Falklands conflict veteran Simon Weston speaks at the Conservative
Party Conference in Bournemouth during a debate on Defence, October 9,
2002. Amongst various addresses during the conference Party leader Iain
Dincan Smith stated that his party had to face the reality that the
state of Britain's public services - schools, hospitals and police
services - was top of voters' agenda and must be the area that policies
were focused on. REUTERS/Stephen Hird

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