PM Announces Tax Cuts For 30 Million People

David Cameron has promised to deliver tax cuts for 30 million people and make sure no one on the national minimum wage paid any income tax at all.

In his last conference speech before the General Election, Mr Cameron offered an array of sweeteners.

He vowed to balance the nation's books by 2016 so he could deliver tax cuts for "hard-working families" including lifting the tax-free allowance from £10,500 to £12,500 and increasing the 40p tax rate from £41,900 to £50,000.

Mr Cameron attempted to paint a picture of the Tories as the champion of the ordinary man, of families.

He said he wanted a Britain where there was: "the chance of a job, a home, a good start in life, whoever you are, wherever you’re from. And by the way, you never pull one person up by pulling other people down."

He added: "We believe in aspiration and helping people get on in life and what’s more, we're proud of it."

The Prime Minister also said the biggest threat facing the UK was the Islamic State, who killed children, raped women and beheaded innocent people, and it was right Britain should be involved in airstrikes.

He said: "Let us be clear – there is no walk on by option. Unless we deal with ISIL they will dead with us, bringing terror and murder to our streets."

And he warned all those who "had all advantages of being brought up in Britain but want to go and fight" that everything would be done to stop them and they were "an enemy of Britain".

Mr Cameron opened by telling delegates he was delighted to still be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after the Scottish referendum and glad he did not "duck the fight".

He went on to describe his pride in his country during his attendance of the D-Day 70th anniversary events and said Britain could also build a future to be proud of.

And he pledged he would deliver on his English votes for English laws pledge, which would mean Scottish MPs would not have undue influence over policy affecting England.

The Prime Minister has made it clear that he intends to take back the health service for the Tories telling Labour the country "can only have a strong NHS if you have a strong economy".

He has already pledged a £100m spending boost to provide seven-day access to family doctors by 2020 this week.

The moves are a direct response to Labour's claims to be the "party of the NHS" after Ed Miliband announced a £12.5bn funding pledge over the course of the next parliament last week.

However, injecting so much money into the health service will mean significant cuts in other areas.

Speaking to Sky News the Leader of the House of Commons, William Hague, said: "You have to be prepared to make savings elsewhere and we have been showing in this conference that we are prepared to do so."

The Treasury needs to find £25bn of spending cuts to balance the nation's books.

On Monday George Osborne announced a two-year freeze on working age benefits , which will save £3bn, and warned he would announced a further £9bn of welfare cuts ahead of the election.

Mr Cameron's speech brings to a close a conference which has been tarnished by four UKIP "defections", the most significant of which was the MP Mark Reckless.

Pollster Lord Cooper has warned Nigel Farage's party could win as many as four seats in May – Peter Kellner of YouGov (Other OTC: YUGVF - news) has put it as high as 10.

Two seats could come before that at the by-elections in Clacton and Rochester triggered by the departures of Mr Reckless and Douglas Carswell, who left the Tories in August.

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