British Prime Minister David Cameron will on Wednesday seek to persuade voters that he has more to offer than just austerity, promising a “land of opportunity” once economic growth returns.
In his keynote speech to his Conservative party’s annual conference, Cameron will draw clear dividing lines with the opposition Labour party as he sets out his goal for a majority in the 2015 election.
The Conservative-led coalition government’s public spending cuts are in their third year and finance minister George Osborne warned in his conference speech on Monday that they would continue to bite for years to come.
But Cameron will paint a picture of a country where children are pushed hard at school, the jobless are helped “to stand on their own two feet,” and profit and tax cuts are no longer “dirty, elitist words.”
“If you trust people and give them the tools, they will succeed,” he will tell delegates in Manchester, northwest England.
Cameron is seizing on signs of recovery to try to move the debate beyond the issue of deficit reduction, to offer a more positive message in what is likely to be a closely fought vote in 20 months.
“I didn’t come into politics just to fix what went wrong, but to build something right,” he will say, according to extracts released by his office.
“We in this party, we don’t dream of deficits and decimal points and dry fiscal plans. Our dreams are about helping people get on in life ― aspiration, opportunity, these are our words, our dreams.” (AFP)
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