And I think that members who just got here this month, freshmen in the House and the Senate, I think will have that same measuring -- they want to -- they will look four years from now and say, did what I do in those four years improve the prospects of this country, help the economy grow, help the middle class, make us more secure or not?

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The problem for us is how do we get those people to recognise that the Conservative Party is relevant again and what I will do is say to my party, we now must be obsessed with the issues that obsess British people, health, education, the environment, the things that they think that for too long we don't care about and that's the real problem and challenge.

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