David Cameron speech

David Cameron speech; SINGAPORE: National University of Singapore: INT David Cameron MP (Prime Minister) along onto stage David Cameron MP (Prime Minister) speech SOT **CHECK DELIVERY AGAINST TRANSCRIPT** - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister Fu, Professor Tan, Professor Mahbubani, distinguished guests. / It is a great privilege to be here at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. / Particularly this year, when the people of Britain – and indeed the whole world – stand with you in remembering the father of your nation and one of the foremost statesmen of our time. Lee Kuan Yew did not just chart the destiny of modern Singapore – he created it. With his characteristic energy, determination and vision he took Singapore from independence 50 years ago and made this country one of the greatest success stories of the modern world. / And by inspiring economic reform across the wider Asia-Pacific region he helped to write not only Singapore’s history but Asia’s too. Margaret Thatcher used to say that there was no Prime Minister she admired more than Lee Kuan Yew for what she rightly called “the strength of his convictions, the clarity of his views, the directness of his speech and his vision of the way ahead”. I had the privilege to meet him myself, back when I was opposition leader and I was struck then by those same characteristics and by all he had achieved. / So I think it’s absolutely fitting that there should be a school of public policy in his honour and it’s a great honour for me to be invited to speak here today. Now I have come to south-east Asia with a very simple message. And it’s this. Britain is back – and Britain means business. / We’ve taken the tough decisions to deal with our deficit and rebalance our economy and it is growing – faster than any other large advanced economy on the planet last year. We’ve seen the largest fall in unemployment in our entire history and more jobs created in Britain than in the rest o...