Conservatives - Tuesday Today at Conference

Good evening and welcome to our second Today at the Tory Party

Conference here in Birmingham, where terrorism, health and, inevitably,

Tough talking from Theresa May who said she wants to ban extremism

GP appointments, 7 days a week are promised

Is it just a repeat prescription from last year

London Mayor Boris Johnson sticks the boot into UKIP defectors,

calling them Ukippers and saying the Tories will eat them for breakfast.

And we hold an early referendum among the Tory faithful.

In or out - just how divided are the Tories over Europe?

The Home Secretary, Teresa May gave a long, serious, hardline speech

today, promising tough new measures to tackle extremism

She wants to ban organisations that incite or spread hatred,

even if they don't use violence, and have tougher powers to restrict the

If ISIL succeed in consolidating the land they occupy in Iraq and Syria,

we will see the world's first truly terrorist state, established within

a few hours flying time of our country. We will see terrorists

given the space to plot attacks against us on a trained men and

women and devise new methods to kill and mentally. -- indiscriminately.

We will see the risks proper sized but not yet fulfilled, and with the

capability of a state of mind them, the terrorists will acquire chemical

or biological, or even nuclear weapons to attack us. This is not

somebody else's battle. They have made it clear their ambitions. And

they have made us your enemies. And the lesson of history tells us that

when our enemies say they want to attack us, they mean it. We must not

flinch. We must not shy away from our responsibility. We must not

drift towards danger and insecurity. Whilst we still have the chance, we

must act to destroy ISIL. APPLAUSE. And in a new counterterrorism bill,

which will be introduced by the end of November, we will toughen up

these powers further. So when the police suspect somebody they

encounter at the border, it will be able to seize their passport,

prevent travel and give themselves time to investigate the suspect. The

National British National is and who travel to Syria or Iraq risk

prosecution for participating in terrorist activities abroad. This

year, 103 people have been arrested for offences relating to terrorism

in Syria. 24 have been charged and five have already been successfully

prosecuted. We are legislating to toughen these laws, too. So it will

become a criminal offence to prepare and train for terrorism overseas.

For people that we cannot prosecute, but for whom there is evidence of

their involvement in terrorism, we have some of the strongest laws in

the world. The police and security services can already apply to me to

put these people on terrorism prevention measures, which require

subjects to be at a particular address for a number of hours every

night, permitting their access to the internet and telephones,

preventing them from meeting known associates. We believe that we need

to strengthen these powers so I am the term and to do exactly that. --

I am determined. But we must do more. Soon, we will make it a

statutory duty for all public sector organisations to prevent this. I

want to see banning orders for extremist groups that fall short of

the existing laws relating to terrorism. I want to see civil

powers to track it extremist to stay just within the law but still spread

poisonous hatred. So both policies, banning orders and extremism

disruption orders will be in the next Conservative manifesto.

APPLAUSE. And want to tell you about another

change we intend to make. As part of the government's counter-terrorism

strategy, we have only ever focused on the hard end of the extremism

spectrum. The home office will soon, for the first time, assumed

responsibility for a new counter extremism strategy that goes beyond

terrorism. The strategy will be overseen and devised by the Home

Office about it and meditation will be the responsibility of the whole

of government. -- but it's a bum and Asian. It will aim to undermine

extremism in all its forms. Neo-Nazis and other forms of

extremism as well as Islamist extremism. It will aim to build up

society to identify extremism, confront it, challenge it and defeat

it. APPLAUSE.

Theresa May. Last week Parliament voted

for British participation in US-led Today RAF Tornados dropped their

first bombs on Jihadists positions. Earlier today, before that news had

broken, I spoke to the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, and asked

him about the UK effort so far. We have authorised the RAF to go

ahead and they are doing what they do superbly well. There is an air

force in the world that can carry out this task while minimising the

risk of civilian casualties and collateral damage, if there is one,

the RAF is that a force. They have swept up 200 villages in the past 14

days. Baghdad is well defended and we are confident about that. We will

do this properly. We're not going to be panicked into dropping bombs all

over the place. Nobody is arguing that. We have to make sure we

identify the enemy, monitor their movements and attacked precisely the

targets that we need to attack. Do we have the capability to do this?

How many combat squadrons did we have when the first Gulf war broke

out in 1991? I cannot answer that question. 30. How many do we have

now? Again, it depends on your definition of a combat Squadron. We

have 120 Typhoon aircraft and 40 tornadoes. We have seven. How many

do the French have? I'm not getting into this game. By now you have been

playing it a lot. But this is highly relevant. There is nobody who knows

anything about the power who is suggesting that the French force is

a more formidable force than the RAF. -- Ukippers. It is about your

training of your people and the capability of your equipment. Have

you had legal advice that an attack on Syria would be legal? There is

advice that there is a credible legal basis for action. So why have

we not included Syria, which is where most of the capabilities of

Islamic State are, in our attacks? Because the request of us was to

support the Iraqi government with air strikes in Iraq. But we have not

ruled out the possibility of carrying out air strikes. Do you

think it is likely that this conflict, when it begins, will

extend to Syria? We will look at the case for extending British activity

into Syria, and we will look at whether there are things that we

could do that would significantly augment the coalition campaign. If

we think that there are, we will make the case to Parliament. We will

need additional support from Parliament. We will go back to

Parliament and get parliamentary agreement. I think the message we

heard from the opposition and from many members across the house last

Friday was that the house is open-minded about the case for

extending the campaign. They want to hear the arguments and understand

why we need to do it, you do not want to just give us part once. The

man moved to Hong Kong, where as part of the agreement in 1997,

Britain is a guarantor of the autonomy agreed for the people of

Hong Kong. Why have we not taken a stronger line condemning what is

happening there? We deplore what is going on in Hong Kong at the moment.

And the sequence of events here is that the Chinese government has

announced proposals for the selection of candidates for Chief

Executive. The first election ever. We did not have Chief Executive is

collected on universal suffrage. This is a step forward. Universal

suffrage is in the agreement? It was introduced after the Sino British

agreement. It was the joint declaration. That is a good step

forward and there are many people in Hong Kong who were disappointed with

the announcement that came from Beijing, around the way that

candidates would be improved for this election. There is now a period

in which there is consultation going on and we have not reached the final

stage. Have you made the British view strongly known to the Chinese?

Yes. I met the vice premier in Derby two weekends ago and had a very

frank discussion with them about these issues.

Theresa May is seen by some as a possible successor to David Cameron.

He followed the Home Secretary and the contrast in styles could

Instead of serious and tough we had barn-storming and knockabout.

He had UKIP defectors - Ukippers - in his sight

He didn't mention that one of his own former deputy mayors had

Before regularly further I want to check one thing. -- before I'd go

any further. Are we all here, by and large, are we all proud

conservatives? Are we proud to be part of the oldest Western

democracy? Do we intend to fight the next election under the Conservative

banner? And no other? Are there any defectors here? Are there any

quitters or splitters? Anybody feeling a bit yellow around the

edges? Like a keeper? -- kipper. I'd genuinely think this is a fantastic

time to be a conservative and I think last few weeks, particularly

last week, we have seen the beginning of the end of the tapioca

like consensus that Ed Miliband could somehow infiltrate or inveigle

themselves into power by pandering to his whole vote and relying on the

unfairness of the electoral system. -- Courville. The chattering classes

are waking up to the reality that victory is within our grasp. If you

pull my toenails out, I would confess to you that post-Olympic

London is by most measures the most popular and most successful city on

earth. We had 16.9 million tourist visitors last year, knocking Paris

of the number one spot. We are building a superb garden bridge in

the middle of the city, doing fantastic things in the Olympic

Park. I could go on and on but time will not cause the gist is that

London is going gang bust is. My point to you today is that if

someone tells you that that means London is somehow different from the

rest of the country, trying to imply that what happens in London is

irrelevant to the economic fortunes of the nation, then I would

respectfully tell them that they are talking through the back of the

neck, because at this conference we can say with pride that London

remains not just the capital of England, but thanks to the wisdom of

a clear majority of Scots, it is the capital of Britain and the capital

of the United Kingdom. And will remain so.

APPLAUSE. And will, I believe, remain so for

our lifetimes. You have permission to purr, if you so choose.

I want to change the mentality that pervades the Brussels commission and

tells us that they can decide how powerful our vacuum cleaners should

be on a point on which I will not elaborate. There is only one leader

in Europe who can deliver that reform. One man who has the

experience and the respect in Europe to make the case, and take that case

to the people of this country in the in-out referendum that we have been

denied for 40 years. And that man is not Alex Salmond or Nick Clegg or

Nigel Farage order Ed Miliband. Because not one of them will give us

a random. That man is David Cameron. APPLAUSE. -- a referendum.

And that is the man who is going to lead our country into 2015 and

beyond. And that... APPLAUSE. And that is our new fisheries policy

that we need. We need to chuck Alex Salmond overboard, then eat the

kippers for breakfast. Master the art of a bacon sandwich.

Let's leave the Clegger. Let's leave Nick Clegg to get on with whatever

he does - which I haven't quite discovered! Let us get on. Let us

Conservatives get on with our work of unleashing the talents of the

people of this country and the most dynamic economy in Europe. Thank you

very much for listening to me and see you at the barricades. Thank

you. Now to something we hardly ever talk

about at Tory Party Conferences - David Cameron has promised

a referendum in 2017 But what's the in-out mood

of the party now? If there was one issue that the

Tories feel very passionately about, one issue that divides them more

than any other. One issue that some party strategists wish would go

away, it's Europe. David Cameron is going to offer a referendum in out

in 2017. Why wait? There are a huge mix of views in the Conservative

Party. But I think there is a general assumption that in is not

sustainable. If you had a referendum now, in or out? In the European

Union. I strongly believe that. For business reasons primarily. It does

need a lot of reform. Don't get me wrong. Absolutely. For business

reasons. We need it. We can't have uncertainty at all. Businesses need

to know in and out. My instinct is that we are very likely to be out

unless the Prime Minister can pull out something really good out of his

negotiations with Europe. How many can I put in "out"? One vote and one

ball? One vote, one ball it. Has to be out. Why is it so definitely out?

Because we are fed up with people running our country. We want to

repatriate our laws here. We want to have employment laws that make us

the fastest growing place and the biggest GDP growing in the whole of

the West of the world. You sound like people I met in Doncaster? Is

Well, Doncaster is a nice place. South Derbyshire is good enough for

me. It's staying Tory. It's surprising to me that the remainder

are still out. I expect it would be the ins who would be here. The box

doesn't lie. No Secretary of State's playing ball? No, no. We are having

our referendum now? Right, OK. I put it in "in" I have benefitted from

the EU. I have lived in France for many years. And, I think we are

stronger to be part of something bigger. We are in a globalised

world. Better in. I'm out under the current terms. A free trade

agreement with the European Union, expand and trade with the world.

Out. There you are. They don't like this one. It scares them. What is

the question? What do you reckon that is about? Europe. We are having

the referendum early. When I was 11 I was a eurosceptic. Now, I'm not. I

don't know. Is you were a eurosceptic at 11 Yeah. A bit early?

A little bit early. I kind of got a little... You grew up? Yeah,

basically! A to you people don't quite understand. We have won the

argument for Europe. A crucial thing to take place it. Will affect our

country for generations. Complex detailed negotiations have to take

place. Listen to that. See what the arguments are, see how it pans out

and make a decision. The mood box never ceases to surprise. Out was

well ahead. Then suddenly the in's kept coming in! Some people were

surprised by that they suggested, what could it be? One solution seems

to be, lots of Tories who used to be out, aren't in this party any more.

Last week, Labour put the NHS at the heart of their 2015 election pitch.

It's an issue on which they poll way ahead of the Tories.

But not to be outdone, the Tories laid out their cards on

the NHS, including GP surgeries will open seven-days a week, 12-hours

Earlier, I spoke to the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt.

The Prime Minister announced it at the Tory Conference last year. You

reannounced it again this year. Instead of making these

announcements, why haven't you attempted to get GP agreement to

this? Well, we haven't reannounced it this year. That is not what

happened at all. It was in your manifesto? Yes, we are delivering on

that. Last year we announced we would make it possible for people to

get GP appointments seven-days a week for a million people Wen

delivered that. Illion -- we delivered that. They don't want to

have to take time off work to see their GP. They want to see their GP

at weekend. It was a success. We are now rolling that out. What the Prime

Minister said this morning is he is going to roll it out to another

million people. He is committed that by the end of the next parliament,

with a Conservative government, everyone will be able to access -- -

It was in your 2010 manifesto. It won't be ready for everybody until

2020. 10 years it has taken. Is that a Tory Party in action? We will

deliver it to another million people. He said something else. It's

important. These things can't be magiced up. Actually, to deliver

this promise you need more capacity in general practice. What he has

also said, is that we will train 5,000 more GPs so that we actually

have the capacity to deliver this commit am. You cannot do it unless

you get a new contract with the GPs, correct? We have a new contract,

which we announced today? Including this? This is part of what we are

offering. Does it include this? It's being agreed with GPs outside the GP

contract. Have you begun negotiations with the GPs on this

seven-day delivery? Yes we have agreed it with 1,200 GP surgeries we

will agree it with another 1,200 GP surgeries next year. You hope?

Hope?. We had an overwhelming response when we offered after last

year's contract. Far more people took part in this than we actually

did. We have done something else. We will go back to GPs having personal

responsibility for their patients. Labour scrapped named GPs for every

single person in 2004. We think that was wrong. We believe that

relationship between doctor and patient is very important. Every

medical record will now, for every single person in England, go back to

having the name of a GP on it. Acute hospitals. This year, heading for a

?1 billion deficit. How are you going to fill the gap? The NHS as a

whole is balancing its books. We will continue to balance its books.

NHS England says there will be a ?2

billion black hole in the 15-16 budget, how will you fill that? They

don't say that. What they say is that it's going to be very difficult

to find efficiency savings. We have found, in this Parliament, ?20

billion of efficiency savings we are doing a million more operations

eryear, year in, year out, on the NHS than we were doing four years

ago. That is a tremendous achievement. Hospitals are, working

very hard in tough circumstances. The NHS is doing really well. You

are missing waiting time targets. NHS England said in the lifetime of

the next Parliament the black hole could total ?30 billion, how will

you fill that? It's challenging to hit the targets we have in the NHS.

You have to look at the volume of activity. We are doing nearly a

million more operations a year. Cancer, when we came to office we

had one of the lowest cancer survival rates in western Europe. We

are now testing 1,000 more people every single day for cancer in the

NHS. We are treating - we are on track to treat a million more people

this Parliament for cancer. We are starting to close the gap with other

European countries. There are important successes we need to talk

about when talking about the challenges.

New Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, announced approval

for 35 new free schools, which she said was the next stage

She was introduced by the Olympic Champion cyclist,

Victoria Pendleton, who, unsurprisingly, talked about

Sport can often provide opportunity for children who feel their

circumstances limit their options in life. Increasing their confidence

and their aspirations. Of course not every child will score in the

Premiership or clinch Olympic gold, you can't under estimate the life

lessons that sport can offer. Sometimes you win, sometimes you

lose. In sport as in life. It's how you deal with the success and the

failure that really builds character. That is why sport and

physical activity can provide in abundance.

APPLAUSE So please keep the PE and sport

premium going and keep supporting sport in schools. Because if you

want more children to leave school healthy and prepared for life in

modern Britain, with everything that will be thrown at them, you might as

well give them a sporting chance. Thank you.

APPLAUSE It's my pleasure to introduce the

Secretary of State of Education and Minister for Women and Equalities,

Nicky Morgan. APPLAUSE I don't want my child to be

taught by someone too tired, too stress and too anxious to do the job

well. I don't want any child to have to settle for that. So I have set

two priorities. Firstly, to do everything I can to reduce the

overall burden on teachers. Second, to ensure that teachers spend more

time in the classroom teaching. .

I don't pretend this is easy. It is not. The reason teachers in England

work longer hours than their counterparts elsewhere in the world

are many and varied. I wish I could announce some great initiative today

that would solve this problem at a stroke. I can't do that. But I will

work with the profession, over the coming months, to find solutions.

Around 80% of new free schools support or collaborate with at least

one other school. It's the same for Academies. Increasingly private and

state schools are working together to drive up standards too. Choice

and competition and support and collaboration, delivering a better

education for all our nation's children. That's what we mean by

"together." This is nothing short of a schools revolution. Choice for

parents, where previously choice was short. Increasingly the guarantee of

a good or outstanding local school for all. So today I am pleased to

announce the next stage of that revolution, with the approval of 35

new free schools to inject further choice, diversity and ideas into

local communities. . That's it for today from Birmingham,

on the day Theresa May announced controversial new measures to curb

extremist speech. The Tories promised everyone

in England GP surgeries seven-days a week, and Boris threatened to eat

UKippers for breakfast. Tomorrow morning,

we'll hear from the International Development Secretary,

Justine Greening, the Defence Secretary Michael Fallon and the

Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond. But of course, the big ticket is for

the Prime Minister, David Cameron. We'll bring you the build up here

on BBC Two from 11.00am and then the full speech live,

and uninterrupted, in I'll be back tomorrow night

after Newsnight with another Today