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...David Cameron: It has resonance will all sorts of people. Everyone recognizes the challenge of climate change and the growing importance of a range of environmental issues. When I launched our campaign for the local elections on the slogan of Vote Blue, Go Green, I'm sure some people thought this was completely mad, but the fact is that the environment does matter to people and they do recognize its importance and they respond to the arguments we're putting out about...
...David Cameron: There are some signs of change. Arnold Schwarzenegger has shown? I mean, look, I profoundly believe the environment should be an issue the center-right grabs hold of. We believe that you care about what you pass on to your children. What's more important a part of inheritance than the planet? And the center-right recognize that there are lots of market-based solutions to environmental problems that we should be championing, so I think that on every grounds it's sensible for the center-right to be campaigning on these issues...
...David Cameron: Of course we need a climate-change deal that incorporates India and China and America to make real progress, but we shouldn't just wait for that and stop doing anything else and throw our hands up in despair. That is a defeatist argument. We should be setting an example to the rest of the world. We should be providing some leadership on this issue and that will make it more likely that we can encourage the Americans, Indians and Chinese and others to come in and make an agreement about this...
...David Cameron: We need reform of party funding and I'm the only leader of a major political party that has set out a clear and coherent way that we do it. We should have limits on donations that should apply to individuals, businesses and trade unions. I've suggested ?50,000 a year as the limit, and in response to that some modest state funding of political parties which you could offset by cutting the cost of politics, reducing the size of the House of Commons and cutting the amount that's spent during a general election. That...
...David Cameron: Part of the package I suggested was some modest tax relief on smaller donations. And when we do reform party funding, it's very important we encourage small donations and parties to have strong grassroots and to have a strong and growing membership. But reforming party finance is one of the things we need to do to stop the cynicism about politics. People think that parties are somehow open to be bought by rich individuals or rich businesses or rich trade unions. We've got to get rid of that impression and so party finance reform is part...