Cameron hits back at Gordon Brown
"Experience is the excuse of the incumbent over the ages. Experience is what they always say when they try to stop change … The risk is not in making a change. The risk is sticking with what you've got and expecting a different result."
Cameron's bedtime revelation
"I admire entrepreneurs. I should do - I go to bed with one every night... I wake up with the same one every morning. She's my wife Samantha".
China to lose £38m
"Of course we will work closely with China as a partner, but not patronise a country which over the last few years has lifted hundreds of millions of citizens out of poverty," Andrew Mitchell, the shadow international development secretary, told the conference, announcing that the Tories would stop giving aid to China and give it to poorer countries instead.
Cheesy and Sleazy
The Unite union's verdict on Cameron's Tories, as delivered in an advert in the Guardian. The union organised a demonstration outside the conference, complaining about the party accepting donations from hedge fund managers.
Bill Bryson talked about rubbish
"It's time to fight back and reclaim that lovely land sunk beneath all these drifting carrier bags and empty crisp packets. No one wants to live in a country that's only lovely from the ankles up," Bryson, the author, said, addressing the conference in his capacity as president of the campaign for the protection of rural England.
Eric Pickles talked about rubbish
Pickles, the local government spokesman, claimed that under Labour, weekly bin collections would disappear by 2013. "The lesser-spotted wheelie bin faces extinction," he said (although presumably you still need bins for fortnightly collections). Pickles said the Tories would give councils money to fund weekly collections.
And Pickles apologised for talking rubbish
"This was a very silly comment that I regret," Pickles said yesterday. He was referring to a joke he made about John Prescott's bulimia at a fringe event. Pickles had said: "When old Prescott came out as bulimic I thought, 'I wonder if I've added to that'. I thought for a while, and I thought: 'Good'."
