Cameron sets out Conservative policy agenda
Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:00 AM
David Cameron set out a timeline for three key Conservative policy publications during a press conference today.
Attempting to seize the political initiative, Mr Cameron claimed the party had "set out a very clear definition of modern conservatism" at the annual conference last month.
He said the party would attempt to build on these foundations by publishing three key policy documents over the coming months.
These will be structured around: giving people more opportunity and power over their lives; making families stronger and societies more responsible; and making Britain safer and greener.
The first 'opportunity agenda' will be published in November, Mr Cameron announced, and will include a "radical package of school reform".
The second 'responsibility and society agenda' will come in January and will focus of welfare reform, and the final piece - the 'security agenda' - will be published in February and will concentrate on prison reform.
Mr Cameron said: "To give people more power and control and opportunity in their lives, in a new age of unease, where people are concerned about social breakdown and crime, we need to build stronger families and a more responsible society.
"What we will be doing over the coming months, is developing our policies under three very clear themes."
Criticised in the past for depicting British society as 'broken', the Conservative leader reaffirmed this assessment today and posed himself as the man to heal the nation's wounds.
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