David Cameron: Tories ‘the real party of workers’

British prime minister David Cameron has held out the prospect of free childcare for working families and a “tax- free minimum wage” as he declared the Conservatives were the “real party of working people”.

Unveiling the Conservative election manifesto, the prime minister said that after the years of recession and austerity and recession the “good life” was finally at hand as he urged voters not to allow Labour to return the country to “square one”.

He said that if the Tories were returned to power after polling day on May 7 they would double the existing free childcare provision for three and four-year-olds saving parents €6,935 a year.