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Boris Johnson speech to 2022 Conservative Party Spring Conference; ** 4 of 6 ** ENGLAND: Lancashire: Blackpool: 2022 Conservative Party Spring Conference: INT Boris Johnson MP (Prime Minister) speech continued SOT - I went for a run - you may not believe it, but I did - I went for a run this morning on the beach/ Absolutely beautiful/ Better than anything in the Caribbean/ That is not near-gallantry, it is true/ And it’s true – I mean, that time of the morning, 6:45, sun coming up/ Unbelievable/ Tide right out, ribbed sand stretching for miles and miles, and obviously beautiful/ And as I ran along, I saw over new hotels and the new attractions that will benefit from that new transport infrastructure going in – the new tram/ Of course, government has a role: safer streets, better health care, better schools, better education, creating the conditions for that investment/ But in the end, you need the private sector/ The animal spirits of the private sector to come in and have the confidence to invest/ That’s what it’s all about/ That’s the fundamental symmetry at the heart of our Conservative vision/ - And as I was running along the sand, I saw a man who seemed to be prospecting with a kind of steel pole, or tube/ And I asked him what he was looking for, hydrocarbons perhaps/ What do you think he was looking for? Anybody have any idea? I tell you, he wasn’t searching for oil/ Well, he was looking for lug worms/ And he showed me some lug worms that he had caught/ And I will tell you, my friends, the lugworm is not perhaps the most beautiful of God’s creatures/ But bigger fish love lugworms/ And I want you to know that we Conservatives back everybody in this country who gets up early and invest their time and their skill and their energy and their effort in the hope of a bigger return/ You need to use a lugworm to catch a bream, my friends and I have a bream - as they say/ - I have a vision of a one nation Conservatism that takes that capitalist spirit and...