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Conservative Party Conference: David Cameron speech; Some people said the NHS wasn't safe in our hands. Well – we knew otherwise. Who protected spending on the NHS? Not Labour – us. Who started the Cancer Drugs Fund? Not Labour – us. And by the way – who presided over Mid Staffs patients left for so long without water, they were drinking out of dirty vases, people's grandparents lying filthy and unwashed for days. Who allowed that to happen? Yes, it was Labour and don't you dare lecture anyone on the NHS again. And some people say a lot of things on Europe. You'll never be able to veto an EU treaty. You'll never cut the Budget. And if you did these things –you'd have no allies in Europe. Well we've proved them wrong. I vetoed that treaty, I got Britain out of the EU bail-out scheme and yes – I cut that budget. And in doing all this, we haven't lost respect – we've won allies to get powers back from Europe. That is what we will do and at the end of it – yes – we will give the British people their say in a referendum. That is our pledge. It will be your choice: in or out. And friends, you know what someone said about us recently? Apparently some Russian official said: Britain is "just a small island that no-one pays any attention to." Really? Let me just get this off my chest. When the world wanted rights, who wrote Magna Carta? When they wanted representation, who built the first Parliament? When they looked for compassion, who led the abolition of slavery? When they searched for equality, who gave women the vote? When their freedom was in peril, who offered blood, toil, tears and sweat? And today – whose music do they dance to? Whose universities do they flock to? Whose football league do they watch Whose example of tolerance, of people living together from every nation, every religion, young and old, straight and gay, whose example do they aspire to? ...