Cameron promises "massive change"
David Cameron promises "massive change" at Tory conference
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Sunday, 04, Oct 2009 05:20
By inthenews.co.uk staff.
Conservative leader David Cameron has promised to bring about "massive change" if his party wins back Downing Street at the 2010 general election.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph ahead of the start of the Tory conference in Manchester, Mr Cameron said he would put forward "a radical agenda" in a bid to correct the economic slump.
The Conservatives have been accused by many - including both other main political parties at their recent annual conferences - of trying to 'coast into government' off the back of an unpopular Labour party.
But Mr Cameron claims he is "far from playing it safe".
"The Conservative party has a radical agenda for returning power and responsibility to people," Mr Cameron writes.
"It will mean massive change in the way we run this country, how we live our lives, and what we expect from government and each other. In the words of Martin Luther King, 'when you're right, you can't be too radical'."
The Tory leader also says he is determined to arrest Britain's rising unemployment, pledging to put the "problem... and solution front and centre at our conference" and do away with the "big government" established by Labour in its last 13 years in power.
"It is big government that has stifled innovation and crushed enterprise - the very engines of growth and job creation," Mr Cameron continued.
"And it is Labour's big government approach that has completely failed, over the last decade, to reform welfare, leaving us with a system where for too many people it pays not to work.
"Our solution is to put economic power into people's hands. This will not happen through any one policy or programme alone.
"It requires a sweeping change in economic policy right across the board - from taxation, to training, to infrastructure - to unleash investment and entrepreneurial activity that helps create more jobs."
The Conservative party conference begins in Manchester today.