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A month ago I hadthis wonderful moment. Florence is now 4 and just starting school, so for the first time, all three of mychildren are at the same primary school. It was such a joy to take them to school together; Florenceclinging on for dear life until she saw a new friend and rushed off to her classroom. It’s hard todescribe what a relief it is as a parent to find a decent school for your child. It shouldn’t be a lottery.What we have in our state primary in London I want for every child in the country. And we’re gettingthere.
More children in good or outstanding schools. More children studying science, languages andhistory. A new curriculum – with five year olds learning fractions; eleven years olds codingcomputers. And the biggest change is the culture. Teachers who feel like leaders again.
Who say: thisis our school, we’re proud of it, the children must behave in it, we will not tolerate failure in it. We’vecome so far – and make no mistake – the biggest risk to all this is Labour. You know what drives methe most mad about them? The hypocrisy.Tristram Hunt, their Shadow Education Secretary – like me – had one of the best educations moneycan buy.
But guess what? He won’t allow it for your children. He went to an independent school thatwasn’t set up by a local authority …but no, he doesn’t want charities and parents to set up schools foryour children. He had the benefit of world-class teachers who happened not to have a governmentcertificate …but no, he wants to stop people like that from teaching your children. I tell you – TristramHunt and I might both have been educated at some of the best schools in our country. But here’s thedifference: You, Tristram – like the rest of the Labour Party – want to restrict those advantages…Iwant to spread them to every child in Britain.We know Labour’s real problem on education.
Every move they make, they’ve got to take their cuefrom the unions. That’s who they really represent. The unions. Well, I’ve got a bit of news for you. It’snot something we’ve ever said before. We in this party are a trade union too.I’ll tell you who we represent. This party is the union for hardworking parents …the father who readshis children stories at night because he wants them to learn…the mother who works all the hours Godsends to give her children the best start. This party is the trade union for children from the poorestestates and the most chaotic homes. This party is the union for the young woman who wants anApprenticeship …or the teenagers who want to make something of their lives…this is who werepresent, these are the people we’re fighting for …and that’s why on education we won’t let Labourdrag us back to square one – we’re going to finish what we have begun.
A real education isn’t justabout exams. Our young people must know this is a country where if you put in, you will get out.Now I’ve got in trouble for talking about Twitter before, but let me put it like this. I want a countrywhere young people aren’t endlessly thinking: ‘what can I say in 140 characters?’ but ‘what does mycharacter say about me?’ That’s why I’m so proud of National Citizen Service. Every summer,thousands of young people are coming together to volunteer and serve their community.
We startedthis. People come up to me on the street and say all sorts of things …believe me – all sorts of things…but one thing I hear a lot is parents saying “thank you for what this has done for my child.” I wantthis to become a rite of passage for all teenagers in our country. So I can tell you this: the nextConservative Government will guarantee a place on National Citizen Service for every teenager in ourcountry.That rule: that if you put in, you should get out …more than anywhere it should apply to those whowant dignity and security in retirement. But for years it didn’t. There were three great wrongs. Wrong477number one: the Pension Credit that was basically a means test – the more you saved, the less you got.Wrong number two: compulsory annuities that meant you couldn’t spend your own money as youwished.
Wrong number three: when people passed away, the pension they had saved was taxed at 55per cent before it went to their family.Three wrongs – and we are putting them right. The means test – it’s going. In its place: a new singletier pension of £142 a week…every penny you have saved during your working life, you will keep.Those compulsory annuities – scrapped …giving you complete control over your private pension. Asfor that 55 per cent tax on your pension? You heard it this week: we’ve cut it to zero per cent.Conservative values in action.When it comes to our elderly, one thing matters above everything. Knowing the NHS is there for you.From Labour last week, we heard the same old rubbish about the Conservatives and the NHS.Spreading complete and utter lies.
I just think: how dare you. It was the Labour Party who gave us thescandal at Mid Staffs …elderly people begging for water and dying of neglect. And for me, this ispersonal. I am someone who has relied on the NHS – whose family knows more than most howimportant it is …who knows what it’s like to go to hospital night after night with a child in your arms…knowing that when you get there, you have people who will care for that child and love that childlike their own. How dare they suggest I would ever put that at risk for other people’s children? …howdare they frighten those who are relying on the NHS right now? It might be the only thing that gets acheer at their Party conference but it is frankly pathetic.We in this party can be proud of what we’ve done.
We came in and protected the NHS budget.Funding six and a half thousand more doctors – 3300 more nurses …a Cancer Drugs Fund to savelives …more people hearing those two magic words: “all clear”. And think of the amazing thingsaround the corner.From the country that unravelled DNA, we are now mapping it for each individual…it’s called thegenome, and I’ve got a model of one of the first ones on my desk in Downing Street. Cracking thiscode could mean curing rare genetic diseases and saving lives. Our NHS is leading the world on thisincredible technology. I understand very personally the difference it could make. When you have achild who’s so ill and the doctors can’t work out what he’s got or why – you’d give anything to know.The investment we’re making will mean that more parents have those answers – and hopefully thecures that go with them. And let’s be clear: all this is only possible because we have managed oureconomy responsibly.
That is why I can tell you this: we will do it again.The next Conservative Government will protect the NHS budget and continue to invest more. Becausewe know this truth …something Labour will never understand – and we will never forget …you canonly have a strong NHS if you have a strong economy.A Britain that everyone is proud to call home. A place where reward follows effort; where if you putin, you get out. But it also means a country that is strong in the world – in control of its own destiny…and yes – that includes controlling immigration. To me, this is about working on all fronts. It’s aboutgetting our own people fit to work. Fixing welfare – so a life on the dole is not an option. Fixingeducation – so we turn out young people with skills to do the jobs we are creating.And yes – we need controlled borders and an immigration system that puts the British people first.That’s why we’ve capped economic migration from outside the EU …shut down 700 bogus colleges –that were basically visa factories…kicked out people who don’t belong here, like Abu Qatada …andlet’s hear it for the woman who made it happen: our crime-busting Home Secretary, Theresa May.But we know the bigger issue today is migration from within the EU.
Immediate access to our welfaresystem. Paying benefits to families back home. Employment agencies signing people up from overseasand not recruiting here. Numbers that have increased faster than we in this country wanted…at a levelthat was too much for our communities, for our labour markets. All of this has to change – and it willbe at the very heart of my renegotiation strategy for Europe.Britain, I know you want this sorted so I will go to Brussels, I will not take no for an answer and whenit comes to free movement – I will get what Britain needs. Anyone who thinks I can’t or won’t deliver478this – judge me by my record.
I’m the first Prime Minister to veto a Treaty …the first Prime Ministerto cut the European budget …and yes I pulled us out of those European bail-out schemes as well.Around that table in Europe they know I say what I mean, and mean what I say. So we’re going to goin as a country, get our powers back, fight for our national interest …and yes – we’ll put it to areferendum …in or out – it will be your choice …and let the message go out from this hall: it is onlywith a Conservative Government that you will get that choice.Of course, it’s not just the European Union that needs sorting out – it’s the European Court of HumanRights.
When that charter was written, in the aftermath of the Second World War, it set out the basicrights we should respect. But since then, interpretations of that charter have led to a whole lot of thingsthat are frankly wrong. Rulings to stop us deporting suspected terrorists. The suggestion that you’vegot to apply the human rights convention even on the battle-fields of Helmand. And now – they wantto give prisoners the vote. I’m sorry, I just don’t agree.Our Parliament – the British Parliament – decided they shouldn’t have that right. This is the countrythat wrote Magna Carta …the country that time and again has stood up for human rights…whetherliberating Europe from fascism or leading the charge today against sexual violence in war. Let me putthis very clearly: We do not require instruction on this from judges in Strasbourg.
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