Growth in German GDP during the last quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 made up for the weaker economies in the south, and is frequently cited as the reason the Euro Zone did not slip into a recession.
Party chairman Francis Maude said the conference had been "brilliant" and that Conservatives must "not slip back into a cosy comfort zone where we congratulate ourselves in ever smaller rooms about the excellence of our policies while too many modern Britons blithely ignore us".