Conservative Party Conference 2011: Boris Johnson speech

Conservative Party Conference 2011: Boris Johnson speech; - Where does it come from and such is the enthusiasm for the Olympics and Olympic investment that I can today reveal that in the pas de Calais area of France where the Uzbek and Senegal rowers are training, the authorities have decided that their region is to be rebaptised 'une partie de grande Bretagne'.Conference I believe we have a record to be proud of- we have frozen council tax for three years and effectively cut it by 10 per cent.We have put oyster on the overground.We have delivered a 24 hour freedom pass of a kind I hardly dare mention in Manchester in case they get jealousThe last bendy bus will go by Xmas and in the new year you will see a new generation open platform bus, built in the UK with British technology.After more than 450 years since it was lost by Mary Tudor- we have recaptured Calais from the French as the burgers yield to the soft power of the Olympics.I am proud of what we have done but we have so much more to do and together with my team from City Hall we will be bringing forward a new manifesto in the next months comprising- new river crossings, new tube lines and stations, funded by tax increment financing.New ideas for the betterment of all Londoners and to take our city forward not back, we did it before. Hundreds of people in this hall helped us to deliver sensible moderate one-nation conservative government in London and I have no doubt it will be a tough fight but with your help we can do it again thank you and I hope very much that we will be able.Cameron and others applaud at end of speech