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cobbled together for the TV cameras.Red Ed and his Blue Peter economy.To raise living standards in the long-term, you need to do some major things: ...... you need to cut the deficit to keep mortgage rates low...... you need to grow your economy, get people jobs...... and yes - cut people's taxes.I want people to keep more of their money.We've already cut the taxes of 25 million hardworking people ...... and yes - that is 25 million more reasons to finish the job we've started.We're Tories.
We believe in low taxes. And believe me - we will keep on cutting the taxes ofhardworking people.NORTH SOUTH486And here in Manchester let me say this: when I say a land of opportunity for all I mean everyone North and South.This country has been too London-centric for far too long.That's why we need a new North-South railway line.The fact is this.The West Coast mainline is almost full.We have to build a new railway.and the choice is between another old-style Victorian one - or a high speed one.Just imagine if someone had said, no, we can't build the M1, or the Severn Bridge, imagine how thatwould be hobbling our economy today.HS2 is about bringing North and South together in our national endeavour.Because think of what more we could do with the pistons firing in all parts of our country.With its wind and wave power, let's make the Humber the centre of clean energy.With its resources under the ground, let's make Blackpool the centre of Europe for the shale gasindustry.With its brains and research centres, let's make Manchester the world leader in advanced materials.We're building an economy for the North and South, embracing new technologies, producing thingsand selling them to the world.So make no mistake who's looking forward in British politics......
we'll leave the 1970s-style socialism to others...... we are the party of the future.We're making progress.You know how I know that?It's every week, at Prime Minister's Questions.There was a time when I'd look across to Ed Balls, and there he was, shouting his head off, and doingthis with his hands - screaming out the economy was flat-lining.... and all with such glee.But recently, it's gone a bit quiet.Could it be because there was no double dip and the economy's now growing?Well, I've got a gesture of my own for Ed Balls....
and don't worry - it's not a rude one...jobs are up.construction is up.... manufacturing is up...inward investment.retail sales.homebuilding...business confidence.consumer confidence - all these things are up.And to anyone who wants to talk our economy down, let me tell you this.Since this conference began, over 100,000 jet planes have soared into the sky on wings made inBritain.Every single day in this country, over 4,000 cars are coming off the production line - ready to beexported around the globe.Last year, Britain overtook France as Germany's top trading partner......
not bad for a nation of shop-keepers.And that's the point.Exports to China are up.Exports to Brazil are up..exports to India, Russia, Thailand, South Korea, Australia - all up.487So let us never forget the cast-iron law of British politics ...Yes - the oceans can rise.and empires can fall.but one thing will never, ever change.it's Labour who wreck our economy and it's we Conservatives who clear it up.EDUCATIONA land of opportunity means educating our children - and I mean all our children.It's OK for the children who have parents reading them stories every night - and that's great.but what about the ones at the back of the class, in the chaotic home, in the home of the drug addict oralcoholic?We need these children - and frankly they need us.That's why three and a half years ago, one man came into the Department of Education....
Michael Gove, there he is...... with a belief in excellence and massive energy...... like a cross between Mr Chips and the Duracell bunny.Let's look at the results.More students studying proper science.More children learning a foreign language.We've ended the dumbing down in exams.For the first time - children in our schools will learn the new language of computer coding.And we're sending a clear message to children: if you fail English and maths GCSE, you're going tohave to take and re-take them again until you pass.Because as I tell my own children - there's not a job in the world where you don't need to spell and addup properly.But ultimately - really raising standards means innovation, choice.it means giving passionate people the freedom to run our schools.That's what Free Schools are all about.I'll never forget sitting in the classroom at Perry Beeches III in Birmingham, on the first day of termthis year.I met a mum there who said to me - this is what I've dreamed of for my child ......
proper uniforms, high standards...... this is going to give my child a good start in life.When Michael Howard asked me what job I wanted in the Shadow cabinet I said education ...... because this is the kind of thing I came into politics to bring about.You want to know something totally extraordinary about free schools?Labour's official policy is to be against them...... but - get this - Labour MPs are backing them in their local area.And not just any Labour MPs.I promise I'm not making this up.....the Shadow Education Secretary - Stephen Twigg - has backed one in his own city.Unbelievable.And isn't that always the way with the Left?They don't like privilege - unless of course it's for their own children.Well we in this Party are ambitious for all our children ...... and we've got to finish the job we started.We've already got technical colleges run by great companies like JCB......
I say: let's have one of those colleges in every single major town.We've had a million apprenticeships start with this Government ...... now we want a new expectation: as you leave school you have a choice - go to university or do anapprenticeship.488And while we've still got children leaving primary school not reading, writing and adding up properly...... let us set this ambition for our country: let's eliminate illiteracy and give every one of those childrena chance.And friends as we do all this, we're remembering the most vulnerable children of all.There are thousands of children every year who grow up in homes where nappies - and bedclothes - gounchanged ...... and where their cries of pain go unheard.These children just need the most basic opportunity of all: a loving family.Two years ago I told you about our determination to speed up adoption ......
and this past year, we saw record numbers finding permanent, loving homes.4000 children adopted ...... that is 4000 more reasons to finish the job we've started.And as we keep on with this, we remember who is on the front line.I have to make some tough decisions in my job......
but none as tough as whether to break up a family and rescue a child ... or try and stitch that familyback together.Social work is a noble and vital calling.I'll never forget how after my son Ivan was born, a social worker sat patiently in our kitchen and toldus about the sort of help we might need.This Government has helped get some of the brightest graduates into teaching ......
and we have pledged to do the same for social work ...... now let us, in this hall, hear it for Britain's social workers who are doing such an important job inour country today.WELFAREThe land of opportunity needs one final thing: welfare that works.We know how badly things went wrong.Our fellow citizens working every hour of every day to put food on the table ask this: why should mytaxes go to people who could work but don't?Or to those who live in homes that hardworking people could never afford?Or to people who have no right to be here in the first place?I say this to the British people: you have every right to be angry about a system that is unfair andunjust - and that's why we are sorting it out.We've capped welfare. We've capped housing benefit.
We've insisted on new rules so that if you rejectwork, you lose benefits.And let's be absolutely clear.As Boris said in that great speech yesterday, the problems in our welfare system and the problems inour immigration system are inextricably linked.If we don't get our people back to work - we shouldn't be surprised if millions want to come here towork.But we must act on immigration directly too - and we are.Capping immigration. Clamping down on the bogus colleges.And when the Immigration Bill comes before Parliament, we will make sure some simple and fairthings, that should have always been the case, are now set in stone.If you are not entitled to our free National Health Service, you should pay for it.If you have no right to be here, you cannot rent a flat or a house.
Not off the council, not off anyoneelse.When you are a foreign prisoner fighting deportation, you should pay your own legal bills.If you appeal - you must do it from your own country, after you've been deported, not from here.And on these huge, national problems we are making progress.489Immigration has come down.On welfare: not only are there more people in work than ever before.the number of households where no one works is at its lowest rate since records began.and I want to thank the most determined champion for social justice this Party has ever had: IainDuncan Smith.Iain understands that this isn't about fixing systems, it's about saving lives..and that's why we've got to finish the job we've started.There are still over a million young people not in education, employment, or training.Today it is still possible to leave school, sign on, find a flat, start claiming housing benefit and opt fora life on benefits.It's time for bold action here.We should ask, as we write our next manifesto, if that option should really exist at all.Instead we should give young people a clear, positive choice:Go to school.
Go to college. Do an apprenticeship. Get a job.But just choose the dole? We've got to offer them something better than that.And let no one paint ideas like this as callous.Think about it: with your children, would you dream of just leaving them to their own devices, notgetting a job, not training, nothing?No - you'd nag and push and guide and do anything to get them on their way. and so must we.So this is what we want to see: everyone under 25 - earning or learning.And you know - on this, as on everything else, Labour will fight us...but remember: we are giving people real opportunities.I've had people say to me "I'm back on my feet"...
"I feel worthwhile."One wrote to me saying: now I can tell my son his Dad really does something.This is what our Party is all about.We don't patronise people, put a benefit cheque in their hand and pat them on the head.We look people in the eye as equals and say: yes, you've been down - but you're not out.you can do it, you have it in you, we will give you that chance.And that's why we can say today that it's this Party that is fighting for all those who were written off byLabour ...it's this Party that's for the many not the few.Yes - the land of despair was Labour ...but the land of hope is Tory.We have done some big things to transform Britain.But we need to finish the job we've started.We need to go further, do more for hardworking people ......
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