David Cameron closing speech of Conservative Party Conference 2007

David Cameron closing speech of Conservative Party Conference 2007; - But I think that the most important change that we need to make, the most important Conservative principal we need to apply to our foreign and defence policy, is to make sure that we are realistic and not utopian / Yes, we support freedom, yes we support democracy, yes we should try to punch above our weight in the world to achieve these things / But I think that if we have learnt anything over the last five years, it's that you cannot drop a fully formed democracy out of an aeroplane at 40,000 feet / And I want people to know that if I am a Prime Minister in one month or one year, my top priority overseas would be Afghanistan / We are doing fantastic work in that country / Our troops are incredibly brave but my worry is that we could win the military campaign but start to lose the country / How can we win an insurgency when there are seven different military chains of command / How can we rebuild a country when we don't have one person coordinating the aid between the EU, NATO and the UN / How can we really help a people when the country is still so awash with drugs and has so much corruption / We really need to make this our number 1 priority / And I tell you why / If we get out of Afghanistan the Taliban come back into Afghanistan and Al Qaeda and that will mean danger and terrorism on British streets again / But frankly there is no foreign policy and domestic policy any more / There ought to be National Security Policy / And I'm very proud of the fact that in our Shadow Cabinet is Pauline Neville-Jones who used to run the Joint-Intelligence Committee before the days of the dodgy dossier- In those days civil servants felt that they could stand up for their integrity and tell Ministers when they got it wrong and that's what we need to happen again / And when it comes to terrorism, again when the government gets it right we will support them / But I think that there are things that they are ...