Gordon Brown set out his stall for the year ahead in last week's draft Queen's Speech to the Commons. After buying off a catastrophic rebellion over his insane decision to raise taxes on the low paid, this was almost his last chance to restore confidence in his leadership. But his shopping list of more or less worthy measures, many stolen from David Cameron, simply compounded his woes by revealing his lack of vision.

The Prime Minister has long accused the Conservatives of lacking policies, but of the flagship measures in his speech he announced a constitution for the NHS - an idea we set out last June; the extension of the right to request flexible working, which we announced in September 2006; an independent exam regulator, which we proposed in 2005; a simple saving scheme, outlined in our 2005 manifesto; and shared equity schemes, currently being pioneered by Conservative councils across the country.

There is a lot Tories support in Gordon Brown's speech - because most of it was stolen from our locker. What we don't support and will continue to fight is this Government's real agenda: closing Post Offices and tearing the heart out of rural communities; releasing prisoners early and making our streets more dangerous; closing GP surgeries; and taxing businesses to the extent they moving abroad. Neither do we support a Prime Minister who regularly talks of full employment as his biggest success when there are 4.6 million households in the UK where no-one works full-time.

This Queens speech was brought forward by a Prime Minister still struggling to implement last year's programme. Sadly, it was more about his political survival than the long-term needs of the country.