"Call that election. We will fight: Britain will win"
Those were the words with which David Cameron closed the Conservative conference yesterday, after speaking without an autocue for over an hour.
I thought it was a brilliant speech, in which he outlined where he thinks the Labour government has gone wrong and what a Conservative government would do to improve things.
The list of major policy proposals which he outlined included:
- Scrapping top-down targets in the NHS
- Allowing voluntary organisations, private companies and churches to set up state schools
- Cutting stamp duty
- A referendum on the EU Treaty
- Ending the "revolving door" of the benefits system
- A lifeboat fund to help the victims of Gordon Brown's pension crisis
- Ending discrimination against all couples (married or single) in the benefits system
- Recognising the importance of marriage in the tax system
- Scrapping the ID Card scheme
- Ending the appeals panel that prevents head-teachers from excluding disruptive pupils
- Making police responsible to locally elected mayors rather than the Home Office
Above all, he answered the question of what would a Cameron-led Conservative government stand for. A Conservative Government would give people more opportunity and power over their lives; make families stronger and society more responsible; and make Britain safer and greener.
I thought it was a brilliant speech, in which he outlined where he thinks the Labour government has gone wrong and what a Conservative government would do to improve things.
The list of major policy proposals which he outlined included:
- Scrapping top-down targets in the NHS
- Allowing voluntary organisations, private companies and churches to set up state schools
- Cutting stamp duty
- A referendum on the EU Treaty
- Ending the "revolving door" of the benefits system
- A lifeboat fund to help the victims of Gordon Brown's pension crisis
- Ending discrimination against all couples (married or single) in the benefits system
- Recognising the importance of marriage in the tax system
- Scrapping the ID Card scheme
- Ending the appeals panel that prevents head-teachers from excluding disruptive pupils
- Making police responsible to locally elected mayors rather than the Home Office
Above all, he answered the question of what would a Cameron-led Conservative government stand for. A Conservative Government would give people more opportunity and power over their lives; make families stronger and society more responsible; and make Britain safer and greener.
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