05/10/2016: Conservative Leader's Speech

:00:07. > :00:09.Good morning from sunny Birmingham, where in just half an hour,

:00:10. > :00:12.Theresa May will deliver her first keynote Conference address as Tory

:00:13. > :00:15.leader and Prime Minister to reject her party's "libertarian

:00:16. > :00:54.right" in favour of a new centre ground.

:00:55. > :00:59.Welcome to this Daily Politics Conference Special.

:01:00. > :01:02.Theresa May claims the Conservative Party she leads is "firmly

:01:03. > :01:06.in the centre ground of British politics", and in a pitch to Labour

:01:07. > :01:09.voters, says she will put "the power of Government squarely

:01:10. > :01:15.at the service of ordinary working-class people".

:01:16. > :01:18.But what are the policies to match the rhetoric?

:01:19. > :01:20.I'll be talking to education secretary Justine Greening

:01:21. > :01:25.about those plans for more grammar schools.

:01:26. > :01:29.And we'll have the warm-up act here this morning -

:01:30. > :01:31.Scottish Conservative leader and prominent Remain

:01:32. > :01:36.campaigner Ruth Davidson on the impact of Brexit.

:01:37. > :01:40.Also in today's programme, after just 18 days in the job,

:01:41. > :01:44.Diane James quits as Ukip leader - who will replace her to lead a party

:01:45. > :02:03.All that coming up in the next two hours.

:02:04. > :02:07.Yes, two hours of public service broadcasting at its finest.

:02:08. > :02:10.Theresa May is due to speak just after 11:30 - we'll have that live

:02:11. > :02:15.Joining me now to take stock on the final day of Conference

:02:16. > :02:27.here - Isabel Oakeshott of the Mail and Harry Cole of the Sun.

:02:28. > :02:35.When Theresa May almost attacks what she calls the libertarian right, who

:02:36. > :02:42.is she referring to? Well, I was struck by two things. First of all,

:02:43. > :02:46.many voters are fed up feeling that it is not acceptable to talk about

:02:47. > :02:51.immigration. She is having a at those, the elite who patronise

:02:52. > :02:55.people who worry about immigration. Well, there are still actually

:02:56. > :03:00.figures within her own parliamentary party who are having this kind of

:03:01. > :03:05.Primal Scream of objection at the outcome of the referendum. So there

:03:06. > :03:09.is partly a message to those within her party about accepting that this

:03:10. > :03:13.was a verdict on immigration. I am also struck by what she says about

:03:14. > :03:17.the role of government and how different that is to what David

:03:18. > :03:21.Cameron was saying about the role of government. She is expected to say

:03:22. > :03:27.today that there is a strong place for government, that this is not a

:03:28. > :03:32.continuation of David Cameron's big society. He very much saw the

:03:33. > :03:35.voluntary sector stepping in to do a lot of the jobs that a Labour

:03:36. > :03:40.government had perhaps traditionally provided. She seems to be steering

:03:41. > :03:45.back from that. Is it much of a change? David Cameron believed in

:03:46. > :03:50.government. Not really. The risks such a thing as the society, it is

:03:51. > :03:57.just not the same as the state. It is a bit of a slap to the hard right

:03:58. > :04:01.of the party in saying, look, I am going to be my own person and I will

:04:02. > :04:06.not be ashamed of saying we will use the state. I am not a man who

:04:07. > :04:09.presents Ed Miliband a lot, but he came out with a Tweet this morning

:04:10. > :04:13.when he said, there is a rumour going around that there might be a

:04:14. > :04:17.nod towards energy price capping and price freezing the speech. Ed

:04:18. > :04:21.Miliband said, this sounds familiar but I believe they will not be

:04:22. > :04:28.calling Mrs May a Marxist revolutionary who is taking us back

:04:29. > :04:30.to the 70s. She clearly sees a gap in the market to put her tanks on

:04:31. > :04:37.the centre ground or even the centre-left. George Osborne's

:04:38. > :04:43.Budget, post the election last year, took more from the Labour manifesto

:04:44. > :04:46.than from the Tory manifesto. Well, there was a huge opportunity for

:04:47. > :04:52.Theresa May because of the state the Labour Party are in a state that

:04:53. > :04:55.Ukip is in. 3.8 million votes up for grabs who formally voted for Ukip

:04:56. > :05:01.and now have nothing much to vote for there. And a lot of disaffected

:05:02. > :05:05.working-class Labour voters. You have to look at this in the context

:05:06. > :05:09.of the whole conference. If you looked at this one speech today, you

:05:10. > :05:13.could say maybe she's making a bid for the centre ground, but she has

:05:14. > :05:19.also spent the last few days talking about a hard Brexit. She had the

:05:20. > :05:22.Tory right and the Eurosceptics releasing her praises here in

:05:23. > :05:30.Birmingham, saying she wanted to remain the mother she seems prepared

:05:31. > :05:37.to do a hard Brexit. So there is a bit of rebalancing and a touch of

:05:38. > :05:43.party management. As Home Secretary, it was hard for the Labour Party to

:05:44. > :05:47.pin her down. She was keen to be seen as a socially liberal,

:05:48. > :05:56.reforming Home Secretary. So she's tried to rebalance things. And Ukip.

:05:57. > :05:58.What an utter car crash. Again. Firstly, Nigel Farage definitely

:05:59. > :06:04.does not want to come back as party leader. I am sure about that. He's

:06:05. > :06:09.certainly addicted to politics. He loves the attention and there was a

:06:10. > :06:16.role for him doing something else. But he is technically the leader. He

:06:17. > :06:20.promises he is retiring. Is it true Ukip had to call the electoral

:06:21. > :06:25.commission to find out who was the leader? There was a model and I

:06:26. > :06:28.understand that I am James put in Latin on her form, under duress.

:06:29. > :06:34.People will want to know who is going to take over and what are they

:06:35. > :06:38.fighting over? This may be an opportunity for them, because they

:06:39. > :06:41.may now be able to get a leader who is more voter friendly for

:06:42. > :06:45.disillusioned, north of England working-class Labour voters. There

:06:46. > :06:52.were real sighs of relief among Northern Labour MPs whose

:06:53. > :06:55.constituencies voted for Leave. Steven Woolfe was blocked on a

:06:56. > :07:00.technicality from standing last time. He will be back in the

:07:01. > :07:03.running. Suzanne Evans, a southern former Tory, will be back in the

:07:04. > :07:09.running. We will see a battle for the heart and soul of the party. I

:07:10. > :07:13.asked her why she would appeal to the north if she was the epitome of

:07:14. > :07:17.the Home Counties bourgeoisie, but she said she didn't know what I was

:07:18. > :07:19.talking about. We have to leave it there, but we will be coming back to

:07:20. > :07:20.Ukip. Now - a few minutes ago,

:07:21. > :07:23.Theresa May and her husband Philip made the short walk over

:07:24. > :07:27.the footbridge that links the conference hotel

:07:28. > :07:31.here to the conference centre We're told that she will speak

:07:32. > :07:37.for about 50 minutes to an hour. There will be a strong attack

:07:38. > :07:43.on Labour and on politicians and pundits who she says sneer

:07:44. > :07:50.at the patriotism of the working classes and their concerns

:07:51. > :07:59.about immigration and crime. I'm joined now by the Education

:08:00. > :08:13.Secretary, Justine Greening. Theresa May will tell us today that

:08:14. > :08:17.her intention is to "Put the power of government squarely at the

:08:18. > :08:21.service of ordinary working class people". How do plans to increase

:08:22. > :08:27.selection in schools help working class people? Free school meals

:08:28. > :08:30.children who are in grammar schools have a rate of progress that is

:08:31. > :08:35.twice as good as they're better off counterparts in those schools. So

:08:36. > :08:37.much so that for those children, grammar schools close the attainment

:08:38. > :08:43.gap that we often see between free school meals children and others.

:08:44. > :08:47.But hardly any free school meals children go to grammar schools. One

:08:48. > :08:52.of the points we make in the consultation document is opening up

:08:53. > :08:56.the question about our existing grammars can do more to give access

:08:57. > :09:00.to disadvantaged children and change their tests so that they are less

:09:01. > :09:05.easy to be tutored, how they can set up primary school figures in the

:09:06. > :09:15.deprived areas so more children have access to them. Kent is full of

:09:16. > :09:21.grammar schools. What percentage of the grammar school kids there are

:09:22. > :09:30.eligible for free school meals? Across the country... Know, in Kent.

:09:31. > :09:33.It is 2.7%. And yet the number of kids eligible for free school meals

:09:34. > :09:41.in non-grammar schools in Kent is 18%. So the grammar schools in Kent

:09:42. > :09:48.are basically middle-class fiefdoms. Across England, the percentages just

:09:49. > :09:53.under 4%. This is why we are right to have the consultation document

:09:54. > :09:56.looking at how we can address that. What is untenable to set out the

:09:57. > :10:01.kind of statistics that you just have, which I think we should

:10:02. > :10:05.change, and then be against us launching a piece of work that looks

:10:06. > :10:09.at how to improve that. But again, take Kent. There are 30 to grammar

:10:10. > :10:13.schools in the county. They do very well for the people who get to them,

:10:14. > :10:19.but they are not for ordinary working class people. 33% of

:10:20. > :10:25.secondary school children receive the pupil premium, but in Kent, 6%.

:10:26. > :10:30.We seem to agree. I am trying to work out how these scores are

:10:31. > :10:33.helping working class people. This is why we are right to open up the

:10:34. > :10:36.discussion about how current grammars can do a better job of

:10:37. > :10:39.being engines of social mobility when we know that they bring on

:10:40. > :10:43.children who are on free school meals twice as fast as other

:10:44. > :10:48.children. All the more reason to open up a discussion about how we

:10:49. > :10:51.can change the statistics you have put on the table. But you didn't

:10:52. > :10:56.come up with the idea of more grammar schools, that was Theresa

:10:57. > :10:59.May. Given how much change we have seen across the rest of the

:11:00. > :11:05.education system, we were always going to have to return to grammars

:11:06. > :11:08.and look at how they fit in. But you never advocated that. Did you

:11:09. > :11:12.discuss expanding selection with the Prime Minister ahead of your

:11:13. > :11:16.appointment? We did discuss what we needed to do in terms of getting

:11:17. > :11:20.more good school places for more children. That is not what I asked.

:11:21. > :11:24.Did you discuss the expansion of grammar schools before you became

:11:25. > :11:29.Education Secretary? We discussed them as I became Education

:11:30. > :11:32.Secretary. Prior to that, she was Home Secretary, so it would have

:11:33. > :11:39.been odd for me to discuss education with her. The statistics you have

:11:40. > :11:44.talked about are important and I are all the more reason to open up the

:11:45. > :11:49.debate about how grammar schools can work effectively in the 21st

:11:50. > :11:56.century, rather than leaving a system that does not deliver. For

:11:57. > :12:02.the purposes of honesty and plain dealing, which is what we are told

:12:03. > :12:05.the May government is about, the impetus for grammar schools has come

:12:06. > :12:10.from 10 Downing Street, not from you. I think we should be looking at

:12:11. > :12:14.how we can make sure that current grammar schools work better for

:12:15. > :12:17.disadvantaged children, and we should look at how we can meet the

:12:18. > :12:26.desire for parents around the country for more choice. So it

:12:27. > :12:32.didn't come from you, it came from Downing Street. The Prime Minister

:12:33. > :12:35.is keen to make sure, as I am, that we have more good school places,

:12:36. > :12:41.particularly for children in parts of the country that don't currently

:12:42. > :12:45.have them. This is not the whole strategy. But you are going to leave

:12:46. > :12:50.it to local areas to decide if they want more grammar schools or not,

:12:51. > :12:54.write? Correct. Is surely follows that the areas that the side that

:12:55. > :13:02.will be the Tory middle-class areas. The inner cities which are under the

:13:03. > :13:04.control of labour are not going to have grammar schools. We will have

:13:05. > :13:07.to see how local communities choose to use the choices we give them. You

:13:08. > :13:10.are right that there are some areas that already have grammars and many

:13:11. > :13:13.parents may feel that their children don't have as good a chance of

:13:14. > :13:16.getting into those grammars because children from further afield are

:13:17. > :13:22.coming into them. So we are opening up that system to deliver the

:13:23. > :13:25.choices that many parents want. As for the rest of the country where we

:13:26. > :13:32.don't have grammars, it will be up to local communities. And in those

:13:33. > :13:36.areas where they may be most needed to give a hand up the bright

:13:37. > :13:41.working-class kids, under your system, these are the areas least

:13:42. > :13:48.likely to get them. So to come back to Mrs May's words, it will not be

:13:49. > :13:52.for ordinary working class families. The consultation document on

:13:53. > :13:56.grammars is not our whole education strategy. The broader reforms we

:13:57. > :14:00.have already put in place and that I continue to lift standards across

:14:01. > :14:05.the country, we have 1.4 million more children in good or outstanding

:14:06. > :14:08.schools. Those will continue. There are over 1 million in bad schools,

:14:09. > :14:12.which is why yesterday in my speech, I talked about piloting new

:14:13. > :14:16.approaches in different places where we have not seen progress, to see

:14:17. > :14:21.what it will take to lift the educational attainment for those

:14:22. > :14:25.children as well. In the 50s and 60s, there were grammar schools in

:14:26. > :14:30.every inner city in the country across the UK, not just in England.

:14:31. > :14:37.Under your system, even if the return to grammar schools is a good

:14:38. > :14:41.thing, the way you are planning it, they will be overwhelmingly in Tory

:14:42. > :14:49.shire areas. They will not be in inner cities. It is about what local

:14:50. > :14:52.communities want. In many respects, this is what the Prime Minister is

:14:53. > :14:59.saying. We should be responding to the priorities of ordinary people.

:15:00. > :15:03.If grammar schools are such a good thing, why not just establish 30

:15:04. > :15:07.grammar schools across the inner cities of Britain or of England?

:15:08. > :15:13.Because we want to work with people rather than against them and

:15:14. > :15:18.alongside the rest of the reforms we are bringing forward, including

:15:19. > :15:21.identifying some pilot areas. We would not work inside schools, we

:15:22. > :15:25.would work outside schools on improving careers, mentoring, the

:15:26. > :15:28.kinds of experiences that young children can get through the

:15:29. > :15:31.national citizens service. The consultation document we opened up

:15:32. > :15:34.on grammars, for the reasons you set out at the beginning of this

:15:35. > :15:39.interview, is part of a broader push on how we make sure it doesn't

:15:40. > :15:40.matter where you are as a child in England, you get the best possible

:15:41. > :15:48.education. Many people would say that's what

:15:49. > :15:52.this country needs is not more grammar schools but some elite

:15:53. > :15:58.technology schools of the credit that Germany excels in two siege --

:15:59. > :16:04.to teach science, engineering, mathematics. How much of your speech

:16:05. > :16:08.yesterday did you devote to these kind of schools? Probably advert.

:16:09. > :16:13.One of the points I made, aside from talking about the million schools

:16:14. > :16:15.which are not doing good enough according to an Ofsted, is to make

:16:16. > :16:20.sure our technical education is as good quality as academic route has

:16:21. > :16:25.become over recent years, and it isn't, which is why we need to do

:16:26. > :16:29.something about it. At the moment, we have an apprenticeships policy

:16:30. > :16:32.that I think can drive much better choices for children and young

:16:33. > :16:39.people but we need to look that up matter with further education

:16:40. > :16:47.colleges, technology colleges... Why don't you just establish 30 elite

:16:48. > :16:51.technology schools in inner cities? The university technical colleges

:16:52. > :16:55.are about that sort of approach, more technical, working with

:16:56. > :16:59.universities and employers. Again, I come back to how we make our

:17:00. > :17:02.education system work for all children. Not every child wants to

:17:03. > :17:06.go down in academic route. Most young people would go on to

:17:07. > :17:11.university, so it is important that we make the technical education

:17:12. > :17:15.route as good as the academic route has become. -- most young people

:17:16. > :17:18.won't go on to university. If you look at countries like Germany,

:17:19. > :17:23.which have a much stronger approach on this, we need to catch up with

:17:24. > :17:27.them. I had a representative from the CBI on the platform with the

:17:28. > :17:33.yesterday because I think, for British business in Brexit Britain,

:17:34. > :17:36.this is vital. Top Conservatives have spoken to me for decades about

:17:37. > :17:41.doing this but our technology schools are still a shadow of

:17:42. > :17:45.Germany and Austria. We have a long way to go. Why don't the political

:17:46. > :17:51.class ever do it? You are all liberal arts Oxbridge educated and

:17:52. > :17:55.you never provide elite education in the kind of schools that our country

:17:56. > :18:02.really needs. We don't need more people graduating in arts, we need

:18:03. > :18:08.them in engineering and science. I am not a liberal arts... I

:18:09. > :18:12.understand that. I couldn't agree with you more. There is a tendency

:18:13. > :18:16.for a bunch of people creating policy to think that education is

:18:17. > :18:20.the education they act. This is one of the shifts we have been making in

:18:21. > :18:25.recent years but I want to make sure we join up these different policies

:18:26. > :18:29.effectively so that... Aren't grammar schools just a diversion if

:18:30. > :18:37.the real meat of this country is for a lead schools, to give kids who are

:18:38. > :18:42.more inclined that way a world-class technology? -- the real need of this

:18:43. > :18:48.country is for Elliott schools. We are hugely short of these schools.

:18:49. > :18:51.Why don't we do that? The main people getting diverted by the

:18:52. > :18:57.grammar schools consultation document is everybody apart from me.

:18:58. > :19:01.You are just Education Secretary! There is a lot more to do for the

:19:02. > :19:05.million children in schools that are rated not good enough. There is more

:19:06. > :19:10.to do on technological education. There is more to do on making sure

:19:11. > :19:14.that careers and mental ring are in place for children who don't know

:19:15. > :19:17.what opportunities are out there. I never thought about doing law at

:19:18. > :19:24.university because when I was growing up I had never met a lawyer.

:19:25. > :19:29.I had that fate to wait me. I think it matters, so it is about

:19:30. > :19:32.broadening your horizons, which is why British business has an

:19:33. > :19:36.important role to play now in both talking about the skills it needs

:19:37. > :19:39.but also getting into schools to help make sure that children

:19:40. > :19:45.understand the range of opportunities, so they set their

:19:46. > :19:50.sights and ambitions high. What will you do if the government decides to

:19:51. > :19:56.build a third runway at Heathrow? I am trying to win that argument.

:19:57. > :20:00.Everybody knows my views. I have represented my community for many

:20:01. > :20:05.years on this. I have articulated... We know you are against it but if it

:20:06. > :20:11.becomes government policy what will you do? That is a big if. Would a

:20:12. > :20:17.free vote be enough to keep you in the government? I don't know how we

:20:18. > :20:21.will progress any decision. And so it was the nation is possible? I'm

:20:22. > :20:29.not going to get into hypothetical decisions. -- so a resignation is

:20:30. > :20:32.possible. Are you saying that the government has made a decision? We

:20:33. > :20:37.know it has we are just waiting on when it is going to be announced.

:20:38. > :20:41.One thing I have learned in politics is that I am not going to answer a

:20:42. > :20:46.hypothetical question about something that may or may not ever

:20:47. > :20:52.happen at some point in the future. Enqueue. Come back and talk to us

:20:53. > :20:53.more about education. -- thank you. It's a subject we care about an this

:20:54. > :20:55.programme. Now, the words "Ukip" and "chaos"

:20:56. > :20:58.have tended to come hand-in-hand in the months following the EU

:20:59. > :21:01.referendum, which saw Nigel Farage stand down as leader and the party

:21:02. > :21:03.descend into infighting. Hopes that his replacement,

:21:04. > :21:06.the MEP Diane James, would be able to pull Ukip's warring

:21:07. > :21:09.tribes together, appear to have been ill-founded,

:21:10. > :21:12.as last night she became the political equivalent

:21:13. > :21:16.of the mayfly and announced she was standing down after just 18

:21:17. > :21:26.days in the job. So it's another turn on the Ukip

:21:27. > :21:31.leadership merry-go-round. Diane James was elected to succeed

:21:32. > :21:36.Nigel Farage as leader But the new Ukip leader told

:21:37. > :21:40.the Times newspaper last night she was stepping

:21:41. > :21:42.down for "professional Mrs James said "I do not have

:21:43. > :21:46.sufficient authority, nor the full support of all my MEP

:21:47. > :21:48.colleagues and party officers to implement

:21:49. > :21:51.changes I believe necessary Douglas Carswell -

:21:52. > :21:57.the party's only MP - refused to comment last night,

:21:58. > :22:02.tweeting that he was busy tucking I am not sure if that is a coded

:22:03. > :22:10.message. Nigel Farage, asked if he would seek

:22:11. > :22:13.to return as leader, There is already speculation

:22:14. > :22:24.there could be a new leadership election including the likes

:22:25. > :22:27.of Suzanne Evans and Steven Woolfe, who missed the deadline

:22:28. > :22:28.for the last contest. Meanwhile, Ukip's chairman said

:22:29. > :22:31.he would today be checking with the Electoral Commission

:22:32. > :22:32.who the party's official Yes, he is going to call the

:22:33. > :22:45.election commission! And who is still listed as Ukip

:22:46. > :22:48.leader on the Commission's website? Well, Mr Farage, who has already

:22:49. > :22:52.been party leader three times as well as once "unresigning"

:22:53. > :22:57.after just three days, has told the BBC that he believes

:22:58. > :23:01.he has once more been thrust into the top job,

:23:02. > :23:05.as interim leader. He also ruled out the possibility

:23:06. > :23:08.of his rival, the Welsh Assembly member Neil Hamilton,

:23:09. > :23:21.being installed as leader. We will have to see about that. I

:23:22. > :23:28.find that extremely unlikely. No. I do not see any prospect of that

:23:29. > :23:34.horror story coming to pass. Why would that be a horror story? Eat is

:23:35. > :23:41.the leader of Ukip in the Welsh Assembly. I'm afraid he is. Why

:23:42. > :23:45.would it be a horror story? I am afraid he doesn't do our public

:23:46. > :23:49.image a whole host of good, but there we are, that's life, we are a

:23:50. > :23:53.democratic party and he was chosen by people to become a member of the

:23:54. > :24:01.Welsh Assembly for us. I don't think it has done us a whole load of good

:24:02. > :24:07.but that's life. So Nigel Farage is back in charge again, at least for

:24:08. > :24:13.the time being. Well, Ukip's leader in the Welsh Assembly, Neil

:24:14. > :24:17.Hamilton, joins me now. What do you make of Nigel Farage saying the idea

:24:18. > :24:23.of you being leader of Ukip is like a horror story? Well, I suppose

:24:24. > :24:27.different things frighten different people but, as Harold Macmillan said

:24:28. > :24:34.in the course of a long political life, he found that criticism was

:24:35. > :24:39.rarely inhibited by ignorance. So Mr Farage is just ignorant in regarding

:24:40. > :24:43.you as a horror story? Well, he hasn't been to Wales and he knows

:24:44. > :24:47.nothing about it so he isn't qualified to comment. That's

:24:48. > :24:52.irrelevant. I have no interest in becoming the leader of Ukip in any

:24:53. > :24:55.circumstances and I have never, ever held myself out as a potential

:24:56. > :25:01.leader, so that isn't relevant to the current situation. What is

:25:02. > :25:07.relevant is why Diane James resigned. Can you shed any light on

:25:08. > :25:10.that? I didn't support Diane for the leadership and one of the reasons

:25:11. > :25:15.why was I thought she was too fragile for the job. So it has

:25:16. > :25:19.proved to be. I thought she would last a bit longer than 18 days, but

:25:20. > :25:24.it's an immense task or anybody to be the leader of a political party,

:25:25. > :25:30.particularly one as fractious as Ukip. Very often, the smaller the

:25:31. > :25:34.party, the more difficult the task, across the factions are more

:25:35. > :25:38.vicious. Undoubtedly, Diane was not suited to that role. She is a very

:25:39. > :25:44.nice lady. She is reasonably good in front of the media. But I just think

:25:45. > :25:50.that she wasn't, how shall I say, muscular enough for that task. She

:25:51. > :25:54.said, I do not have sufficient authority or the full support of all

:25:55. > :26:00.my MEP colleagues and party officers. Who was she talking about?

:26:01. > :26:05.Well, I haven't a clue and I don't know what she means that she didn't

:26:06. > :26:09.have the authority. The authority to do what? The authority of the Ukip

:26:10. > :26:14.leader is defined by Ukip's Constitution. If she wanted to make

:26:15. > :26:17.constitutional changes, it wouldn't be the MEPs or even the Ukip

:26:18. > :26:21.national executive who would be a bar to that, it would be the Ukip

:26:22. > :26:26.membership, because every member of the party would have a say in a

:26:27. > :26:29.ballot on whatever changes she wanted to bring about. We never

:26:30. > :26:36.actually discovered what those changes might have been. Who is the

:26:37. > :26:42.leader of your party? It doesn't have one because she has resigned.

:26:43. > :26:49.The Ukip Constitution is clear. In these circumstances, the national

:26:50. > :26:55.executive to appoint an interim leader, which I assume it will do at

:26:56. > :26:59.its meeting on the 17th of October. According to the electoral

:27:00. > :27:03.commission website, Nigel Farage is still technically your leader. The

:27:04. > :27:07.electoral commission doesn't decide on who the leader is. His name may

:27:08. > :27:12.still be on the form registered with them, but that is merely a

:27:13. > :27:19.historical technicality relating to when he was the leader. It doesn't

:27:20. > :27:23.affect the reality that Ukip doesn't currently have a leader. The reality

:27:24. > :27:28.is that nobody is quite sure who the leader of your party is at the

:27:29. > :27:33.moment, which must be unprecedented in British politics. I have just

:27:34. > :27:38.said that there isn't a leader. Fortunately, Ukip seems to be better

:27:39. > :27:44.without a leader in the Labour Party can do with one. Maybe you should

:27:45. > :27:50.dispense with the idea of a leader altogether and just do without it.

:27:51. > :27:59.There's a thought! We are where we are for the time being. Whoever the

:28:00. > :28:05.new leader of Ukip is, he or she will need to build a team that can

:28:06. > :28:09.work together. Nigel is a great, dynamic force. Ukip would not be

:28:10. > :28:14.where it is today without him. We wouldn't be leaving the EU without

:28:15. > :28:17.Nigel Farage. He has earned his place in history. He was the right

:28:18. > :28:22.man to get Ukip to where it is now but I think it now needs a more

:28:23. > :28:25.collective approach than he was able to bring, for the future, and I am

:28:26. > :28:32.sure that the new leader with that spirit would be successful. So you

:28:33. > :28:38.think we should now have, for Ukip, a collective leadership? You and I

:28:39. > :28:42.were at university at the same time and student unions used to have a

:28:43. > :28:51.rotating chairman. Is that what you were thinking of? No, it isn't. I

:28:52. > :28:54.think what we need is a leader who is the first amongst equals rather

:28:55. > :29:01.than a super dominant, like Nigel was. In a domestic context, where

:29:02. > :29:05.Ukip is going to be making its way in the years to come, as well as

:29:06. > :29:11.trying to get Britain out of the EU, which is a single issue where

:29:12. > :29:14.Nigel's characteristics, abilities, strengths were absolutely

:29:15. > :29:19.instrumental in achieving that objective, will not be quite so

:29:20. > :29:24.necessary when we are operating entirely in a domestic context, such

:29:25. > :29:27.as we are in Wales, where I am the leader of the Ukip group but I am

:29:28. > :29:32.very inclusive in the way that I run it. The sixth of us work together

:29:33. > :29:39.very harmoniously and happily and everybody gets a crack of the whip.

:29:40. > :29:43.-- the six of us. I bought one of your leading lights had already

:29:44. > :29:48.resigned from Ukip, but never mind. Who do you think should be be next

:29:49. > :29:54.leader of Ukip? Well, I supported Paul Nuttall but unfortunately he

:29:55. > :29:58.decided not to become a candidate in the last election. He is still the

:29:59. > :30:02.deputy leader. Personally I would like to see him as the interim

:30:03. > :30:09.leader and I hope that I can persuade him to put his hat in the

:30:10. > :30:12.ring. I think he is incomparably the best qualified candidate to follow

:30:13. > :30:18.Nigel Farage and I hope he will step up to the plate. If not, there are

:30:19. > :30:22.others, like Steven Woolfe, Suzanne Evans, who each have good qualities,

:30:23. > :30:25.but I think they would need to work together as members of a team

:30:26. > :30:30.because everybody has weaknesses as well as strengths and we need to

:30:31. > :30:38.compensate for those. Neil Hamilton, thank you for joining us.

:30:39. > :30:41.So while we wait for Theresa May to take to the stage

:30:42. > :30:43.here at Birmingham, let's take a look back at the big

:30:44. > :30:45.events that have shaped the Conservative Party

:30:46. > :30:48.And it certainly has been an eventful 12 months,

:30:49. > :30:51.culminating of course in a change of leader and a change

:30:52. > :31:44.Statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

:31:45. > :31:47.These terrorists are plotting to kill us and to radicalise

:31:48. > :32:06.Within the last hour, I've negotiated a deal to give

:32:07. > :32:23.the United Kingdom special status inside the European Union.

:32:24. > :32:42.I want a better deal for the people of this country.

:32:43. > :32:48.28 member states cannot even organise a takeaway curry.

:32:49. > :32:51.We can now say the decision taken in 1975 by this country to join

:32:52. > :32:59.In my view, we should aim to have a new Prime Minister

:33:00. > :33:02.in place by the start of the Conservative Party

:33:03. > :33:12.I have concluded - that person cannot be me.

:33:13. > :33:16.While Boris has great attributes, he was not capable of uniting that

:33:17. > :33:18.team and leading the party and the country in the way

:33:19. > :33:29.I don't tour the television studios, I don't gossip about people

:33:30. > :33:32.over lunch, I don't go drinking in Parliament's bars, I don't often

:33:33. > :33:39.I just get on with the job in front of me.

:33:40. > :33:42.I'm therefore withdrawing from the leadership election

:33:43. > :33:47.and I wish Theresa May the very greatest success.

:33:48. > :33:50.We will shortly be heading to Buckingham Palace

:33:51. > :33:59.where I'll tender my resignation as Prime Minister.

:34:00. > :34:03.Her Majesty The Queen has asked me to form a new government,

:34:04. > :34:09.Maybe even a boss who exploits the rules to further his own career.

:34:10. > :34:39.And we welcome viewers from the BBC News Channel

:34:40. > :34:47.who join us now for this Daily Politics conference special.

:34:48. > :34:52.We are waiting for Theresa May to take the stage and give us her first

:34:53. > :34:57.major keynote address as Prime Minister to the party faithful here.

:34:58. > :35:01.She spoke on Sunday, but this is the big set piece event. She will be on

:35:02. > :35:07.her feet in a couple of minutes. We will bring it to you all live and

:35:08. > :35:10.uninterrupted, and we will give what you might like to call post-match

:35:11. > :35:11.analysis. Let's have some pre-match analysis.

:35:12. > :35:14.We're joined now by a man who probably has a better idea

:35:15. > :35:17.of what could be in Theresa May's speech than many -

:35:18. > :35:19.the Conservative peer and Times columnist Danny Finkelstein.

:35:20. > :35:21.We're also joined, as we always are for these important events,

:35:22. > :35:24.by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

:35:25. > :35:33.A year ago at the Tory party conference, David Cameron was being

:35:34. > :35:40.lauded as the party leader that had won their first overall majority

:35:41. > :35:46.since 1992, and the Cameroons were dominant. David Cameron is not here,

:35:47. > :35:51.the Cameroons are, like lost tribe. Discuss. My column on the day of the

:35:52. > :35:55.speech that David Cameron said last year said, enjoy this moment,

:35:56. > :36:00.because this is the peak. The reason is that I thought there were a

:36:01. > :36:06.number of things that could be in the way. One was the economy. Then

:36:07. > :36:15.there was the referendum, which he always thought he had the potential

:36:16. > :36:19.to lose, but it was a very big call. I thought he told European leaders

:36:20. > :36:23.he was a winner. He believed he could win it, but he always thought

:36:24. > :36:27.there was a serious chance that he wouldn't and that that would bring

:36:28. > :36:30.an end to his premiership. He thought he could keep Britain inside

:36:31. > :36:35.the European Union and persuade people to stay and reform it and he

:36:36. > :36:41.didn't succeed. But when you get to the position he was in last year, he

:36:42. > :36:49.had won that majority and you could see there was bound to be a rocky

:36:50. > :36:52.period ahead. Let's have a look. There is with Davidson, the leader

:36:53. > :36:57.of the Scottish Conservatives. She is the warm up act this morning --

:36:58. > :37:02.Ruth Davidson. The stuff we were leaked overnight in advance, Laura,

:37:03. > :37:07.was a kind of repositioning, trying to make out that Mrs May was more in

:37:08. > :37:13.favour of government that could be good government and the rest of it.

:37:14. > :37:21.David Cameron was not a free market libertarian. Indeed not. But leaders

:37:22. > :37:25.in the end are judged by what they do, not what they say. It may be

:37:26. > :37:29.that what she does today turns out to be seen as a staging post in

:37:30. > :37:32.terms of the development of Tory thinking. If you think back to

:37:33. > :37:37.Margaret Thatcher famously saying there is no such thing as society,

:37:38. > :37:41.there are individuals and families, and they must look after themselves

:37:42. > :37:45.first. David Cameron said there is such a thing as society, but it is

:37:46. > :37:50.not the same as the state. Today, Theresa May will talk about her view

:37:51. > :37:53.of society, where everybody has to play their part and will say that

:37:54. > :37:56.the state can be good if it is done in the right way. However, when

:37:57. > :38:01.she's introducing policies like grammar schools, when her Home

:38:02. > :38:04.Secretary is making what many people thought of yesterday as a

:38:05. > :38:08.contentious speech about immigration that business doesn't like and many

:38:09. > :38:13.people felt it had gone too far with nasty undertones, can those two

:38:14. > :38:17.things match up? In the end, she will be judged by what she does as

:38:18. > :38:21.Prime Minister, not what she says today. But it is a bold bid for

:38:22. > :38:26.disaffected working-class Labour voters. Which has yet to be fleshed

:38:27. > :38:30.out in actual policy. The idea that the state can do good is hardly

:38:31. > :38:34.revolutionary. That was the whole theme of Harold Macmillan's the

:38:35. > :38:39.Middle Way, which he wrote in the 1930s and impairment and when he

:38:40. > :38:43.became Prime Minister in 1957. Absolutely. There are many echoes of

:38:44. > :38:53.that in Conservative history but in this country and abroad, from Teddy

:38:54. > :38:58.Roosevelt. Mr Nixon believed in an act of state. So it definitely has a

:38:59. > :39:02.role in Conservative tradition, but has been less deployed. The problem

:39:03. > :39:06.is that because we have left the European Union, we will need to make

:39:07. > :39:10.the country more welcoming to business. We are probably going to

:39:11. > :39:19.have to drive down Labour costs and reduce regulation. Why not drive up

:39:20. > :39:27.productivity? You need to do both. If you drive up productivity, many

:39:28. > :39:31.would suggest that people think wages in this country are low enough

:39:32. > :39:38.as it is. You can't be the party of working class people if you cut

:39:39. > :39:40.wages. So I am saying there is a tension between some of the

:39:41. > :39:47.requirements of a business friendly environment after Brexit and the

:39:48. > :39:50.desire to appeal to those who voted for Brexit precisely because they

:39:51. > :39:56.are worried about low wages. So she has to manage that tension. There is

:39:57. > :40:00.also a tension in saying you are on the side of ordinary people and

:40:01. > :40:03.saying the state can be a good force in people's lives when we are still

:40:04. > :40:09.in a period when the government is cutting spending all of the place.

:40:10. > :40:12.Yes, Philip Hammond has inflated the airbag this week. If Brexit goes

:40:13. > :40:17.terribly wrong and awful things happen to the economy, he has made

:40:18. > :40:21.it clear that he is ready to borrow and he is ready to slow the pace of

:40:22. > :40:25.the cuts if the economy needs more support by tearing up George

:40:26. > :40:28.Osborne's fiscal rules, which he might have done anyway in these

:40:29. > :40:33.circumstances after the referendum vote. That will continue to be a

:40:34. > :40:36.difficulty. You can say, I am going to look after everybody who makes

:40:37. > :40:40.the effort and works hard, but if you are doing that at a time when we

:40:41. > :40:44.are going to be in the sixth year of government cuts that are going to

:40:45. > :40:53.continue for the next few years, that is a real tension. As ever, the

:40:54. > :40:56.gap between what what a government does and the rhetoric may be too

:40:57. > :40:59.great for people to buy her vision. How long has she got to turn this

:41:00. > :41:06.party of the wetting class rhetoric into reality? It depends how well

:41:07. > :41:11.economy does. The better the economy does, she has more room for

:41:12. > :41:16.movement. The cliche about a rising tide lifting all boats, people will

:41:17. > :41:23.feel better. There is no question that actions matter, but words

:41:24. > :41:25.matter too. She is right to talk, because the government spends nearly

:41:26. > :41:32.half of our income and the Conservative Party has not altered

:41:33. > :41:40.that. As a share of GDP, it is falling. It is true that all

:41:41. > :41:45.governments are spending a lot of money. It is right to position the

:41:46. > :41:48.Conservative Party as a party that, while it believes in limited

:41:49. > :41:52.government, still believes the government can do good things.

:41:53. > :41:57.Otherwise, when you talk about the NHS or state schooling, people don't

:41:58. > :42:02.believe you. So the words do matter. We are just getting some shots

:42:03. > :42:07.inside the hall. It has filled up. It is not a massive arena by the

:42:08. > :42:11.standards of the old Blackpool Winter gardens. That was a big

:42:12. > :42:18.place. Or having looked at the US conventions, this would be like a

:42:19. > :42:22.fringe event. A lunchtime seminar. I heard that she is not using an

:42:23. > :42:28.autocue? But she's not memorising it either. No gimmicks, no fuss, I

:42:29. > :42:41.suppose no concession to what she and some around her would see...

:42:42. > :42:46.That is her husband. They were introduced to each other by Benazir

:42:47. > :42:50.Bhutto. One of my colleagues on the Times had a piece on the history of

:42:51. > :42:56.the two of them. They have been in politics a long time, and he is a

:42:57. > :42:59.very professional political figure. In the nasty party speech she made

:43:00. > :43:06.as chairman of the Conservative Party, she would not make it until

:43:07. > :43:09.she had consulted Philip. We are on the Conservative Party video at the

:43:10. > :43:13.moment. It is the policy of the BBC never to show the videos of any of

:43:14. > :43:20.the political parties, so we will keep talking. People have drawn

:43:21. > :43:25.analogies with Denis Thatcher, but he had very strong views in private

:43:26. > :43:31.but was not really a political animal. He might have had a gin and

:43:32. > :43:34.tonic in the corner while she would go through drafts of this speech. By

:43:35. > :43:39.contrast, I was told this morning that Mr May has been part of the

:43:40. > :43:45.effort of putting this speech together. The speech was finished

:43:46. > :43:49.late last night. Some of her team were out on the tiles around the

:43:50. > :43:56.edges of the conference while she was asleep. It was all done in an

:43:57. > :44:00.orderly fashion. No more four o'clock in the morning finishing.

:44:01. > :44:09.That is a different way of doing things. I passed you are going up as

:44:10. > :44:13.Chris Hawkins was coming in. I am not sure what I was coming out of,

:44:14. > :44:19.but never mind! It has not been all plain sailing. She implied that if

:44:20. > :44:22.we train more British doctors, we are almost effectively going to

:44:23. > :44:26.deport more foreign doctors, and immediately have to rein back on

:44:27. > :44:29.that. When working for William Hague, we discovered how difficult

:44:30. > :44:35.it is to get the language right on immigration. I am the son of two

:44:36. > :44:39.refugees and very sensitive to the importance of refuge and

:44:40. > :44:45.immigration. And yet we found it almost impossible not to raise

:44:46. > :44:49.hackles with the most careful language. If you look at Jeremy

:44:50. > :44:53.Hunt's language on foreign doctors, it was incredibly respectful of

:44:54. > :44:59.them, and yet immediately, people were saying he was xenophobic. Mrs

:45:00. > :45:02.May herself and senior Tories at the time accused Gordon Brown of

:45:03. > :45:10.borrowing the slogans of the BNP when he used the phrase British jobs

:45:11. > :45:13.for British workers. It is remarkable how political language

:45:14. > :45:19.across all parties has changed around immigration. But don't we get

:45:20. > :45:21.tied up? If Hillary Clinton said, we want American jobs for American

:45:22. > :45:28.workers, would that be controversial?

:45:29. > :45:33.The centre ground party has to respond to public concern on

:45:34. > :45:38.immigration so we have to carry on until we get the language right and

:45:39. > :45:42.people like me, social and economic liberals, have to respond to the

:45:43. > :45:45.public mood and find ways to control immigration in a way which still

:45:46. > :45:54.lets business thrive and is humane and open. Are you a libertarian? I

:45:55. > :45:57.voted to remain, but I think that the response of a lots of other

:45:58. > :46:03.people who voted to remain to that result, the kind of rejection of it,

:46:04. > :46:07.how dare the electorate vote against our opinion and they must all be

:46:08. > :46:11.incredibly stupid to disagree with me, I found that quite obnoxious

:46:12. > :46:17.despite being on the Remain site myself. So I am sympathetic. Another

:46:18. > :46:23.thing they may have to rein back on, a number of things may not see the

:46:24. > :46:29.light of day, the publishing the list of foreign workers, every

:46:30. > :46:32.company. The proposal is for companies to publish the proportion

:46:33. > :46:38.of their workers that are foreign-born. Here is the Prime

:46:39. > :46:43.Minister coming onto the stage, taking the waves of the crowd. She

:46:44. > :46:48.immediately get a standing ovation. As Laura was saying, she isn't going

:46:49. > :46:53.to use autocue. She feels she speaks more normally and naturally simply

:46:54. > :46:57.with a script in front of her. None of Ed Miliband trying to memorise

:46:58. > :47:02.his speech. I think he tried that twice and didn't do it a second

:47:03. > :47:07.time. Here she is, taking the applause of the Tory faithful. It's

:47:08. > :47:11.the first time they have seen her as Prime Minister in front of the

:47:12. > :47:13.conference on the closing date of a Conservative Party conference. Let's

:47:14. > :47:22.hear the Prime Minister, Theresa May. When we came to Birmingham this

:47:23. > :47:29.week, some big questions were hanging in the air. Do we have a

:47:30. > :47:37.plan for Brexit? We do. Are we ready for the effort it will take to see

:47:38. > :47:42.it through? We are. Can Boris Johnson stay on message for a full

:47:43. > :48:02.four days? LAUGHTER

:48:03. > :48:07.APPLAUSE Just about? But I know there is another big question people

:48:08. > :48:13.want me to answer. What is my vision for Britain, my philosophy, my

:48:14. > :48:18.approach? Today, I want an answer that question very directly. -- I

:48:19. > :48:22.want to answer. I want to set out my vision for Britain after Brexit, I

:48:23. > :48:26.want to lay out my approach, the things I believe. I want to explain

:48:27. > :48:34.what a country that works for everyone means. I want to set our

:48:35. > :48:38.party and our country on the path towards the new centre ground of

:48:39. > :48:44.British politics. Built on the values of fairness and opportunity.

:48:45. > :48:48.Where everyone plays by the same rules, and where every single

:48:49. > :48:54.person, regardless of their background, or that of their

:48:55. > :48:55.parents, is given the chance to be all they want to be.

:48:56. > :49:10.APPLAUSE And, as I do so, I want to be clear

:49:11. > :49:17.about something else. That a vision is nothing without the determination

:49:18. > :49:23.to see it through. No vision ever built a business by itself. No

:49:24. > :49:28.vision ever closed a family or fed a hungry child, no vision ever changed

:49:29. > :49:33.a country on its own. You need to put the hours in and the effort,

:49:34. > :49:44.too. -- no vision ever clothed a family. But, if you do, great things

:49:45. > :49:50.can happen. Great changes can occur. And, be in no doubt, that's what

:49:51. > :49:55.Britain needs today. Because, in June, people voted for change and a

:49:56. > :50:04.change is going to come. APPLAUSE

:50:05. > :50:11.Change has got to come because, as we leave the European Union and take

:50:12. > :50:18.control of our own destiny, the task of tackling some of Britain's

:50:19. > :50:22.long-standing challenges, like how to train enough people for the jobs

:50:23. > :50:27.of the future, becomes ever more urgent, but change has got to come,

:50:28. > :50:33.too, because of the quiet revolution that took place in our country just

:50:34. > :50:36.three months ago. A revolution in which millions of our fellow

:50:37. > :50:39.citizens stood up and said they were not prepared to be ignored any more.

:50:40. > :50:52.APPLAUSE Because this is a turning point for

:50:53. > :50:55.our country, a once in a generation chance to change the direction of

:50:56. > :51:01.our nation for good, to step back and ask ourselves what kind of

:51:02. > :51:08.country we want to be. And, let's be clear, we have come a long way over

:51:09. > :51:12.the past six years. We brought the deficit down, got more people into

:51:13. > :51:17.work than ever before, taking the lowest paid out of income tax,

:51:18. > :51:23.established a new national living wage, helped nearly a million new

:51:24. > :51:26.businesses to set up and grow, got almost 1.5 million more children

:51:27. > :51:31.into good or outstanding schools, but record investment into the NHS,

:51:32. > :51:34.created nearly 3 million new apprenticeships and brought crime

:51:35. > :51:37.down by more than a quarter to its lowest ever level. That's a record

:51:38. > :51:46.of which we should all be proud. APPLAUSE

:51:47. > :51:54.And, this morning, it's right that we pause to say thank you to the man

:51:55. > :52:00.who made that possible. A man who challenged us to change and told us

:52:01. > :52:06.that, if we did, we would win again, and he was right. We did change. We

:52:07. > :52:11.did win. The first majority Conservative government in almost 25

:52:12. > :52:14.years. A great leader of our party, a great servant our country. David

:52:15. > :52:42.Cameron, thank you. APPLAUSE

:52:43. > :52:52.But now we need to change again, for the referendum was not just a vote

:52:53. > :52:55.to withdraw from the EU. It was about something broader, something

:52:56. > :53:02.that the European Union had come to represent. It was about a sense,

:53:03. > :53:08.deep, profound and, let's face it, often justified, that many people

:53:09. > :53:14.have today that the world works well for a privileged few but not for

:53:15. > :53:18.them. It was a vote not just to change Britain's relationship with

:53:19. > :53:22.the European Union but to call for a change in the way our country works

:53:23. > :53:29.and the people for whom it works forever. Knock on almost any door in

:53:30. > :53:36.almost any part of the country and you will find the roots of that

:53:37. > :53:40.revolution laid bare. Our society should work for everyone but if you

:53:41. > :53:44.can't afford to get on the property ladder or your child is stuck in a

:53:45. > :53:49.bad school, it doesn't feel that it is working for you. Our economy

:53:50. > :53:52.should work for everyone but, if your page has stagnated for several

:53:53. > :53:58.years in a row and fixed items of spending keep going up, it doesn't

:53:59. > :54:05.feel like it's working for you. -- your pay. Democracy should work for

:54:06. > :54:09.everyone but, if you have been trying to say things for years and

:54:10. > :54:13.your complaints fall on deaf ears, it doesn't feel like it is working

:54:14. > :54:16.for you. And the roots of the revolution run deep, because it

:54:17. > :54:21.wasn't the wealthy who made the biggest sacrifices after the

:54:22. > :54:21.financial crisis but ordinary working-class families.

:54:22. > :54:38.APPLAUSE And, if you are one of those people

:54:39. > :54:42.who lost their job, who stayed in work but on reduced hours, who took

:54:43. > :54:47.a pay cut as household bills rocketed, or, and I know a lot of

:54:48. > :54:50.people don't like to admit this, someone who finds themselves out of

:54:51. > :54:55.work or on lower wages because of low skilled immigration, life simply

:54:56. > :55:03.doesn't seem fair. It feels like your dreams have been sacrificed in

:55:04. > :55:04.the service of others. So change has got to come.

:55:05. > :55:21.APPLAUSE Because, if we don't respond, if we

:55:22. > :55:23.don't take this opportunity to deliver the change people want,

:55:24. > :55:29.resentments will grow, divisions will become entrenched, and that

:55:30. > :55:33.would be a disaster for Britain. Because the lesson of Britain is

:55:34. > :55:38.that we are a country built on the bonds of family, community,

:55:39. > :55:44.citizenship, of strong institutions and a strong society. The country of

:55:45. > :55:50.my parents, who instilled in me a sense of public service and of

:55:51. > :55:56.public servants everywhere who want to give something back. The parent

:55:57. > :56:00.who works hard all but takes time out to coach the kids' football team

:56:01. > :56:03.at the weekend, the local family business in my constituency that has

:56:04. > :56:07.been serving the community for more than 50 years, the service men and

:56:08. > :56:11.women I met last week who wear their uniforms proudly at home and serve

:56:12. > :56:22.our nation with honour abroad. APPLAUSE

:56:23. > :56:34.A country of decency, fairness and quiet resolve. And a successful

:56:35. > :56:41.country, small in size but large in stature, with less than 1% of the

:56:42. > :56:44.world's population but boasting more Nobel laureates than any country

:56:45. > :56:49.outside the United States, with three more added yesterday, two of

:56:50. > :56:59.whom worked here, in this great city. A country that boasts three of

:57:00. > :57:05.the top ten universities in the world, the world's leading financial

:57:06. > :57:08.capital, and institutions like the NHS and the BBC whose reputations

:57:09. > :57:16.echo in some of the farthest corners of the globe. All possible because

:57:17. > :57:21.we are one United Kingdom. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern

:57:22. > :57:26.Ireland. And I will always fight to preserve our proud historic union

:57:27. > :57:44.and will never let divisive nationalists drive us apart.

:57:45. > :57:53.Yet, within our society today, we see division and unfairness all

:57:54. > :57:57.round. Between a more prosperous older generation and a struggling

:57:58. > :58:03.younger generation, between the wealth of London and the rest of the

:58:04. > :58:06.country. But, perhaps most of all, between the rich, the successful and

:58:07. > :58:11.the powerful and their fellow citizens. Now, don't get me wrong.

:58:12. > :58:17.We applaud success. We want people to get on. But we also value

:58:18. > :58:24.something else, the spirit of citizenship. That spirit that means

:58:25. > :58:29.you respect the bonds and obligations that make our society

:58:30. > :58:32.work, that means a commitment to the men and women who live around you

:58:33. > :58:38.and work for you, who buy the goods and services you sell. That spirit

:58:39. > :58:43.that means recognising the social contract, that says you train up

:58:44. > :58:48.local young people before you take on cheap Labour from overseas, that

:58:49. > :58:51.spirit that means you do as others do and pay your fair share of tax.

:58:52. > :59:05.-- cheap labour from overseas. But today too many people in

:59:06. > :59:09.positions of power behave as if they have more in common with

:59:10. > :59:12.international elites than with the people down the road, the people

:59:13. > :59:19.they employ, the people they pass on the street. But, if you believe you

:59:20. > :59:23.are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere. You don't

:59:24. > :59:27.understand what the word citizenship means. So, if you are a boss who

:59:28. > :59:31.earns a fortune but doesn't look after your staff, an international

:59:32. > :59:36.company which create tax laws as an optional extra, a household name

:59:37. > :59:40.that refuses to work with the authorities, even to fight

:59:41. > :59:45.terrorism, a director who takes out massive dividends while knowing that

:59:46. > :59:58.the company pension is about to go bust...

:59:59. > :00:06.I am putting you on warning. This can't go on any more. A change has

:00:07. > :00:19.got to come, and this party is going to make it.

:00:20. > :00:26.Said today, I want to set out my plans for a Britain where everyone

:00:27. > :00:31.plays by the same rules and every person has the opportunity to be all

:00:32. > :00:35.they want to be. It's a plan to tackle the unfairness and injustice

:00:36. > :00:42.that divides us so that we may build a new United Britain, rooted in the

:00:43. > :00:45.centre ground, a plan that will mean government stepping up, righting

:00:46. > :00:50.wrongs, challenging vested interests, taking big decisions,

:00:51. > :00:56.doing what we believe to be right, getting the job done. That is the

:00:57. > :01:04.good that government can do, and it's what I'm in this for, to stand

:01:05. > :01:07.up for the week and to stand up to the strong. And to put the power of

:01:08. > :01:12.government squarely at the service of ordinary working class people,

:01:13. > :01:19.because too often, that isn't how it works today. Just listen to the way

:01:20. > :01:24.a lot of politicians and commentators talk about the public.

:01:25. > :01:29.They find your patronage and distasteful, your concerns about

:01:30. > :01:33.immigration parochial, your views about crime in liberal, your

:01:34. > :01:37.attachment to your job security inconvenient. They find the fact

:01:38. > :01:43.that more than 17 million voters decided to leave the European Union

:01:44. > :01:49.simply bewildering. Because if you're well of uncomfortable,

:01:50. > :01:53.Britain is a different country, and these concerns are not your

:01:54. > :01:57.concerns. It's easy to dismiss them, easy to say that all you want from

:01:58. > :02:02.government is for it to get out of the way. But a change has got to

:02:03. > :02:07.come. It's time to remember the good that government can do, time for a

:02:08. > :02:10.new approach that says that while government doesn't have all the

:02:11. > :02:18.answers, government can and should be a force for good, that the state

:02:19. > :02:21.exists to provide what individual people, communities and markets

:02:22. > :02:25.cannot, and that we should employ the power of government for the good

:02:26. > :02:30.of the people. Time to reject the ideological templates provided by

:02:31. > :02:34.the socialist left and the libertarian right, and to embrace a

:02:35. > :02:38.new centre ground in which government steps up and not back to

:02:39. > :02:43.act on behalf of us all, providing security from crime, but from

:02:44. > :02:47.ill-health and unemployment too. Supporting free markets, but

:02:48. > :02:51.stepping in to repair them when they are not working as they should.

:02:52. > :02:57.Encouraging business and supporting free trade, but not accepting one

:02:58. > :03:01.set of rules for some and another for everyone else.

:03:02. > :03:16.And if we do, if we act to correct unfairness and injustice and put

:03:17. > :03:21.government at the service of ordinary working people, we can

:03:22. > :03:25.build that new United Britain in which everyone plays by the same

:03:26. > :03:30.rules and in which the powerful and the privileged no longer ignore the

:03:31. > :03:37.interests of the people. Only we can do it. The main lesson I take from

:03:38. > :03:43.the conference last week is that the Labour Party is not just divided,

:03:44. > :03:50.but divisive, determined to pit one against another, to pursue vendettas

:03:51. > :03:55.and settle scores and to embrace the politics of pointless protest that

:03:56. > :04:01.simply pulls people further apart. That is what Labour stands for,

:04:02. > :04:05.fighting among themselves, abusing their own MPs, threatening to end

:04:06. > :04:11.their careers, tolerating anti-Semitism and supporting voices

:04:12. > :04:42.of hate. You know what some people call them? The nasty party.

:04:43. > :04:50.And with Labour divided, divisive and out of touch, we have a

:04:51. > :05:04.responsibility to step up, represent and govern for the whole nation. So

:05:05. > :05:08.where labour build barriers, we will build bridges. That means tackling

:05:09. > :05:12.unfairness and injustice in shifting the balance of Britain decisively in

:05:13. > :05:17.favour of ordinary working class people, giving them access to the

:05:18. > :05:22.opportunities that are too often the preserve of the privileged few,

:05:23. > :05:25.putting fairness at the heart of our agenda and creating a country in

:05:26. > :05:33.which hard work is rewarded and talent is welcome. A nation where

:05:34. > :05:38.contribution matters more than entitlement, merit matters more than

:05:39. > :05:44.wealth. A confident, global Britain that doesn't turn its black on

:05:45. > :05:48.globalisation, but ensures the benefits are shared by all. A

:05:49. > :05:53.country that is prosperous and secure, so every person may share in

:05:54. > :05:57.the wealth of the nation and live their life free from fear. That is

:05:58. > :06:03.what I mean by a country that works for everyone. And if we believe in

:06:04. > :06:08.the good that government can do, it's important for people to trust

:06:09. > :06:13.us to deliver the change they need. We can start, as I said on Sunday,

:06:14. > :06:17.by doing something obvious. That is to stop quibbling, respect what the

:06:18. > :06:19.people told us on the 23rd of June, and take Britain out of the European

:06:20. > :06:35.Union. It took that typically British quiet

:06:36. > :06:40.resolve for people to go out and vote as they did, to defy the

:06:41. > :06:43.establishment, to ignore the threats, to make their voice heard.

:06:44. > :06:50.So let us have that same resolve now, and let's be clear about what

:06:51. > :06:54.is going to happen. Article 50 triggered no later than the end of

:06:55. > :06:58.March. A great repeal bill to get rid of the European Union

:06:59. > :07:03.communities act introduced in the next Parliamentary session. Our

:07:04. > :07:14.laws, made not in Brussels, but in Westminster.

:07:15. > :07:27.Our judges, sitting not in Luxembourg, but in courts across the

:07:28. > :07:37.land. The authority of EU law in this country ended forever. The

:07:38. > :07:44.people told us they wanted these things, and this Conservative

:07:45. > :07:48.government is going to deliver them. It is of course too early to say

:07:49. > :07:52.exactly what agreement we will reach with the EU. It's going to be a

:07:53. > :07:57.tough negotiation. It will require some give and take. And while there

:07:58. > :08:00.will always be pressured to give a running commentary, it will not be

:08:01. > :08:06.in our national interest to do so. But let me be clear about the

:08:07. > :08:09.agreement we seek. I want it to reflect the strong and mature

:08:10. > :08:13.relationships we enjoy with our European friends. I want it to

:08:14. > :08:17.include cooperation on law enforcement and counterterrorism

:08:18. > :08:21.work. I want it to involve free trade in goods and services. I want

:08:22. > :08:24.to give British companies the maximum freedom to trade with and

:08:25. > :08:30.operate within the single market and let European businesses do the same

:08:31. > :08:36.here. But let's state one thing loud and clear - we are not leaving the

:08:37. > :08:41.European Union only to give up control of immigration all over

:08:42. > :08:44.again, and we are not leaving only to return to the jurisdiction of the

:08:45. > :08:49.European Court of Justice. That's not going to happen. We are leaving

:08:50. > :08:55.to become once more a fully sovereign and independent country,

:08:56. > :09:09.and the deal is going to have to work for Britain.

:09:10. > :09:24.And that Britain, the Britain we build after Brexit, is going to be a

:09:25. > :09:27.global Britain. Because while we are leaving the European Union, we will

:09:28. > :09:31.not leave the continent of Europe. We will not abandon our friends and

:09:32. > :09:37.allies abroad, and we will not retreat from the world. In fact, now

:09:38. > :09:41.is the time to forge a bold new confident role for ourselves on the

:09:42. > :09:47.world stage, keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world,

:09:48. > :09:53.providing humanitarian support for refugees in need. Taking the lead on

:09:54. > :09:59.cracking down on modern slavery wherever it is found, ratifying the

:10:00. > :10:02.Paris agreement on climate change. Always acting as the strongest and

:10:03. > :10:08.most passionate advocate for free trade right across the globe, and

:10:09. > :10:10.always committed to a strong national defence and supporting the

:10:11. > :10:31.finest Armed Forces known to man. And this week, our excellent Defence

:10:32. > :10:35.Secretary Michael Fallon proved not only that we will support them with

:10:36. > :10:39.our heart and souls, not only will we remain committed to spending 2%

:10:40. > :10:46.of our national income on defence, but we will never again in any

:10:47. > :10:50.future conflict let those activist left-wing human rights lawyers how

:10:51. > :10:52.rang and harassed the bravest of the brave, the men and women of our

:10:53. > :11:20.Armed Forces. It's about restoring fairness,

:11:21. > :11:28.something that must be at the heart of everything we do. Supporting

:11:29. > :11:31.those who do the right thing, who make a contribution. Helping those

:11:32. > :11:36.who give something back, and that is at the heart of my plan for our

:11:37. > :11:40.economy too, an economy that is fairer and where everyone plays by

:11:41. > :11:44.the same rules. That means acting to tackle some of the economy's

:11:45. > :11:48.structural problems that hold people back. Things like the shortage of

:11:49. > :11:54.affordable homes, the need to make big decisions on and invest in our

:11:55. > :11:58.infrastructure. The need to rebalance the economy across sectors

:11:59. > :12:02.and areas in order to spread wealth and prosperity around the country.

:12:03. > :12:07.Politicians have talked about this for years, but the trouble is that

:12:08. > :12:12.this kind of change will never just happen by itself. If that's what we

:12:13. > :12:19.want, we need the vision and determination to see it through.

:12:20. > :12:23.That is why Philip Hammond and Greg Clark Tom working on new industrial

:12:24. > :12:26.strategy to address these long term structural challenges and get

:12:27. > :12:31.Britain firing on all cylinders again. It's not about picking

:12:32. > :12:35.winners, propping up failing industries or bringing old companies

:12:36. > :12:40.back from the dead. It's about identifying the industries that are

:12:41. > :12:44.of strategic value to our economy and supporting and promoting them

:12:45. > :12:49.through policies on trade, tax, infrastructure, skills, research and

:12:50. > :12:52.training investment. It's about doing what every major and growing

:12:53. > :12:55.economy in the world does, not just sitting back and seeing what

:12:56. > :13:00.happens, but putting in place a plan on getting on with the job. So we

:13:01. > :13:06.will identify the sectors of the economy, financial services, yes,

:13:07. > :13:09.but life sciences, tech, aerospace, car manufacturing, creative

:13:10. > :13:14.industries and many others that are of strategic importance to our

:13:15. > :13:18.economy, and do everything we can to encourage, develop and support them.

:13:19. > :13:22.And we will identify the places that have the potential to contribute to

:13:23. > :13:29.economic growth and become the homes to millions of new jobs. That means

:13:30. > :13:32.inspiring and economic and cultural revival of all our great regional

:13:33. > :13:37.cities. And we have made a start. Thanks to George Osborne's northern

:13:38. > :13:40.Powerhouse, over the past year foreign direct investment in the

:13:41. > :13:42.north has increased at double the rate of the rest of the country.

:13:43. > :13:56.Here in Birmingham... Thanks to the incredible Jaguar Land

:13:57. > :14:09.Rover, the West Midlands is the only part of the country that runs a

:14:10. > :14:13.trade surplus with China. And across the region, the Midlands engine is

:14:14. > :14:20.on track to deliver 300,000 more jobs by 2020. Now it's time to build

:14:21. > :14:24.on that success in Birmingham, Manchester and other cities across

:14:25. > :14:28.the country. And as we are here in Birmingham this week, let's show our

:14:29. > :14:33.support for the Conservative Party's candidate for next year's mayoral

:14:34. > :14:36.election, a success in business running John Lewis, an action man in

:14:37. > :14:41.Birmingham playing his part in transforming the city, a man to get

:14:42. > :14:48.things done. The future mayor of the West Midlands, and the street. --

:14:49. > :15:03.Andy Street. An economy that works for everyone

:15:04. > :15:08.is an economy where everyone plays by the same rules. I understand the

:15:09. > :15:11.frustration people feel when they see the rich and powerful getting

:15:12. > :15:15.away with things that they themselves wouldn't dream of doing

:15:16. > :15:20.and they wouldn't get away with if they tried. I understand, because I

:15:21. > :15:25.feel it, too. There is always an excuse, a reason why something can't

:15:26. > :15:32.be done, but when that's used as a basis for inaction, faith in

:15:33. > :15:37.capitalism and free markets fall. The Conservative Party will always

:15:38. > :15:42.believe in free markets and that's precisely why is this party that

:15:43. > :15:46.should act to defend them. From Edmund Burke onwards, Conservatives

:15:47. > :15:49.have always understood that, if you want to preserve something

:15:50. > :15:57.important, you need to be prepared to reform it. And we must apply that

:15:58. > :16:01.same approach today. That's why where markets are dysfunctional, we

:16:02. > :16:05.should be prepared to intervene. Where companies are exploiting the

:16:06. > :16:09.failures of the market in which they operate, where consumer choice is

:16:10. > :16:13.inhibited by deliberately complex pricing structures, we must set the

:16:14. > :16:20.market right. It's just not right, poor example, that half people

:16:21. > :16:21.living in rural areas, and so many small businesses, can't get a decent

:16:22. > :16:36.broadband connection. It's just not right that two thirds

:16:37. > :16:42.of energy customers are stuck on the most expensive tariffs. And it's

:16:43. > :16:47.just not right that the housing market continues to fail working

:16:48. > :16:51.people either. Ask almost any question about social fairness or

:16:52. > :16:57.problems with our economy and the answer so often comes back to

:16:58. > :17:00.housing. High housing costs and the growing gap between those on the

:17:01. > :17:05.property ladder and those not lie at the heart of falling social

:17:06. > :17:10.mobility, savings and low productivity. We will do all that we

:17:11. > :17:14.can to help people financially so they can buy their own home. That's

:17:15. > :17:19.why help to buy and right to buy the right things to do, but as Sajid

:17:20. > :17:24.Javid said in his bold speech on Monday, there is an honest truth we

:17:25. > :17:29.need to address. We simply need to build more homes. This means using

:17:30. > :17:34.the power of government to step in and repair the dysfunctional housing

:17:35. > :17:37.market. It means using public sector land for more and faster

:17:38. > :17:42.house-building. It means encouraging new technology that will help us

:17:43. > :17:45.build more houses faster and putting in more government investment. It

:17:46. > :17:50.means stepping up and doing what's right for Britain, making the market

:17:51. > :17:59.work for working people, because that's what government can do. And

:18:00. > :18:02.something else we need to do. Take big, sometimes even controversial

:18:03. > :18:06.decisions about our country's infrastructure, because we need to

:18:07. > :18:13.get Britain firing in all areas again. It's why we will press ahead

:18:14. > :18:16.with plans for High Speed 2, linking London and Birmingham and eventually

:18:17. > :18:22.counted and cities in the north, why we will shortly announce a decision

:18:23. > :18:28.on expanding Britain First airport capacity and why, having reviewed

:18:29. > :18:34.the evidence and added new national security safeguards, we have signed

:18:35. > :18:36.up to Hinkley Point. We will take the big decisions when they are the

:18:37. > :18:44.right decisions for Britain because that's what government can do. We

:18:45. > :18:47.can make these decisions because our economy is strong and because of the

:18:48. > :18:51.fiscal discipline we have shown over the last six years, and we must

:18:52. > :18:57.continue to aim for a balanced budget. But, to build an economy

:18:58. > :19:01.that works for everyone, we must also invest in the things that

:19:02. > :19:04.matter, the things with a long-term return. That's how we will address

:19:05. > :19:10.the weaknesses in our economy, improved our productivity, increase

:19:11. > :19:15.economic growth and ensure everybody gets a fair share. And that's not

:19:16. > :19:21.the only reason. Because, while monetary policy, with superlow

:19:22. > :19:26.interest rate and quantitative easing, provided the necessary

:19:27. > :19:31.medicine after the financial crash, we have to acknowledge there have

:19:32. > :19:35.been some bad side effects. People with assets have got richer, people

:19:36. > :19:38.without them have suffered. People with mortgages have found their

:19:39. > :19:45.debts cheaper. People with savings have found themselves poorer. A

:19:46. > :19:47.change has got to come and we are going to deliver it because that's

:19:48. > :19:58.what a Conservative government can do.

:19:59. > :20:09.This party will always be the party of business, large and small, but we

:20:10. > :20:14.must acknowledge that the way a small number of businesses behave

:20:15. > :20:20.fuels the frustration people feel. It's not the norm. I know that most

:20:21. > :20:23.businesses and the people who run them are hard-working, entrepreneur

:20:24. > :20:29.Oriel and public spirited at heart, but the of a few are the reputations

:20:30. > :20:35.of the many. -- entrepreneurial. So the party that believes in business

:20:36. > :20:41.is going to change things to support it, to offer the people who are

:20:42. > :20:44.supposed to hold this is -- big businesses accountable are drawn

:20:45. > :20:48.from the same narrow circles and two from the scrutiny they provide is

:20:49. > :20:54.not good enough. Change has got to come. Later this year, we will

:20:55. > :20:57.publish our plans to have not just consumers represented on company

:20:58. > :21:01.boards but workers as well, because we are the party of workers, of

:21:02. > :21:06.those who put in the effort, those who contribute and give of their

:21:07. > :21:11.best. That's why we announced on Saturday that we are going to review

:21:12. > :21:14.our laws to make sure that, in our modern and flexible economy, people

:21:15. > :21:24.are properly protected at work. That's right, workers' right. Not

:21:25. > :21:27.under threat from a Conservative government, workers' rights

:21:28. > :21:30.protected and enhanced by a Conservative government. And let me

:21:31. > :21:35.say something about tax. We are all Conservatives here. We all believe

:21:36. > :21:41.in a low tax economy, but we also know that tax is the price we pay

:21:42. > :21:47.for living in a civilised society. Nobody, no individual tycoon and

:21:48. > :21:52.single business, however rich, has succeeded on their own. Their goods

:21:53. > :21:55.are transported by road, their workers are educated in schools,

:21:56. > :21:59.their customers are part of sophisticated networks taking in the

:22:00. > :22:03.private sector, public sector and charities. We have all played a part

:22:04. > :22:07.in that success, so it doesn't matter to me who you are. If you are

:22:08. > :22:23.a tax dodger, we are coming after you.

:22:24. > :22:30.If you are an accountant, financial advisor or a middleman who helps

:22:31. > :22:31.people to avoid what they owe to society, we are coming after you,

:22:32. > :22:44.too. An economy that works for everyone

:22:45. > :22:50.is one where everyone plays by the same rules, so, whoever you are,

:22:51. > :22:53.however rich or powerful, you have a duty to pay your tax, and we are

:22:54. > :22:57.going to make sure you do. This is a big agenda for change, but it is

:22:58. > :23:03.necessary and essential. It is a programme for government to act to

:23:04. > :23:06.create an economy that works for everyone, an economy that's on the

:23:07. > :23:12.of ordinary working class people, and an economy that can support the

:23:13. > :23:17.vital public services and institutions upon which we all rely,

:23:18. > :23:22.to invest in the things we hold dear, like the NHS, one of the

:23:23. > :23:27.finest health care systems anywhere in the world and a vital national

:23:28. > :23:32.institution. An institution that reflects our values, our belief in

:23:33. > :23:39.fairness, and in which we all take enormous pride. And I mean all,

:23:40. > :23:45.because there is complete cross-party support for the NHS, for

:23:46. > :23:50.its status as a provider of free at the point of use health care, for

:23:51. > :23:55.the thousands of doctors and nurses that work around the clock to care

:23:56. > :23:59.for their patients. We all have a story about the nurse who cared for

:24:00. > :24:03.a loved one or the surgeon who saved the life of a friend, so let's take

:24:04. > :24:20.this opportunity to say to those doctors and nurses, thank you.

:24:21. > :24:31.The NHS should unite us, but year after year, election after election,

:24:32. > :24:35.Labour tried to use it to divide us. At every election since it was

:24:36. > :24:42.established, Labour have said, the Tories would cut the NHS, and every

:24:43. > :24:52.time we have spent more on it. Every election, they say, we want to

:24:53. > :24:56.privatise the NHS, and every time we have protected it. In fact, the

:24:57. > :25:00.party that expanded the use of the private sector in the NHS the

:25:01. > :25:09.fastest was not this party but the Labour Party.

:25:10. > :25:15.The only party to ever cut spending on the NHS is not this party but the

:25:16. > :25:22.Labour Party. That's what they did in Wales. And, at the last election,

:25:23. > :25:26.it wasn't the Labour Party that pledged to give the NHS the money it

:25:27. > :25:31.asked for to meet its five-year plan. It was this party, the

:25:32. > :25:37.Conservative Party, investing in extra ?10 billion in the NHS, more

:25:38. > :25:41.than its leaders asked for, and this year more patients have been

:25:42. > :25:46.treated, more operations are being carried out by more doctors and

:25:47. > :25:51.nurses than ever before. That's a tribute to everyone who works in the

:25:52. > :25:53.NHS, but also to one man, Jeremy Hunt, who is one of the most

:25:54. > :26:13.passionate... Jeremy is one of the most passionate

:26:14. > :26:16.advocates for patients doctors, nurses and others who work in our

:26:17. > :26:20.health service that I have ever known, so let's have no more of

:26:21. > :26:33.Labour's absurd belief that they have a monopoly on compassion. Let's

:26:34. > :26:41.put an end to their sanctimonious pretence of moral superiority.

:26:42. > :26:50.Let's make clear that they have given up the right to call

:26:51. > :26:53.themselves the party of the NHS, the party of the workers, the party of

:26:54. > :26:59.public servants. They gave up that right when they adopted the politics

:27:00. > :27:04.of division, when their extreme ideological fixation is led them to

:27:05. > :27:09.simply stop listening to the country, when they abandoned the

:27:10. > :27:14.centre ground. And let us take this opportunity to show that we, the

:27:15. > :27:18.Conservative Party, truly are the party of the workers, the party of

:27:19. > :27:29.public servants, the party of the NHS. Because...

:27:30. > :27:36.Because we believe in public service. We believe in investing in

:27:37. > :27:40.and supporting the institutions that make our country great. We believe

:27:41. > :27:45.in the good that government can do. Government cannot stand aside when

:27:46. > :27:50.it sees social injustice and unfairness. If we want to make sure

:27:51. > :27:55.that Britain is a country that works for everyone, government has to act

:27:56. > :28:01.to make sure opportunity is fairly shared. And I want us to be a

:28:02. > :28:05.country where it doesn't matter where you were born, who your

:28:06. > :28:09.parents are, where you went to school, what your accent is like

:28:10. > :28:14.what God you worship, whether you are a man or woman, gay or straight,

:28:15. > :28:16.black or white. All that should matter is the talent you have and

:28:17. > :28:47.how hard you are prepared to work. If we are honest, we'll admit that's

:28:48. > :28:54.simply not the case for everyone today. Advancement in today's

:28:55. > :28:55.Britain is still too often determined by wealth or

:28:56. > :29:03.circumstance, by an accident of birth, by privilege, not merit.

:29:04. > :29:07.Rebalancing our economy is a start but, if we are serious about

:29:08. > :29:10.overturning some of the long-standing injustices and

:29:11. > :29:15.barriers that stop working people getting on, we need that economic

:29:16. > :29:21.reform to be allied with genuine and deep social reform, too. Because a

:29:22. > :29:24.society that works for everyone is a society based on fairness, and only

:29:25. > :29:30.genuine social reform can deliver it. Genuine social reform means

:29:31. > :29:34.helping more people onto the housing ladder, it means making sure every

:29:35. > :29:39.child has access to a good school place. It means never writing off

:29:40. > :29:43.people who can work and consigning them to a life on benefits, but

:29:44. > :29:48.giving them the chance to go out and earn a living and to enjoy the

:29:49. > :29:53.dignity that comes from a job well done. But, for those who can't work,

:29:54. > :29:56.we must offer our full support, which is why it was so important

:29:57. > :30:03.that Damian Green announced on Saturday that we will end the

:30:04. > :30:09.mandatory retesting of those with chronic health conditions, but only

:30:10. > :30:17.induces stress. -- that only induces stress. And genuine social reform

:30:18. > :30:21.means addressing historic injustices that hold too many people back. Some

:30:22. > :30:26.of my proudest moments as Home Secretary came when we began to

:30:27. > :30:31.tackle deep-seated and long-standing problems that few had dared to

:30:32. > :30:36.tackle before. I introduced the first ever Modern Slavery Act,

:30:37. > :30:42.grinning in tough new penalties to put slave masters behind bars, with

:30:43. > :30:46.life sentences for the worst offenders. I cut the police use of

:30:47. > :30:51.stop and search by almost two thirds and wood used the disproportionate

:30:52. > :30:55.targeting of young black men, and I know how impressive Home Secretary,

:30:56. > :31:02.Amber Rudd, is committed to carrying on that work. -- reduced the

:31:03. > :31:07.disproportionate targeting of young black men.

:31:08. > :31:13.But injustices remain. If you're from a black Caribbean background,

:31:14. > :31:17.you are three times more likely to be permanently excluded from school

:31:18. > :31:22.than other children. If you're a black woman, you are seven times

:31:23. > :31:26.more likely to be detained under mental health legislation than a

:31:27. > :31:29.white woman. People in ethnic minority households are almost twice

:31:30. > :31:35.as likely to live in relative poverty as white people. But it's

:31:36. > :31:40.not just those from minority backgrounds who are affected. White

:31:41. > :31:48.working-class boys are less likely to go to university than any other

:31:49. > :31:52.group in society. We cannot let this stand, not if a country that works

:31:53. > :31:58.for everyone is the principle that binds us all together. That's why I

:31:59. > :32:02.have launched an unprecedented audit of public services to shine a light

:32:03. > :32:09.on these racial disparities and let us do something about them. They are

:32:10. > :32:12.all burning injustices, and I want this government, this Conservative

:32:13. > :32:25.government, to fight every single one of them.

:32:26. > :32:33.A society that works for everyone is one of fairness and opportunity. A

:32:34. > :32:38.society in which everyone has the chance to go as far as their talents

:32:39. > :32:42.will take them. That's why, in one of the first speeches I gave as

:32:43. > :32:47.Prime Minister, I set out my plans to transform Britain into a great

:32:48. > :32:52.meritocracy. And that starts in our schools. I want Britain to be a

:32:53. > :32:58.country in which every child has access to a good school place that

:32:59. > :33:01.is right for that individual child. Britain after Brexit will need to

:33:02. > :33:06.make use of all the talent we have in this country. We have come a long

:33:07. > :33:11.way to stop thanks to the free schools and academies programme, and

:33:12. > :33:15.the efforts of teachers and governors, there are now 1.4 million

:33:16. > :33:20.more children in good and outstanding schools compared with

:33:21. > :33:24.2010. But we need to go further, because there are still 1.25 million

:33:25. > :33:28.children in schools that are just not good enough. And if you live in

:33:29. > :33:32.the Midlands or the north, you have less chance of attending a good

:33:33. > :33:39.school than children in the South. This simply cannot go on. That's why

:33:40. > :33:43.Justine Greening and I have set a new package of reforms building on

:33:44. > :33:48.Michael Gove's success to increase the number of good school places the

:33:49. > :33:53.country. So there is not just a school place for every child, but a

:33:54. > :33:57.good school place for every child, a school place that suits the skills,

:33:58. > :34:07.interests and abilities of every single pupil.

:34:08. > :34:14.That's why we want more of our great universities to set up or sponsor

:34:15. > :34:17.schools in the state sector, just as the university of Birmingham has

:34:18. > :34:22.done a few miles from here. It is why we are saying to the great

:34:23. > :34:25.private schools that, in return for their charitable tax status, we want

:34:26. > :34:30.them to do more to take on children without the means to pay or set

:34:31. > :34:35.unsponsored good state schools. It's why we want more good faith schools

:34:36. > :34:41.for parents and pupils who want them. And it's why we have said that

:34:42. > :34:45.where there is demand from parents, where they will definitely take

:34:46. > :34:49.pupils from all backgrounds, where they will play a part in improving

:34:50. > :34:52.the quality of all schools in their area, we will lift the ban on

:34:53. > :35:08.establishing new grammar schools too.

:35:09. > :35:14.And here we see the challenge. Because for too long, politicians

:35:15. > :35:18.have said to people in communities who are crying out for change that

:35:19. > :35:22.they can't have what they want. They have said we don't think you should

:35:23. > :35:29.have it, even though we might enjoy those things for ourselves. And you

:35:30. > :35:32.end up in the absurd situation where you stop these good, popular,

:35:33. > :35:39.life-changing schools from opening by law. Imagine. Think of what it

:35:40. > :35:43.says. If you're rich or well off, you can have a selective education

:35:44. > :35:48.for your child. You can send them to a selective private school, you can

:35:49. > :35:51.move to a better catchment area or afford to send them long distances

:35:52. > :35:56.to get the education you want. But if you're not, you can't. I can

:35:57. > :36:01.think of no better illustration of the problem of why ordinary working

:36:02. > :36:05.class people think it is one rule for them and another for everyone

:36:06. > :36:09.else, because the message we are sending them is this. We will not

:36:10. > :36:14.allow their children to have the same opportunities that wealthier

:36:15. > :36:16.children enjoy. That is a scandal, and we, the Conservative Party, must

:36:17. > :36:35.bring it to an end. So my vision is for Britain to be a

:36:36. > :36:39.great meritocracy. It's what I've always believed in, the cause of

:36:40. > :36:44.everything I have ever done in politics has been designed to serve.

:36:45. > :36:49.A country based on merit, not privilege, is a country that is

:36:50. > :36:55.fair. And when we overcome injustice and unfairness, we can build that

:36:56. > :37:04.new united Britain that we need. And United, we can do great things. We

:37:05. > :37:07.saw that in the summer in Rio. We saw how individual success was

:37:08. > :37:14.powered by collective effort, how the dedication and talent of one was

:37:15. > :37:19.supported by a united team, and Howard government's determination,

:37:20. > :37:30.John Major's Conservative government's determination to back

:37:31. > :37:35.up that success contributed. We were honoured to welcome four members of

:37:36. > :37:38.the team, Helen Richardson-Walsh, Dame Sarah Storey, Vicky Thornley

:37:39. > :37:44.and Andrew Triggs Hodge, to our conference on Monday. And to them

:37:45. > :37:50.and to every athlete and every member of team and Paralympics GB,

:37:51. > :38:07.we say, thank you. You did your country proud.

:38:08. > :38:16.It was a memorable summer for British sport. But one moment stood

:38:17. > :38:23.out for me above all other. It wasn't from Rio. It happened later.

:38:24. > :38:31.Just a couple of weeks ago, on the sun-drenched streets of Mexico, our

:38:32. > :38:37.celebrated triathlon Champion Jonny Brownlee was heading for glory, the

:38:38. > :38:43.finishing line in sight, when he faltered, stopped and was falling,

:38:44. > :38:49.exhausted, to the ground. And just behind him, his brother, Alistair, a

:38:50. > :38:56.tough competitor, who typically yields to no one, had the chance to

:38:57. > :39:03.run on and steal the prize. But seeing his brother struggle, he

:39:04. > :39:08.didn't pass on by. As other competitors run past, he stopped

:39:09. > :39:18.reached out his hand and gently carried him home. And there, in that

:39:19. > :39:23.moment, we saw revealed an essential truth, that we succeed or fail

:39:24. > :39:28.together. We achieved together all fall short together. And when one

:39:29. > :39:34.among us falters, our most basic human instinct is to put our own

:39:35. > :39:39.self-interest aside, to reach out our hand and help them over the

:39:40. > :39:44.line. That's why the central tenet of my belief is that there is more

:39:45. > :40:05.to life than individualism and self-interest. We form families.

:40:06. > :40:12.Communities, towns, cities, counties and nations. We have a

:40:13. > :40:17.responsibility to one another. And I firmly believe that government has a

:40:18. > :40:21.responsibility too. It is to act, to encourage and nurture those

:40:22. > :40:25.relationships, networks and institutions, and to step up to

:40:26. > :40:30.correct injustices and tackle unfairness where it can, because

:40:31. > :40:34.these are the things that drive us apart. That's why I said today, as I

:40:35. > :40:39.have always said, that my mission and the mission of this party is to

:40:40. > :40:43.build a country that truly works for everyone, not just for the

:40:44. > :40:49.privileged few. It's why when I stood on the steps of Number Ten for

:40:50. > :40:53.the first time as Prime Minister 84 days ago, I said that the Government

:40:54. > :40:57.I lead will be driven not by the interests of the rich and powerful,

:40:58. > :41:05.but by the interests of ordinary working class people. And this week,

:41:06. > :41:09.we have shown the country that we mean business. Not just protecting,

:41:10. > :41:12.but enhancing workers' rights, building an economy that is fair,

:41:13. > :41:17.where everyone plays by the same rules, getting more houses built,

:41:18. > :41:23.more doctors in the NHS, investing in things that will make our economy

:41:24. > :41:27.grow, hundreds of great new schools, universities and fee-paying schools

:41:28. > :41:31.helping state schools to improve. And yes, where parents want them and

:41:32. > :41:35.where they will improve standards for children of whatever background,

:41:36. > :41:50.the first new grammar schools to open in Britain for 50 years.

:41:51. > :41:58.This is a bold plan to bring Britain together, to build a new united

:41:59. > :42:04.Britain, rooted in the centre ground, an agenda for a new modern

:42:05. > :42:09.conservatism that understands the good that government can do, that

:42:10. > :42:13.will never hesitate to face down the powerful when they abuse their

:42:14. > :42:19.position of privilege, that will always act in the interests of

:42:20. > :42:23.ordinary working class people. That's what this government is

:42:24. > :42:30.about, action. It's about doing something, not being someone. About

:42:31. > :42:37.identifying injustices, finding solutions, driving change. Taking,

:42:38. > :42:41.not shirking, the big decisions. Having the courage to see things

:42:42. > :42:49.through. It's not always glamorous or exciting, but at its best, it's a

:42:50. > :42:53.noble calling. And where many just see government is the problem, I

:42:54. > :43:01.want to show it can be part of the solution too. And I know this to be

:43:02. > :43:09.true. For as I leave the door of my office at Number Ten, I passed that

:43:10. > :43:15.famous staircase, the portraits of prime ministers past, lined up along

:43:16. > :43:21.the wall. Men, and of course one woman, of consequence, who have

:43:22. > :43:27.steered this country through difficult times and changed it for

:43:28. > :43:32.the better too. There is Disraeli, who saw division and wit to heal it.

:43:33. > :43:35.Churchill, who confronted evil and have the strength to overcome.

:43:36. > :43:40.Clement Attlee, with the vision to build a great national institution,

:43:41. > :43:46.and Lady Thatcher, who taught us we could dream great dreams again.

:43:47. > :43:54.Those portraits remind me of the good that government can do, that

:43:55. > :43:57.nothing good comes easy. But with courage and vision and

:43:58. > :44:06.determination, you can always see things through. And as I passed them

:44:07. > :44:09.everyday, I remember that our nation has been shaped by those who stepped

:44:10. > :44:16.up to be counted when the big moments came. Such opportunities are

:44:17. > :44:23.rare, but we face such a moment today. A moment that calls us to

:44:24. > :44:28.risk bond and to reshape our nation once again -- it calls us to

:44:29. > :44:34.respond. Not every generation is given this opportunity. Not every

:44:35. > :44:42.generation is called to step up in such a way. But this is our

:44:43. > :44:47.generation's moment to write a new future upon the page, to bring power

:44:48. > :44:54.home and make decisions here in Britain, to take back control and

:44:55. > :45:00.shape our future here in Britain. To build an outward looking, confident

:45:01. > :45:06.trading nation here in Britain. To build a stronger, fairer, brighter

:45:07. > :45:12.future here in Britain. That is the opportunity we have been given. And

:45:13. > :45:18.the responsibility to grasp it falls upon us all. So to everyone here

:45:19. > :45:26.this morning and the millions beyond, whether for Leave or Remain,

:45:27. > :45:29.I say, come with me and we will write that brighter future. Come

:45:30. > :45:34.with me and we will make that change. Come with me as we rise to

:45:35. > :45:39.meet this moment. Come with me and to gather, let's seize the day. --

:45:40. > :45:58.together. And the Prime Minister finishes her

:45:59. > :46:04.first forlorn keynote address to the Conservative Party faithful here in

:46:05. > :46:09.Birmingham. -- her first full on. She got on stage to the sound of the

:46:10. > :46:12.Rolling Stones. She made a joke about Boris Johnson and went

:46:13. > :46:19.straight into what she said was her vision of the country. Perhaps a bit

:46:20. > :46:22.surprising, Mr May is joining her on the platform, giving her a

:46:23. > :46:27.congratulatory hug. Something we never saw from Denis Thatcher. I

:46:28. > :46:32.think he would rather have poked his left eye out and have gone onto the

:46:33. > :46:37.stage to greet Margret Thatcher, but there we are, we have got the spouse

:46:38. > :46:43.on the stage, waving. She gave her vision of what she sees the country

:46:44. > :46:50.should be like. She said she had the determination to see it through.

:46:51. > :46:53.There was the statutory trade and -- tribute to David Cameron, but there

:46:54. > :47:00.was a change of emphasis from the camera new years. She emphasised

:47:01. > :47:06.that pay was stated. She emphasised -- empathised constantly with

:47:07. > :47:10.ordinary working families. There was an attack on Philip Green, for

:47:11. > :47:15.paying massive dividends when BHS was in trouble. He wasn't named

:47:16. > :47:20.checked, but there was no doubt who she had in mind. The constant

:47:21. > :47:26.refrain was that a change has got to come, echoing the famous song by Sam

:47:27. > :47:31.cook, Change Is Going To Come, which became the anthem of the American

:47:32. > :47:39.Civil Liberties Union movement. I'm not sure even Mrs May would think

:47:40. > :47:43.her vision is quite up there with the American civil rights movement,

:47:44. > :47:47.but there we are. Echoes of that. She wanted a government in the

:47:48. > :47:53.service of ordinary working people. Interestingly, she said that, with

:47:54. > :47:56.Brexit, this country would no longer be under the jurisdiction of the

:47:57. > :48:01.European Court of Justice and would have to have the ability to control

:48:02. > :48:05.immigration. What she didn't go on to say was, if you had these things

:48:06. > :48:10.together, that means no membership of the single market. A relationship

:48:11. > :48:14.to it, but no membership if you are not going to be under the

:48:15. > :48:20.jurisdiction of the ECJ. She wanted Britain to be bold, new, confident

:48:21. > :48:24.on the global stage. She said they were still going to aim for a

:48:25. > :48:28.balanced budget but gave no indication of the timetable of that.

:48:29. > :48:33.As part of the repositioning, she wanted the Conservatives to be the

:48:34. > :48:37.party of public service and public servant. She repeated a number of

:48:38. > :48:41.the things she said on her way into Downing Street, about the life

:48:42. > :48:45.chances, opportunities or lack of them, that young black kids in the

:48:46. > :48:52.country have, Sapporo working-class boys and so on. It was rhetoric, it

:48:53. > :48:56.was aspiration. There was very little policy pledge that would

:48:57. > :49:01.allow us to see whether these huge aspirations will be fulfilled, but

:49:02. > :49:05.it was a clear attempt by Mrs May to place her tanks not just on the

:49:06. > :49:10.centre ground but actually on the centre-left ground of British

:49:11. > :49:14.politics, with an emphasis on being a government of ordinary working

:49:15. > :49:18.people. She didn't just say ordinary working people, she said ordinary

:49:19. > :49:23.working-class people. Danny Finkelstein has been listening. What

:49:24. > :49:27.did you make of it? I think the language about government was

:49:28. > :49:31.striking. It is true, of course, that lots of Conservative leaders

:49:32. > :49:35.have talked about government in the past, but not quite in the same way.

:49:36. > :49:42.Maybe the closest parallel might be MacMillan with his middle way and is

:49:43. > :49:46.more self-confident Keynesian talk about governance. He was in favour

:49:47. > :49:52.of economic planning. This wasn't quite that it will certainly the

:49:53. > :49:56.most full throated assertion of the Conservative Party's believe in

:49:57. > :49:59.using the power it has is a government. She is using the

:50:00. > :50:02.opportunity of not really having our position to try to take the whole of

:50:03. > :50:07.the centre ground for the governing party. A lot of people have said

:50:08. > :50:10.that the big advantage for the Conservatives, despite everything

:50:11. > :50:14.that has happened with Brexit, it is still a party of government, a big,

:50:15. > :50:18.powerful group of people who have got a majority in parliament and the

:50:19. > :50:24.Labour Party can't touch it. She was trying to use that space. It was her

:50:25. > :50:27.first speech and you are allowed a lot of rhetoric in your first

:50:28. > :50:31.speech. The challenge next year will be to see whether that has been

:50:32. > :50:33.transformed into policy that has changed the lives of ordinary

:50:34. > :50:40.working-class people, in Mrs May's words. Let's go to Adam, who is

:50:41. > :50:46.finding out what the party faithful maid of Theresa May's first major

:50:47. > :50:50.conference speech. Adam. Ruth Davidson just ran up the stairs

:50:51. > :50:55.and is heading your way. We are going to get people's reactions.

:50:56. > :51:02.What did you think of that? It was very good. What was the message, if

:51:03. > :51:07.you boil it down? Country for everybody. What did you think of it?

:51:08. > :51:13.Everybody working for everybody, fairness, getting back to what

:51:14. > :51:15.Conservatives do best. It sounded a bit Ed Miliband in places, saying to

:51:16. > :51:22.step in and help when the market isn't helping ordinary people. But

:51:23. > :51:27.she will put it into practice and he didn't. How different was it to

:51:28. > :51:31.David Cameron? Completely different. I thought she was fantastic. She

:51:32. > :51:37.speaks as though she intends to do what she has set out to do and she

:51:38. > :51:43.has given me, certainly, confident she will do that. We are on the BBC.

:51:44. > :51:47.Are you happy with the idea of the government getting involved in all

:51:48. > :51:54.sorts of things? Fantastic speech, inspirational. We are leaving with a

:51:55. > :51:58.spring in our step. What about the government intervening more? It is

:51:59. > :52:03.to be an instrument of change and she has thrown down the gauntlet.

:52:04. > :52:08.She will be a government for the one country, one nation Tory years.

:52:09. > :52:15.Loads of opinions. We hand back. -- one nation Tories.

:52:16. > :52:20.We are joined now by Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader. It

:52:21. > :52:28.must've been a bit uncomfortable for as a modernising Cameron Remain

:52:29. > :52:32.supporter. I don't think I would categorise me as any wing of the

:52:33. > :52:42.party. In Scotland, we do policy on our own, that is devolution. I think

:52:43. > :52:49.I am a Davidsoner. What? Something like that. Better than a Cameroner.

:52:50. > :52:54.There are a number of things that Mrs May stands for that you are not

:52:55. > :52:57.in favour of. You are not going to propose the reintroduction of

:52:58. > :53:03.grammar schools in Scotland. I'm not, and I know it is a fuel years

:53:04. > :53:11.since you attended Paisley Grammar. Not that long! I'm not 120. The

:53:12. > :53:14.education system in Scotland has been different even before

:53:15. > :53:19.devolution. Since devolution, we have been wholly in charge of

:53:20. > :53:22.education in Edinburgh. Our path involves giving more powers to

:53:23. > :53:28.individual school leaders and headteachers, taking it out of local

:53:29. > :53:33.authority control where necessary. But not grammar schools. Nope. You

:53:34. > :53:41.would like to stay in the single market. I would have liked to stay

:53:42. > :53:45.in the EU! You lost that. The Prime Minister said she wants British

:53:46. > :53:50.businesses to have the freedom to operate within... But not as a

:53:51. > :53:54.member. Everyone can access. I wanted to stay part of the single

:53:55. > :53:59.market because I wanted to stay part of the European Union. But you

:54:00. > :54:03.accept that the Prime Minister said we did not want to fall under the

:54:04. > :54:06.jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. If you accept that, you

:54:07. > :54:13.can't be a member of the single market. You can have access to it,

:54:14. > :54:15.but not membership. I accept that 17.5 million people voted

:54:16. > :54:19.differently from me and I might not like it but, when there is a

:54:20. > :54:23.democratic decision like that, and we have never had that number vote

:54:24. > :54:28.for anything before... But you would still like us to remain a member of

:54:29. > :54:33.the single market, and that is clearly not Mrs May's policy. Rings

:54:34. > :54:37.will obviously changed when we come out. For people who won it, there is

:54:38. > :54:43.an option for politicians who were on the losing side of that debate.

:54:44. > :54:47.That is either to go off and sulk or you put your shoulder to the wheel.

:54:48. > :54:52.I have been working hard with different sectors across Scotland to

:54:53. > :54:56.find out what they want out of this, things like financial services or

:54:57. > :54:59.energy, oil and gas, food and drink, fishing, farming, where they see

:55:00. > :55:05.worries and they want protection, where they want opportunities. You

:55:06. > :55:11.would like free movement of people. These are all of the things that I

:55:12. > :55:16.voted for. But we voted to come out. I would still like to be in the

:55:17. > :55:22.European Union. This isn't news. But the terms on which we will no longer

:55:23. > :55:26.be in the EU are important. But you would still like to see free

:55:27. > :55:30.movement and the single market. But things are going to change. What

:55:31. > :55:36.about the idea that companies should be forced to publish the number of

:55:37. > :55:40.migrant workers they employ? That is a consultation and it will be spoken

:55:41. > :55:43.about and companies will be asked to contribute. It isn't something I

:55:44. > :55:48.would propose, and you heard me say in my speech that I want us to be

:55:49. > :55:52.the international party we have always been, to say to people that

:55:53. > :55:56.live and work here, that made their home here, if they contribute, this

:55:57. > :56:02.is their home and they are welcome. But the government has said that.

:56:03. > :56:06.They have said that EU citizens in this country are essentially a

:56:07. > :56:10.bargaining chip. David Davis said last night that they are not and he

:56:11. > :56:14.is 100% certain they will be saying he wants to make sure that is the

:56:15. > :56:18.first thing that is sorted out, so people can have that certainty. We

:56:19. > :56:23.can announce now that, regardless of the negotiations, anybody who has

:56:24. > :56:27.come here legally from the EU and is working, without a criminal record,

:56:28. > :56:31.is automatically guaranteed to remain if they want to do in this

:56:32. > :56:36.country. You would like to do that, wouldn't you? And the government

:56:37. > :56:40.want I understand, but the government also has a responsibility

:56:41. > :56:44.to the 1.2 million Brits that lived abroad that they get assurances in

:56:45. > :56:47.the countries where they live. I was pleased to see David Davis saying

:56:48. > :56:51.that he was certain this could be sorted out quickly and he was going

:56:52. > :56:54.to push it to be one of the first things that happened so that that

:56:55. > :56:58.security could be given to people both from the 27 other nations of

:56:59. > :57:06.the EU and also the 1.2 million Brits that lived abroad. On Sunday,

:57:07. > :57:11.you were reluctant to say that you had confidence in Boris Johnson.

:57:12. > :57:16.Would you like to say it today? I said clearly that I had had a good

:57:17. > :57:21.sit down with him. We had a bit of a ding-dong during the referendum...

:57:22. > :57:26.We enjoyed that. You have said, I have always adopted the role of the

:57:27. > :57:29.Foreign Secretary. Do you have confidence in Boris Johnson? I have

:57:30. > :57:33.a lot more confidence than I did on the other side of the debate. We

:57:34. > :57:36.talked about Brexit and many other links because I want to make sure he

:57:37. > :57:41.champions Britain abroad, not just in leaving the EU, because we can't

:57:42. > :57:45.let that dominate the agenda, and much of this conference has been

:57:46. > :57:50.about other things. I understand, and we have been talking about these

:57:51. > :57:54.other things. Do you accept, in the final few seconds that we have, that

:57:55. > :58:00.Mrs May set a high bar there? The aspiration is to help ordinary

:58:01. > :58:03.working families. We need to measure that progress. Next year rhetoric

:58:04. > :58:09.will not be enough and we will need to see signs of progress. If I was

:58:10. > :58:13.somebody considering tax dodging or facilitating somebody else to dodge

:58:14. > :58:17.taxes and I saw Theresa May's gimlet eye as she stared into the camera

:58:18. > :58:21.saying, you will not get away with this, I would be pulling up my

:58:22. > :58:28.socks. I think you will see action, not just words. Is it true you want

:58:29. > :58:34.to go on Strictly? I would bloody love it! Would you be better than Ed

:58:35. > :58:37.Balls? He's quite enthusiastic. I think he is doing well. Our audience

:58:38. > :58:39.is much bigger, not. That's all from the Conservative

:58:40. > :58:42.Party conference here in Birmingham. The One O'Clock News is starting

:58:43. > :58:44.now over on BBC One. I'll be back here on BBC Two

:58:45. > :58:47.at 11:15pm tonight with Today At Conference,

:58:48. > :58:51.and of course the Daily Politics