Conservative Party conference: Cameron speech

Conservative Party conference: Cameron speech; - It is a simple truth: at its best this party always puts country first. We'll leave the vested interests to others. And no, we're not about self-interest either. This is the party of the national interest and with this coalition that's exactly what we're showing today. People wondered what a coalition could achieve. But just look at what we are achieving already - together, in the national interest. Conservative policies, policies you campaigned on, policies we are delivering. 200 new academies. 10,000 university places. 50,000 apprenticeships. Corporation tax - cut. The jobs tax - axed. Police targets - smashed. Immigration - capped. The third runway - stopped. Home Information Packs - dropped. Fat cat salaries - revealed. ID Cards - abolished. The NHS - protected. Our aid promise - kept. Quangos - closing down. Ministers' pay - coming down. A bank levy - coming up. A cancer drugs fund, vitally important, - up and running. £6 billion of spending saved this year. An emergency budget to balance the books in five years. An EU referendum lock to protect our sovereign powers every year. For our pensioners - the earnings link restored. For our entrepreneurs - employees' tax reduced. And for our brave armed forces - the operational allowance doubled. Look what we've done in five months. Just imagine what we can do in five years. In five years' time, our combat troops will have left Afghanistan. This Party has steadfastly supported our mission there, and so will this Government. But that does not mean simply accepting what went before. In our first few weeks in office, we set a clear direction. Focused. Hard-headed. Time-limited. We are not in Afghanistan to build the perfect democracy. No dreamy ideas. Just hard-headed national security - pure and simple. Almost every terrorist who took part in 9/11 was trained by Al Qaeda...