Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, monthly press conference

Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, monthly press conference; Question:At the weekend Prime Minister one of your own Ministers talked of a growing sense of disillusionment and angst among the voters, suggested that you were failing dismally to put across what he said was the success of your own policies. Do you see this is a sign that even within your own government people think you are losing it?Prime Minister:I think he was talking about the successes of the government, he was talking about policies that were working in health, and education and housing, and of course he is the Minister for Social Care. But he was also saying something that I agree with, that we have got to listen to what people are saying. And one of the reasons I am spending so much time going round the country, I was in Leicester and Coventry yesterday, I am going to a whole series of different events in different regions over the next period of time, is that the only way you can make policy in the future, and this is true of every country, every industrial society, is understanding that you have got to engage people in the process of making these decisions. And that is the important lesson that I said that we would take up when we came in, it is the important lesson that has been shaping our policies on social care for example for the elderly, we have got a report on carers about to be done, Lord Darzi is doing his Health Service consultation, we have got a consultation on the children's plan. People criticise us for having reviews. We are actually listening to what people are saying, as we did on the internet last week with Dr Tanya Byron's report, listening to what people are saying about the problems that families, and particularly mothers and fathers, now face not knowing how to handle the explosive growth of new information on the internet and wanting to be sure that we are doing the right thing by our children.Now we are listening to what people say, we are in a very difficult e...