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...sought a mandate from the Conservative Party to put it right and said there was going to be a lot of change: party modernization in terms of candidates, changing some of the positions of the party and ditching some of the baggage of the past, changing the approach of the party. The way we've been doing politics has been a bit more positive. We're been working with the government when we agree with them, all those things that I talked about in the leadership election which we've done. All of them have made...
...Baker-Hamilton plan than what would seem to be being put in place. I went to Iraq last year and met with the Iraqi vice president last week and take a very close interest in trying to make sure we make the right decisions. There are differences in the approach to this issue with the government, but we don't try to play politics with this issue. I don't stand at Prime Minister's Questions and try to catch the Prime Minister out on Iraq. I genuinely want Britain to make the right decisions so we can have...
...David Cameron: We have. [Senator] John McCain came to our conference and I admire him a great deal. Lots of things we won't agree about on every dot and comma - our approach to Iraq is probably quite different. The Conservative Party has also always had a number of good contacts with the Democrats, and we should have contacts with both sides but obviously the Republicans are our sister party. We're together in the International Democratic Union and other bodies and there are good and strong ties there...
...David Cameron: Yes. He's a politician whose approach I just find very stuck in the past. It's all about top-down big government solutions, and if you look at the tax credit system, the NHS computer, the national ID card scheme, this belief in big government solutions solving the problems of the world. I just take a totally different view. Compared with Labour's state control, what we need is what I call social responsibility, which is trusting professionals to run our public services more, trusting parents to bring up their children more, trusting business to tackle some...
...David Cameron: It was one of the first big things that happened last year that established a slightly new approach for the Conservative Party that initially some people were uneasy about - but then they saw the sense. This is positive politics, you're getting something done, you're sticking to your principles. It ended up actually being intensely embarrassing for the government because they were relying on us to pass their legislation. So, in the end the message came out: if you want a united party that knows about public service reform, that's the Conservative Party. Alternatively there...