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David Cameron urges Welsh Tories to fight 'battle of ideas' David Cameron urges Welsh Tories to fight 'battle of ideas'
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David Cameron has urged Welsh Conservatives to fight a battle of ideas on the deficit, welfare and the economy. David Cameron has urged Welsh Conservatives to fight a "battle of ideas" on the deficit, welfare and the economy.
In a rallying cry to a conference in Swansea, the prime minister said Wales and the UK were in a "global race".In a rallying cry to a conference in Swansea, the prime minister said Wales and the UK were in a "global race".
Britain faced tests that would decide whether it would be "a success story or an also ran".Britain faced tests that would decide whether it would be "a success story or an also ran".
Attacking the Welsh government, Mr Cameron said: "The only people who don't get it is Labour in Cardiff Bay."Attacking the Welsh government, Mr Cameron said: "The only people who don't get it is Labour in Cardiff Bay."
Meanwhile, Welsh Secretary David Jones was expected to accuse Welsh ministers of establishing a "Soviet-style" system of enterprise zones which is "holding Wales back". He said the devolved administration was "determined to drag Wales down".
He will say that Labour ministers have created bureaucracy for the zones but "nothing is happening" on the ground. It had created an education system that "holds young people back" and "endless regulation that's holding business back".
Assembly group leader Andrew RT Davies will also announce a commission on providing more affordable childcare. "But while they're messing it up, we're sorting it out," he said.
Mr Cameron pointed to the planned electrification of the railways in south Wales, cuts to income tax and a commitment to upgrade the M4 motorway.
Reflecting on the death of Baroness Thatcher, he said her greatest lesson was that "you can't just take a decision and think 'that's it, job done'.
"You've got to marshal your arguments, make them with great force, and realise the job isn't done unless you win the greatest battle of them all - the battle of ideas."
Listing three "big arguments" that the Tories had to confront, the prime minister said it was not true that "you can spend your way out of debt".
Secondly, Conservatives had to take on opponents who say UK government welfare changes "are unnecessary and unfair".
And Tories had to "stand up for enterprise", he said, insisting that the UK "works best when we're connected in the world".
"When people say 'pull up the drawbridge, Britain can make it on our own', they're wrong," he said.
Meanwhile Welsh Secretary David Jones accused Welsh ministers of establishing a "Soviet-style" system of enterprise zones which is "holding Wales back".
He said Labour ministers had created bureaucracy for the zones but "nothing is happening" on the ground.
Assembly group leader Andrew RT Davies was also announcing a commission on providing more affordable childcare.