:00:09. > :00:14.Good evening and welcome to Manchester for our highlights of the
:00:14. > :00:17.last day of the Conservative Party conference. Clear battle lines have
:00:17. > :00:20.been drawn between the Conservatives and Labour ahead of the general
:00:20. > :00:24.election. David Cameron promised a land of opportunity, built on
:00:24. > :00:29.pro-business values. Profit, he said, was not a dirty word. The land
:00:29. > :00:35.of despair was Labour, but the land of hope is Tory. So is the land of
:00:35. > :00:40.hope Tory? We'll find out what the party faithful think. And we'll also
:00:40. > :00:48.have the sketch writer Quentin Letts giving his assessment of the week.
:00:48. > :00:50.David Cameron's argument was that the Conservatives should do more
:00:51. > :00:55.than just fix the economy and clear up what he says is Labour's mess. He
:00:55. > :01:01.says the Conservatives now should create a land of opportunity too. Is
:01:01. > :01:06.it enough just did clear up Labour's mess and think, job done? Is it
:01:06. > :01:12.enough to think that we fix what went wrong and that's enough? I say
:01:12. > :01:17.no. Not for me. This isn't job done. It is job begun. I didn't come into
:01:17. > :01:23.politics just to fix what went wrong, but to build something right.
:01:23. > :01:28.We in this party, we don't dream of deficits and decimal points and dry
:01:28. > :01:33.fiscal plans. Our treeps are about helping people to get on in life.
:01:33. > :01:39.Aspiration, opportunity, these are words, these are dreams, so today,
:01:39. > :01:43.and I want to talk about our one abiding mission. I believe it is
:01:43. > :01:48.this great Conservative mission that as our economy starts to recover, we
:01:48. > :02:00.build a land of opportunity in our country today.
:02:00. > :02:05.APPLAUSE Now, I know it will be tough. People will ask, have we got
:02:05. > :02:10.what it takes? Well, if you saw those pictures of me on the beach
:02:10. > :02:13.this summer in Cornwall, you will if you saw those pictures of me on the
:02:13. > :02:17.beach this summer in Cornwall, you will know one thing - I've got the
:02:17. > :02:21.stomach for the fight. LAUGHTER
:02:21. > :02:25.APPLAUSE In his speech last week, Ed Miliband promised that he would
:02:25. > :02:30.never be photographed with his shirt off in public. Public. And Ed, after
:02:30. > :02:35.hearing that speech, here's the deal. You keep your shirt on, I'll
:02:36. > :02:42.keep the lights on. APPLAUSE
:02:42. > :02:49.Our economy may be turning the corner, and of course that's great.
:02:49. > :02:52.But we haven't finished paying for Labour's debt crisis. If anyone
:02:52. > :02:57.thinks that's over, done and dealt with, they are living in a fantasy
:02:57. > :03:03.land. The country's debt crisis created by Labour is not over. After
:03:03. > :03:08.three years of cuts, we still have one of the biggest budget deficits
:03:08. > :03:12.anywhere in the world. We are still spending more than we earn. We still
:03:12. > :03:18.need to earn more and, yes, our Government still needs to spend
:03:18. > :03:21.less. I see that Labour have stopped talking about the debt crisis, and
:03:21. > :03:26.now they talk about the cost of living crisis. As if one wasn't
:03:26. > :03:31.directly related to the other. And if you want to know what happens if
:03:31. > :03:37.you don't deal with the debt crisis, and how it affects the cost of
:03:37. > :03:40.living, just go and ask the Greeks. To abandon deficit reduction now
:03:40. > :03:45.would throw away all the progress that we've made. It would put us
:03:45. > :03:49.back to square one. And unbelievably, that is what Labour
:03:49. > :03:54.now want to do. How did they get us into this mess? Too much spending,
:03:54. > :03:58.too much borrowing, too much debt. And what did they propose last week?
:03:58. > :04:03.More spending, more borrowing, more debt. They have learnt nothing.
:04:03. > :04:08.Literally nothing from the crisis they created. But finishing the job
:04:08. > :04:13.is about more than clearing up the mess we were left. It means building
:04:13. > :04:17.something better in its place. In place of the casino economy, one
:04:17. > :04:21.where people who work hard can really get on. In place of the
:04:21. > :04:25.welfare society, one where no individual is written off. And in
:04:25. > :04:31.place of the broken education system, one that gives every child
:04:31. > :04:36.the chance to rise up and succeed. Our economy, our society, welfare,
:04:36. > :04:39.schools, all reform, all rebuilt with one aim, one msociety, welfare,
:04:39. > :04:42.schools, all reform, all rebuilt with one aim, one mission in mind -
:04:42. > :04:48.to make this country at long last, and for the first time ever, a land
:04:48. > :04:52.of opportunity for all. For all. Last week Labour mounted a strong
:04:52. > :04:55.attack on big energy companies and made the allegation that they are
:04:55. > :04:58.ripping customers off. Hopes perhaps to trap the Conservatives into a
:04:58. > :05:02.position where they are defending big business. Today David Cameron
:05:02. > :05:05.took that challenge head on and in his speech he mounted a strong
:05:05. > :05:12.defence of business. Profit, he said, was not a dirty word. We know
:05:12. > :05:16.that profit, wealth creation, tax cuts, enterprise. These are not
:05:16. > :05:19.dirty elitest words. They are not the problem. They really are the
:05:19. > :05:23.solution. It is not Government that creates jobs. It is businesses that
:05:23. > :05:28.get wages in people's pockets, food on their tables, hope for their
:05:28. > :05:36.families, and yes, success for our country. There is no short cut. Cut.
:05:36. > :05:40.APPLAUSE A land of opportunity must start in our economy. The chance to
:05:40. > :05:44.get a decent job, to start a business, to own a home. And at the
:05:44. > :05:51.end of it all more money in your pocket. To get decent jobs for
:05:51. > :05:55.people you've got to recognise some fundamental economic facts. We are
:05:55. > :06:01.in a global race today. No-one owes us a living. Last week our ambition
:06:01. > :06:06.to compete in this global race wasarily dismissed as a race to the
:06:06. > :06:10.bottom, that it means competing with China on sweat shons and India on
:06:10. > :06:14.low wages. No, those countries are becoming our committees and we've
:06:14. > :06:19.got to compete with California an innovation, Germany on high-end
:06:19. > :06:22.manufacturing, Asia in finance and technology. Here's something else
:06:22. > :06:28.you need to recognise about this race. The plain fact is this. All
:06:28. > :06:34.those global companies that employ lots of people, they can set up
:06:34. > :06:37.anywhere in the world. They can go to Silicon Valley, they can go to
:06:37. > :06:41.Berlin and yes they can come here to Manchester. These companies base
:06:41. > :06:46.their decisions on some simple things. Like the tax rates you pay
:06:46. > :06:50.in each country. So if those taxes are higher here than elsewhere, they
:06:50. > :06:57.don't come here. And if they don't come here, we don't get those jobs.
:06:57. > :07:01.Due get that, Labour? British people don't get those jobs. Last week
:07:01. > :07:05.Labour proposed to put up corporation tax on our biggest and
:07:05. > :07:09.most successful employers. That is just about the most damaging
:07:09. > :07:13.nonsensical twisted economic policy you could possibly come up with and
:07:13. > :07:18.we will fight it every step of the way.
:07:18. > :07:23.APPLAUSE Look, I know bashing business might play to a Labour
:07:24. > :07:33.audience, but but it is crazy for our country.
:07:33. > :07:38.APPLAUSE. So if Labour's plan for jobs is to
:07:38. > :07:42.attack business, ours is to back business. Regulation down, taxes cut
:07:42. > :07:47.for businesses large and small, a new industrial policy that looks to
:07:47. > :07:52.the future, the green jobs, aerospace jobs, life Sky News jobs.
:07:52. > :07:54.We've made a good start. 1.4 million new private sector jobs created
:07:54. > :07:56.since we came to office, and yes new private sector jobs created
:07:56. > :08:01.that is 1. 4 million reasons to new private sector jobs created
:08:01. > :08:06.finish the job we've started. There are still over 1 million young
:08:06. > :08:11.people not in education, employment or training. And today it is still
:08:11. > :08:16.possible to leave school, to sign on, to find a flat, start claiming
:08:16. > :08:21.housing benefit and opt for a life on benefits. Isn't it time for bold
:08:21. > :08:25.action here? We should ask as we write our next manifesto, if that
:08:25. > :08:29.option should really exist at all. Instead we should give young people
:08:29. > :08:34.a clear and positive choice. Go to school, go to a Clennell, do an
:08:34. > :08:39.apprenticeship, get a job, but just choose the dole, we've got to offer
:08:39. > :08:50.them something better than that. APPLAUSE
:08:50. > :08:54.And let no-one paint ideas like this as callous. Think about it. With
:08:54. > :08:59.your own children, would you dream of just leaving them to their own
:08:59. > :09:02.devices, not getting a job, d you dream of just leaving them to their
:09:02. > :09:04.own devices, not getting a job, not training - nothing? No. You would
:09:04. > :09:08.nag, push and guide and do anything to get them on their way and so must
:09:08. > :09:11.we. This is what we want ide and do anything to get them on their way
:09:11. > :09:15.and so must we. This is what we want to see - everyone under 25 earning
:09:15. > :09:18.or learning. APPLAUSE David Cameron's message to
:09:18. > :09:22.his party was, don't campaign for another coalition. But for a
:09:22. > :09:26.majority Conservative Government. And his message to the country was,
:09:26. > :09:32.give the Conservatives another chance to finish the job. So So we
:09:32. > :09:36.have done some big things to transform our country, but we need
:09:36. > :09:40.to finish the job we've started. We need to go further, to do more for
:09:40. > :09:45.hard-working people. To give more children a chance, back more
:09:45. > :09:51.businesses, help create more jobs. I'm clear about how that job will
:09:51. > :09:56.best get done. It requires a strong Government with a clear mandate that
:09:56. > :10:01.is accountable for what it promises, and yes, what it delivers. I want to
:10:01. > :10:06.tell everyone here what that means. When that election comes, we won't
:10:06. > :10:10.be campaigning for a coalition. We'll be fighting head, heart and
:10:10. > :10:14.soul for a majority Conservative Government, because that is what our
:10:14. > :10:28.country needs. APPLAUSE
:10:28. > :10:33.You know there are some strange moments in this job. When I was just
:10:33. > :10:37.a few months in, a member of my staff rushed into the en I was just
:10:37. > :10:39.a few months in, a member of my staff rushed into the office and
:10:39. > :10:42.said, "Prime Minister, you have really made it, they are burning an
:10:42. > :10:45.effigy of you on television." Actually the first time it happened
:10:45. > :10:49.they didn't spell my name right. They don't make that mistake any
:10:49. > :10:55.more. But you don't do this to be popular. You do it because you love
:10:55. > :11:00.your country. I do the best I can. And for me it comes back to some
:11:00. > :11:05.simple things. Country first. Do what's decent. Think long term.
:11:05. > :11:09.Margaret Thatcher once said, we are in the business of planting trees
:11:09. > :11:14.for our children and grandchildren. All we have no business being in
:11:14. > :11:20.politics at all. That is what we are doing today. Not just making do and
:11:20. > :11:24.mending, but making something better. Since I got to my feet
:11:24. > :11:29.almost 100 children have been born across our country. Children of
:11:29. > :11:33.wealth and children of none. Children of parents in work and
:11:33. > :11:38.children of parents out of work. For every single one of those newborn
:11:38. > :11:43.babies let us pledge today that we will build something better. A land
:11:43. > :11:46.of opportunity. A country built on that enduring principle, seared in
:11:46. > :11:53.our hearts, that if you work hard, save, play by the rules and do your
:11:53. > :11:57.fair share, than nothing, nothing should stand in your way. A new
:11:57. > :12:01.economy, a new welfare system, a new set after value in this our schools,
:12:01. > :12:04.not just fixing the mess we inherited but building something
:12:04. > :12:07.better. We've got a year-and-a-half until that election. A
:12:07. > :12:09.year-and-a-half until Britain 've got a year-and-a-half until that
:12:09. > :12:11.election. A year-and-a-half until Britain makes a choice - move
:12:11. > :12:14.forward to something better or go back to something worse. But I
:12:14. > :12:18.believe if this party fights with all we have, then this country will
:12:18. > :12:23.make the right choice. Because we always have before. Whenever we've
:12:23. > :12:27.had the choice of giving in to some shabby compromise or pushing forward
:12:27. > :12:30.to something better, we've said this is Great Britain, the improbable
:12:30. > :12:36.hero of history. The country that didn't give in, that doesn't give
:12:36. > :12:39.up, that knows there is no such thing as destiny, only our drm
:12:39. > :12:43.nation to succeed. I look forward to our future and I'm confident. There
:12:43. > :12:47.are battles to fight but beyond this hall are the millions of hard
:12:47. > :12:50.working people who renew the great in Great Britain every day. In the
:12:51. > :12:53.way they work, in the way they give, in the way they raise their
:12:53. > :12:58.families. These are the people we have alongside us. Together we've
:12:58. > :13:01.made it this far. Together we will finish the job we've started, and
:13:01. > :13:13.together we will build that land of opportunity.
:13:13. > :13:18.APPLAUSE David Cameron speaking there. What
:13:18. > :13:23.did the matter members make of it. We sent Adam Fleming to find out. I
:13:23. > :13:30.thought he did fantastically well. He did a clear dividing dividing
:13:30. > :13:34.line between him and the Labour. I was struck that a lot of it was a
:13:34. > :13:37.response to Ed Miliband. Does that mean that Ed Miliband is the one
:13:37. > :13:42.that's setting the terms of the debate? Not necessarily but Ed
:13:42. > :13:45.Miliband gave an assured good performance. He identified some key
:13:45. > :13:50.issues. For David Cameron to ignore the cost of living crisis I think
:13:50. > :13:57.would have been a followly. There was a lot of other stuff defined for
:13:57. > :14:04.the crass, patriotic headmasterish and that was the right thing to do
:14:04. > :14:08.in this case. Francis Maude having a celebratory cup of tea. We'll leave
:14:08. > :14:12.you to it. I think as a young person, I'm 2 #2sh8tion I loved the
:14:12. > :14:16.policy it is coming out for people my age. Buying houses, education,
:14:16. > :14:21.they are so important. It is only our party, my party, that's showing
:14:21. > :14:25.a positive and inclusive vision for Britain. Anything missing from the
:14:25. > :14:29.speech for you guys? No, I think the Prime Minister covered everything
:14:29. > :14:32.that we needed to hear. And gave us clear dividing line where we are the
:14:32. > :14:37.party of opportunity and the party of the future and the party for the
:14:37. > :14:40.whole of Britain here in Manchester, as opposed to Labour, which is the
:14:40. > :14:44.party of the few. We've got a retro tea room. What did you think of the
:14:44. > :14:50.speech, Sir? Brilliant. He said everything that we all need to know.
:14:50. > :14:53.Just remind you what our roots are, and we are for opportunity for
:14:53. > :14:57.everybody. When are we going to be living in this land of opportunity?
:14:57. > :15:02.We've started. Started. We've a long way to go. David Cameron said that
:15:02. > :15:04.and he is right. We are only three-and-a-half years into the
:15:04. > :15:08.Government. To listen to some people you would think we've been there a
:15:08. > :15:12.long time. We are putting right what Labour did wrong. It is taking tile
:15:13. > :15:17.to get it right but we are getting it right. Opportunities are starting
:15:17. > :15:22.to come. We heard from young people this morning. And land of hope is
:15:22. > :15:28.Tory? Absolutely. It's the only part of hope. Thank you. There is ca cake
:15:28. > :15:31.in the shame of a Union Jack over there.
:15:31. > :15:35.Adam Fleming. Shortly after the speech Andrew Neil spoke to the
:15:36. > :15:39.Education Secretary, Michael Gove, a man who today the Prime Minister
:15:39. > :15:44.described as being a mixture between Mr Chips and the Duracell bunny.
:15:44. > :15:48.Andrew began by asking him, if there was anything new in his speech. He
:15:48. > :15:52.told us there was a straightforward choice at the next election between
:15:52. > :15:57.going backwards to the 1970s or embracing the future. For most of us
:15:57. > :16:01.that was probably clear before hand but what we saw was an articulation
:16:01. > :16:04.of just what an Conservative-majority Government can
:16:04. > :16:08.achieve, which made me anticipate success in 18 months' time with
:16:08. > :16:12.renewed relish for the fight. What David laid out was a programme which
:16:12. > :16:16.will revitalise our nation and make sure that we can become a land of
:16:16. > :16:21.opportunity. A country which can have the world's best education
:16:21. > :16:26.system, a country that can have the world's most productive and
:16:26. > :16:30.innovative economy. We think we knew that's what he wanted already. It
:16:30. > :16:36.was news-free, policy-free conference speech. Do you think
:16:36. > :16:41.these things will catch on? Well, the whole point abo conference
:16:41. > :16:43.speeches they are not there to please journalists. They are there
:16:43. > :16:46.to make an argument. The argument that the Prime Minister made is the
:16:46. > :16:50.argument that the country's going to have to wrestle with over the next
:16:50. > :16:53.18 month. It is straightforwardly, forward or back. I think for a lot
:16:53. > :16:58.of people who had the chance to hear what the Prime Minister had to say,
:16:58. > :17:01.they are not like lobby journalists checking off on a list every new
:17:01. > :17:07.policy and wondering whether it can be a page leap. No, what people are
:17:07. > :17:10.listening to is a Prime Minister articulating with clarit force,
:17:10. > :17:14.authority and passion the course this country needs to take in the
:17:14. > :17:17.future. There were things in the speech some people might not have
:17:17. > :17:20.appreciated. For example we are changing the curriculum in our
:17:20. > :17:24.schools to make sure that every child can learn to coephmentd I'm
:17:24. > :17:29.sure it's the case that people don't appreciate the extent that there is
:17:29. > :17:32.a manufacturing revival going on in this country. And people don't
:17:32. > :17:36.appreciate how much this Government is doing, for example, to help those
:17:36. > :17:38.on the front line of nment is doing, for example, to help those on the
:17:38. > :17:40.front line of public service - for example, to help those on the
:17:40. > :17:42.social workers. I suspect you probably didn't know before today
:17:42. > :17:46.that it is this Government that sin vesting in attracting the very best
:17:46. > :17:50.graduates into social work in an innovative scheme called Front Line,
:17:50. > :17:54.which deserves the support of all of us. I'm rather worried that it is
:17:54. > :17:59.reported here you that attended a spa in Austria in which you had two
:17:59. > :18:05.mobile phones taken away, your laptop taken away, breakfast was
:18:05. > :18:11.sheep's yoghurt and avocado, dinner was soup and stale bread and you
:18:11. > :18:17.came back with a pair of lederhosen-style trunks. Say it is
:18:17. > :18:22.not true. Not all of it is true. That's what your wife reported? No,
:18:22. > :18:26.the papers reported that I lost two. I have only lost one. As the Prime
:18:26. > :18:31.Minister said, we've got to finish the job. Should the Daily Mail
:18:31. > :18:35.apologise to Ed Miliband for saying his father hated Britain and
:18:35. > :18:39.described Ralph Miliband's legacy as evil? No, newspapers shouldn't
:18:39. > :18:45.apologise to politicians for being robust. We need a free press, a
:18:45. > :18:48.press that's sometimes robust and raucous and by definition will
:18:48. > :18:54.sometimes offend. Unless you have a free press you into due not have an
:18:54. > :18:57.effective check on the arrogance of politicians. I don't think
:18:57. > :19:05.politicians should tell newspaper editors how to do their job. I think
:19:05. > :19:09.that newspaper editors are effectively doing their job when
:19:09. > :19:13.they upset us. And you are not influenced in that view by the fact
:19:13. > :19:19.that your wife makes a large salary out of writing a column for the
:19:19. > :19:22.Daily Mail? My wife influences me in many, many areas but my views about
:19:22. > :19:27.the media are on the record. I had the opportunity to appear in front
:19:27. > :19:31.of Lord Justice Leveson. I explained to him why I believed in a free
:19:31. > :19:35.press. I will make that case whenever I have the opportunity to
:19:35. > :19:42.do so, because I think that it is a very precious freedom. I think that
:19:42. > :19:47.it is a bad thing if politicians try to cajole or coerce or try to
:19:47. > :19:50.influence editors. What we should do is make our argument to the people
:19:50. > :19:55.to the public and we should ensure that a free press has a right to be
:19:55. > :20:00.vigorous, raucous and yes, of course at times upsetting. But that's the
:20:00. > :20:04.price we pay for liberty. Michael Gove talking to Andrew Neil. Before
:20:04. > :20:08.the Prime Minister spoke it was the chance of the Northern Ireland
:20:08. > :20:11.Secretary to address conference. She said that sectarian division and
:20:11. > :20:15.violence in Northern Ireland was threat technology economy there. It
:20:15. > :20:19.is hard to see how Northern Ireland can reach its full economic
:20:19. > :20:24.potential while sectarian division continue to spill out on the streets
:20:25. > :20:30.with disgraceful scenes of rioting and violence. And let me be clear on
:20:30. > :20:35.this. The idea that British identity and culture can be defended by
:20:35. > :20:40.people who wrap themselves in the Union Flag and attack police
:20:40. > :20:47.officers with bricks and blast bombs and ceremonial swords is grotesque.
:20:47. > :20:52.APPLAUSE We in this party have always stood
:20:52. > :20:56.foursquare for the rule of law and we condemn all those who seek to
:20:56. > :21:02.attack and undermine it. Whether that attack comes from rioters who
:21:02. > :21:06.call themselves loyalists or from lethal dissident Republicans who
:21:06. > :21:08.continue to plot murder and mayhem. We stand fully wine the Police
:21:08. > :21:12.Service of Northern Ireland. A number of issues that have
:21:12. > :21:17.contributed to the difficulties we have seen over recent months, like
:21:17. > :21:21.flags, emblems, parades and the past, are now being examined by an
:21:21. > :21:25.all party group set up by the Northern Ireland Executive and
:21:25. > :21:29.chaired by the very distinguished diplomat Richard Haas. I very much
:21:29. > :21:34.welcome this and I have discussed the issues at length both with Dr
:21:34. > :21:38.Haa, is and with all Northern Ireland's political parties. But it
:21:38. > :21:42.is right that Northern Ireland's politicians take ownership of these
:21:42. > :21:47.issues if we are to develop lasting solutions. I don't underestimate the
:21:47. > :21:51.difficulty of the task ahead. And the decisions needed for real
:21:51. > :21:56.progress may well be painful ones. But those who are prepared to make
:21:56. > :21:59.them will be displaying real leadership, especially for those in
:21:59. > :22:06.Northern Ireland who just want to get on with building a better
:22:06. > :22:10.future. Ahead of next year's independence referendum in Scotland,
:22:10. > :22:14.today the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, also
:22:14. > :22:19.addressed the party and she made a strong defence of the union. We are
:22:19. > :22:23.unself-conscious in a love of our country. We've worked and strived
:22:23. > :22:28.for generations to build a Britain that we can be proud of. In the good
:22:28. > :22:33.times, we've shared our prosperity and our expertise. And in darker
:22:33. > :22:41.days we have stood shoulder to shoulder with our allies and with
:22:42. > :22:48.each other. The union is in our DNA. APPLAUSE Every one in the UK,
:22:48. > :22:51.everyone benefits from our borderless union. Scotland exports
:22:51. > :22:56.more to the rest of the UK than it does to the rest of the WorldCom
:22:56. > :23:01.behinded. In return, we buy back too. In fact we import more than
:23:01. > :23:06.twice as many goods by value from the rest of Britain than the rest of
:23:06. > :23:11.the globe. Tens of billions of pounds of hundreds of thousands of
:23:11. > :23:13.jobs rely on our shared markets and cross-border flow. As a nation we
:23:13. > :23:17.know that we are greater than the cross-border flow. As a nation we
:23:17. > :23:20.sum of our parts. I think that Scotland's First Minister has
:23:20. > :23:24.started to cotton on to that recognition. His new tack is the
:23:24. > :23:28.last refuge of every shameless populist in history staring down the
:23:28. > :23:35.barrel of defeat. It is to promise things for free. Under his
:23:35. > :23:37.independence you tonia, Alex Salmond things for free. Under his
:23:37. > :23:38.independence you tonia, Alex Salmond promises -- Utopia Alex Salmond
:23:38. > :23:43.promises to increase overseas aid, promises -- Utopia Alex Salmond
:23:43. > :23:50.to underwrite, to subs dice more wind farms and to renationalise the
:23:50. > :23:58.Royal Mail. By polling day I'm expecting free beer for every voter.
:23:58. > :24:00.APPLAUSE I know that many of you living in other parts of the UK
:24:00. > :24:04.won't have a vote, but we all have a living in other parts of the UK
:24:04. > :24:12.stake in the result and we can all play a part in securing our country
:24:13. > :24:18.for the future. When Quebec went to the polls to zwlaoid to leave Canada
:24:18. > :24:22.in 1995 the result was exceptionally close. Single fact credited with
:24:22. > :24:26.making the difference between staying and going, between united a
:24:26. > :24:33.country or dividing a nation was that the rest of Canada said, we
:24:33. > :24:37.want you to stay. The newspaper sketch writer Quentin Letts has been
:24:37. > :24:48.following event for us this week. I should warn you there is some flash
:24:48. > :24:53.photography and one or two jokes. You've got the big blue banners
:24:53. > :24:56.sorted, all those political plates of nibbles, invitations have been
:24:56. > :25:02.sent out and then someone has to go and spoil it. Ladies and gentlemen
:25:02. > :25:04.I'm talking about gate careers. All these attention-seeking individuals
:25:04. > :25:10.trying to barge their way into David and journal's party. And they didn't
:25:10. > :25:15.even have the decency to bring a bottle of Blue Nu Culprit number
:25:15. > :25:21.one, UKIP leader Nigel Farage, never one to miss out on a party.
:25:21. > :25:24.Whispering breathy words into the hairy ears of the Euro-sceptic
:25:24. > :25:31.Whispering breathy words into the Bruges group. Said uctive little
:25:31. > :25:35.words like election pacts. Positively indecent. You are causing
:25:35. > :25:40.mischief aren't new No, I'm here to have a proper debate. You are
:25:40. > :25:43.teasing the Conservative Party. Gate-crasher number two, Alastair
:25:43. > :25:49.Campbell. He barged into the conference to campaign on alcohol
:25:49. > :25:56.awareness and bait a few Tories. Not even the Elvis impersonator was
:25:56. > :26:00.safe. Still, they could rely on the old foot soldiers couldn't they?
:26:00. > :26:02.That doesn't seem to be the case when Defence Secretary Philip
:26:02. > :26:06.Hammond received a full frontal assault from a couple of an
:26:06. > :26:10.constituent Fusiliers, both party members, who took exception to their
:26:10. > :26:15.regiment being disbanded in the defence cuts. We are fortunate
:26:15. > :26:20.indeed to have the best armed forces in the world with the finest and the
:26:20. > :26:26.bravest men and women serving in them. They are serving is suss now
:26:27. > :26:31.as they always serve us around the clock. Would you like to sit down? I
:26:31. > :26:36.will come and talk to you happily later on. Let me complete my speech.
:26:36. > :26:41.This conference has been a bit more serious and for want of a better
:26:41. > :26:45.word, Thatcherite. It is a bit like being at a gathering of accountants
:26:45. > :26:50.and actuaries. Some of the conference gags have been like that
:26:50. > :26:55.too. David and Ed Miliband, the greatest sibling rivalry since the
:26:55. > :27:01.Bible. Cane and not very able. As the official signed off the last of
:27:01. > :27:12.the paperwork, Abu Qatada looked at him and asked, is crazy mayflying
:27:12. > :27:16.with me? I admit I was crazy. Crazy with the European Court of Human
:27:16. > :27:22.Rights. When it comes to stealing the limelight there is only one man
:27:22. > :27:27.with the necessary show business sparkle. It could only be one man,
:27:27. > :27:32.Boris Johnson. We welcome all sorts of wonderful luminaries to City
:27:32. > :27:37.Hall. Lots of them say, welcome the former French Prime Minister, Mr
:27:37. > :27:42.Alain Juppe. He told me he was now the Mayor of Bordeaux. He may have
:27:42. > :27:47.been the Mayor of Bordeaux when he was Prime Minister in France, a very
:27:47. > :27:51.good idea in my view. LAUGHTER What he said... Joke! How
:27:51. > :27:55.to sum up the week? I could tell you about the Margaret Thatcher ironing
:27:55. > :27:59.board covers that had to be taken off the shelves because they weren't
:27:59. > :28:04.heat resistant. I could tell you about David Cameron and his bread
:28:04. > :28:07.making machine. Die tell you about these Teddy bears from the
:28:07. > :28:10.Conservative disability group. But this week has been about money,
:28:11. > :28:15.money, money. That's how they are going to play the next few months.
:28:15. > :28:22.So lads, looks like you are going to have to go out to work. Sorry about
:28:22. > :28:24.that. That's it for tonight. And for another year for Today at
:28:24. > :28:28.Conference. The party conference season is now well and truly over.
:28:28. > :28:31.Battle lines for the next general election are beginning to be drawn
:28:31. > :28:35.up. Liberal Democrats say they want a strong economy and a fair society.
:28:35. > :28:38.The Labour Party say they want to help people with the cost of living.
:28:38. > :28:43.And the Conservatives say they want not just to fix the economy but also
:28:43. > :28:49.create what they call a land of opportunity. The Daily Politics will
:28:49. > :28:51.be back tomorrow at midday. For now, from me, for another year.
:28:51. > :28:55.Goodnight.