When I settle on a course, I stick to it.Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.I am not here to waste my time or yours going through the motions of opposition for the next three years. I am here because I believe that decent people can make a difference.This will be remembered as the week when the Conservatives began the slow, hard road back to power. So the next time you are asked what Conservatives stand for these days, tell them this from me:Tell them we believe that when people are given the power to choose they choose to do the best for themselves and their families. We believe that just because the state funds our public services it doesn’t need to run our public services. We believe that the privileges of the few must be turned into the opportunities for the many.Above all, we believe that to build a better society you must trust people Not governments.I love my country. For me, this is the greatest country on Earth, and the tolerance, the decency and the strength of the British people are well worth fighting for.That is why I am here That is why we are all here. To build a Britain that respects decency, a Britain that values compassion, a Britain worthy of all its people.This week, we have rediscovered the courage of our convictions.

So go out there and tell the world: the Conservatives are back.. Iain Duncan Smith won a six-minute standing ovation, more than twice that given to Tony Blair by the Labour rank-and-file last week. But when the applause had died down, the message from Bournemouth was distinctly mixed. There was no oomph,” said one woman as she stood in a caf?utside the conference hall “I expected him to step up for this There has been a lot of expectation this week Everything about the man was not what I expected We have to change.

We cannot stand still.”A small but steady trickle had left their leader in mid- sentence to sidle through the back exits of Bournemouth International Centre to catch trains home while others sat in silence, some stony faced.Chris Morton, the vice-chairman of Reading East Conservatives, said: “My disappointment was that he talked about keeping the pound but it was unnecessary. It was a speech that clicked with the audience but the real test will be the opinion polls outside.”He wants Thatcherism back, but I think that is going to be his downfall. We don’t want another leadership campaign, but unless IDS improves by next year we may get one. I would like to see Theresa May, Oliver Letwin or better still Ken Clarke to challenge him. Ken still has one shot left.”But Isobel Aitken, from Gordon in Aberdeenshire, pronounced Mr Duncan Smith’s speech “wonderful” She said: “It really has been a great conference This has really given us a great encouragement to carry on.