:00:14. > :00:22.Thank you very much for that warm welcome and good morning conference!
:00:23. > :00:27.We did it, didn't we? We did it! We achieved what we set out to do. We
:00:28. > :00:38.have succeeded in getting ourselves out of this sclerotic out of date
:00:39. > :00:43.European union. And aren't we getting off this juggernaut just at
:00:44. > :00:48.the right time? Only 48 hours ago in the European Parliament we heard the
:00:49. > :00:58.president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker employee --
:00:59. > :01:03.inform us of a European army, when Nigel Farage warned us of this back
:01:04. > :01:15.in 2014, Nick Clegg called him a dangerous fantasist. Some good it
:01:16. > :01:19.did him. As I was travelling back from Strasbourg the other day, I
:01:20. > :01:26.came across Nick Clegg on television, promoting his new
:01:27. > :01:30.autobiography. Yes, he has crawled out from under that stone. They
:01:31. > :01:39.replayed some of his Brexit warnings. He literally stopped short
:01:40. > :01:47.of warning of a plague of locusts and the murder of every first child
:01:48. > :01:51.born! It was project here -- project here on turbo. It was clear there
:01:52. > :01:57.was only one person living on fantasy Island and it isn't Nigel,
:01:58. > :02:03.and it isn't us. Because we know as a country we will go now from
:02:04. > :02:04.strength to strength, free from the shackles of our Brussels masters!
:02:05. > :02:25.APPLAUSE But we are celebrating in our own
:02:26. > :02:30.little way. I'm doing it with my Brexit beard which meant no one
:02:31. > :02:38.recognised me last night. At least it lasted longer than Nigel's 1970s
:02:39. > :02:46.moustache! On a serious note, we have achieved so much in so much
:02:47. > :02:51.little time. Undoubtedly our greatest achievement has been this
:02:52. > :03:01.referendum. It would not have happened if it hadn't have been for
:03:02. > :03:05.Ukip. APPLAUSE In 2013 we pushed the Prime Minister
:03:06. > :03:11.into offering a referendum that he never wanted to give. And why?
:03:12. > :03:16.Because Ukip was steadily rising in the polls and scoring local election
:03:17. > :03:23.wins all over the country. Mr Cameron thought that he could shoot
:03:24. > :03:28.the LI Ukip Fox by offering this referendum but all he did was simply
:03:29. > :03:32.feed it. The membership began to rise rapidly, we began to speak to
:03:33. > :03:37.the huge audiences across the country. Nigel set off in his purple
:03:38. > :03:41.taxi, the length and breadth of Britain. He spoke to thousands of
:03:42. > :03:48.people. I did 200 public meetings, in two years Ukip began to catch on.
:03:49. > :03:52.We exploded into local government, and we now have 500 hard-working
:03:53. > :04:06.councillors right across the country! APPLAUSE
:04:07. > :04:14.We forced the referendum and you helped to win it. Brexit is yours.
:04:15. > :04:18.We and you were the fit soldiers, you delivered the leaflets and you
:04:19. > :04:36.got our country back! APPLAUSE You will be thanked by the next
:04:37. > :04:43.generation for giving them the power to shape their own destinies. Do not
:04:44. > :04:45.underestimate what you have achieved, Brexit will shape the
:04:46. > :04:50.direction that this country will take in the first half of this
:04:51. > :04:55.century. And what direction do we want it to take? Will we want to see
:04:56. > :04:58.a Britain that can stand proud in the world, free and independent. A
:04:59. > :05:11.Britain that makes its own laws and has the ability to protect its own
:05:12. > :05:17.borders. APPLAUSE This means there can be no
:05:18. > :05:30.backsliding on Brexit. Any attempt to maintain freedom of movement of
:05:31. > :05:37.people will not be acceptable. I want to see us have access to the
:05:38. > :05:42.single market but not be part of it. I want a Britain that is friends
:05:43. > :05:46.with our European neighbours, but not Boston dictated to. We want all
:05:47. > :05:49.of our laws to be made at Westminster by people we elect!
:05:50. > :06:07.APPLAUSE I also want to see a Britain that
:06:08. > :06:11.looks to the emerging markets of the far east and Asia and reignites its
:06:12. > :06:20.links with the Commonwealth which we so shamelessly turned our back on in
:06:21. > :06:25.the 1970s! This can now all be achieved, and it's thanks to you.
:06:26. > :06:34.Give yourselves a round of applause! APPLAUSE
:06:35. > :06:40.I stood on this very platform eight years ago, and I said that I believe
:06:41. > :06:45.that Ukip's future lay as a party of the patriotic working class. Very
:06:46. > :06:53.few people believed me at the time. But it is clear that this is Ukip's
:06:54. > :06:56.great opportunity, where in many of these working class communities
:06:57. > :07:03.where the Labour Party has dominated for years, they are weak and dying.
:07:04. > :07:08.The Labour Party has lost touch with its working-class roots. It is a
:07:09. > :07:11.Labour Party that has increasingly dominated by the views of the
:07:12. > :07:22.Islington dinner party, and the Labour Party that actually sneers at
:07:23. > :07:30.what own flag. -- at our own flag. Ukip can make great strides in these
:07:31. > :07:33.areas, as a party that wants to see firm but firm border control. That
:07:34. > :07:38.wants to see prison sentences mean what they say. That wants to see all
:07:39. > :07:42.children of all classes get a fair start in life, and one that is
:07:43. > :07:57.prepared to put British people at the top of the pile.
:07:58. > :08:08.Now, let me talk about the future of the party and the new leader.
:08:09. > :08:15.Whoever he or she may be. I will be frank at this point. Because I can
:08:16. > :08:21.be, now. Ukip has not been a happy camp for over a year. And the
:08:22. > :08:30.animosity has spilled over into the media. Nobody, nobody, has emerged
:08:31. > :08:36.from this with their heads held high. The designation process
:08:37. > :08:45.between Leave.eu and Vote Leave created a cancer at the heart of the
:08:46. > :08:50.party, and led to its leading lights using Ukip as a football. So much so
:08:51. > :08:58.that at this present moment, the party resembles a jigsaw that has
:08:59. > :09:02.been emptied onto the floor. The new leader must put it back together.