LONDON: British Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron launched his party’s manifesto on Tuesday, promising a return to the “good life” and the revival of a housing policy associated with Margaret Thatcher if he wins May’s election.

Cameron announced an extension of the “right-to-buy” housing policy of 1980s “Iron Lady” Thatcher, revealed plans for free childcare and pledged that minimum-wage workers will pay no income tax.

“We’re on the brink of something special,” he told activists at a school in Swindon, southwest England. “Let’s not let Labour drag us back to square one.

“We can turn the good news in the economy into a good life for you and your family. Britain can be this buccaneering, world-beating, can-do country again.”

Cameron’s Conservative Party has pulled ahead of its nearest rivals, Ed Miliband’s Labour Party, before a knife-edge May 7 election, an opinion poll by TNS showed on Tuesday.

The poll put the Conservatives on 34 percent, up 4 percentage points from the previous TNS survey, and Labour on 32 percent, down 1 point. The Liberal Democrats, Cameron’s junior coalition partners, were on 9 percent of the vote, behind the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP), which was on 14 percent.