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In the next five years we’re going to go further.You heard it this week – we won’t just aim to lower youth unemployment; we aim to abolish it. We’vemade clear decisions. We will reduce the benefits cap, and we will say to those 21 and under: nolonger will you have the option of leaving school and going straight into a life on benefits.

You mustearn or learn. And we will help by funding three million Apprenticeships. Let’s say to our youngpeople: a life on welfare is no life at all …instead: here’s some hope; here’s a chance to get on andmake something of yourself.What do our opponents have to say? They have opposed every change to welfare we’ve made – and Iexpect they’ll oppose this too.

They sit there pontificating about poverty – yet they’re the ones who lefta generation to rot on welfare. And while we’re at it: let’s compare records. Under Labour,unemployment rose. With us, unemployment is falling faster than at any time for 25 years. UnderLabour, inequality widened.

With us, it’s narrowed. Those are the facts. So let’s say it loudly andproudly…with Britain getting off welfare and back to work…the real party of compassion and socialjustice today is here in this hall – the Conservative Party.It’s not just the job numbers that matter – it is the reality of working life for people in our country…especially the lowest-paid. Anyone should be free to take on different jobs so they can get on.

Butwhen companies employ staff on zero hours contracts and then stop them from getting workelsewhere, that’s not a free market – it is a fixed market. In a Britain that everyone is proud to callhome, people are employed, they are not used. Those exclusive zero hours contracts that left peopleunable to build decent lives for themselves – we will scrap them.But there’s still more injustice when it comes to work, and it’s even more shocking. Criminal gangstrafficking people halfway around the world and making them work in the most disgusting conditions.I’ve been to see these – houses on terraced streets, built for families of four, cramming in 15 peoplelike animals.

To those crime lords who think they can get away with it, I say No: not in this country;not with this party …with our Modern Slavery Bill we’re coming after you and we’re going to put astop to it once and for all.Once you have a job, I want you to take home more of your own money. If you put in, you should getout – not hand so much of it to the taxman. That’s why these past four years, despite everything, I’vemade sure we provide some relief to taxpayers in our country – especially the poorest. No income taxuntil you earn £10,000 a year – and from next April, £10,500 a year. Three million people taken out ofincome tax altogether.

A tax cut for 25 million more. And our commitment to you for the next fiveyears: we want to cut more of your taxes. But we can only do that if we keep on cutting the deficit. It’scommon sense – tax cuts need to be paid for.475So here’s our plan. We are going to balance the books by 2018, and start putting aside money for thefuture. To do it we’ll need to find £25 billion worth of savings in the first two years of the nextParliament. That’s a lot of money, but it’s doable. £25 billion is actually just three per cent of whatgovernment spends each year.

It is a quarter of the savings we have found in this Parliament.I am confident we will find the savings we need through spending cuts alone. We will see the jobthrough and get back into the black. And as we do that, I am clear about something else. We need taxcuts for hardworking people.And here and now, I have a specific commitment. Today, the minimum wage reaches £6.50 an hour,and before long we’ll reach our next goal of £7.

I can tell you now that a future ConservativeGovernment will raise the tax-free personal allowance from £10,500 to £12,500. That will take 1million more of the lowest paid workers out of income tax – and will give a tax cut to 30 million more.So with us, if you work 30 hours a week on minimum wage, you will pay no income tax at all.Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Lower taxes for our hardworking people…that’s what I call a Britain thateveryone is proud to call home. But we will do something else.The 40p tax rate was only supposed to be paid by the most well-off people in our country…but in thepast couple of decades, far too many have been dragged into it: teachers, police officers. So let me tellyou this today.

I want to take action that’s long overdue, and bring back some fairness to tax. With aConservative government, we will raise the threshold at which people pay the 40p rate. It’s currently£41,900 …in the next Parliament we will raise it to £50,000.So here’s our commitment to the British people: No income tax if you are on Minimum Wage. A 12and a half thousand pound tax-free personal allowance for millions of hardworking people. And youonly pay 40p tax when you earn £50,000. So let the message go out: With the Conservatives, if youwork hard and do the right thing …we say you should keep more of your own money to spend as youchoose.

That’s what our long-term economic plan means for you.And while I’m on the subject of the big economic questions our country faces – on spending, on tax –did you hear Ed Miliband last week? He spoke for over an hour, but didn’t mention the deficit once.Not once. He said he ‘forgot’ to mention it. Ed – people forget their car keys, school kids sometimesforget their homework …but if you want to be Prime Minister of this country, you cannot forget thebiggest challenge we face.A few weeks ago, Ed Balls said that in thirteen years of Government, Labour had made ‘somemistakes’. ‘Some mistakes’. Excuse me? You were the people who left Britain with the biggestpeacetime deficit in history…who gave us the deepest recession since the war…who destroyed ourpensions system, bust our banking system …who left a million young people out of work, five millionon out-of-work benefits – and hundreds of billions of debt.

Some mistakes? Labour were just one bigmistake.And five years on, they still want to spend more, borrow more, tax more. It’s the same old Labour, andyou know what? They say that madness is doing the same thing over and over again but expectingdifferent results. Well I say: madness is voting for this high spending, high taxing, deficit ballooningshower and expecting anything other than economic disaster.In a country that everyone is proud to call home, you should be able to buy a home – if you’re willingto save.

It shouldn’t be some impossible dream. But we inherited a situation where it was. Youngpeople watched Location, Location, Location not as a reality show – but as fantasy. We couldn’t solvethis housing crisis without some difficult decisions. The planning system was stuck in the mud – so wereformed it …and last year, nearly a quarter of a million houses were given planning permission.Young people needed massive deposits they just couldn’t afford …so we brought in Help to Buy.Of course there were those who criticised it…usually speaking from the comfort of the home they’dbought years ago. But let’s see what actually happened. They said Help to Buy would just help peoplein London …but 94 per cent of buyers live outside the capital. They said it would help people withhouses already …but four-fifths are first-time buyers. They said it would cause a housing bubble …but476as the Bank of England has said, it hasn’t.

So here’s our renewed commitment to first-time buyers: ifyou’re prepared to work and save, we will help you get a place of your own.This conference we have announced a landmark new policy. It’s called Starter Homes. We’re going tobuild 100,000 new homes – and they’ll be twenty percent cheaper than normal. But here’s the crucialpart. Buy-to-let landlords won’t be able to snap them up.Wealthy foreigners won’t be able to buythem. Just first-time buyers under the age of 40. Homes built for you, homes made for you – theConservative Party, once again, the party of home ownership in our country.In a Britain that everyone is proud to call home, you wouldn’t be able to tell a child’s GCSEs by theirpostcode or what their parents do. There must be a great education for every child.

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