Conservative Party Conference: Boris Johnson speech

Conservative Party Conference: Boris Johnson speech; ENGLAND: Birmingham: International Conference Centre (ICC): INT Boris Johnson (Mayor of London) speech SOT - I believe, that as far as possible, government needs to make life easy for those that get up at 5am to get their shops and businesses ready - the strugglers, the strivers / We know who they are - many of them in this room by the way - the backbone of the UK economy / As Napoleon almost said, Britain is a nation of small and medium-sized enterprises / They make up seventy-five per cent of the London economy and it is these businesses that have the capacity to grow, to take on young people, to expand, to become world beaters / And we need to think every day what we can do to create the right conditions for them to flourish, to become more than medium-sized, to become gold medallists in the global economy / And for the last four years, my team in City Hall has been working as you, Dave, George, everybody else in government have been working, to fight the recession and to create the conditions for a dynamic recovery CUTAWAYs Audience laughing at Napoleon joke / High angle view delegates in hall