'fail our fail our m fail our ”eole aain. people again. applause and the truth is this. if we are going to change this party, to restore the trust and the confidence of the people, if we are going to tackle together the immense challenges our country faces, we are going to have to build something new. a new conservative party. that is what i call for today. a new conservative party, nothing less than that. built on the rock of our proudest traditions and noblest values. a new conservative party. and if i am your leader, that is what together we will build. a new conservative party. now, you know that i loathed empty rhetoric. big

words and little action. that is part of the reason we are where we are. you know that i will take a stand. you saw me take a stand last year. and frankly, it is the only reason why i won my seat at the general election against all the polls and the pundits. the only seat that our party won in the whole of nottinghamshire and derbyshire, because my constituents, to whom i owe so much, knew that i took a stand. forthem, owe so much, knew that i took a stand. for them, for the country, for the change we need. so, today, let me set out five changes that this new conservative party must make. five stands that this new conservative party will take. and let me begin with this one. we must take a stand to secure our borders. we must secure our borders.

applause 120,000 people have entered our country on small boats on our watch. 99% of them are still here costing us billions. frankly, there is no future for this party unless we take a stand to answer this problem. and the way to do that, we all know, is to detain and swiftly deport everyone who comes into our country illegally. applause but we will never do that, we will never do that. it is impossible unless we leave the european convention on human rights.

applause and we free ourselves from tony blair's human rights act. these institutions are creating an arsenal of laws by which illegal entrance frustrate their removal. we have to change that. —— entrants. you can't reform the european court, it requires unanimity. 46 countries from iceland to andorra. it is a fantasy. the choice before us is leave or remain. i am for leave. i am for the country. i am for the country of magna carter. of the bill and rights defending our own freedoms and liberties. i am the

job... under my leadership, the new conservative party will stand for a new format. one that repeals tony blair's human rights act and writes a british bill of rights. that is how, my friends. that is the only way we get the foreign terrorists, the criminals, off our streets and out of our country. that is the only way that together we will end illegal migration for good. applause and the age of mass migration, that must end as well. it is not making us any richer. it is putting immense pressure on our housing, our hospitals, our roads. and if we're with ourselves, the sheer scale and the lack of integration is sapping

at our culture and our national cohesion. if i am your leader, i will fight for the effective freeze in net migration our country needs. and this time, we will cast in iron. we will do it with a vote in parliament so that each and every one of us can look the british public in the eye and say we mean it. we are going to do at this time. and if we do that, we give our country the effective space that we need. will we be open to the best and brightest? yes, absolutely. board be open to the world and his wife and all their extended family? no, not any more. and under my conservative party, never, ever again. applause and secondly, we must take a stand

on net zero. since 2001. energy prices in our country have quadrupled. factories have closed, families have suffered, and this is all because we have become so reliant on expensive forms of energy like offshore wind. now, ed miliband wants to phase out gas over the next five years. in 2015, we knew that putting ed miliband and power together was a very bad idea. how right we were. we have to oppose his plan. it is going to send energy prices sky high. but we also have to oppose the root of the problem, the serious issue. that is not the principle of net to zero, but the

crazy interim binding targets put into law by gordon brown. it is the mad targets, the carbon budgets, they don't take any account of innovation that is driving the mad policies. so i say that with our new conservative party, we will stand for cutting emissions, but we will never do it, never, on the backs of working people and by further de—industrialising our great country. applause and we must also take a stand to get britain building again. our country needs more homes. we need more industry and infrastructure. so i have a hard message for all of us today. if we want to be the party of low tax, of growth, of business, as i do, and i know you do too, we also need to be the party of fixing the

broken system that stops us building the homes, the factories, the data centres, the roads, the trams, trains, the investment that britain desperately needs. we love this country, we will protect its beautiful countryside. we will ensure that local people have their say. but our new conservative party will stand alongside the scientists in need of lab space. it will stand alongside the town in need of better roads. and yes, it will stand alongside the 20 and 30—something strapped in their childhood bedroom is dreaming of a home of their own, dreaming of getting on in life, waiting for their lives to begin. that is what we will do as a party. applause we will build... we will build our party. our party will stand for the most ambitious programme of urban densification and regeneration in our country's modern history. we

will stand for getting britain building again. and we also take a stand for a small state that actually works. not a big state that fails. look, the last election was as much a referendum on our health service as it was on our borders. we have 20% more money, more doctors, more nurses, in the nhs today than we had five years ago. and yet our hospitals barely treat any more patience. our courts, our prisons, our police, our universities, our welfare system, none of this is working as it should. —— patients. labour might fix any of this, the unions won't let them. we know that. but the new conservative party can. and should. we need to do for all our public services what we did for

schools in the 2010s. empowered the good leaders, kick out the bad ones, be relentless in driving up standards and having zero tolerance for failure. standards and having zero tolerance forfailure. that must standards and having zero tolerance for failure. that must be at the core of our mission is a party. look, i am core of our mission is a party. look, iam proud core of our mission is a party. look, i am proud when i look around this whole today at the conservative family and i see the small business owners like my mum and dad. i see the entrepreneurs, i see the business leaders, but where are the teachers? the doctor's? the nurses? where are the prison officers and the police officers? we must stand with them as well. we must stand for them. our new conservative party will stand for building a state that actually works. and the public services that every briton deserves. applause and finally, we must stand for our

nation and our culture. for our identity and our way of life. why is it that so much of the british establishment seems to put britain last? i am told that we only have enough munitions to last a few weeks in war, and yet our country is giving foreign aid to parts of the world richer than our own. so if i am your leader, i will stand for cutting our bloated foreign aid budget and for spending 3% of gdp on our defence. applause finally doing what government is meant to do. the first duty of any government, keep the british people

safe. and what of our culture? well, how have we come to the point where a teacher from batley remains in hiding because in a class on free speech, of all things, they showed a cartoon of muhammad? how have we come to the point on our watch in which the nhs has facilitated thousands of children to have life changing, life altering surgery? how have we come to the point where the raf, at the royal air force, has chosen pilots on the basis of race and gender? well, i say our new conservative party, we will be tolerant, but we will stand for and never tolerating any of this ever again.

applause we are the lucky inheritors of unparalleled national identities. british, welsh, scottish, northern irish, english. and our new conservative party will stand for carrying the torch for these identities and handing it on to our children and our grandchildren. with pride, with passion and with purpose. so, my friends, securing our borders by leaving the echr and a cap in parliament to end the era of mass migration. yes to net zero, but no to ed miliband's mad plans. get britain building again, defending our nation and culture, building a small state that actually works, not a big state that fails.

five changes that our new conservative party will make. five stands that this new conservative party will take. as your leader, i will take a stand. the new conservative party will take a stand. stand up for what is right. stand up to those who are wrong. stand up to those who are wrong. stand alongside the hard—working men and women of this country who make britain great and can make her greater still. our party is at its best when we, friends, are the trade union of the working people of this country. from our seaside resorts to our rural outposts, from our industrial heartland is to our village greens. from world—class cities like this one to the towns i grew up in and am proud to represent. britain rises when all our people rise, all of them. so

let's help them to rise again. 1974, 2024. a country facing huge challenges. a labour government already out of answers. an opposition, a conservative opposition, a conservative opposition, facing a big choice. to go along with a failed consensus thatis go along with a failed consensus that is driving our country into the ground or to have the courage, some courage, to change course, unite around the practical solutions we face and to change, really change. i want to lead that change. i want to be that change. so come with me, join me, work with me, in this new conservative party, and together let's take a stand for the country that we love. thank you. thank you,

conference. thank you. applause studio: that was robertjenrick, the 42—year—old mp for newark. he has beenin 42—year—old mp for newark. he has been in parliament for ten years and he has been speaking as the third of the conservative leadership candidates today. he has been speaking for about 20 minutes or so. eventually getting to what is thought to be... 25 minutes i have been told. they are all going over there 20 minutes just so slightly. james cleverly has been the most lengthy so far. but the heart of his pitch for the leadership of the party is on immigration. he talks about the conservatives needing to restore trust, win back the confidence of the people, build a new conservative party. and then his theme of tough on immigration,

withdrawing from the echr, and that is one thing that did go down well with many members in there. let's go over to our correspondent in birmingham watching. what did we hear? ~ ~ . ., hear? well, i think what we heard from robert _ hear? well, i think what we heard from robert jenrick _ hear? well, i think what we heard from robert jenrick was _ hear? well, i think what we heard from robert jenrick was pretty - hear? well, i think what we heard i from robert jenrick was pretty much from robertjenrick was pretty much stating what we have heard before. as you say, that core focus that he puts on immigration. there was a bit of a stir among people watching it when he talked about an effective freeze on net migration. that's what he wants. some people saying, hang on, this is something you? it appears not. it appears that this is his position he has held in recent months where he says there needs to be a cap and he wants parliament to legislate for a cap on that. that is his diagnosis of one of the reasons why the conservatives lost the election, one of the things they have to do to take on reform and win

back voters who were attracted to reform. he says it is the reason why he quit in the government because he did not think they were doing enough. other candidates, james cleverly, has had a swipe at him for that. james cleverly, who was home secretary, senior to robertjenrick, said pointedly during this conference that he did not walk away from problems, he tried to solve them. that is pointing to robert jenrick�*s resignation. robert jenrick, though, focused on those five things. he said he wants to build a new conservative party, he talked about immigration, leaving the european convention on human rights, that was one. net zero interim targets, said he didn't like those. housing, get building again. he wants a more effective state. and the last one, i think, was talking about british culture and identity. and here comes kemi badenoch, the last of our speakers.

applause it is time to tell the truth. the truth about our party. the truth about our politics. the truth about our future. about our politics. the truth about ourfuture. fortoo about our politics. the truth about ourfuture. for too long, our future. for too long, politicians ourfuture. for too long, politicians have been scared of the truth. fortoo politicians have been scared of the truth. for too long, politicians have been scared of the truth. fortoo long, politicians have hidden behind spin. for too long, politicians have told the public what they wanted to hear. and then done their own thing. well, i say enough. applause it's time to remember who we are, what we stand for and what we want

our country to be. seven years ago, i stood on this stage so proud to hear a conservative member of parliament. we had just lost our majority. but our party was still in government, and that was all that mattered. but i am no longer a bright—eyed, bushy tailed backbencher. i am a veteran of four government departments and a former cabinet minister. i have seen the system from inside. ladies and gentlemen, the system is broken. applause it is not enough just to be applause it is not enoughjust to be in government. because you can be in government. because you can be in government and not have power. without a plan to fix the system, you end upjust announcing policies, doing media and waiting for

something to happen. and then you run into trouble, as this labour government are quickly finding out. applause for us, it led to a reckoning. a historic defeat worse than 1997. a defeat that could extinguish the conservative party. we have to get this right. we have to renew, and then we can regain the trust of the british people. otherwise, the left will get more time to ruin our country. and they have started quickly, haven't they? i thought it would take them longer to fall apart, but it is clear that this labour government will leave a mess behind. we will not manage that decline. the conservative party does not manage decline. the conservative

party reverses decline. applause our country needs us. we must not let it down. for this to work, we need to go back to first principles. why are we conservatives? so much of what made me a conservative came from my parents. my late father was full of wisdom. he used to say, never take your spouse for granted. he also said, never run for fun, because you will get bad knees. but he also taught me responsibility. he would say, 80% of what happens to you is down to you. he was right.

and as a gp, he taught me how to solve problems. he would say, if you get the diagnosis wrong, the treatment won't work. i miss my dad. he taught me the most important lesson of all. never be afraid to do the right thing, no matter what people say about you, just do the right thing. my father taught me not to be afraid. i was born here, but i grew up in a place where fear was everywhere. you cannot understand it unless you've lived it. triple checking that all the doors and windows are locked. waking up in the night at every sound. listening is usually your neighbours scream as

they are being burgled and beaten and wondering if your home will be next. when you have experienced that kind of fear, you are not worried about being attacked on twitter. applause you appreciate how rare and precious it is to live in a country with security, democracy, equality under the law, and above all else, freedom. applause free speech, free enterprise, free markets, conservative freedoms, conservative principles. i am not a conservative principles. i am not a conservative because i studied politics at university. i am an engineer. i am politics at university. i am an engineer. iam not politics at university. i am an engineer. i am not a conservative because my family always voted conservative. i am a conservative because i have seen what happens

when a country loses sight of those principles, and that must not happen here. but if conservative principles are so great, why aren't we in government any more? the truth is, we lost faith and stop acting like conservatives. we stopped being leaders and became managers. we spoke right and govern left, and we went after labour votes, we lost our own. —— we governed left. there is no greater example than net zero. we set a target with no plan on how to meet it, just so politicians could say we were the first country to do so. now we have a net zero strategy addicted to state subsidy, making

energy more expensive and hurting our economy. i am energy more expensive and hurting our economy. iam not energy more expensive and hurting our economy. i am not a climate change sceptic, but i am a net zero sceptic. i did not become an mp to deliver an agenda set by ed miliband. applause promises must come with a plan. plans must be based on principles. that is the conservative way. but, in government, we did not always keep our promises. we promise to lower taxes, they went up. we promised to lower immigration, it went up. why? because the treasury said high emigration was good for the economy. but we knew it was not good for our country. and we did not always defend our values. we did not

defend capitalism. capitalism does not mean corporatism. it does not mean monopolies. it means free markets and competition. we did not always protect those principles. like labour, we raised taxes on business or corporation tax, capital gains tax. we taxed dividends, and we regulated like labour. so instead of encouraging people to start and grow a business, it got harder and harder. economics is notjust some technical exercise, it is about people. their hopes and their aspirations. it is how we help the poorest in society. in the 80s, our party gave this country a golden age of wealth creation. where is that now? look at the hypocrisy of keir starmer and rachel reeves, who target savers and wealth creators while taking money from a millionaire.

the conservatives have to be the party of wealth creation. wealth is not a dirty word, it supports jobs and families. it pays for our schools and our health service. we should defend it and encourage it. applause we need to stop being afraid of defending our beliefs. those beliefs are needed now more than ever. applause they are needed now more than ever because a new political force has risen. something i have been fighting all my political career. identity politics. like the 1970s, we face a battle of ideas against the left and its desire for ever greater social and economic control.

it is socialism returned. socialism in a suit. the british public know is that socialism doesn't work but if you give it a new label, you can sneak it in. you can promote class warfare under the banner of equality. you can take freedom and choice away from families by telling them that ofsted inspection reports are unfair. if you call communism environmentalism, you can close down businesses, blocked the roads and stop people going to work. this new politics has made us afraid to defend the people who need us like young conservatives. they tell me they are afraid to share their politics with other students because they will be attacked, that they are marked down by lecturers because of their beliefs. we have let young

conservatives down. we need to defend them, champion them and give them a party they can be proud of. but other people need us too like women. fortoo but other people need us too like women. for too long, but other people need us too like women. fortoo long, government stayed silent as women were sacked for saying that a man cannot be a woman. ifought for them for saying that a man cannot be a woman. i fought for them while labour called them bigots and it wasn't until the snp put a sex offender in a women's prison that they understood the fate i was leading. we won that battle, nicola sturgeon has gone and labour now accept our argument —— understood the fight i was leading.