George Osborne: The foundations for a more prosperous future

Mr Deputy Speaker, This emergency Budget deals decisively with our country's record debts. It pays for the past.

And it plans for the future. It supports a strong enterprise-led recovery. It rewards work.

And it protects the most vulnerable in our society.

Yes it is tough; but it is ...

David Cameron: Paying tribute to our armed forces

Thank you very much indeed, and can I say what a huge honour it is for me to be aboard HMS Ark Royal, and to see you all today. 

I know that I am only the warm-up act, because I was speaking last night to Her Majesty - how much I ...

David Cameron: G8 and G20 Summits

With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the G8 and G20 Summits which took place in Canada.

First I'm sure the whole House will join with me in paying tribute to the seven British servicemen who have lost their lives in the last week ...

William Hague: Britain's Foreign Policy in a Networked World

Thank you all for accepting my invitation to visit the Foreign and Commonwealth Office today to hear how the new coalition Government will conduct the Foreign Policy of the United Kingdom.

This is the first in a series of four linked speeches, the second of which will be in the ...

David Cameron: We will make government accountable to the people

This is my first time here - so let me make something very clear from the start.

I have huge respect and admiration for the civil service. In my twenties I worked in the Home Office and the Treasury. I saw then just how talented and committed our civil servants are ...

David Cameron: Our Big Society Agenda

It's great to be here in Liverpool. I've been in Downing Street for a couple of months now and it seems to me that the business of government falls into two categories.

There are the things you do because it's your duty. Sometimes unpopular - but you do ...

Sayeeda Warsi: Labour's Legacy of waste

Thank you Chris for laying out the political challenge we face as a coalition government in repairing the damage left by the last Labour government.

And we all now know that the last Labour government wasted public money.

A lot of public money.

That much was pretty obvious before the ...

George Osborne: Building the economy of the future

Thank you. I am very grateful to Bloomberg for inviting me to speak here today.

August used to be regarded as a quiet month for the economy. In the last three years, it has been anything but. It was in August 2007 that the inter-bank credit markets froze up and ...

Damian Green: The Real Immigration Question

Most analysis of immigration policy is entirely concerned with the present and the future, and heavily influenced by emotion and prejudice.

I want to start by looking briefly at the past, and want to continue, both with this speech and more widely as Immigration Minister, by relying more on evidence ...

Sayeeda Warsi: The importance of faith to life in Britain

I am having a divine week. First, I celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr. Last night I was at dinner with the Chief Rabbi, who has just marked the Jewish New Year. Today I am delighted to be here with you, the Bishops of the Church of England. And on Friday I will be ...

Lord Young: Ending Labour's Health and Safety culture

It is great to be back.  When the Prime Minister first asked me to review the operations of Heath and Safety laws and this compensation culture that so bedevils us, I first thought - it must be made in Europe.  No, it is largely home grown.

First, the good news.  We ...

Sayeeda Warsi: We will give Party Members a real say on Conservative policy

Thirteen years. Four Party Leaders.

Three General Elections. And now two parties, one government.

And finally something we have wanted to say for years:

A Conservative Prime Minister in Downing Street

Not so long ago people said our party was history.

They said we would never be in government again ...

Eric Pickles: Giving Mayors the power to change lives - and save money

It was a great honour to be invited by the Prime Minister to become the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government particularly as this was once part of John Prescott's great empire. 

On the way to the department, I wondered what memorabilia I might find from Prezza ...

William Hague: New Labour is dead

Today in Birmingham we, the Conservative Party, meet for the first time since 1996 as a party of government. Once again we have the greatest honour a party or any of us individually can have: the chance to serve our country, to deliver the change this country has needed for ...

Francis Maude: £3bn of efficiency savings

Getting here hasn't been easy. Any political party has to earn the right to serve in government.  Five years ago when I opened our conference as Party Chairman I said some things that some people didn't want to hear.

I said we had to change; that we had ...

Oliver Letwin: A real programme for green growth and energy security

It's a real pleasure to be able to talk with Caroline and Greg - not about what we would do if we were in the government, but about what we are doing now we are in government.

Of course, our government is a coalition - and we are working with Liberal ...

Chris Grayling: Work Clubs scheme will help unemployed back to work

Britain today has five million people claiming out of work benefits. One in five households is entirely dependent on benefits, with no one working.

Nearly a million people of working age have never worked. It is nothing short of a national scandal. It's a problem that remained almost untouched ...

Caroline Spelman: Labour has run our rural areas down

Ladies and Gentlemen. When I first became an MP in 1997, I didn't know how many years we would spend in opposition.

Or how tough those years would be. But 13 years on, we've restored a Conservative Prime Minister to Downing Street - and boy do we need it ...

George Osborne: Our tough but fair approach to welfare

Conference, I come with good news and bad news.

The good news is that we are in government after 13 years of a disastrous Labour administration that brought our country to the brink of bankruptcy.

The bad news? We are in government after 13 years of a disastrous Labour administration ...

Boris Johnson: Keep the UK motor going

I want to speak directly to the three million people who use the London Underground network every day and the first and most important thing to say is that I deeply regret the inconvenience you are suffering as a result of this strike.

And I say to the leaders of ...

Philip Hammond: Government announces plans for next phase of high speed rail

Good morning Conference. When I last spoke here in Birmingham two years ago, I shocked the audience by setting out Labour's borrowing plans - then projected at a mere £38 billion for 2009-10. 

The reality turned out to be £155 billion. I predicted then that we would have to clean ...

David Willetts: Scholarships to help Armed Forces families

Here in Birmingham, where I was brought up, is the right place to focus on the big challenge of growth and prosperity.

The steam engines of Boulton and Watt, which drove the Industrial Revolution and changed the world, are still working just a few hundred yards from here - in a ...

Iain Duncan Smith: Our contract with the country for 21st Century Welfare

I am honoured to be standing here today as David Cameron's Work & Pensions Secretary.

It is also my privilege to be chairman of the newly-founded Cabinet committee on social justice. 

This Conservative-led government has concern for the poor running through its DNA and we are focused each day ...

Andrew Mitchell: Value for money and a rigorous focus on results for British aid

The response of the British people to the awful tragedy in Pakistan has underlined, once again, a simple truth: that generosity and compassion are at the heart of what it means to be British. 

The public have donated over £60m to the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal.  

And British aid is ...

Theresa May: A plan to fight crime

I want to get straight to the point.  There is no greater responsibility than keeping our country safe.  Policing our streets.  Preventing terrorism.  Protecting our borders.  

And, because of the state of the public finances left by Labour, I will have to keep our country safe at the same time ...

Ken Clarke: Making prisoners pay to support victims

As you know, I have been in a few Ministerial posts before and served in two or three previous Governments. I have never seen political and economic events of the kind we have now.

We have the worst economic crisis in my lifetime. We have a political system which has ...

Michael Gove: All pupils will learn our island story

There is a special beauty in a life well-lived. And listening to Geoffrey Canada you realise that no life can be better spent than teaching.

Teachers transform lives as very few others can. They are there at the moments in all our childhoods when new horizons beckon.

The moment mere ...

Andrew Lansley: £70 million to help people in their homes after illness or injury

At each of the last six conferences, I addressed you as Shadow Health Secretary. What a pleasure it is to address you today as Health Secretary. And it's my privilege too, to introduce to you the Government's new health team. 

Simon Burns, Anne Milton, Freddie Howe. And also ...

David Cameron: Together in the National Interest

It is an honour and a privilege to stand here, before the party I lead, in front of the country I love, as the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

I want to tell you today, in the clearest terms I can, what we must do together. And what ...

Annabel Goldie: Labour wants to take us back to Seventies Socialism in Scotland

It's absolutely marvellous to be here from Scotland as part of our United Kingdom Conservative family with our leader David Cameron as our Prime Minister.

I am sure that David is more than a match for the new Labour leader, Red Ed - a man who has unashamedly taken the ...

David Mundell: We want to use devolution to take Scotland forward, not keep it in the past

Labour's Shadow Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy told Labour Conference that Labour's "journey back [to Downing Street] starts... in Manchester but the road runs through Scotland and Wales". 

What's he using to navigate? Gordon Brown's moral compass?

Maybe he knows that, with David Cameron in No. 10 ...

Owen Paterson: Working flat out for peace

I'd first like to thank my Minister of State, Hugo Swire, for his support and hard work for the people of Northern Ireland and of course to our Liberal Democrat colleague in the Lords, David Shutt.

In addition I want today to pay a special tribute to a great ...

Cheryl Gillan: A new politics for Wales

Good morning conference. Bore da. I bring you greetings from Newport, capital of the golfing world!

Last weekend's Ryder Cup was a triumph for Europe. For Sir Terry Matthews, for Newport, and the Celtic Manor Resort. And for Wales.

It showed just what we can achieve if we have ...

Jeremy Hunt: 2012 Olympics will be extraordinary

Thank you. 2012 is going to be extraordinary. It's a big enough deal when we have 11 Aussie cricketers over to play the Ashes. Or 15 Welshman to play rugby at Twickenham.

But this isn't 15 or 150 or 1500 sportsmen and women. It will be the first ...

William Hague: Sovereignty clause will enshrine key principle

This nation's foreign policy is an enormous responsibility, and I am lucky to have a very able team in David Lidington, Jeremy Browne, Lord Howell, Alistair Burt, Henry Bellingham and my PPS Keith Simpson - give them a round of applause.

This week, in this great city of Birmingham, we ...

Liam Fox: Labour's economic policies were a national security liability

Let me begin by saying what a privilege it is to address you as Secretary of State for Defence.

Not a day has passed since my appointment when I have not felt truly honoured to be working with the men and women of our Armed Forces and those who support ...

David Cameron: Creating a new economic dynamism

There is one question I want to answer today:

Where is the growth going to come from – where are the jobs going to come from?

Over the course of this Parliament – and the next – I believe we can transform our fortunes.

We’re in a world of unprecedented economic change ...

David Cameron speaks at Munich memorial event

The Prime Minister David Cameron has attended an Olympic Munich memorial event this evening.

Mr Cameron said:

This evening we mark the 40th anniversary of one of the darkest days in the history of the Olympic Games. A sickening act of terrorism that betrayed everything the Olympic movement stands for ...

David Cameron's speech at Unilever offices in Mumbai

Nitin Paranjpe
It’s a real pleasure and privilege for me today to welcome the British Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron to our office. We are absolutely delighted. We are absolutely delighted that in your very short visit here, you have chosen to visit Hindustan Unilever and our office here ...

Economy speech delivered by David Cameron

Well, thank you very much for that introduction and welcome everyone. And can I say what a pleasure it is to be here, and what a pleasure it is to be here in a business like this because this is exactly the sort of business Britain needs more of: making ...

David Cameron's immigration speech

Thank you very much for that introduction, and congratulations to everyone who’s battled through the snow and ice to be here today. And it’s great to be here in Ipswich at the University Campus Suffolk. This is an important time for this young and growing university. With pioneering ...

David Cameron's speech to the UN

Prime Minister
Good afternoon. Nine months ago, here in New York, the UN Secretary General gave President Johnson Sirleaf, President Yudhoyono and me a challenge, and that was to define the world’s response to development and poverty for the next generation. This meeting has been the culmination of that ...

David Cameron's speech at the Northern Ireland Investment Conference

It’s great to be back in Northern Ireland and to be here at Titanic Belfast.

This stunning exhibition - the biggest of its kind in the world – added £27 million to the Northern Ireland economy in its first year alone and has now attracted over 1 million people from 145 ...

Diwali 2013: David Cameron's speech

Well, a very happy Diwali to everyone, and a warm welcome to Number 10 Downing Street. And can I first of all thank the choir for that beautiful song, that beautiful singing: a reminder of the fact that we’re so fortunate in this country to have, with our academies ...

CeBIT 2014: David Cameron's speech

What can I say – music, violins, a robot thespian – this is how I spend all my Sunday nights.

It is a huge pleasure to be here and can I say to the Chancellor what an honour it is for the UK to co-host this event.

Germany is a country with ...

World Economic Forum (Davos) 2014: speech by David Cameron

The key challenge for politicians and business leaders in Europe is how we make a success of globalisation.

For years the West has been written off.

People say that we are facing some sort of inevitable decline.

They say we can’t make anything anymore.

Whether it’s the shift ...

Chinese New Year 2014: David Cameron's speech

Good evening. A very warm welcome to everyone here tonight. It’s wonderful to be able to have another Chinese New Year party here at Number 10 Downing Street, and you’re all extraordinarily welcome.

David Cameron speaking at the Number 10 Chinese New Year reception
The purpose of tonight ...

David Cameron and Angela Merkel press conference: February 2014

Good afternoon and welcome. I’m delighted to welcome Angela back to Downing Street today; we’ve just had some very good discussions over lunch. We are 2 centre-right leaders who share a determination to secure a better future for our peoples by building stronger, more competitive, more open and ...

David Cameron and Mahmoud Abbas press conference

Mahmoud Abbas (via interpreter)
Ladies and gentlemen, the Israeli occupation force have recently – have killed with cold blood, 3 Palestinians in the West Bank and 3 others in Gaza Strip and we did not hear any apology or condemnation by the Israeli government. Yesterday rockets were fired from Gaza, so ...

PM Direct in Peacehaven on pensions and savings plans

Speaker

It was at a Saga event before the last election, in 2010, that the Prime – the now Prime Minister first announced his promise to keep pensioner benefits. So we are proud and delighted to be able to bring David Cameron to Peacehaven today. Over to you Prime Minister.

Prime ...