This is my first press conference since the Party Conference in Manchester, where we set out bold plans to deal with Britain's biggest problems.
In particular, our plan to Get Britain Working and our plans to address the record deficit. These plans are now needed more than ever. Right across politics, I believe that we are setting the agenda.
The first issue I raised at Prime Minister's Questions since the House of Commons returned was the Territorial Army and the Government's planned cuts in funding. Now we see a Government in full retreat and we have a debate on this issue in the House of Commons tomorrow, where Liam Fox will be pressing for a proper and full u-turn.
POVERTY
Another area where we are now setting the agenda is poverty. I think many people were struck by the response of our conference to the point that I made about the crushing marginal tax rates on the poorest in society.
I gave the example of a single mum with two kids earning just £150 a week. With the withdrawal of benefits and additional taxes, for every extra pound she earns she keeps just four pence.
Today, I can reveal that things are even worse than we thought.
One business I visited recently told me that twenty percent of its workforce would be better off if they left work and went on benefits.
But the evidence isn't just anecdotal - it's there in black and white. New figures from the Department of Work and Pensions show that some families are facing marginal tax rates of over 100 per cent, meaning that they are actually better off on benefits than in work.
What sort of crazy signal does this send out? Don't strive for independence, don't try to provide for your family, don't try and do the responsible thing.
Labour's system isn't helping the poorest - it's holding them back.
Now there is no simple or quick solution to turning this around. But today I can announce that I have asked the Shadow Chancellor to lead a new programme of work to develop a lasting, and affordable, policy solution to this problem.
George Osborne, Theresa May and her team will be working with Iain Duncan Smith - who has done some outstanding work in this area - to look at the disincentives to work created by the present benefit withdrawal rates.
EXPENSES
Now the next area where I believe the Conservatives have been setting the agenda is cleaning up our political system.
We were the first to say that MPs should not set their own pay - now that's happened.
We were the first to say that new MPs should not get a final salary pension scheme - and if we win the election, that will happen.
When the expenses scandal broke we were the first party to pay back money that shouldn't have been claimed and the first to publish the Shadow Cabinet's expenses online for everyone to see. Now everyone is following this lead.
Likewise in the House of Lords, we were the first to say that when peers have broken the rules or abused the system, we should use the powers of the House to suspend them - while nothing has been done for decades. And we have been the first to recommend a new, clearer system of allowances in the Lords to eliminate any scope for abuse of second homes, and I can tell you today that our Leader in the House of Lords, Tom Strathclyde, has written to every Conservative peer and asked all of those who claim expenses to certify clearly what is their main home.
OUR PRIORITIES
On supporting our armed forces, on poverty, on political reform, we're showing that we are a modern, progressive Conservative Party - and in the months ahead, we will continue to make that argument.
We will also be campaigning on the National Health Service right across the country this weekend, calling on Gordon Brown to match our commitment to protect its funding. And, of course, with Copenhagen only a few weeks away, we will be focusing on climate change too.
But we will also be using the weeks ahead to do something else We want to give people confidence that we can make change happen; we want to give people confidence that things can improve.
Let me tell you how I approach these things.
I don't think Ministers can accomplish very much in government unless they have an incredibly clear idea about what they want to achieve and how they'll go about it.
The starting point is not some big, detailed, complicated plan.
It is actually thinking through what your priorities are.
It is being clear about the areas that will get an unremitting focus.
Ministers can't do everything at once - and they shouldn't try.
Instead, they should prioritise what really matters - the reforms that will make the biggest difference - and be single-minded about achieving them.
When Ministers lack that direction, they are all too often buffeted by unforeseen events - drowning in the day-to-day fire-fighting without achieving long-term change. You only have to look at the long and depressing list of failed Labour Ministers to see that. This was particularly true in Labour's first term, which even Labour now admit was almost totally wasted.
So I have asked every member of the Shadow Cabinet Minister to learn from Labour's mistakes and to think carefully, now, about their reform priorities.
Not some dream wish-list of 101 things they'd love to do.
Not vague aspirations or vacuous pledge card promises.
But a tight focus on the three, four or five big changes they want to make.
Key priorities that I will be able to hold them accountable for, if we win that election.
Key priorities that the public can hold them accountable for, if we win that election.
We will be discussing these priorities as part of our access programme with senior civil servants.
But I don't see why this should be something that only happens behind closed doors.
Transparency is one of the most important ways we can help fix our broken politics. So over the coming weeks and months we will be publishing these priorities, starting next week.
I believe this will help give people confidence not only that we are ready for change, but that the changes we make really will make a difference to their lives. So that is the programme you can expect from us over these coming months, demonstrating again that we are a modern progressive Conservative Party and setting out in more detail the priorities that we would bring to government if we win that next election.