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Conservative Party Conference: David Cameron speech on opening day; ENGLAND: Manchester: INT George Osborne MP (Shadow Chancellor) introducing David Cameron SOT / David Cameron MP (Conservative Leader) along to podium on stage / wide shot of audience applauding and sitting down / David Cameron MP (Conservative Leader) speech SOT - Thank you and can I thank everyone for those endorsements, all those presentations you've just heard, and as George says, isn't it great to have Ken Clarke back in the team? When I tried to persuade him to rejoin the Shadow Cabinet he was on a bird-watching holiday in central America but I'm glad he put down those binoculars, stopped the twitching, put the Hush Puppies back on, and came ready to serve / thanks James Dyson and Ken Baker / I used to work for Ken Baker, and it's great, he's now working for me, although I'm not sure that's how he sees it / Above all, today I want to thank all of you, all of the people who work for our party, who support our party / This year we have achieved a huge amount - in those local elections, in those European elections / we won in the West Country, beating the Liberals, we won in the Midlands beating Labour just about everywhere, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, we won in Wales, the first party since the time of Lloyd George to beat Labour, and we won right here in the North West, taking Lancashire for the first time in three decades / and there was something special, something we did last year in Crewe and something we did again this year, winning a by-election in a seat Labour thought safe, winning in Norwich and let's hear it for Chloe Smith / my friends, this is such an important week for us, we have been coming to these conferences these last 12 years, talking talking about our plans, policies, people we want to help, well this time we have a real chance of making a difference