David Cameron has been setting out his plan for full employment, promising to make Britain the "jobs factory of Europe" as the economy returns to health.
The Prime Minister, who was speaking in Ipswich, said the country is "coming out the other side" after a "tough few years".
With just months before the General Election, he has promised to treble start-up loans for young business people and urged voters to stick with his recovery plan.
Labour however, has said the Tories are out of touch if they think the economy is "fixed" and that most workers are now worse off.
In his speech, Mr Cameron said: "Our aim is very clear - our aim is for a Britain of full employment.
"What I mean by that is a higher rate of employment here in Britain than in any other advanced economy. Full employment means for me that anyone who wants a job is able to get a job in our country."
"We haven't solved all our country's economic problems, but the plan is working.
We are getting Britain back to work and increasingly with those jobs people can see a better living standard, better security for themselves and their families. That's what I want to continue with."
Mr Cameron said he regards the Conservatives as the party of the roofers and the retailers; the builders and the businesswomen.
His plans to boost jobs included: three million more apprenticeships; controlling immigration and migrant benefits to get more Britons back to work; extra support for small business, such as cutting red tape and keeping taxes low; investment in infrastructure.
The Prime Minister said the boost in start-up loans - which are typically around £5,000 - will create at least 100,000 jobs by 2020.
In a wide ranging speech and question and answer session afterwards, he also said it was the government's ambition to lift the amount people had to earn before they paid tax to £12,500, and to cut the benefits cap to £23,000 from £26,000.
Labour has hit out at the PM's boasts about a healed economy, saying it shows they are out of touch with normal working people.
Labour shadow Chancellor Ed Balls responded to Mr Cameron's speech by saying: "We want to have a job for all.
"But I think David Cameron's speech today will seem like empty words to people who've been struggling in the last few years with wages not keeping pace with prices, many people forced to work part time, zero hours contracts meaning that often people don't know if they'll work when they wake up in the morning.
"This is not the way to run an economy and what Labour says is 'let's have a plan to make sure our economy works for all working people, not just a few'. David Cameron's had five years and he's not delivered."
The Prime Minister's jobs pledge comes as the gap between Britain's best and worst-performing cities has "dramatically widened", according to a new study.
The Centre for Cities research group says for every 12 jobs created since 2004 in cities in southern England, only one was created in cities in the rest of the country.
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