"Conservatives are focusing on what matters – hospitals, standards in schools, practical measures to improve people’s quality of life."

"Our party is more green, more local, more family-friendly and less arrogant -we realise that politicians don’t have all the answers. So on issues like crime, and making life better for families, we don’t just ask what government can do. We ask what people can do, what society can do. That’s what social responsibility is all about."

"Labour had good intentions. But they have let people down. Taxes have been wasted and local services cut. With the Government now divided and paralysed, they don’t have the answers to the problems people face. [And now Tony Blair has lost so much authority that it’s in the national interest he should go].

Across the country, today’s Conservative Party offers people a real alternative - a growing voice for change, optimism and hope.”