:13:55. > :29:30.Unlike the Chancellor, most of the bankers still have their jobs. The
:29:31. > :29:34.Remain claim that leaving would make everybody for thousand ?300 worse
:29:35. > :29:40.off. Where on earth did that figure come from? The claim by our Shadow
:29:41. > :29:45.Chancellor and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown that Labour would get
:29:46. > :29:52.an extra ?35 million funding for the EU if we Remain. Another myth. The
:29:53. > :29:59.economy continues to grow. House prices and sales are up. Exports are
:30:00. > :30:04.up. Investment plans are up. Retail sales are up. 27 countries have
:30:05. > :30:20.approached us are ready for trade deals. How wrong can these experts
:30:21. > :30:30.be? Even the numbers on the dole are up, sorry down. I will read that
:30:31. > :30:38.again. Even the numbers on the dole fell. We can make for the 3 million
:30:39. > :30:42.job losses the gloom stirs forecast. What about the five million-plus
:30:43. > :30:54.jobs the EU will lose? Two major overseas banks have both reiterated
:30:55. > :30:55.their intention to open new headquarters offices and trading
:30:56. > :31:13.floors in London. Even the head of advertising giant
:31:14. > :31:18.WPP and a Remain support says his global company is benefiting from a
:31:19. > :31:28.post Brexit recovery and the lower pound makes our exports more
:31:29. > :31:31.competitive. All these Remain skiers remind me of the main man on
:31:32. > :31:38.Westminster Bridge who saw another man on the parapet about to jump in
:31:39. > :31:43.on the River. He grabbed the man by the ankles and asked him what he was
:31:44. > :31:48.doing. The man mumbled something about recession, trade barriers,
:31:49. > :31:52.economic disaster and war if the voters believe. The Remain man asked
:31:53. > :31:58.in to calm down and tell him all about it. A to Leave surely could
:31:59. > :32:03.not be as bad as all that. Five minutes later we both jumped off the
:32:04. > :32:12.bridge. -- via both jumped off the bridge.
:32:13. > :32:23.My wife told me no jokes. That is why I did it. Without Nigel's
:32:24. > :32:34.inspirational leadership, none of this would have been possible. Let
:32:35. > :32:39.us also not forget those who founded the party and grew it. They held you
:32:40. > :32:47.get together for all those years in the wilderness. -- Ukip. We all
:32:48. > :33:02.gratitude to Nigel and all of you and the people who voted to Leave.
:33:03. > :33:09.May I add to the chairman of express newspapers and the editor of the
:33:10. > :33:11.Daily Express for his support for many years for the beliefs as we as
:33:12. > :33:30.Ukip called. -- called. Even though I am the deputy chairman
:33:31. > :33:37.of Express, unpaid, I did not have to say that. I only receive one
:33:38. > :33:42.grumpy call from Nigel during the whole campaign, which I thought was
:33:43. > :33:47.pretty good. Let us not forget that in electing a new leader after a
:33:48. > :33:51.very strong leader, there may be disgruntled members who seek to
:33:52. > :34:04.disrupt the party. This must be avoided at all costs. One only needs
:34:05. > :34:09.to look at what happened in the Conservative Party after Margaret
:34:10. > :34:12.Thatcher was forced out. It had a succession of leaders who were
:34:13. > :34:16.unable to establish their authority and it disappeared into the
:34:17. > :34:21.wilderness for many years. Let us rally round our new leader, whoever
:34:22. > :34:26.that may be and all pull together. The fight is not over yet. There
:34:27. > :34:30.might still be an early election if the Prime Minister cannot get her
:34:31. > :34:36.programme approved by parliament. However, we should not be frightened
:34:37. > :34:41.by an election. I do not really understand what we are talking
:34:42. > :34:46.about. We now have, thanks to camera and changing the law, a five-year
:34:47. > :34:50.parliamentary term and an early election can only be called if the
:34:51. > :34:55.House of Commons resolves that this house has no confidence in Her
:34:56. > :34:58.Majesty 's Government, or if the House of Commons with the support of
:34:59. > :35:03.two thirds of the total membership resolves that there should be an
:35:04. > :35:07.early parliamentary election. Looking at the state of the Labour
:35:08. > :35:19.Party, turkeys don't vote for Christmas. -- David Cameron.
:35:20. > :35:28.Difficult as an early election is, we may be ready. -- must be. With
:35:29. > :35:33.our increased support in the country, we must take the
:35:34. > :35:38.opportunity to review and revise our rule book is needed. This must
:35:39. > :35:44.include revisiting the role of the NEC, who have done much valuable
:35:45. > :35:48.unpaid work. In my opinion, is small group of six should be formed by the
:35:49. > :35:56.new leader to make recommendations to you, the members. Be magnanimous
:35:57. > :36:05.in victory and gracious in defeat. Many of the remainder is seen to
:36:06. > :36:13.accept the result. -- seem to be. I'm feel like asking them to a
:36:14. > :36:18.funeral to cheer them up a bit. When you think that one and a half
:36:19. > :36:23.million voters voted to Leave than Remain, out of a record number
:36:24. > :36:30.reported, you have to ask, do they ever do their homework? Is at the
:36:31. > :36:35.last election 20,000, yes, 20,000 voters, in the most marginal
:36:36. > :36:39.Conservative seats had instead voted for the runner-up, the Conservatives
:36:40. > :36:43.would have lost over 20 seats and thus a majority. Is that marginal
:36:44. > :36:49.enough to call another general election? We are not Brussels, when
:36:50. > :36:53.a country votes against the Lisbon Treaty they are spent to keep on
:36:54. > :36:57.voting until the vote in favour. There were two organisations vying
:36:58. > :37:02.for the official designation in the referendum. The winner getting a
:37:03. > :37:07.Government grant and raise and spend more on the campaign. These were
:37:08. > :37:14.vote Leave and Leave EU. I was on the board of call with Nigel and the
:37:15. > :37:23.Toon Army we did not get the designation. -- we did not get the
:37:24. > :37:29.designation. The Cabinet ministers joined the vote Leave. They refuse
:37:30. > :37:35.to work with us. A commission was formed in Parliament by vote Leave,
:37:36. > :37:39.to which we were invited. Like many large committees, it did not seem to
:37:40. > :37:43.achieve a great deal except to be not the least bit interested in my
:37:44. > :37:49.suggestion that we should all work together with Ukip, which I thought
:37:50. > :38:00.quite bizarre. Without Nigel and UK, there would never have been a
:38:01. > :38:05.referendum. -- and Ukip. Sadly, even the Government did not want my help
:38:06. > :38:11.in negotiating Brexit. As far as the campaign was concerned, when we got
:38:12. > :38:16.onto the subject of immigration, we were in danger of losing. The vote
:38:17. > :38:21.Leave campaign did not, want to discuss immigration. Even amongst a
:38:22. > :38:27.group of supposedly working together, one of us was described as
:38:28. > :38:40.one MP on the vote Leave aside as toxic. Well, toxic enough to get
:38:41. > :38:46.17.5 million votes. It is not racist to talk about the problems of mass
:38:47. > :38:51.immigration. 700,000 gross a year, this is the figure to concentrate
:38:52. > :38:59.on, as an accurate as it may be when you consider more insurance numbers
:39:00. > :39:11.are granted to UK citizens a year. The new campaign, Obama forgot to
:39:12. > :39:17.consider the queue consists of the EU.
:39:18. > :39:25.The EU has not agreed a single one of the 27 chapters that make up that
:39:26. > :39:32.treaty. The transatlantic trade investment partnership, plus that
:39:33. > :39:41.treaty threatened in the pan Torah box of corporate law suits. --
:39:42. > :39:46.Pandora box. The US desire for health countries should be able to
:39:47. > :39:53.sue those governments in order to participate or get compensation.
:39:54. > :39:58.They could compete to run the NHS. Therefore, under that agreement,
:39:59. > :40:03.could have been by advised. Think how much easier it will be for one
:40:04. > :40:09.country, the UK, to negotiate trade deals. After all, Norway did it in
:40:10. > :40:17.seven months. Deploying Tony Blair, Tony Blair, Gordon Blair, and every
:40:18. > :40:21.Tom Dick and Harry, would be counter-productive. We know for
:40:22. > :40:26.example, one of the major contributors in money terms is the
:40:27. > :40:32.EU. The latest farce of the Government of the bank of England,
:40:33. > :40:35.claiming the forecast before and after the vote help to steady the
:40:36. > :40:42.ship and meant the effects were not as bad as they might have been. I am
:40:43. > :40:54.only an economist, I could not get into Oxford.
:40:55. > :41:01.From my experience, a quarter cut in interest rates and maybe buying a
:41:02. > :41:05.view bonds does not make a difference to anything. How could
:41:06. > :41:10.such a minor gesture have an effect on the economy so quickly? Some
:41:11. > :41:14.might ask why a re-cutting interest rates in the first place just as
:41:15. > :41:20.inflation is picking up's Brexit will not cause a loss of confidence
:41:21. > :41:24.in the UK economy. In mind all the doomsters forecasts, all of the
:41:25. > :41:28.major indicators of the vote is remarkable. The bank created the
:41:29. > :41:34.impression that exiting would economic disaster. Why did they not
:41:35. > :41:37.say before that this disaster could be avoided by a cut in interest
:41:38. > :41:53.rates? It is impossible to believe. The
:41:54. > :41:57.Treasury were just as bad. What a terrible shame that both did not
:41:58. > :42:04.Remain independent and above the fray. We were not greatly concerned
:42:05. > :42:12.with project fear. Cameron and company having one, thought they
:42:13. > :42:16.could repeat the process. A major mistake. We made mistakes too but we
:42:17. > :42:25.had you on the ground and the whole organisation. As they say, you
:42:26. > :42:30.cannot win a war without boots on the ground. Remainders were so busy
:42:31. > :42:36.fiddling around Westminster that they lost the plot. May I just add,
:42:37. > :42:38.never underestimate an opponent, especially his swivel eyed blinkered
:42:39. > :43:00.loom. -- loony. There have been lots of suggestions
:43:01. > :43:07.where after Brexit, Remain from here to Albania, Switzerland but the
:43:08. > :43:11.doctor may the best option, to avoid all the endless pressure groups, as
:43:12. > :43:22.to either to declare the UK a free trade area or join the World Trade
:43:23. > :43:34.Organisation. And to do it as soon as possible. Let us pause on Germany
:43:35. > :43:41.for a moment. We hear allsorts of skier stories about trade after
:43:42. > :43:49.Brexit. The -- skier stories. An excellent report from Barclay bank,
:43:50. > :43:54.Germany trade surplus with the UK is nearly 2% of their GDP. The UK is
:43:55. > :44:00.Germany's third export market with ?80 billion of sales per year.
:44:01. > :44:07.Germany's exports to the UK increased by 50% from 2010 to 2015.
:44:08. > :44:14.8% of German goods exports come to the UK. Cars and other vehicles were
:44:15. > :44:16.half the trade surplus with the UK. Does anyone serious believe they
:44:17. > :44:30.want trade barriers Of course there will be problems.
:44:31. > :44:35.But to try and satisfy every pressure group is impossible. The
:44:36. > :44:40.threat that many companies will be relocated should be ignored. Sooner
:44:41. > :44:45.or later, people will realise that to relocate businesses to France,
:44:46. > :44:53.Italy, Spain, Greece... LAUGHTER
:44:54. > :44:59.Turkey or even Germany presents a huge and rising risk when you look
:45:00. > :45:07.at the state of the EU. I do know Turkey's not in there yet. You may
:45:08. > :45:12.even have seen the statistic, the new head negotiator on EU Brexit, a
:45:13. > :45:16.man who knows his business, said that we the UK are rats leaving a
:45:17. > :45:28.sinking ship. APPLAUSE
:45:29. > :45:40.If that is what he thinks of his employer, why should we want to sync
:45:41. > :45:45.with Henman? I do not understand the obsession of the Westminster bubble
:45:46. > :45:51.to stay in the single market. Of course we want tariff hike in free
:45:52. > :45:54.trade with the rest of the EU, but single market means unlimited
:45:55. > :46:00.immigration, all the rules and regulations... Would you mind, I'm
:46:01. > :46:08.trying to make a speech. You are doing better than me! You've only
:46:09. > :46:11.got to read it. Where was I? All the rules and regulations, and the
:46:12. > :46:16.jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. We do not want a single
:46:17. > :46:26.market, we want free trade. APPLAUSE
:46:27. > :46:34.Our negotiating strength is much stronger than some realise. So the
:46:35. > :46:38.EU gets two years. If, when we exercise Article 50, if there is no
:46:39. > :46:44.agreement, we just leave after the two years. They will fall over
:46:45. > :46:47.themselves to do a deal. And one day we will open and finalise fairly
:46:48. > :46:54.quickly trade deals with the rest of the world. Our aim should be to turn
:46:55. > :46:59.the UK into a low-tax are commonly. Thanks to Brown and Osborne's
:47:00. > :47:03.fiddling, we have a tax code which is complex and a drain on the
:47:04. > :47:08.economy. The new Chancellor keeps saying the result of the vote is a
:47:09. > :47:13.surprise. Well, where in fairness he does not seem to be the only one.
:47:14. > :47:20.Iraqi, there was no plan letter Baker. One would hope Mr Cameron has
:47:21. > :47:25.learned from that experience, that he does not seem to have had a plan
:47:26. > :47:30.either once Gadhafi was overthrown. It has been discovered that the
:47:31. > :47:34.Government and silver service did little or no planning if the
:47:35. > :47:42.Government lost the referendum -- civil service. What were they doing?
:47:43. > :47:47.It must be fair and big businesses must pay that you amount, but must
:47:48. > :47:52.be simple and offer incentives. But us have a low tax and free trade
:47:53. > :48:00.economy and have it sooner. And that is get on with Brexit, either by
:48:01. > :48:09.repealing the 72 European communities act...
:48:10. > :48:10.APPLAUSE Or exercising section 50 of the
:48:11. > :48:25.Lisbon Treaty. The longer we delay, the more
:48:26. > :48:35.entrenched negotiation positions will become. We are assumed that
:48:36. > :48:39.while we, from a zero starting position, because of the disgraceful
:48:40. > :48:43.failure of the civil service to make any preparations for the Leave vote,
:48:44. > :48:48.we have all the time in the world. Emigration is a flooding in, and our
:48:49. > :48:53.opponents, the EU, are planning their approach. And seeking to
:48:54. > :49:00.present a united front in their negotiations with us. Why are we
:49:01. > :49:04.giving them so much time to prepare? The great British people had given
:49:05. > :49:06.the Government that instructions, get on with it and stop fiddling
:49:07. > :49:35.around. APPLAUSE
:49:36. > :49:44.Thank you very much. Were the two speeches to start a conference or
:49:45. > :49:47.were they? About a week ago I was contacted by journalists who wanted
:49:48. > :49:53.to speak to me about the conference, and they said to me, rumour is it's
:49:54. > :49:59.going to be a bit drab. There's only going to be a couple of hundred
:50:00. > :50:02.people there. For the benefit of him and the people standing at the back
:50:03. > :50:05.of the room, we're going to bring more chairs and in the mid-morning
:50:06. > :50:11.break so you won't be standing for long. Final speech before the coffee
:50:12. > :50:16.break, another giant of the party he will be leaving us as deputy leader,
:50:17. > :50:21.but we hope will not be leaving us entirely. He is without doubt one of
:50:22. > :50:29.the most capable people we have an hour party. He's been dynamic in the
:50:30. > :50:31.north in establishing a foundation on which our future successes in
:50:32. > :50:37.that part of the country will doubtless come. Ladies and
:50:38. > :50:40.gentlemen, our outgoing deputy leader, Paul Nuttall, MEP.
:50:41. > :50:58.APPLAUSE Thank you very much for that one
:50:59. > :51:05.welcome. Good morning, conference! Thank you, Paul. We did it, didn't
:51:06. > :51:10.we? We achieved what we set out to do, we have succeeded in getting
:51:11. > :51:16.ourselves out of this sclerotic, out of date European Union.
:51:17. > :51:21.APPLAUSE And aren't we getting off this
:51:22. > :51:27.juggernaut just at the right time? Only 48 hours ago, in the European
:51:28. > :51:33.Parliament, we heard the president of the European Commission,
:51:34. > :51:38.Jean-Claude Juncker, and from us that's full steam ahead for a
:51:39. > :51:42.European army. When Nigel Farage warned of this back in 2014, Nick
:51:43. > :51:50.Clegg called him a dangerous fantasist. Some good it did him.
:51:51. > :51:57.LAUGHTER APPLAUSE
:51:58. > :52:02.As I was travelling back from Strasbourg the other day, I came
:52:03. > :52:06.across Nick Clegg on television, promoting his new autobiography.
:52:07. > :52:10.Yes, he has crawled out from under that Stone under which he has been
:52:11. > :52:17.hiding. And they replayed some of his Brexit warnings. He literally
:52:18. > :52:22.just stopped short of warning of new killer Holocaust, a plague of
:52:23. > :52:28.locusts, and the murder of every first child born. It was Project
:52:29. > :52:34.Fear on turbo. It was clear, there and then, there was only one person
:52:35. > :52:40.living on fantasy Island, and it isn't Nigel, and it isn't us.
:52:41. > :52:44.Because we know, as a country, we will go now from strength to
:52:45. > :52:45.strength, free from the shackles of our Brussels masters.
:52:46. > :53:09.APPLAUSE HECKLE
:53:10. > :53:15.Absolutely. I'm celebrating with my Brexit beard, which meant nobody
:53:16. > :53:20.recognised me last night. At least it has lasted longer than Nigel's
:53:21. > :53:26.1970s moustache. On a serious note, we have achieved so much in so
:53:27. > :53:32.little time. Undoubtedly, our greatest achievement has been this
:53:33. > :53:35.referendum. It would not have happened if it hadn't have been for
:53:36. > :53:45.Ukip. APPLAUSE
:53:46. > :53:48.In 2013, we pushed the Prime Minister into offering a referendum
:53:49. > :53:54.that he never wanted to give. And why? Because Ukip was steadily
:53:55. > :53:59.rising in the polls and scoring local election wins all over the
:54:00. > :54:04.country. Mr Cameron thought he could seek the Ukip votes by offering this
:54:05. > :54:11.referendum. But all he did was simply feed it. The membership began
:54:12. > :54:15.to rise rapidly. We began to speak to huge audiences across the
:54:16. > :54:20.country. Nidal set off on his purple taxi the length and breadth of
:54:21. > :54:25.Britain. He literally spoke to thousands of people. I did 200
:54:26. > :54:32.public meetings in two years. Ukip began to catch on. We exploded into
:54:33. > :54:34.local governments, and we now have 500 hard-working councillors across
:54:35. > :54:44.the country. APPLAUSE
:54:45. > :54:56.We forced the referendum, and you helped to win it. Rex it is yours.
:54:57. > :54:59.-- Brexit is yours. You were the foot soldiers, you manned the stars,
:55:00. > :55:10.delivered leaflets and got our country back.
:55:11. > :55:16.APPLAUSE You have made us proud again. You
:55:17. > :55:21.will be thanked by the next generation for giving them the power
:55:22. > :55:26.to shape their own destinies. Do not and arrests are made what you have
:55:27. > :55:30.achieved - Brexit will shape the direction this country will take in
:55:31. > :55:35.the first half of this century. And what direction do we want it to
:55:36. > :55:40.take? We want to see a Britain that can stand proud in the world, free
:55:41. > :55:43.and independent. A Britain that makes its own laws and has the
:55:44. > :55:54.ability to protect its own borders. APPLAUSE
:55:55. > :56:00.This means there can be no backsliding on Brexit. Any attempt
:56:01. > :56:12.to maintain freedom of movement of people will not be acceptable.
:56:13. > :56:17.APPLAUSE I want to see us have access to the
:56:18. > :56:22.single market, but not be part of it. I want a Britain that is friends
:56:23. > :56:29.with our European neighbours, but not passed and dictated to. We want
:56:30. > :56:40.all of our laws to be made at Westminster by people we elect.
:56:41. > :56:45.APPLAUSE I also want to see a Britain that
:56:46. > :56:49.looks to the urgent markets of the far East and Asia, and reignites its
:56:50. > :56:54.links with the Commonwealth, which we so shamelessly turned our backs
:56:55. > :57:02.on in the 1970s. APPLAUSE
:57:03. > :57:07.This can now all be achieved, and it's thanks to you - give yourselves
:57:08. > :57:16.a round of applause. APPLAUSE
:57:17. > :57:21.I stood on this very platform eight years ago and said that I believed
:57:22. > :57:27.that Ukip's future lay, as a part three of the patriotic work King
:57:28. > :57:34.class. Very few people believe me at the time. But it is clear this is
:57:35. > :57:37.Ukip's great opportunity. Where, in many of these working-class
:57:38. > :57:43.opportunities, where the Labour Party has dominated for years, they
:57:44. > :57:47.are weak and dying. The Labour Party has lost touch with its
:57:48. > :57:52.working-class roots. It is a Labour Party that is increasingly dominated
:57:53. > :57:56.by the views of the Islington dinner party, and a Labour Party that
:57:57. > :58:07.actually sneers at our own flag. APPLAUSE
:58:08. > :58:14.Ukip can make great strides in these areas as a party that wants to see
:58:15. > :58:19.firm that there order control. That wants to see prison sentences mean
:58:20. > :58:23.what they say. That wants to see all children of all classes get a fair
:58:24. > :58:26.start in life, and one that is prepared to put British people at
:58:27. > :58:39.the top of the pile. APPLAUSE
:58:40. > :58:48.Now, let me talk about the future of the party and the new leader,
:58:49. > :58:57.whoever he or she may be. I will be frank at this point, because I can
:58:58. > :59:09.now, Ukip has not been a happy camp for over a year. And the animosity
:59:10. > :59:12.has spilt over into the media. No one, no one, has emerged from this
:59:13. > :59:20.with their heads held high. The designation process between Leave.EU
:59:21. > :59:27.and Vote Leave created a cancer in the heart of the party, and led to
:59:28. > :59:32.its leading lights using Ukip as a football. So much so that, at this
:59:33. > :59:35.present moment, the party resembles a jigsaw that has been emptied onto
:59:36. > :59:52.the floor. The new leader must put it back
:59:53. > :59:59.together. This can only be done through talking to people, not
:00:00. > :00:04.issuing empty threats or pursuing internal navel-gazing schemes that
:00:05. > :00:10.will most likely amount to nothing. The opportunities are there. Today
:00:11. > :00:18.is a breakwater in the history of this party. It is a changing of the
:00:19. > :00:25.guard. Both Nigel and I are standing down from the stage and standing
:00:26. > :00:30.down must mean standing down. The new leader will not benefit in any
:00:31. > :00:35.way shape or form if any of us attempt to back-seat drive. They
:00:36. > :00:38.must be their own person. They must stand their own mark and they must
:00:39. > :00:47.take control of every lever of the party. The new leader must be a
:00:48. > :00:56.unifier, not a divide. Seek compromise, bring people together.
:00:57. > :01:01.As Winston Churchill once said, jot war is always preferable to war war.
:01:02. > :01:16.They must not lead what the Westminster journalists call a car
:01:17. > :01:21.as well Ukip. The must read Ukip. A Ukip for everyone. -- read Ukip.
:01:22. > :01:33.They must ensure that the party is a big tent, were all talents are
:01:34. > :01:36.utilised. People are not marginalised or simply holding
:01:37. > :01:41.alternative viewpoints. I have always believed that the barometer
:01:42. > :01:47.of the maturity of any political party is how it deals with people
:01:48. > :01:52.who have different opinions. This, unfortunately, is something we have
:01:53. > :01:57.failed to do well over the years. This must change because if it does
:01:58. > :02:02.not, and the new leader continues to preserve over the infighting we have
:02:03. > :02:09.seen over the past year, I fear the very future of our party. This is a
:02:10. > :02:15.great opportunity to put all that behind us. To look for words and not
:02:16. > :02:20.backwards, to let bygones be bygones. The new leader has a clean
:02:21. > :02:25.state and my advice is this, look outwards and not in words. Be
:02:26. > :02:29.optimistic and positive. Do not get bogged down in internal squabbling
:02:30. > :02:33.and focus on fighting the enemy is and not on fighting each other.
:02:34. > :02:44.APPLAUSE .
:02:45. > :02:54.Of course, as Lord Stevens said, there will have to be some form of
:02:55. > :03:00.constitutional reform. I was the first person in the party, back in
:03:01. > :03:05.2010, to talk about the need of a party board, a political board. I
:03:06. > :03:10.never envisaged for one second that this board would not have elected
:03:11. > :03:15.representation from the membership. Do not allow democracy within the
:03:16. > :03:23.party to be taken away. Do not allow the party... Do not allow the party
:03:24. > :03:28.to become like the European Commission that you have destroyed.
:03:29. > :03:39.It needs to be accountable. APPLAUSE
:03:40. > :03:44.My advice is simply this, yes, let's have a political board for the
:03:45. > :03:49.party, but let's also have a national executive that is elected
:03:50. > :03:58.by the regions. A regionally elected NPC. -- NBC. Eight years ago when I
:03:59. > :04:04.stood on this platform, as your new party chairman, we were a party that
:04:05. > :04:09.was not registering in the opinion polls. Our membership was a near
:04:10. > :04:15.third of what it is now. We were deemed so irrelevant that not one
:04:16. > :04:21.single national journalist actually turned up to cover the conference, I
:04:22. > :04:28.thought Michael Crick outside and that probably isn't a bad thing. We
:04:29. > :04:37.have taken huge strides. I am as proud as punch by what we have all
:04:38. > :04:42.achieved. In 2014, we became the first party since 9006 that wasn't
:04:43. > :04:50.the Labour Party or the Conservatives to go on and win a
:04:51. > :04:55.national election. 1906. We took 4 million votes at the general
:04:56. > :04:59.election. We got the people the EU referendum and we have given this
:05:00. > :05:03.country the opportunity to put the great back into Great Britain.
:05:04. > :05:24.APPLAUSE It is fitting that it ends for me on
:05:25. > :05:28.the very spot where it all began. My colleagues, my friends, it has been
:05:29. > :05:33.a great honour and a pleasure to have been your party chairman and
:05:34. > :05:38.then your deputy leader for the past eight years. I thank you all from
:05:39. > :05:43.the bottom of my heart for the support that you have given both me
:05:44. > :05:52.personally and the party in general. Never forget, you are its heart and
:05:53. > :05:59.lifeblood. Leaders and deputy leaders can come and go. None of us
:06:00. > :06:07.are indispensable. You, the membership, with you, the party
:06:08. > :06:11.would be nothing. -- without you. On that note, it is time to hand over
:06:12. > :06:18.to the next generation. They will take up the mantle. I wish whoever
:06:19. > :06:21.succeeds me as the deputy leader of Ukip, all the best of luck. I thank
:06:22. > :06:46.you all and goodbye. APPLAUSE
:06:47. > :07:26.Ladies and gentlemen, one final cheer for Paul Nuttall MEP.
:07:27. > :07:32.APPLAUSE Ogre, ladies and gentlemen, that
:07:33. > :07:38.speech bring our first session to be close. -- OK, ladies and gentlemen.
:07:39. > :07:43.We are finishing ahead of schedule, breaking records. That is good.
:07:44. > :07:49.We're going to break now for a brief half an hour break and returning
:07:50. > :07:53.back at 11:30am. We will hear from our outgoing chairman and leader,
:07:54. > :08:00.Nigel far right. Please visit our exhibition. I am aware this is a
:08:01. > :08:04.rabbit warren. We are going to do a final sweep of the building to make
:08:05. > :08:13.sure we get everyone out before we go. On the way to the export room,
:08:14. > :08:17.there is a Ukip victory wall. I would encourage you all to go and
:08:18. > :08:23.sign it. It is a big placard that has been put up on our wall for you
:08:24. > :08:25.to sign. Please get back for 1130 AM to listen to Steve. We will see you
:08:26. > :09:26.then. My large ladies and gentlemen, after
:09:27. > :09:27.a speech like that, I'd feel