MY BELIEFS"First, let me thank the British public for your overwhelming confidence in me. I am humbled by the mandate you have given me and I pledge to deliver on the promises I made to you before the election. "I have every confidence that my aims can be achieved, because I believe that this is a great nation made up of great people. This is a belief that I have found lacking among my peers: I was perhaps born out of step with these cynical times. "If a typical citizen of Queen Victoria's Britain were to find themselves in the Britain of today, they would surely wonder what had happened to our pride, steel and conviction. I believe that Britain will regain its position of global importance. |