Ask the millions of people who lost their jobs, whose incomes were cut, whose aspirations weredestroyed by the Great Recession;
Ask them whether they think the link between their lives and the life of the economy is broken -and they will tell you from bitter experience that it is not.
Ask the people who have bought a home because we have created the conditions for builders tobuild, and they will say: yes, it's the economy that builds houses.
And ask the millions each day who rely on our NHS too.
Last week you heard promises that were built on sand.
Let's be clear.
You cannot have a properly funded National Health Service unless you have a properly runeconomy.
Put another way: it's only because we were willing to take difficult decisions on spending inother departments that we are able to increase the NHS budget every year of this Parliament.
So don't let anyone in this Party concede the NHS to Labour.
They would ruin our NHS.
The real party of the NHS is in this hall today.
The idea that you can raise living standards or fund the brilliant NHS we want, or provide forour national security without a plan to fix the economy is a nonsense.
It's the economy that creates jobs.
It's the economy that pays for hospitals.
It's the economy that puts food on the table.
And we're the only Party in Britain with a plan to fix the economy.
That is the leadership we have offered the country these five years in office - and that is theleadership we should offer for the next five years.
True leadership.
Leadership that is working.
The leadership offered by our Prime Minister, David Cameron.
Leadership means making choices.
And Britain faces some big choices.
Choices about whether we're going to live within our means, or let rising debts threaten oureconomy again.
Choices about whether we're going to win business and investment, or drive it away.
Choices about whether we're going to tackle youth unemployment, and poor standards in ourschools, or let down a generation.
Choices about building the infrastructure our future economy needs, or letting it decay.