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Conservative Party Conference: George Osborne speech; - We Conservatives instinctively understand this new economy - and frankly he does not / It shone through in every sentence of the speech he gave last week / Not a word on free markets or enterprise or individual choice - It's been reported he copied the speech from others / But, you know, I read every word / It was pretty bad / I'm fairly sure he wrote it himself - This Party has had its own period of appearing to be out of touch with the modern world; of appearing not to understand that people want to commit to each other in civil partnerships; of appearing not to understand that many women want both careers and families; of not talking enough about the national health service or comprehensive education / But thanks to David Cameron we've worked hard to change our Party / Now we are the champions of modern Britain - And one of the greatest challenges of modern Britain is how we help people get on to the housing ladder / Each year it becomes more difficult for millions of young families / I think it is time we did something about it / We need to build more houses so supply meets demand / That's the long term answer to the housing crisis / But we also need help now for families struggling to cover their first deposit and the tax bill - A decade ago the average family paid no stamp duty on their first home /Thanks to Gordon Brown's stealth taxes they now have to find sixteen hundred pounds in tax - on top of their deposit / And the result? / The number of first time buyers is at its lowest level for 27 years - So I can tell you now: the next Conservative Government will abolish stamp duty for almost all first time buyers / Anyone who buys their first home for under 250,000 pounds will pay no stamp duty / We will take 200,000 people a year out of stamp duty altogether; that's one million people over a Parliament; and our message to the family working long hours, saving every spare pound to afford their fi...