PM vows 'brighter future' for all

David Cameron has pledged to create a "brighter future for everyone" as he hailed a stunning Tory poll performance.

With his party on track to secure a surprise overall majority, the Prime Minister said he would form a "One Nation" government.

In a victory speech at the count for his safe Witney seat, Mr Cameron started with a jibe at pollsters who had consistently showed the Conservatives deadlocked with Labour.

"Some people say ... that there is only one opinion poll that counts, and that is on election day," Mr Cameron said. "I do not think that has ever been truer than it is today and tonight.

"This is clearly a very strong night for the Conservative Party. I think we have had a positive response to a positive campaign about safeguarding our economy and creating jobs. About the record of government over the past five years, but above all a plan for the next five years, based on clear values, wanting to reward work in our country, for those who do their best to find the system on their side.

"As I put in on the steps of Downing Street five years ago, those who can should, those who cannot we should help."

Mr Cameron went on: "It is too early to say exactly what sort of a government there will be at the end of this nigh on endless election campaign.

"But to me this election campaign was always about the difficult decisions we have made over the last five years, the foundation of a stronger economy that we have built for our country, and the chance now to build on that foundation and say to people if you want that job, if you want that apprenticeship, if you want the home that you can own, if you want security and dignity in retirement, we are on your side and want to deliver for you.

"Also we should never in politics duck the big issues, whether it is dealing with our deficit, whether it is holding that referendum that you were right to want on the future of Scotland our United Kingdom, or indeed in the future that referendum that we must hold on our future in Europe.

"My view remains simple, to govern on the basis of governing for everyone in our United Kingdom. I want to make sure that our economic recovery reaches every part of our country, I want to make sure that as our economy grows that the poorest in our country can benefit from that work and have the chance of work and a stronger future.

"I want to make sure there are good schools for all our children, no matter where they live and what their background.

"Above all I want to bring our country together, our United Kingdom together, not least by implementing as fast as we can devolution that we rightly promised with other parties both for Wales and for Scotland.

"In short I would like my party, and I hope the government I would like to lead, to reclaim the mantle that we should never have lost. The mantle of One Nation, one United Kingdom, that is how I will govern if I am fortunate enough to form a government in the coming days."

Shorlty afterwards, as he travelled back to Conservative HQ to watch the last results come in, Mr Cameron also tweeted a picture of himself kissing wife Samantha. "Here's to a brighter future for everyone," he wrote.

Chancellor George Osborne said: "Five years ago I made a commitment to work with the British people to turn Britain around. And we have made great progress.

"Tonight, the British people have asked us to finish the job and that is what we will now set about doing."

Mr Osborne said he profoundly disagreed with the Scottish nationalists' desire for an independent Scotland, adding to BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "But we need to respect that result in Scotland and see what we can do to make the people of Scotland feel part of a strong United Kingdom."

In a victory speech inside Conservative HQ, Mr Cameron praised aides and supporters for their role in "the sweetest victory" for the Tories in a generation.

The video, obtained by The Spectator magazine, a jubilant Mr Cameron said: "I am not an old man, but I remember casting a vote in '87 and that was a great victory. I remember working just as you've been working in '92 and that was an amazing victory.

"And I remember 2010, achieving that dream of getting Labour out and getting the Tories back in and that was amazing. But I think this is the sweetest victory of them all."

The sentiment was followed by rapturous applause by enthusiastic Tory staff.

He added: "There are so many things to be proud of in this result.

"The fact that we held on in Scotland, the fact that we extended our representation in Wales, the fact that candidates - and I've seen them work so hard week in week out, some of them year in year out - have triumphed in so many seats.

"The fact that every election we always think we're gonna displace those Lib Dems in the West Country and we've finally done it now.

"There are so many things to celebrate - the fact the pundits got it wrong, the pollsters got it wrong, the commentators got it wrong.

"The real reason to celebrate tonight, the real reason to be proud, the real reason to be excited is we are going to get the opportunity to serve our country again.

"That is what it's all about - that brilliant, positive, upbeat manifesto.

"All the things we have done in the last five years to get to where we are, laying that foundation and now being able to offer real hope to people in our country. We are on the brink of something so exciting.

"As I said at the start of this campaign, I never quite believed we would get to the end of this campaign in the place we are now.

"That's what it's about.

"Tonight - this morning, celebrate. You are an amazing team. This has been the most professional campaign."

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