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Wednesday 07 October 2015 4:58 pm

The best reactions to David Cameron’s Conservative party conference speech

By: James Nickerson

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Prime Minister David Cameron took to the podium today to give his speech at the annual Conservative party conference, promising an "assault on poverty", pledging 200,000 new starter homes and attacking Jeremy Corbyn (and Richard Murphy, the man behind Corbyn's economic policy). 

And Twitter has been going mad with responses, both in praise and condemnation.

Here are the nation's best responses to Cameron's first conference speech since he won a majority Conservative government….

Read more: Cameron slams Corbyn's "Britain-hating ideology"

Remember when Cameron faced Corbyn in PMQs and agreed to a new, kinder politics?

Don't think @David_Cameron got the memo about a kinder version of politics. Nasty is as nasty does #CameronSpeech

— Ethelred (@ethelreddy) October 7, 2015

Well, it seems some people don’t believe he really meant that commitment, especially after his allegation that Corbyn felt Osama Bin-Laden's death was a tragedy:

Either @David_Cameron is stupid, and doesn't know what @jeremycorbyn actually said about Osama Bin Laden, or he thinks we're stupid.

— Dom Stapleton (@DomStapleton) October 7, 2015

But some saw it another way:

I'm a Labour member and have always voted labour yet i agreed with David Cameron speech. Labour should be afraid very afraid #CPC15

— AR Khan (@AkRaza29) October 7, 2015

Another group of people interpreted the speech in an entirely different way:

David Cameron is now the leader of the British left.

— Dan Hodges (@DPJHodges) October 7, 2015

Though, that may just have been one man:

David Cameron is the leader of the British Left in the same universe in which I am a flying unicorn.

— rida (@RidaVaquas) October 7, 2015

Meanwhile, some just felt a bit nauseous:

Also did the prime minister really just make a sex joke? Ew, dude.

— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) October 7, 2015

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