DAVID CAMERON has unveiled a detailed blueprint for the first days of a future Conservative government as the polls suggest he is on course to win the largest number of seats in the general election.
In a Sunday Times interview, the Conservative leader revealed the four pieces of legislation that would dominate his debut Queen’s speech.
Cameron also promised that on “day one” Tory ministers would each be paid 5% less than their current Labour counterparts.
“We have got to get started straight away,” he said.
The centrepiece of the Tories’ Queen’s speech, to be held within the next month if the party forms a government, would be a “great repeal bill”.
This would scrap ID cards, home information packs and dozens of rarely enforced criminal offences introduced by Labour over 13 years.
Cameron also wants his education reform plans to be put into law by the end of the summer so that the first new “free” schools could open in time for the new academic year in September. “In terms of education, we don’t want to wait around,” he said.
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Updates:
2;25 pm EDT, May 2nd, 2010 — Cameron promises to try to ‘take the whole country’ with him
2:26 pm EDT, May 2nd, 2010 — Labour donor defects to ‘capable’ Cameron
2:27 pm EDT, May 2nd, 2010 — John Rentoul: Clegg has blown it, after all that
2:28 pm EDT, May 2nd, 2010 — Tories odds-on favourites to win majority