David Cameron has claimed the government has run out of ideas.

Speaking in the Commons on Tuesday, the Conservative leader said the Queen's speech, announced earlier in the day, showed that "the prime minister has got nothing new to offer".

He said Gordon Brown does not have a "vision" for the country as he had borrowed his Labour Party conference speech from failed US presidential candidate John Kerry and his pre-Budget report from the Tories.

Cameron said he welcomed several of the measures in the speech, including the Climate Change Bill, the draft Constitutional Renewal Bill and some measures in the Counter-Terrorism Bill.

The Tory chief joked that this support was partly because "we proposed them in the first place".

However he added that the problem with the speech was the "same as the problem with the prime minister".

"It is all short-term tricks instead of long-term problem solving," Cameron claimed.

"The Queen's speech doesn't represent and he doesn't represent real change," he added. "This prime minister is not capable of introducing anything new."

On education he said the plans to legislate to raise the school, college or training leaving age to 18 would mean "more top-down, centralising targets".

On party funding he warned that "there can be no justification for more state funding of political parties unless there is a straight cap" on funding from individuals, businesses and trade unions".

And he promised an amendment to the EU Reform Treaty Bill to "give the British people the referendum they were promised".