UK’s Cameron: I’ll get tough in EU negotiations
Around 12,000 delegates are expected to attend the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, northwest England, over the four days of speeches, debates and receptions.
He said there were children who spend several hours each day at Madrasas where they were “being beaten” and “taught they shouldn’t mix with people of other religions”.
He will also say banks need to lend and the government needs to release land.
Mr Cameron told party members, MPs and the press: “Ten years ago I stood on a stage quite like this one, and I said that if we changed our party, we could change our country”.
So he wants to relax the rules so developers will no longer be required to build affordable homes for rent. He compared local authorities to schools, and said: “Just as we said to failing schools, do a better job with our children or we’ll send new leaders in, so we’ll say to poorly performing social services: improve or be taken over”.
These starter homes will be available to first-time buyers under the age of 40, and must be 20 per cent below the market rent. The British prime minister will reportedly tell Tory activists he wants to transform “generation rent” into “generation buy”.
After yesterday’s speeches from Home Secretary Theresa May and London Mayor Boris Johnson, which both touched on Britain’s relationship with Europe, the audience were expectant to hear more of the Prime Minister’s own views.
Home ownership has always been a totemic issue for the Conservative Party and strikes at the new leader of the Labour Party, who had promised to do more to help people afford homes.
In a section of his conference speech that was trailed ahead of delivery, Mr Cameron set out a mission to reverse the decline in home ownership. We’ve proved it in schools across our country that the poorest children don’t have to get the worst results – they can get the best.
Mr Cameron – who confirmed his plan to step down by the election scheduled for 2020 – said he wanted his time in power to be seen as a “turnaround decade” when the United Kingdom not only sorted out its economy but dealt with entrenched social problems.
“Clearly people are upset about NHS cuts and tuition fees but that does not give them the right to call me Tory scum”.
He added: “With lower demand for private rentals, rents would fall, and private renters could start saving for that home of their own”. And be in little question: “in case you are teaching intolerance, we’ll shut you down”, he stated. He appealed to the center ground in politics and said the “Conservatives would keep our head as Labour loses theirs”, according to BBC News.