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# Conservative Party Conference: Cameron hails 'doers and grafters' that keep
economy moving
## David Cameron will today use his keynote conference speech to hail the
"doers and grafters" as the wealth creators who will get Britain's economy
moving again.
![David Cameron will today use his keynote conference speech to hail the
?doers and grafters? as the wealth creators who will get Britain?s economy
moving again. ][1]
David Cameron arrives at the Hyatt Hotel in Birmingham. He believes Britain
will be turned around by sheer hard work Photo: PA
[![Andrew Porter][2]][3]
By [Andrew Porter][4], Political Editor 7:00AM BST 06 Oct 2010
The Prime Minister's address to the Conservative Party conference will be
dominated by the bleak economic inheritance the Coalition has inherited from
Labour.
Mr Cameron will be keen to move the debate away from the controversial cuts to
benefits, including child benefit, that have so-fare dominated the party's
annual gathering in Birmingham.
Instead he will explain how the country will be turned around through sheer
hard work.
He will say: "It will be the doers and the grafters, the inventors and the
entrepreneurs who get this country going. Yes, it will be the wealth-creators
- and no, those aren't dirty words."
He will add: "I can't tell you how much I admire people who leave the comfort
of a regular wage to strike out on their own. I'll always remember what the
owner of a small business told me once.
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"He said 'when I was starting out the government didn't lift a finger to help
me. Then as soon as I started making money they were all over me trying to
take it away.'
"That's completely the wrong way round. We need to get behind our wealth
creators."
That appeal to the "grafters" will be seen as an appeal to the skilled working
class voters who were often seen as the ones who helped sustain Margaret
Thatcher's governments in the 1980s.
Mr Cameron will talk up plans to encourage growth, including measures to scrap
red tape for business and a new green investment bank.
It will be the first conference speech by a Conservative prime minister since
John Major addressed his party 14 years ago.
But there has been a lack of euphoria among the Conservatives this week,
despite their return to power.
That has been put down to the fact that Mr Cameron failed to secure a majority
at the general election and was forced to seek a Coalition deal with the
Liberal Democrats.
The scale of the country's problems is also highlighted as a key factor for
the subdued, but determined demeanour of Mr Cameron and his senior colleagues.
The Prime Minister will also detail how deep Whitehall cuts will be when the
comprehensive spending review is revealed on 20 October.
He will tell activists: "Reducing spending will be difficult. There are
programme that will be cut. There are jobs that will be lost.
"There are things government does today that it will have to stop doing. Many
Government departments will have their budgets cut by on average 25 per cent
over four years. That's cut each year of around 7 per cent."
He will add: "Of course that is big. But let's remember, a lot of businesses
have had to make the same or bigger savings in recent years."
Downing Street aides said last night that Mr Cameron would deliver a highly
personal speech that will touch include a mention of his new baby daughter
Florence and it is expected a reference to his father who recently passed
away.
Mr Cameron's wife, Samantha, arrived in Birmingham last night, with baby
Florence.
The speech will not contain policy - a theme of Mr Cameron's conference
addresses - but it will attempt to set out the depth of the challenge facing
the Coalition to restore the nation's finances.
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