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By JAMIE BULLEN, LIVE COVERAGE EDITOR and DAVID WILCOCK, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR and JAMES TAPSFIELD, UK POLITICAL EDITOR and SAM CHISHOLM and GREG HEFFER, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
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Kemi Badenoch has vowed to abolish stamp duty to help millions of people own their own home as she insisted only the Conservatives can restore Britain's economy.
Closing the Conservative conference in Manchester, the Tory leader dismissed fears that the party is finished with supporters switching to Reform.
Announcing the party's new policy to scrap stamp duty, she said the country's housing market must be freed up to prevent the death of social mobility.
She told activists that only the 'competent' Tories and their 'timeless principles' can save Britain from its 'darkest days' of 'decline', by stabilising the economy and overhauling society's 'broken model'.
Watch: Kemi Badenoch speech at the end of Conservative Party Conference
Watch: Kemi Badenoch vows to ABOLISH stamp duty during leader's speech
Kemi Badenoch vowed to abolish stamp duty today as she lashed out at 'weak' Keir Starmer and insisted only the Tories can 'save Britain'.
Closing the Conservative conference in Manchester, the leader dismissed fears that the party is finished with supporters switching to Reform.
She told activists that only the 'competent' Tories and their 'timeless principles' can save Britain from its 'darkest days' of 'decline', by stabilising the economy and overhauling society's 'broken model'.
Mrs Badenoch said the challenge was to 'secure our borders and restore our strength so our children inherit a country that works'.
She said a clampdown on benefits and wasteful spending would mean Labour's hated taxes could be scrapped - including VAT on private school fees and the farm inheritance tax raid.
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Lib Dems urge unhappy Tories to defect
Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey claimed Kemi Badenoch had 'ignored former Conservative voters' as he urged voters to switch to his party.
Before Ms Badenoch's speech, the Lib Dems organised a van urging people to defect to the party to be driven though Manchester ahead of her leader's speech.
Shadow minister declares 'Conservatives are back'
One of Kemi Badenoch's shadow ministers has declared the Conservatives 'are back' following her leader's speech in Manchester.
Alex Burghart, the shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, told Sky News her address was 'one of the most exciting conference speeches I've ever heard'.
I'm going to get very excited about it, because what we heard there was a series of statements which called out the absolute disaster that Labour is making of the economy and how this is affecting people of all generations, all ages, all parts of the country, and what a future Conservative government will do about it.
Labour accuse Tories of 'peddling fantasy economics'
Labour have reacted to Ms Badenoch's speech by accusing the Conservatives of 'peddling fantasy economics'.
Dan Hodges reveals his thoughts Kemi Badenoch's speech
Daily Mail columnist Dan Hodges has said Ms Badenoch's speech will help shore up her leadership of the Conservatives amid speculation she could be replaced.
The party's dire poll ratings has led some to claim Ms Badenoch will be turfed out before the next election or possibly sooner but Dan thinks her address will go down well with supporters.
What did Kemi Badenoch say in her Tory conference speech?
Kemi Badenoch spoke for around an hour during her leader's speech in Manchester in which she insisted the Conservatives were the only party capable of restoring Britain's economy and securing the nation's borders.
If you missed her speech, here are the highlights:
Mrs Badenoch delivered an extraordinary jibe at Mr Farage offering 'free stuff' to voters, warning that getting into a direct fight with Reform would be like 'wrestling a pig'. 'You both get dirty and the pig likes it,' she added.
She accused the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of 'deliberately' collapsing the China spying trial. The government has insisted it was an independent decision by prosecutors
Mrs Badenoch condemned time 'wasted' by police on non-crime hate incidents and pledged to put more officers on the streets
She committed the Conservatives to banning doctors from striking if they return to government
The leader said she was not a climate sceptic but she is a 'Net Zero sceptic' as she confirmed the Tories want to get rid of levies to shave £165 a year off energy bills
Mrs Badenoch promised to abolish stamp duty if the Conservatives win the next election
READ: Kemi Badenoch accuses Keir Starmer of deliberately collapsing 'China spy' trial
Keir Starmer's government deliberately collapsed the prosecution of two men accused of spying for China so it could 'suck up to Beijing', Kemi Badenoch said today.
The Tory leader lashed out amid claims that the Prime Minister's light touch with the Communist regime had handed it a free pass to commit espionage in the UK.
Her comments in her speech closing the Conservative Party Conference came after the astonishing decision by the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to publicly accuse ministers of undermining his work.
Stephen Parkinson revealed that the Crown Prosecution Service had spent more than a year trying to get key evidence that the accused pair, Chris Cash and Christopher Berry, were spying for an 'enemy'.
In a letter which has deepened the war of words in Whitehall over the scandal, he said prosecutors were rebuffed by officials who, as Labour look for closer relations with Beijing, refused to say China represented a threat to the UK's national security.
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Badenoch leaves stage to standing ovation
Ms Badenoch receives a standing ovation after declaring she will abolish stamp duty - a policy not trailed before her speech.
In her closing remarks, she says:
I stand for a Government that takes less of your money and doesn’t interfere in your life.
She also repeats she wants stronger borders and stronger economy - the major themes throughout her speech.
Breaking:Badenoch promises to abolish stamp duty if Conservatives win next election
Kemi Badenoch has promised to abolish stamp duty if the Conservatives win power.
She said scrapping the tax will help millions realise their dream of owning their own home.
We must free up our housing market because a society where no one can afford to buy or move is a society where social mobility is dead.
Badenoch said the policy would be funded by cuts to spending she has already announced.
Badenoch introduces her 'golden rule' on economy
Ms Badenoch has now introduced her 'golden rule' which will require half of every pound saved to be used for cutting the deficit, with the other half spent on tax cuts and boosting the economy.
She commits to using at least half the money saved to reduce the deficit, with the rest spent on cutting tax or boosting the economy.
Pledging the rule, she says the Tories will get the economy growing and reduce taxes.
At least half will go towards cutting the deficit, because living within our means is our first priority.
And with the rest, we will get Britain growing and bring down the taxes that are stifling our economy. That’s the conservative way – responsibility today, opportunity tomorrow.
Tories to put more police on streets and ban doctors going on strike
Kemi Badenoch promises to put more police on Britain's streets and says doctors will be banned from walking out on strike.
She says more will be done to tackle shoplifting including increased use of stop and search.
She also criticised time 'wasted' by police on non-crime hate incidents.
Conference, we are going to free the police to protect the public, not to chase political correctness.
On striking doctors, she says:
In the NHS, industrial action has kept waiting lists high for far too long. Enough is enough. We will ban doctors from going on strike.
Badenoch lays out Conservative policies on welfare and immigration
Ms Badenoch reels off Conservative policies announced during conference which include leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and deporting 150,000 illegal migrants from the UK.
She also pledges to reduce working-age welfare by £23 billion, insisting 'British benefits for British citizens'.
Ms Badenoch also announces benefits will be restricted to those with only severe mental health issues, not anxiety or depression, and motability vehicles will be limited to those with serious disabilities.
Badenoch says Starmer, Farage and Davey are 'shaking same magic money tree'
Ms Badenoch has told the audience the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Reform leader Nigel Farage and Lib Dem chief Sir Ed Davey are all 'shaking the same magic money tree'.
She says all rival party leaders are 'promising more spending' which is why the UK needs the Conservatives 'back in charge'.
She adds for those disappointed with Labour, the options on offer are:
Reform, promising free beer tomorrow; Jeremy Corbyn, promising free jam; Lib Dems, promising free lettuce; all of them promising more spending, blowing up the public finances.
Whether it’s Starmer, Farage, Corbyn or Davey, all these men are shaking the same magic money tree, following the same failed playbook, no plans for growth, no honesty about the scale of the challenges. And it always leads to the same result, more government, more taxes, more debt.
She then declares the Tories will cancel Labour policies such as tax rises on private school fees, farms and family businesses.
Badenoch accuses Starmer of collapsing China trial so he can 'suck up to Beijing'
Ms Badenoch accuses Keir Starmer of collapsing the China spy trial so he can 'suck up to Beijing'.
In her speech she said:
Today, we learn that Labour deliberately collapsed the trial of two men accused of spying on MPs for China, because the Prime Minister wants to suck up Beijing. This is squalid.
She attacked the Prime Minister as a 'weak and useless leader' and said she agreed with his own highlight in his premiership, walking into Downing Street, as it had gone 'downhill' from there.
Targeting his Government, she lists the scandals including Tulip Siddiq, an anti-corruption minister under investigation for corruption, Angela Rayner, the housing secretary who did not pay enough stamp duty and Lord Peter Mandelson's resignation over his association with disgraced paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Badenoch claims 'stagnating' UK is being left behind by world
Ms Badenoch tells the conference the UK is 'stagnating' compared to other countries.
The Conservative leader says she wants 'brilliant minds and great talents' to come to the country but that at the moment hundreds of thousands of people, some with 'no skills at all', are being accepted.
Comparing the UK with other countries, Ms Badenoch claims China built five nuclear reactors while Britain was 'redefining what a woman is'.
Badenoch - I'm not sure young people share pride in national story
Ms Badenoch has told the party conference she is not sure young people share a 'sense of pride' in Britain's national story.
She tells the audience the Tories are the only party capable of bringing Britain into 'an era of prosperity and security'.
But she adds the party must be frank about problems the country faces.
People had a sense of pride in our national story...I am not sure young people feel that way any more. They feel they are living somewhere where things never get any better.
Badenoch declares the test for Conservative generation
In Ms Badenoch's opening remarks, she outlines the 'test' for Conservatives in the room.
She says every generation must face its test, telling the audience in the 1940s it was the fight against fascism and ensure the 'victory of freedom' and in the 1980s it was to 'banish socialism'.
In the 2020s, she says the challenge is to restore a strong economy, secure Britain's borders and ensure children inherit a country 'that works'.
The audience responds with its first round of applause.
Kemi Badenoch about to deliver leader's speech
Tory MPs have welcomed leader Kemi Badenoch on stage at the party conference as she delivers her keynote speech.
The room appears full as MPs sing a rendition of the national anthem before Ms Badenoch joins the stage.
You can watch Ms Badenoch's speech live at the top of this page
Badenoch pictured arriving at Conservative Party conference ahead of speech
Kemi Badenoch was pictured arriving at the Conservative Party conference alongside her husband Hamish this morning in Manchester.
The Tory leader will close out the conference following her keynote address which will focus on how the Conservatives plan to boost the economy.
The speech is expected to start at around 11:15am.
Badenoch to announce 'totemic' tax cut
Kemi Badenoch is expected use her conference speech to announce a multibillion package of tax cuts as she seeks to revive her political fortunes.
The Conservative leader is expected to announce a 'totemic' tax cut in her conference speech as she argues that taxes are 'stifling' the economy. A 2p cut in income tax would cost about £12 billion.
The Tories have committed to £49 billion worth of savings, including huge cuts to the welfare budget and foreign aid spending.
She has said that at least half of the savings will be spent on paying down the deficit, leaving about £20 billion for tax cuts.
The Tories have already committed about £9 billion of that to tax cuts such as scrapping business rates for high street shops and a tax rebate for young people.
ANDREW ROBERTS: If Tories stick to the truth, voters will reward them
by Andrew Roberts
In opposition, she was accused of having ‘a desire for confrontation’ and ‘ceaseless and hectoring interruptions’.
Civil servants ‘treated her with scarcely veiled contempt’. Labelled ‘shrill’ and ‘strident’ – insults rarely applied to male politicians – the leader of the Conservatives faced palpable ‘rudeness’ and hostility, even from within her own party. She was ‘on a short fuse for much of the time’, complained one of her advisers, and ‘only partly because of the enormous pressures of the job’.
This stream of disobliging quotations is taken from Not For Turning, Robin Harris’s landmark 2013 biography of Margaret Thatcher.
But they will be all too familiar to Kemi Badenoch, who has faced her own deluge of criticism as she undertakes what is easily the worst job in British politics: Leader of the Opposition.
Read the full comment piece by Andrew Roberts here:
Tory chairman insists Badenoch has time to turn around poll ratings
Kemi Badenoch has 'all the time she needs' to turn around the Conservative Party’s poor poll ratings, its chairman said today.
Kevin Hollinrake (pictured) told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:
As far as I’m concerned, she’s got all the time she needs. I don’t think it will take years to change the poll ratings.
He said Mrs Badenoch would 'absolutely' be giving the leader’s speech at next year’s party conference.
When asked about 20 councillors defecting from Conservative to Reform during the party conference, he added:
Some people run for the hills when times are tough. I have no time for that kind of stuff. I have no time for people who haven’t got the stomach for a fight. (They’ve) run for elections under a Conservative ticket with Conservative support. I think it’s completely wrong when you show that disloyalty.
Robert Jenrick still engaging leadership campaign, claims Keir Starmer
Robert Jenrick is still 'engaging in a leadership campaign', Sir Keir Starmer has claimed after the Tory complained he 'didn’t see another white face' during a visit to Birmingham earlier this year.
The Prime Minister said the Government needed 'no lessons' on integration from the shadow justice secretary, after the claims he made during a 90-minute visit to Handsworth came to light.
In an audio recording obtained by the Guardian, Mr Jenrick can be heard to make the remarks before adding: 'That’s not the kind of country I want to live in.'
His claims have drawn widespread condemnation, including from the Tory former mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, and the Bishop of Birmingham.
Mr Jenrick has defended his comments, saying he 'won’t shy away' from issues of integration.
Asked about the Conservative frontbencher’s claims as he travelled to Mumbai, Sir Keir told journalists:
It’s quite hard to take anything that Robert Jenrick says seriously, he’s clearly still running his leadership campaign. I think that what Andy Street said was right. Andy Street obviously was mayor for a long time and knows the area very, very well.
We’re working hard on questions of integration, but we need no lessons or lectures from Robert Jenrick on any of this. He’s clearly just engaging in a leadership campaign.
Watch: Badenoch tells interviewer to 'stop asking about Nigel Farage'
Kemi Badenoch clashed with a TV interviewer tonight over the amount of questions she was being asked about Nigel Farage.
Conservative leader Ms Badenoch said she was 'not interested' in talking about her Reform counterpart and wanted to discuss the Tories, in a blunt response to Sky News.
She refused to give an answer when asked if she admired Mr Farage, a question interviewer Beth Rigby also put to Sir Keir Starmer last week.
Ms Badenoch told Sky it was odd she was not being asked if she also admired Sir Keir or Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey.
'You tell me that people aren't interested in me. I'm on your show,' she told Ms Rigby.
'Ask me about what I think. You spent most of the interview asking about Reform. Reforms already had their conference, Beth...'
When the journalist intervened to ask if the question made her 'cross .... you seem irritated', Ms Badenoch replied: 'No, it isn't. I just think that your viewers want to know what I am offering. I'm not offering Nigel. I'm offering authentic Conservatism.'
Watch the interview below:
What have the Conservatives announced this week?
Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride announced plans this week to slash government spending by £47 billion by clamping down on welfare, reducing the size of the civil service by a quarter and cutting billions from foreign aid.
The Conservatives have also set out proposals to scrap business rates for 250,000 pubs and high street shops at a cost of £4 billion.
A further £2.8 billion has been allocated to fund a new 'first job bonus' which would offer young people entering the workplace up to £5,000 towards their first home.
Kemi Badenoch will also pledge to curb funding for 'low quality' degree courses and use the proceeds to double the number of apprenticeships.
She will warn that too many courses are drawing students into a 'debt trap' in which they will never earn enough to pay back their tuition fees.
Badenoch claims deficit is 'stealing from our children and grandchildren'
In her keynote speech today, Ms Badenoch will say the Conservative approach 'starts with fiscal responsibility', adding the party must tackle Britain's deficit.
She will say:
We have to get the deficit down. Over the next decade, Rachel Reeves is going to double the deficit with her borrowing and tax doom loop.
It's not sustainable and it's not fair. It is stealing from our children and grandchildren. And Conservatives will put a stop to it.
Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride announced plans this week to slash government spending by £47 billion by clamping down on welfare, reducing the size of the civil service by a quarter and cutting billions from foreign aid.
Mrs Badenoch will today commit to using at least half the money saved to reduce the deficit, with the rest spent on cutting tax or boosting the economy.
Pledging a new 'golden economic rule', Ms Badenoch will say:
Every pound we save will be put to work. At least half will go towards cutting the deficit. Because living within our means is our first priority. With the rest, we are going to get our economy growing again. And bring down the taxes stifling our economy.
Badenoch paves the way for £25billion in tax cuts with new 'Golden Rule' for UK economy
by Jason Groves, Daily Mail Political Editor
Kemi Badenoch is planning up to £25 billion in tax cuts as she puts the economy at the heart of her push for a Tory revival.
The Conservative leader will pledge to 'bring down the taxes stifling our economy' and reverse Labour's 'borrowing and tax doom loop'.
She will unveil plans for a new 'golden rule' which will require half of every pound saved to be used for cutting the deficit, with the other half spent on tax cuts and boosting the economy.
The Conservatives' annual conference in Manchester has focused heavily on new policies to curb illegal immigration, including pledges to quit the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and deport 750,000 people with no right to be in this country.
The moves are designed to show voters that the Tories are willing to match Nigel Farage's tough stance on immigration, which has seen Reform soar in the polls.
But Tory strategists believe the party's best hope for recovery lies in trying to restore its battered economic credentials.
Kemi Badenoch to deliver leader's speech at Conservative party conference
Hello and welcome to the Daily Mail's live coverage of Kemi Badenoch's leader's speech at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.
Ms Badenoch will close the conference following her keynote address which will place the economy at the heart of her plans to breathe new life into the party.
Support for the Tories has drained in the polls with voters increasingly turning to Nigel Farage's Reform.
Ms Badenoch will today pledge to 'bring down the taxes stifling our economy' and reverse Labour's 'borrowing and tax doom loop'.
Stick with us throughout the day as we bring you the latest from the Conservative party conference with our team of political journalists and Jamie Bullen reporting from London.
