No memorised speeches for this Prime Minister. A giant lectern. Autocue. And he was never going to forget his promise of a whopping tax cut.
This has been a long time in the planning. Indeed the tough front-loaded austerity programme was always going to end like this: a pre-election tax cut. It is the well-trodden Conservative strategy.
But this speech was more than that.
It was a parking of austerity in favour of prosperity.
David Cameron was spending some of George Osborne's hard-won fiscal credibility.
In essence, freezing benefits on Monday helps you offer an unfunded £7bn tax cut for 30 million at some yet-to-be-specified time before 2020.
The millions of beneficiaries - a million on minimum wage taken out of tax, 800,000 higher earners removed from the 40% rate - will just have to take David Cameron at his word. But it might take four years.
In order to get that hearing on the economy and win that trust of centre ground voters, the PM knows he needs to neutralise the mistrust of the Conservatives on the NHS.
There was a powerful personal rebuttal to Ed Miliband about Labour's election message of "saving the NHS" from "Tory privatisation".
"How dare they?" question his sincerity on the health service, given, among other things, the tragic experience of his late son, Ivan.
No surprise that cabinet colleagues such as George Osborne and other delegates were lauding this as Mr Cameron's best-ever speech.
The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond looked close to ecstasy that Mr Cameron had finally dealt with fiscal drag - raising the threshold of the 40p rate of tax up to £50,000 by 2020.
A party that can now imagine a world no longer constrained by coalition
The week started badly for the Camerons. It was always going to get better. The battleground: the NHS, the economy and leadership.
But despite conference confidence, so much of this depends on public trust in one man. David Cameron himself.
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