Choices about whether we are going to trust hardworking taxpayers to make their own decisionsabout their lives and their communities, or take control away from them.
The past or the future
That is the choice Britain faces.
And we in this hall have no doubts. We will choose the future.
We face some immediate choices about protecting Britain's hard-won economic stability
Earlier this morning we heard from Paul Bunyan.
He gave us a powerful testimony of what economic security looks like in real life, and whathappens when you lose it.
He knows because seven years ago he was working in a branch of Northern Rock in Newcastle.
He watched the queues of people desperate to withdraw their savings before the bankcollapsed.
He saw Britain on the brink and he says we must never go back. And so do we.
Economic security is at the core of what we Conservatives offer.
The security of knowing that our banks are safe - so the next Conservative Government willring-fence high street branches from the riskier city trading floors.
The security of making sure our housing market doesn't bring down our financial system.
So I am giving the Bank of England extra powers to curb property booms and stop mortgagesbeing given to people who cannot afford to repay them.
We also need the security of knowing that Britain can pay its way.
The budget deficit is approaching half what it was when we came to office, but it is still far toohigh.
So we will see through our plan to eliminate it.
And then to ensure our country is never in this position again, we must run surpluses in thegood years.
And when I say surpluses, I mean the government raising more than it spends.
Labour claim they will balance the books. But independent experts tell you the truth: theirplans would mean they would borrow ?28 billion more each year.
Running an overall surplus is the only sure way of getting our dangerously high national debtdown.