.done. Why are those regions so fizzing with competitiveness
:04:44. > :04:49.according to the EU commission? Because London is the most
:04:49. > :04:51.competitive city in the whole of Europe, and it drives jobs across
:04:51. > :04:52.competitive city in the whole of the UK and not just in the
:04:52. > :04:57.south-east. We had a beautiful hop on, hop off
:04:57. > :05:05.Routemaster bus. It is built in Ballymena, restoring to our city the
:05:05. > :05:11.facility that was so wrongly taken away by the health and safety fiend.
:05:12. > :05:17.The flooring comes from Liskard in Cornwall. Yesterday, I was at a
:05:17. > :05:22.factory in Middleton in Greater Manchester where they're making the
:05:22. > :05:25.destination blinds with a beautiful 2,000-year-old Southern Electric
:05:25. > :05:30.screening technique. Manchester tells London where to go or get off,
:05:30. > :05:37.or some such! The Conservatives are determined to
:05:37. > :05:42.try and make savings to the welfare budget by getting more people back
:05:42. > :05:51.into work. Yesterday, the Chancellor, George Osborne,
:05:51. > :06:01.announced a new ellor, George Osborne, announced a new scheme
:06:01. > :06:06.called "help to work" specifically for the long-term unemployed.
:06:06. > :06:10.Today, the work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith,
:06:10. > :06:18.announced reformed to an existing scheme, the programme where
:06:18. > :06:24.Claimants would go back to the classroom in job centres, nine to
:06:24. > :06:34.five, for six months. Our plan is simple: to put work at the heart of
:06:34. > :06:39.the welfare system and ensure always that work always pays.
:06:39. > :06:46.That is returning fairness to the system. Let's look at the work
:06:46. > :06:50.programme. We've introduced this, which now helps the long-term
:06:50. > :06:54.unemployed into It is revolutionary methods. The
:06:54. > :06:55.providers who do this only get paid when they actually achieve results
:06:55. > :06:58.providers who do this only get paid of getting people into work.
:06:58. > :07:01.Results which speak for themselves. Twice as successful as Labour's
:07:01. > :07:03.Flexible New Deal. Almost three-quarters of the work
:07:03. > :07:09.programme's first participants have now come off benefits, and 380,000
:07:09. > :07:18.people on that programme have returned to work.
:07:18. > :07:21.On Monday, you heard the Chancellor announcing the help-to-work
:07:21. > :07:27.programme for the very long-term unemployed, those coming off the
:07:27. > :07:34.work programme. Today, I want to tell you about
:07:34. > :07:39.those already showing early signs of noting able to commit to their
:07:39. > :07:45.obligations to work. Prior to the work programme, we're
:07:45. > :07:49.going to pilot a mandatory attendance centre where selected
:07:49. > :07:58.individuals will receive expert support and supervision while they
:07:58. > :08:06.search and apply for jobs. That is from nine o'clock to five o'clock, ,
:08:06. > :08:14.35 hours a week, for up to six months, simulating the working day.
:08:14. > :08:22.These pilots will be targeted at Claimants who will benefit from the
:08:22. > :08:28.intense support one pilot before the work programme, and one after the
:08:28. > :08:32.work programme. Alongside what we've already done with the mandatory work
:08:32. > :08:38.programme and our tougher sanctions regime, conference, this marks the
:08:38. > :08:42.end of the something-for-nothing culture.
:08:42. > :08:49.After his speech, Iain Duncan Smith spoke to Andrew Neil on the Daley
:08:49. > :08:52.Politics programme and he was asked why the Chancellor had make the big
:08:52. > :08:58.announcement and not him? We agreed that we would divide up the two
:08:58. > :09:04.announcements, so he had the announcement about the post-work
:09:04. > :09:17.programme and I am dealing the stuff that is prior to the work programme.
:09:17. > :09:30.In fact, together they make a complete package. He got the bigger
:09:30. > :09:56.one, didn't he? No, actually, I think the big one frankly is about
:09:56. > :10:04.us targeting people who are looking like they're not able to get
:10:04. > :10:11.themselves ready for work, struggling. Before they even get to
:10:11. > :10:16.the work programme, and that is actually quite radical, and quite
:10:16. > :10:28.revolutionary because we're now asking Job Centre staff, who have
:10:28. > :10:38.asked for this power, to start really looking and profiling the
:10:38. > :10:41.people that are in front of them so they spend more time with the people
:10:41. > :10:52.that need the help to get them ready and to target them, and to make sure
:10:52. > :11:00.that in the course of that they're not doing something else. That is
:11:00. > :11:06.critical to making both what the Chancellor announced and what the
:11:06. > :11:14.work programme does even more successful. As you know better than
:11:14. > :11:29.most it's restirred these stories that there is some bad blood between
:11:29. > :11:38.you and the Chancellor going back to this coalition. What do you make of
:11:38. > :11:44.this claim, it seems incredible to me, from the new book, that the
:11:44. > :12:01.Chancellor regards Chancellor regards you as "thick"? Well, I
:12:01. > :12:10.heard and saw him the last couple of days saying it is completely untrue,
:12:10. > :12:18.but, honestly, I've been in the business of politics long enough,
:12:19. > :12:30.had enough insults thrown at me, the Chancellor and I will good friends,
:12:30. > :12:33.and I don't believe he said this. If anybody believes that sort of thing,
:12:33. > :12:39.that's fine. Mrs Thatcher was told she wasn't intelligent enough to run
:12:39. > :12:56.the country, and so was Winston Churchill. I want determination and
:12:56. > :13:05.drive, we've got a job to do, I will let others debate levels of
:13:05. > :13:14.intelligence. You're are putting lot of emphasis for people to sign up,
:13:14. > :13:26.go to job centres, stay at the job centres, is that because you think
:13:26. > :14:10.that a lot of people on welfare benefits are
:14:10. > :14:25.And be a good member of a community, who he is willing to put into the
:14:25. > :14:33.community as well ascertain out of. I look forward to seeing the same
:14:33. > :14:40.progress with my second son who started this September.
:14:40. > :14:52.For me coming here today isn't abouting a Labour or a Conservative
:14:52. > :14:59.voter, it is about thanking you to give me the opportunity and the
:14:59. > :15:06.choice for my child to have a happy and safe environment and with the
:15:06. > :15:11.best education to suit him. Thank you.
:15:11. > :15:15.After all that, finally, it was the turn of the Education Secretary,
:15:15. > :15:31.Michael Gove himself. Ladies and gentlemen, can we please
:15:31. > :15:37.show how grateful we are to the nation's educators for the wonderful
:15:37. > :15:42.job they do, teachers everywhere. Thank you.
:15:42. > :15:49.But there is one group of people whom I can't thank today. They're
:15:49. > :15:55.the people who are standing in the way of progress; they're the people
:15:55. > :16:02.who are the enemies of promise. While we gather here today, indeed,
:16:02. > :16:05.while students are still at school, the leaders of the militant teaching
:16:05. > :16:10.unions have called a strike. The reason that they've gone out on
:16:10. > :16:18.strike in a new example of twisted militant logic is that they want to
:16:18. > :16:28.stop good teachersing paid more money. They are striking against the
:16:28. > :16:38.performance-related pay that we've seen has liberated the potential of
:16:38. > :16:52.poor children. When I challenged one of those union leaders on the radio
:16:52. > :17:02.the other day, he said that I should not worry because his union was
:17:02. > :17:06.implementing child-friendly industrial action.
:17:06. > :17:15.It's one of the great contradictions in terms of our time, like
:17:15. > :17:27.self-effacing Simon Cowell. Or moving apology from Ed Balls. The
:17:27. > :17:40.truth is there is nothing child-friendly about industrial
:17:40. > :17:44.action. Children lose a day of education; parents have to scrabble
:17:44. > :18:12.to pay more for expensive childcare, action. Children
:18:12. > :18:29.My mind flashed back to when Ronald Reagan was shot and wheeled into the
:18:29. > :18:39.operating theatre. He looked up at the Surgeon General and said, "I
:18:39. > :18:54.hope you're all Republicans." After what happened to Philip Hammond, I
:18:54. > :19:15.am inclined to say I hope you're all Conservatives. I go out on to the
:19:15. > :19:32.front line most weeks Today, I can announce a major reform
:19:32. > :19:36.that will stop Labour or any government ever trying to cover up
:19:36. > :19:37.poor care. We will legislate to give the CQC
:19:37. > :19:42.statutory independence rather like the Bank of England does over
:19:42. > :19:47.interest rates so ministers can never again lean on it to suppress
:19:47. > :19:59.bad news. We need to recover the ideal of
:19:59. > :20:10.family doctors, making GPs more accessible for people at work as the
:20:10. > :20:20.day's announcement about piloting eight to 87-day opening will do, but
:20:21. > :20:48.also giving GPs the time and space So, from next April, we will be
:20:48. > :20:54.reversing that mistake by introducing a named GP responsible
:20:54. > :20:59.for pro-active care for all vulnerable older people. In his
:20:59. > :21:07.speech yesterday, the Chancellor spoke in favour of the High Speed
:21:07. > :21:13.two rail project. He said it would bring more jobs and prosperity. What
:21:13. > :21:25.do party members think? We asked Adam Fleming to find out.
:21:25. > :21:26.We're going to ask Conservative activists about HS2. Would they
:21:26. > :21:31.construct or cancel. When we activists about HS2. Would they
:21:31. > :21:41.this at Labour last week, it was 50-50, and the box fell over and the
:21:41. > :21:49.balls fell out. Build for the future, definitely.
:21:49. > :22:01.Is it definitely going to happen? I think it probably will happen. I
:22:01. > :22:05.don't want it, but I think we need it.
:22:05. > :22:18.It's only going to benefit the small minority of people, such disruption,
:22:18. > :22:29.it's not going to happen for 20 or 30 years. We need that money
:22:29. > :22:36.ploughing into the economy now. As a former transport adviser to the
:22:36. > :22:46.Mayor of London, are you pro it? I am a constructor. What difference
:22:46. > :22:59.will it make to the country? It will make a huge difference because we
:22:59. > :23:06.have to pass constraints. We need to link up our cities better. Is
:23:06. > :23:19.Can't possibly do that. Cancel it. I don't trust government big projects,
:23:19. > :23:24.like Concorde. Would you like to do a daily
:23:24. > :23:30.politics survey? You can have two balls fortwo brains.
:23:30. > :23:36.I am surprised you've got more on that side than that side? It's early
:23:36. > :23:48.days yet. It will go through some great
:23:48. > :23:56.landscapes. There is no interim stop. It is a huge amount to be
:23:56. > :24:02.spending in other infrastructures in the areas that are lacking. So
:24:02. > :24:06.cancel. Not so much making journeys quicker, it is making the capacity
:24:06. > :24:12.double. There we go, an absolute massive
:24:12. > :24:23.majority in favour of construction. A lot of people were inspired by
:24:23. > :24:35.George Osborne's pep talk on the subject.
:24:35. > :24:44.It was also the turn of the communities secretary, Eric Pickles
:24:44. > :24:57.to get to his feet today. He is a man who does know the price of a
:24:57. > :25:08.pint of milk, unlike Boris Johnson. Today, he promised to make it easier
:25:08. > :25:19.for people to park their cars near their local shops so they could go
:25:19. > :25:23.in to buy their milk. Nine million parking fines are now issued every
:25:23. > :25:32.year. Shoppers drive to out-of-town super stores, just shop online
:25:32. > :25:43.rather than face the high street. So, we will make it easier for
:25:43. > :25:53.hard-working people to pop into their local shop to buy a newspaper
:25:53. > :26:02.or a pint of milk. We will empower local residents to
:26:02. > :26:10.challenge the excessive yellow lines and the unreasonable fines.
:26:10. > :26:17.We will switch o parking cash cameras and the spy cars. We are
:26:17. > :26:23.helping families with the cost of living and supporting local shops.
:26:23. > :26:29.Like Labour, the EU doesn't care about wasting taxpayers' money.
:26:29. > :26:38.But this government has led from the front on the war on waste.
:26:38. > :26:58.My If productivity in the public sector
:26:58. > :27:07.had risen by the same amount, Britain's budget deficit could have
:27:07. > :27:11.been half what it was when we came into office.
:27:11. > :27:17.During that time, for some of that time, Ed Miliband had my job in the
:27:17. > :27:21.Cabinet Office. Did he do any of time, Ed Miliband had my job in the
:27:21. > :27:29.this? Well, if you can bear it, have a look at Damien McBride's book.
:27:29. > :27:40.That's the real Ed Miliband and the real picture. By the end of this
:27:40. > :27:46.parliament, we want to be saving around £20 billion a year, with
:27:46. > :27:53.anotherfive billion the year after the election. To do more for less,
:27:53. > :28:01.we have to transform the way services are designed and delivered.
:28:01. > :28:08.We need the 21st century Civil Service that's capable of delivering
:28:08. > :28:11.21st century services. Last year, I published a reform plan which set
:28:11. > :28:31.out how the driven by that public service ethos
:28:31. > :28:38.that is so important. That is it for tonight here in Manchester as the
:28:38. > :28:43.Conservative Party members pack the bars here in eager anticipation of
:28:43. > :28:53.their leader's speech tomorrow. Tomorrow, there is only one show in
:28:53. > :28:57.Manchester, and that is David Cameron's big speech.
:28:57. > :29:03.The Daley Politics conference special will be on at 10.30 on BBC
:29:03. > :29:03.Two