Since 2010, the Conservative Party has been working through our long-term economic plan to secure a better future for you, your family and Britain. And it's working: jobs are up, unemployment's down, the economy's growing and people are starting to see their wages go further. So the choice in May couldn't be clearer: between the party with a plan - or the economic chaos of Labour, propped up by the Scottish Nationalists, meaning more spending, more borrowing and higher taxes. More of the same that landed us with the deepest recession in peacetime history.
So in these final days of the election campaign, as manifestos, pledges and promises come thick and fast, here's my advice: judge us by our record. Five years ago our economy was on the brink. Today, after five years of a Conservative-led government, things are looking up. We had the fastest growing major economy in Europe last year, BME employment has increased by over 20% and more than 200,000 good-quality apprenticeships have been started by BME people. Under Labour, ethnic minority unemployment doubled from 2001 and 2010 - so whom you do trust to create more jobs in the next Parliament?
It's also clear that Conservatives are the true champions of SMEs: a quarter of our start-up loans have gone to entrepreneurs from ethnic minority backgrounds; we've cut corporation tax and the jobs tax to help businesses take on more staff; and we've made it easier for small businesses to get finance to grow. Our goal is to make the UK the best place in the world to start and grow a business - because that means more jobs and more people enjoying the security of a regular pay packet.
And no-one should take any lectures from the other parties about low pay! Especially Labour - by crashing the economy, they made everyone poorer. Meanwhile, Conservatives have cut tax for over 26 million people and taken over 3 million out of income tax altogether. A future Conservative Government will cut tax for millions more, and scrap income tax altogether for everyone on the minimum wage working 30 hours a week.
On education, on policing, and on much more, the Conservatives have a strong track record. Under us, a million more children are being taught in good or outstanding schools, and record numbers of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds accessing university, gaining the skills they need to get on in today's increasingly competitive world. It was a Labour government that saw Britain plummet in the international league tables. And, if elected in May, Labour will scrap our Free Schools programme that has given communities the opportunity to open schools serving Hindu, Sikh and other faiths.
Under a Conservative Home Secretary, the use of stop and search powers under has fallen by a third from its peak under Labour in 2008/9. If the stats don't improve, we'll legislate to mandate changes in police practice so no community is unfairly targeted. And in our manifesto the Conservatives alone have committed to strengthening the UK-India relationship, by pushing for an EU-India trade deal and supporting India's permanent representation on the UN Security Council.
Only the Conservatives have a plan, and it's a plan of action, not words. A vote for anyone else in May will just risk all the progress we've made.
