Romney promises to create ‘lots of jobs’

Mitt Romney vowed to rescue the US economy and create jobs as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the climax of a convention that sought to humanise the candidate.

“What is needed in our country today is not complicated or profound. It doesn’t take a special government commission to tell us what America needs,” he said. “What America needs is jobs. Lots of jobs.”

The former Massachusetts governor told Americans that Barack Obama had singularly failed to deliver the “hope and change” he promised and that the US must elect Romney to save an economy crippled by wrong-headed policies.