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David Cameron mocks "Red Ed and Blue Peter polices"
David Cameron vowed to get behind business to create a "land of opportunity for all", in his big speech to close the Conservative conference.
His 50-minute address sought to set out dividing lines with "the 1970s-style socialism" he said Labour now offered.
He claimed Britain's economy was finally "turning the corner" and the "land of hope is Tory" while "the land of despair was Labour".
"If Labour's plan for jobs is to attack business, ours is to back business."
In response the the speech Labour said Mr Cameron offered a land of opportunity "for just a privileged few".
In a clear riposte to Mr Miliband's speech last week, in which he promised to freeze energy prices and increase corporation tax on big business, Mr Cameron told Tory activists "profits, tax cuts and enterprise... are not dirty, elitist words".
"Because it's not government that creates jobs, it's businesses. It's businesses that get wages in people's pockets, food on their tables, hope for their families and success for our country."
'Quick fixes'Mr Cameron warned that Labour's calls for more state borrowing and spending to ease the "cost of living crisis" would risk putting the UK on the economic trajectory of Greece.
And he claimed the Labour leader's policies announced last week to tackle the cost of living crisis were already unravelling.
End QuoteWhat will stay in the memory from this conference is the Tories' laser-like focus on the threat from Ed Miliband which they once laughed off."
"It's all sticking plasters and quick fixes cobbled together for the TV cameras - Red Ed and his Blue Peter economy, " said Mr Cameron.
Mr Cameron spoke for just over an hour, from behind a lectern, often looking straight into the lens of the TV camera in an attempt to communicate directly with voters.
The BBC's chief political correspondent Norman Smith said it was a surprisingly sober speech in parts, with Mr Cameron stressing there was still much work to do to fix Britain's economy.
There were no new policy announcements, as Mr Cameron chose instead to sketch out his vision of the kind of society he wants to build if the Conservatives win a majority at the 2015 general election.
It was not enough just to clean up Labour's "mess" and pay off the deficit, he wanted to "build something better in its place".
"In place of the casino economy, one where people who work hard can actually get on; in place of the welfare society, one where no individual is written off; in place of the broken education system, one that gives every child the chance to rise up and succeed.
"Our economy, our society, welfare, schools all reformed, all rebuilt with one aim, one mission in mind - to make this country at long last, and for the first time ever, a land of opportunity for all.
"So it makes no difference whether you live in the North or in the South, whether you're black or you're white, a man or a woman, the school you went to, the background you have, who your parents were - what matters is the effort you put in, and if you put the effort in you'll have the chance to make it.
"That is what the land of opportunity means. That is what finishing the job means."
'Bigger society'Distancing his party from the Lib Dems, he said: "When the election comes, we won't be campaigning for a coalition, we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative government - because that is what our country needs...
"This party at its heart is about big people, strong communities, responsible businesses, a bigger society - not a bigger state."
During their week in Manchester, Mr Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne have expressed the aim of running a consistent government budget surplus - meaning the government brings in more in revenue than it spends - by 2020.
Mr Osborne has announced plans to make the long-term unemployed undertake work placements if they want to continue receiving benefits.
Labour says the failure of government strategies to produce significant growth means it will borrow billions of pounds more than originally envisaged over the lifetime of the current parliament.
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