British Conservatives Party to set up National Security Council - World News

BIRMINGHAM, Britain, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Britain's major opposition party, the Conservatives, pledged on Wednesday to set up a proper National Security Council to deal with natural disasters, authoritarian states and insurgents abroad and extremists in the country.

Pauline Neville-Jones, Shadow Security Minister, made the remarks on the last day of the party's annual conference.

She also highlighted major moves on national security, which included a unified border control police force, cracking down on those who finance terrorism and radicalize individuals, the right anti-terrorist laws, and tackle the extremism underlying violence.

According to the shadow secretary, multi-culturalism is a bind alley and a Conservative government will not allow Britain to be weakened by pursuing it.

"The security of our society rests ultimately on the hard-nosed defense of our values and a shared loyalty to them," she stressed.

Some 15,000 people have gathered here in Britain's second largest city for the Conservatives' four-day annual party conference, which is widely deemed as a platform to mete out substantial policies to prepare them for winning the next general election.

The Conservative Party has been garnering an average 40 plus percent of voters' support in the last few months, leading the ruling Labour by more than 10 percentage points.

Nonetheless, having no experience in actually tackling the economy compared with Gordon Brown's 11-year-record as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Cameron is also expected to win people's trust by demonstrating his party's capability to deal with the country's economic problems at a time of grim economic downturn and financial crisis.