Conservative Party Speeches

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- 22 Mar 2005
O'Brien: The DTI is living on a different planet

Speech in the House of Commons Trade & Industry Budget Debate

"I welcome this opportunity to assess the real implications of this 'vote now, pay later' Labour Budget on Britain's wealth creators, risk takers and entrepreneurs.

Beginning with the broad economic background to this Budget debate, I am conscious ...

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- 4 Oct 2004
O'Brien: Action to set British business free

Speech to Conservative Party Conference 2004

Business let down by Labour

Until just over 5 years ago, when I was first elected to Parliament, on the Conservative Party's victory in the Eddisbury by-election I had had well over a decade's experience as a FTSE 100 manufacturing industrialist and ...

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