well . well. >> good morning. 930 on wednesday, the 2nd of october live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me andrew pierce at the tory party conference in birmingham and bev turner in london. >> good morning. thank you for joining us. for the middle east is on the brink. britain has helped shoot down iranian missiles heading towards israel as tensions escalate in the region. should we have got involved? sir keir starmer addressed the nation last night utterly condemn this attempt by

the iranian regime to harm innocent israelis. >> it cannot be tolerated . we >> it cannot be tolerated. we stand with israel and we recognise her right to self—defence , new era or is it self—defence, new era or is it just going to be more of the same? >> conservative leadership hopefuls james cleverly , robert hopefuls james cleverly, robert jenrick, tom tugendhat and kemi badenoch will all address the conservative conference this morning. can any of them save the tory party and starmer's brussels visit? the prime minister is meeting the president of the european commission ursula von der leyen, today to reset the relationship with the eu and move past the days of brexit. does that make your heart sink and stateside, democrat tim walz and republican jd vance went head to head in a vice presidential debate , but vice presidential debate, but moderators muted the candidates microphones during the clash over haitian migrants. take a listen . listen. >> we have so much to get up, senator . those laws, so much senator. those laws, so much books since 1990. thank you .

gentlemen. >> we want to have app has not been on the books since 1990. it's something that kamala harris created. >> gentlemen, the audience can't hear you because your mics are cut virtual and sacked school assistant christie higgs will appeal the decision to dismiss her after opposing the transgender policy of farmers school in gloucestershire in 2019. >> adam cherry has more . >> adam cherry has more. >> adam cherry has more. >> we're here at the royal court of justice where christie higgs will appeal her dismissal from her school. she says it is unfair that gross misconduct claims are a threat to free speech. the hearing kicks off at 1030. >> and of course, as always, we'd to love hear what you think. send your views and post your comments by visiting

gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, here's the news with tatiana . here's the news with tatiana. >> andrew, thank you very much and good morning. these are the top stories from the gb newsroom. >> israel will reportedly launch a significant retaliation to iran's missile attack within days that could target oil production facilities. that is to according us based news site axios. and last night, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, said iran had made a big mistake with its attack and will pay for it. both the uk and the us have confirmed they've supported israel in shooting down over 180 iranian missiles headed for the country . down over 180 iranian missiles headed for the country. uk defence ministerjohn healey said forces played their part to prevent further escalation in the region . the attack came in the region. the attack came in retaliation to israel's air and ground operation in lebanon against iranian backed terror group hezbollah, and the assassination of their leader on friday. in a televised address

last night , friday. in a televised address last night, prime minister sir keir starmer publicly supported israel's right to self—defence . israel's right to self—defence. >> make no mistake , britain >> make no mistake, britain stands full square against such violence. we support israel's reasonable demand for the security of its people . security of its people. >> in other news, tory leadership candidate kemi badenoch is facing criticism for suggesting 1 in 10 civil servants are so bad at their jobs they should be jailed. meanwhile robert jenrick and james cleverly have both taken aim at reform uk and nigel farage, claiming they want to make the party redundant . make the party redundant. jenrick, badenoch james cleverly and tom tugendhat will all address delegates in birmingham today in their bids to become rishi sunak's successor. mr jenrick, who has attracted the most support from mps so far, is expected to call for a new conservative party if it wants to, quote, tackle the immense

challenges that it faces . the challenges that it faces. the prime minister travels to brussels today in a bid to improve relations with the eu and bolster the security, safety and bolster the security, safety and prosperity of the british people. sir keir starmer will visit for talks with the european commission president, ursula von der leyen, about resetting britain's relationship with the european union . he aims with the european union. he aims to push for a better trading relationship and greater cooperation on defence and security measures. but he's also under pressure to agree to brussels calls for a deal on youth mobility to allow young eu citizens greater freedom to come to the uk to study and work. citizens greater freedom to come to the uk to study and work . and to the uk to study and work. and rapper and music mogul sean combs is facing allegations of sexual misconduct from 120 new accusers . that's coming from accusers. that's coming from a lawyer who revealed that in a press conference in texas, tony buzbee, a lawyer from houston representing the claimants, says he expects lawsuits to be filed within the next month. he said

there were 60 male and 60 female accusers, and that 25 of them were children. at the time of the alleged offences. combs, also known as p diddy and puff daddy, is awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news with me bev turner and andrew pierce. it's the last day for andrew in birmingham. i'm sure you're desperate to get back to london. andrew. what's this? what's the conference been like compared to previous years? obviously, coming off a hot on the heels of such a significant defeat in the

election, how would you describe the mood as we get into the final day? >> oddly, the mood is more positive than last year. i think last year they knew they were heading for a huge defeat, but they didn't know, of course, that the prime minister was going to go commit harry carey and call an early election, which nobody expected. but here they're more upbeat because i think the responsibility of government is over. they are genuinely listening to the to the candidates. a lot of people haven't made their mind up and we are getting a proper, genuine debate here. they're also the activists and mps are hugely encouraged by the disastrous start for sir keir starmer's government. whether it's over removing the winter fuel allowance bev turner or the appalling, cronyism and the fact that the prime minister has taken £32,000 in gifts for clothes from that man, lord alli. and as they're as puzzled as we are. what does lord alli want? why is lord alli writing all these checks? there's no such thing as a free lunch.

>> obviously, all the front pages this morning, andrew, are talking about the iron dome in israel, holding firm against iran's 200 missile blitz overnight. the leaders there, the wannabe leaders of the conservative party, have got to focus very much on what they're going to offer to the british people in their speeches and their pitches this morning. but how much is this situation in the middle east being discussed there at conference? >> it's huge. actually everyone's talking about it because are we on the verge of world war iii? is iran now going to to race develop a nuclear weapon because their attack on israel largely failed? very. i think only one fatality. and that was actually, ironically, a palestinian. so and also, there is a debate about should britain be committing our own military to, to assisting israel. we now know that the british, the raf was involved in shooting down some iranian missiles. all four candidates here are supportive of what the government agreed to

do last night, but i'm not sure that everybody in the conference hall would agree with that. >> okay. all right, andrew, i will leave you to it and we'll be back with you. sorry. we'll be back with you. sorry. we'll be back with you. sorry. we'll be back here in the studio with me in a little while, but over to you. >> well, delighted. i'm in the studio with me. first time, i think, a new mp. you're one of the 24 newbies, right? >> i'm a rare person. you are a rare person. >> you're bradley thomas, the conservative mp for bromsgrove and the villages. who are you supporting? >> so i'm backing robert jenrick, when i came into parliament, i listened very carefully to all of the candidates. the great thing about this contest is that we've genuinely got four really talented candidates, any of whom will make a fantastic leader of the opposition, not just in holding the government to account, but presenting a conservative vision for the future that the country can get behind. but i'm really pleased to back rob because he's a candidate who's got intellectual figour candidate who's got intellectual rigour and depth , and he's also rigour and depth, and he's also talking really quite openly about some of the big challenges, but also opportunities that we've got to seize as conservatives if we want to seize back that political momentum.

>> isn't he tarnished by the fact he was a member of the government, which manifestly failed on so many issues? the record levels of taxation, immigration, major failure . now, immigration, major failure. now, i know he quit the government over immigration, but massive increases in immigration on his watch. >> so each of the candidates that are standing, they've all served in the government. so to an extent, you could put the same argument to each of them. you know, rob resigned from his role as immigration minister last december to take a principled stance because, you know, at that point in time that moment when he was in the home office, he was seeing that, you know, the current approach he didn't feel was working. that's the reason why he resigned from government. and i think he's quite open in addressing that. he's not afraid to talk about, you know, the really difficult challenges that are getting in the way, that are acting as sort of an obstruction to us tackling the big issues. and for me, that's one of the reasons why i'm backing rob, because he's taking that kind of stance. >> it's made a major gaffe, hasn't he? in that video he released where he said british special services won't take prisoners. they, they, they, they, they shoot prisoners. that's effectively a war crime.

>> i mean, the point rob was making was a reference to an article by ben wallace last yeah article by ben wallace last year. and the broader point is that the current human rights architecture, rob, is arguing that that gets in the way of us deaung that that gets in the way of us dealing with some of the big issues, deporting, you know, the most serious and threatening illegal immigrants that we've got in our country. he said himself that, you know, he can't get specifically into all of the detail around individual cases that the armed forces face, but he's making a broader point about the uk state having, you know, full autonomy over how it deals with the big threats and challenges that we're facing as a nation. >> but in that video, some of the servicemen who were serving were serving in afghanistan back in 2002, tom tugendhat was there at the same time. he has said that they are shooting prisoners. that is a war crime. i mean, look, did he misspeak? look i'm, i don't think rob misspoke. >> you know rob is very considered and deliberate in his remarks and he's making that broader point that, you know,

the current human rights architecture is one that is preventing us from dealing with some of the biggest issues that the nation state is facing. you know, he said himself that , you know, he said himself that, you know, he said himself that, you know, he said himself that, you know, he can't get into specifics in the way that any former minister or current minister would get into specifics, but it's that broader point that the uk is a country that's, you know, a sovereign nafion that's, you know, a sovereign nation state. it's got to be able to tackle the big issues that we're facing around protecting british interests, whether they're you know, on battlefield, whether that's to do with illegal migration, that's the broader point that rob is making here. >> so his point is we have to come out of the european convention on human rights no longer have these meddling european judges, because that's why servicemen are not taking prisoners , because we'd never be prisoners, because we'd never be able to deport them. >> that's so the point rob is making on the echr is that the current architecture is enabling certain cases around illegal immigrants to remain in the country, you know, under the auspices of their human rights being invaded. if they were to

being invaded. if they were to be deported. you know, this is about protecting british interests. that's why rob's taking this point. you know, he's not afraid to skirt around. he's not afraid to tackle the big issues. he's not skirting around them. he's not ducking and diving the big issues. and that's what we've got to do. the british people, you know, want us to tackle big issues around national security, migration. but more than that, rob's not just a candidate who's focused on issues around national security and migration . he's security and migration. he's actually focusing on, you know, big issues around intergenerational inequality. you know, talking about supply side reform on housing, how we get the size of the state reduced so that we can lower taxation. you know, this is all about the bread and butter stuff that matters to every single voter. that's out there. >> what of immigration? because he's the candidate who says he will cut immigration to tens of thousands. well, we heard all that from david cameron. failed miserably. how is he going to do it? and isn't he not creating another problem for the tories in saying that they will do something and they don't, which is why the public were so fed up

with the conservative government last time. you failed on immigration, you failed on cutting taxes. how is he going to possibly cut immigration to tens of thousands? >> well , tens of thousands? >> well, you're right, the british people, they were sick and tired. you know, by the end of the conservative government and hearing politicians of all sides talk about things that, you know, they were promising to deliver. but, you know, didn't end up delivering any of it. you know, rob is, you know, focusing on these issues because, you know, the british people want us to. but on the immigration point, for instance, you know, he's saying we need to reduce immigration, you know, to sort of sub 100,000 mark. but when i when i referenced the point about rob dealing with the broader issues, you know, he's talking about how do we reduce the size of the state. you know, he's talking about how do we focus on things like our long term economic and industrial resilience. you know, he's talking quite openly at this conference around how do we upskill. but let me make the point, andrew. so rob is talking about how we focus on, you know, some of those direct drivers of immigration. so for instance, economic migration, if we want to reduce economic migration, we've got to upskill our own workforce. we've got to focus in

the long term on boosting our economic and industrial resilience. so those are the kind of issues that rob is talking about. and those factors feed directly into how we reduce immigration. we've got to focus on the sources. migration is high in part on the economic migration side, because, you know, we don't have enough domestic skills to fulfil all of the jobs that the economy requires here. so it's by focusing on those, those, those bigger sort of issues in the round over the long term that we can reduce immigration. and that's and that's part of that is also dealing with, you know, the illegal migration point. and that's why rob has spoken about the echr. >> is he going to win? >> is he going to win? >> is he going to win? >> i think rob is going to win. there's a lot of momentum here. there's a lot of momentum here. there's a lot of momentum here. there's a huge energy behind his campaign. he's got a huge amount of fire in his belly drive to win. but the great thing about this conference is that, you know, compared to what we were probably expecting three months ago after a really terrible election defeat, there's a huge energy around conservatism. once again. and that's in stark contrast to the labour party that are really feeling quite downbeat, even, you know. 12, 13 weeks into their their term in government. all right. >> that's bradley thomas. he's

one of the newbie mps, one of 24 mps who are tory mps who won their seat for the first time. he's the conservative mp for bromsgrove in the villages and he's supporting robert jenrick. who's speaking? is he speaking second today? >> i think rob's speaking around about 1135. so second or third. >> all right. still to come, we're going to bring you all of our incisive analysis as the four tory leadership take to stage this morning, you don't need to

gb news. >> good morning. it's 950. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. so this morning, judges will hear a school workers appeal against her dismissal after she claimed that she was sacked because of her christian beliefs. christy hicks was dismissed for gross misconduct by farmer school in fairford in 2019. she shared facebook posts criticising plans to teach lgbt+ relationships in primary schools , relationships in primary schools, including the school that her

children went to . there are children went to. there are protests outside the royal courts of justice this morning . courts of justice this morning. those people believe they are fighting for the right to protect free speech, specifically for christians, and she delivered this message outside of the courts a little earlier this morning in october 2018, i shared two private facebook posts to raise awareness of the gender ideology that was going to be taught to young children in schools . young children in schools. >> because of those posts, i lost my job this week. the court of appeal has a chance to put that right . that right. >> it's fascinating story that contains so many issues which are important, i think, to the uk in 2024. adam cherry, our reporter, is there for us this morning. bring us up to speed. adam >> yeah. good morning guys. we are outside the royal court of justice. the hearing will begin at 1030. now, i'm joined here today by andrew williams, who is the chief executive of the

christian legal team. so can you just explain to us why we're here and what this means for the community? >> well, it's the case of christy higgs today, and she five years ago was concerned about the relationships and sex education that was being taught in her son's primary schools. and she said concerns about that because it was going to become mandatory on her friends facebook account. an anonymous friend reported that facebook post to her employer in the school where she worked as a secondary school, where she worked as a pastoral assistant , worked as a pastoral assistant, saying that she was homophobic and transphobic. we don't know who that friend was that the complainant has forever been anonymous, but as a result of that , she was anonymous, but as a result of that, she was suspended from her work as a pastoral assistant, then dismissed for gross misconduct. she was labelled transphobic and homophobic simply for sharing concerns

about relationships and sex education, which at that time this particular book that she was concerned about was promoting a very strong trans ideology, and she was compared in the process to being a neo—nazi. she has since been unable to return to her job there. we went to the employment tribunal where they upheld the sacking and then the employment appeal tribunal, where they said that christy had in fact been discriminated against, directly discriminated against, directly discriminated against, directly discriminated against because of her christian faith , because she her christian faith, because she had done this, because it really arose out of her concern for children. and they said they agreed that she had been discriminated against, but they then said we had to start again and go back to the very same employment tribunal that had decided against her in the first place. so today we're here really to say that that we people should be free to share facebook posts should be free to discuss, free to speak, free to

express christian faith. >> now, christy's case isn't the only one here today in the court. of course it is. but she's not the only person representing their story here. so there are others. can you just talk about some of the other people and their experiences? yes. >> i think that to just put this in a in perspective, when i qualified as a lawyer in 1988, if you'd said to me at that time that we would represent and i would stand outside the royal courts of justice at the beginning of october 2024 with a chaplain who had lost his job as a school chaplain for preaching a school chaplain for preaching a biblical sermon. i'd have said, you couldn't make it up. if you had said to me, i would stand with a doctor outside the court today who, because he wouldn't put on a medical form , wouldn't put on a medical form, the trans identity he wanted to put the biological sex of a person on a medical form, and that he would lose his job. for that. i'd have said impossible if you said to me that today i

would be in front of the royal courts of justice with a teacher who lost their for , job for, for who lost their for, job for, for mistakenly misgendering, or he was accused of misgendering a child who was identifying a girl who was identifying as a boy and lost his job. i'd say these things were impossible. >> well, it's a serious free speech case. yeah, and of course it will happen. it will. it will end tomorrow. we expect the verdict tomorrow. that's it for for us, now. andrew and bev back to you. as i say, we're expecting the verdict tomorrow. at some point, the hearing will begin in just over half an hour. >> a really interesting case there, isn't it? let me know your thoughts. this morning, gbnews.com/yoursay. but still to come this morning we're going to have the latest on the uk's intervention in the middle east. was it necessary for us to get so involved? this is britain's newsroom on gb news. alex, has your. newsroom on gb news. alex, has your . weather. your. weather. >> despite the morning rain, it'll be a nice, warm, cosy day ahead. boxed heat pumps sponsors

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morning. 10 am. on wednesday, the 2nd of october, live across the 2nd of october, live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me, andrew pierce at the tory conference in birmingham and bev turner in london. >> good morning. thanks for joining us today. now in this houn joining us today. now in this hour, all four conservative leadership hopefuls will set out their plans for the future of their plans for the future of the conservative party. can anyone save them or are they beyond repair ? and middle east beyond repair? and middle east on the brink britain helps shoot down iranian missiles heading towards israel as tensions escalate in the region. sir keir starmer addressed the nation following the intervention yesterday. >> utterly condemn this attempt

by the iranian regime to harm innocent israelis. it cannot be tolerated. we stand with israel and we recognise her right to self—defence . self—defence. >> as the world awaits israel's response to last night's ballistic missile attacks, more than 100 rockets have been fired into northern israel this morning by the terror group hezbollah . hezbollah. >> and keir starmer's brussels visit, the prime minister is meeting the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, today to reset the relationship. his words with the eu and move past the days of brexit. and one in every 20 gp appointments in england are now carried out . online are the days carried out. online are the days of face to face consultations oven of face to face consultations over. when did you last see your gp in person ?

gp in person? is that a good idea or not seeing your gp in person or down the line? hello andrew. hi. how are we doing? yeah, very good, very good. we've got so much to talk about this morning. we're going to be hearing from more of the leaders. leaders want to be leaders, of course, of the conservative party. this morning you and i will be discussing it when people need to get their popcorn and their coffee ready, do they not? >> they're queuing up to go in now . in fact. >> they're queuing up to go in now. in fact. i mean, i can't remember the last time i saw such a long queue at a tory party conference. so they're they're keen to hear what they've got to say. they're all going to speak for 20 minutes. there's going to be a video each. so it's going to be quite, quite a marathon. okay so don't forget we want to hear from you. send your views, post your comments by visiting gbnews.com/yoursay but first let's get the headlines with tatiana .

tatiana. >> andrew. thank you. the top stories this hour israel will reportedly launch a significant retaliation to iran's missile attack within days that could target oil production facilities. that is to according us based news site axios. last night , the israeli prime night, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said iran had made a big mistake with its attack and will pay for it . both the uk and the us have it. both the uk and the us have confirmed they've supported israel in shooting down over 180 iranian missiles headed for the country . defence ministerjohn country. defence ministerjohn healey said forces played their part to prevent further escalation in the region . the escalation in the region. the attack came in retaliation to israel's air and ground operation in lebanon against iranian backed terror group hezbollah, and the assassination of their leader on friday. in a televised address last night, prime minister sir keir starmer publicly supported israel's right to self—defence . in other

right to self—defence. in other news, tory leadership candidate kemi badenoch is facing criticism for suggesting 1 in 10 civil servants are so bad at theirjobs civil servants are so bad at their jobs they should civil servants are so bad at theirjobs they should be their jobs they should be jailed. meanwhile robert jenrick and james cleverly have both taken aim at reform uk and nigel farage, claiming they want to make the party redundant. robert jenrick kemi badenoch , james jenrick kemi badenoch, james cleverly and tom tugendhat will all address delegates in birmingham today in their bids to become rishi sunak's successor. mrjenrick, to become rishi sunak's successor. mr jenrick, who to become rishi sunak's successor. mrjenrick, who has attracted the most support from mps so far, is expected to call for a new conservative party if it wants to, quote, tackle the immense challenges that it faces . immense challenges that it faces. meanwhile, the prime minister travels to brussels today in a bid to improve relations with the eu and to bolster the security. the safety and prosperity of the british people . prosperity of the british people. sir keir starmer will visit for talks with european commission president ursula von der leyen about resetting britain's relationship with the european union. he aims to push for a better trading relationship and

greater cooperation on defence and security measures. but he's also under pressure to agree to brussels calls for a deal on youth mobility to allow young eu citizens greater freedom to come to the uk to study and work. now, this morning, to the uk to study and work. now, this morning , judges will now, this morning, judges will hear a school workers appeal against her dismissal after she claimed she was sacked because of her christian beliefs. kristie higgs was dismissed for gross misconduct by farmer school in fairford in 2019, after she shared facebook posts criticising plans to teach lgbt+ relationships in primary schools. there are protests outside the royal courts of justice fighting for the right to protect for free speech christians. >> in october 2018, i shared two private facebook posts to raise awareness of the gender ideology that was going to be taught to young children in schools . young children in schools. because of those posts, i lost my job this week. the court of appeal has the chance to put

that right . that right. >> almost a quarter of people in the uk have avoided calling an ambulance due to concerns it will take too long to arrive. that's according to a new survey. health leaders said adequate long term investments needed for ambulance services, and warned stretched teams face and warned stretched teams face an uphill battle as demand keeps outstripping available resources and staff in the poll of 2028 people commissioned by the liberal democrats, around 23% said they didn't call an ambulance to go to a&e in the last two years due to concerns about the long waits. of this group, 57% drove themselves to hospital or they asked a family member to drive, while 25% called a taxi, 18% walked. rapper and music mogul sean combs is facing allegations of sexual misconduct from 120 new accusers. that's coming from a lawyer who revealed this at a

press conference in texas. tony buzbee, a lawyer from houston representing the claimants, says he expects lawsuits to be filed within the next month. he said there were 60 male and 60 female accusers, and that 25 of them were children at the time of the alleged offences. combs, also known as p diddy or puff daddy, is awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges . and a trafficking charges. and a military horse who played a key role in helping the nation mourn queen elizabeth ii, has been awarded the animals obe . after a awarded the animals obe. after a career of service, the pdsa order of merit recognises animals that have demonstrated outstanding devotion to their owner or wider society. lord firebrand, also known as yogi, a military working horse who retired in december last year, has become the 55th recipient of the medal after a career working in royal events. yogi participated in the state opening of parliament, state visits and the trooping of the colour. during his career , and

colour. during his career, and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> welcome back to britain's newsroom bev turner. here in the studio in london. andrew is in birmingham. the conservative party conference. it's a big day for the wannabe leaders there. this morning andrew we're going to hear from all four of them dunng to hear from all four of them during our show this morning. first off is going to be tom tugendhat in about half an hour or so. which of them do you think has the best chance of rejuvenating the conservative party >> it's a good question, i think. i mean, what i do think is the two front runners, badenoch and jenrick, have both

had a pretty rough week. they've both had problems so it could even be that we see it falter in the end by james cleverly who's got the experience former foreign secretary, former home secretary. but there's a lot of big buzz around tom tugendhat, who's the former security minister. he's just gone in, he speaks first. so i've got a hunch actually, that it's going to be cleverly's going to win this, and i have my money at the beginning on tugendhat. sorry on robert jenrick, but you just don't know. you just don't know what a lot of it's going to be about how they perform. now. i know it's going to speak without notes, we'll find out about tugendhat because in the studio with me now is harriet cross. she's the conservative mp for gordon and buchan. and you are backing tom tugendhat. he's had a good week because he was seen as an outsider. >> tom has had a fantastic week, but to be honest to us who know him best and have been supporting him all along, we're not surprised because that's the sort of person tom is. he brings

people along, he wants to lead, he wants to serve, and people see that at the moment they meet him, they see that and that's what we need, because we need to be able to reach to every corner of the country. and tom is a candidate who can do that and inspire the whole country. and that's why i'm supporting him as leader. that's why he's picked up so much support at this conference, and that's why we're really working hard to make sure that he does get the opportunity to go to the membership, to actually speak to the country and then get elected and be the next leader of the party and the next leader of the party and the next leader of the party and the next leader of the country. >> and this leadership contest, it's only the third leadership contest, i think, during a tory conference since since 1963 is being fought a backdrop backdrop of enormous international tension. yes, we could be on the verge of a major middle east conflict. does that make tom tugendhat county even more relevant? because he has got a he had a stellar military career. >> tom has served the united kingdom in various capacities for over a quarter of a century, 25 years. so he's used to serving and as you say in the military, he has put his life on the line for our country. and he will do. he'll do that when he's asked to, when he needs to,

because he cares so much. but i think with tom and what he always says is politics is not a game. he's seen the real world implications of when politics goes wrong, of what the actual impact of decisions which are made in westminster in other administrations around the world means, and why it's so important that we do not play games while we actually take this seriously, because we are in such a privileged position to serve the country, and we need to make sure that we are not doing that for any sort of personal advantage. we are there to serve. tom's there to serve, and that's why he will be the perfect leader of our party in these uncertain times. because, as you say, we can't be in a position where we are having missed slips or sort of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, and sort of creating tensions. tom needs to be the person who's there because he understands these issues, and he's worked in these issues, and he's worked in these issues, and he's there for a really well placed to deliver under really tense circumstances like we're seeing at the moment. >> i know you're all trying to be nice about each other, but there's no doubt robert jenrick, in my view, has blundered in his video. it's not just a quote in an interview, it's a video he

released in which he says special services have rather than taking people hostage. he illustrates it with servicemen serving in afghanistan have executed prisoners, which does amount, in my view, to a war crime. >> and that's why it's so important that we have someone who understands the implications of our words and what our words mean, and the impact they can have. so saying things like that, for example, on the ground, can mean it's more difficult when our, our forces, who serve us incredibly well and put their lives on the line for us every day, it puts them in a really difficult position, because does that mean now it's going to be harder when they're coming to the situations where we're looking to sort of get a solution where we have a have a surrender, are they going to be less likely to surrender? is that going to put our forces in more danger? and that's what this can happen. these anything that you say can have a real world implication. and tom understands that. and we all need to understand that because as i said, it's not a game. this is really, really serious. and we need to make sure that when things abroad are uncertain or

unstable, but we're not fuelling the flames and we're actually there to help resolve situations. >> whoever wins, the biggest problem they're going to have in my view, harriet, is to get to get their voice heard. yes the tory party was had suffered a humiliating defeat in july. the country is fed up to the back teeth of the tories 14 years. the last few years changing leaders, it seemed all the time failing on immigration, failing on taxation, the highest tax burden since the second world war. how would tugendhat, as leader of the opposition, get that voice heard out there to make the tory party relevant ' 7 m. again? >> and to me, that's one of the real key reasons why i'm supporting tom, because we've seen from various polls. i mean, there was even one out this week, but going back into the summer as well. he is the candidate of the four who the general public, not just members, but the general public, are more likely to support. he's got the net highest favorability with the public, and that's who we need to have the well, who we need to give the opportunity back to, to want to listen to us because we have lost faith. we have lost sort of respect with the public. we need to recognise that. but also we've seen even

within these first, not even 100 days, the state that the labour party have got themselves into and the public are crying out for real leadership, real integrity, and someone who actually is in politics for the right reason. but we will not be able to have a hearing from the pubuc able to have a hearing from the public if they're not willing and see us as a party that they want to trust. again, tom can rebuild trust. he can rebuild passion for the party, pride in the party, and pride in the united kingdom. and that is what's so important and what we need going forward. because, as you say, we can't afford five years of the labour government, let alone 10 or 15. we need a leader now who can be a prime minister in five years time. and thatis minister in five years time. and that is tom. >> you're an mp in scotland. yes. the tory party used to be the biggest party in scotland many decades ago. you're you're almost a minor player now in scotland. how does tugendhat make make the tory party relevant in scotland and again in scotland? >> tom he tom doesn't visit scotland just for a leadership campaign and go away again. tom has been in and out of scotland over the years because he cares. he cares about what we're doing out there. he cares about what

about the scottish people are doing. he often sits in in the holyrood parliament, just up in the gallery to see what's going on, because he cares. and we've got of all the we've had 16 msps declare of who they're supporting. all 16 of them have come out supporting tom because they see him as the candidate for the union, the candidate for every corner of the uk. and i'd say the same about wales, northern ireland, scotland, england. tom cares about the fabnc england. tom cares about the fabric of the united kingdom. he wants to be the leader of the united kingdom, and with that, to be the prime minister of the united kingdom as well. he understands scotland. he believes in scotland, he believes in scotland, he believes in scotland, he believes in the economy that we have and the benefit that we bnng have and the benefit that we bring to the united kingdom. we're not there to piggyback off the rest of the uk. we are a vital part of the united kingdom, and tom understands that and he believes it and he will deliver it as well. i mean, he said, for example, that he would make sure that the scottish leader had a place or an invitation to the shadow cabinet because, again, it's important to get voices from the north, from the east, from the west, wherever they're coming from. we need voices are heard because every part of the united kingdom is unique. tom

understands that, and he wants to make sure those voices are heard at at government level. is heard at at government level. is he going to win? i believe tom's going to win. and i really i really think he should win because he is the candidate that can bring the party together and bnng can bring the party together and bring the country together and return us to power as quickly as possible. >> have you put a bet on him? >> have you put a bet on him? >> i have not put a bet on him. tories have rather avoiding putting bets on elections at the moment. yes, exactly. we won't go there. but no. i truly believe with every every ounce of me. but. but tom is the best candidate for this. >> tom. tom tom tugendhat will be the first off. he's speaking first at 1045. we'll be covering that live here on on gb news. that's harriet cross, she's the conservative mp for gordon buchan, another one of the new mps. you're one of 24 new mps. you're very welcome. first time on this programme and i hope you'll come back and see us again. up next, did you last a face to face consultation with your gp?

gb news. >> good morning. is 1020 this britain's newsroom with andrew pearson. bev turner andrew's in birmingham. i am in london and i'm delighted to say that i'm joined in the studio now by broadcaster mike parry, who's had a haircut. nice to see mike looking very smart. >> no, my coiffeur gave me a call after seeing me on the show last week. >> we all need one of those. and former labour mp stephen pound. >> i've had a polish in the studio. >> right, gentlemen, we're going to have a fun hour and a half or so hour and 40 minutes left of the show, because we're going to be watching the tory wannabe leaders, and then we will tell you what we think of their speeches. that is probably worth staying tuned to hear. we're not going to hold back, are we? on our opinions? >> no, no, we're not. no. >> but first of all, before we do that, let's talk about some of the stories. obviously, the biggest story in town at the moment, what is happening in the middle east. mike, how worried are you about that, >> do you know what i think when one side is so determined to hammer the other side? i think it brings more stability. that might sound a bit strange, but

stephen might be able to understand what i'm saying. >> well, which side are you putting as being the one that wants to hammer more israel? >> right. because they are now so positive in their actions. you know, all the talk can take place all the time, appealing to world leaders to restrain and all that. but israel know exactly what they've got to do . exactly what they've got to do. and when they do it, i think that sends such a stark message to tehran because again, last night, 200 missiles and the photography was incredible. last night i said, i stayed up till 1:00 in the morning waiting to see if israel were going to immediately respond, but it was like watching a fireworks show, seeing all the iranian missiles being blown out of the sky. right. and did you know that it's so sophisticated, the system that they don't bother hitting those, that they've already tracked will land in desert and not on towns? >> that's the iron dome that we talk. >> we talk about exactly, exactly anti—missile. >> but you know, we haven't heard yet back from tehran. but last night , heard yet back from tehran. but last night, it seemed to me that tehran didn't launch a full scale attack on israel again in the way that they, you know, had

been thumping the table and saying utter revenge, wipe them out and all that, because they know at the end of the day, if a full scale war happens, iran will be wiped out. >> is that what israel's going to do next, do you think, stephen? >> that's the key question. i mean, there's so many different layers in this. for example, when nasrallah, the hezbollah leader, was killed, there was massive rejoicing in syria that people were dancing in the streets saying, it's the happiest day of our lives. so don't think that all the arab nafions don't think that all the arab nations are on one particular side, but saudi arabia want them silenced, don't they? the interesting thing now is what i think the israeli people, the mossad particularly, are thinking about is the possibility of an uprising within iran . iran suffers under within iran. iran suffers under an economic crisis , chaos an economic crisis, chaos because all their money is going out. as you know , into out. as you know, into supporting these proxies in the houthis and the hamas and hezbollah. the population of iran is majority under 30. there have been a number of immensely courageous uprisings, which have led to about 60 people being hangedin led to about 60 people being hanged in one day. yes. >> so i think that would be women being jailed for not wearing a scarf around.

>> that would be the ideal thing. but in reality, if i was anywhere near isfahan or anywhere near isfahan or anywhere near isfahan or anywhere near the natanz nuclear power station, i'd be on my bike, because i would imagine that's where the one thing that iran doesn't have is a nuclear bomb. and the reason it doesn't have is because if you remember, the centrifuges were then hacked. and so that actually stopped the process of enriching uranium. that is the terrifying thing . thing. >> but in terms of what we do and the extent to which the uk should be involved, my feeling, mike, is that we will do whatever america wants us to do. it feels like a repeat of tony blair and bush. >> it does a bit, but i have to say, i was watching our prime minister, keir starmer, last night, you know, standing there in downing street, you know, 100% behind israel. and i thought, but hang on, the foreign secretary of our country, just 2 or 3 weeks ago undermined israel by withdrawing those ridiculous export licences. and that can only have given confidence , succour to the given confidence, succour to the other side. so i think he should

sack lammy now, if he really means we are 100% behind israel, because with lammy in his cabinet, we are not 100% behind. >> lammy must have had the blessing of keir starmer. well, that's what i'm saying. >> the only way you can get out of it is to sack lammy and say, well, he was a rogue minister, otherwise all the world can say no. >> keir starmer, you pulled back on that, just wouldn't work. it simply wouldn't work. you cannot say somebody is a rogue minister if you've given them the green light to do what you're saying. now, the reality is this whole export licensing was a 0.0, nought 5% of that. so, i mean, it was symbolic and i think maybe there have been british political considerations for why they did it. but it is very, very symbolic. the other thing about britain involvement is don't forget these missiles are in range of akrotiri. our bases in range of akrotiri. our bases in cyprus. yeah, they are in range of that to which more british troops have been sent only recently, which is slightly worrying. but if you listen to some of the stuff that's coming out from the majlis in tehran, they're talking about americans and british americans and british americans, you know, we are there. and so we're in the gun sights anyway.

>> yeah . well, sorry. do the us >> yeah. well, sorry. do the us have bases on cyprus as well? >> no, they don't know. >> no, they don't know. >> so they could strike cyprus without striking the us. but strike at us. yeah. >> well oddly enough, most of the us bases are actually in baghdad at the present time. and the emirates, obviously. >> does it make you think, stephen, like particularly as a former military man, that humans learn nothing through history, that we've still got idiotic religious men? i'm sorry. it is predominantly men who are causing death, destruction, making enormous profits for the military industrial complex. and it's like through history we learn nothing. >> what really breaks my heart about this is when you think, what is achieved when a country comes together and works together in wartime. we've made amazing inventions, you know, it's incredible the things we've done, and yet somehow we manage to actually destroy it. if i was an omnipotent god looking down on this planet earth and saying, what have you actually done with this planet where you've got the perfect weather, you can go grow anything, you can have music, all these wonderful things. what have you done with it? yeah, killing each other. yeah. >> but to answer your question,

bev, i mean, hitlerjust wanted to conquer every country because he wanted to rule europe and the world. but there's an ideology here, which is so illogical because the enemies of israel want to wipe them off the face of the earth, because they hate jewish people and they hate israel. and you will never get those people with that ideology in their head to think any other way. so when you say, oh, stupid men making stupid decisions, i totally agree with you. but these stupid men in tehran are so doggedly mad in their pursuit of getting rid of israel. there's no logic in anything, but one of the reasons they are is, is if a country is in crisis andifs is, is if a country is in crisis and it's chaos and iran is, what's the great thing to do is to actually look at an external enemy. >> napoleon. every time he had trouble, he used to say, la pat cullen, the country is in dangen cullen, the country is in danger. and that would then coalesce people around argentina at the moment. very good example. yeah. so what you've got now is the external enemy concentrates the mind away from the problems. so if you've got no bread in the shops, you've got no right to vote and you're

getting hanged for not wearing the proper headdress. you can say, well, never mind that, look at those israelis. >> and of course, the tragic irony is that works for various leaders around the world at the moment. that's working for biden. absolutely. as they go into an election, if america get dragged into this in a deeper way. i hate to say it, but it also sort of works for the labour party and starmer, given that the catastrophic start to their premiership that they've had. >> i mean, i'm not saying i'm sorry that's pushing it. >> i know it is. but but you have to always look for motive and a kind of convergence of benefits to deflect attention. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> oh, no, i'm not saying i'm not saying that the labour party set out this this horror up. >> no, no, not at all. but keir starmer be happy to talk about something else. that isn't whether he had his suits bought for him. yes, he'll be happy to talk about something else. >> yes, but but i have to say, it's not an either or. you cannot ignore what's happening in the middle east at the present. no. had he not said anything, you would have been sitting here saying, what's he doing? why hasn't he said anything? >> so i think he i think i'm not sure i would, i think i'd be quite happy with our heads down

at the moment. all right. let's talk about the effects on the markets. mike if you don't mind, this is in the daily telegraph. what's happening to the oil pnces what's happening to the oil prices and the stocks? well, because of this war, one of the reasons why i thought the situation was quite under control for the last three weeks is that the price of oil has been going down. >> yeah, because there's a world glut of oil, you know, mostly overproduction in saudi arabia. and i'm thinking the greatest really indication of whether we've got a real world crisis is what happens to the oil price. well, in the last 36 hours, the oil price has suddenly started going up and bond markets have started going down. so that means that the whole of the world is now worried that there could be, you know, a situation in the middle east which could reach out and touch us all. but also because of this, they've all the news channels have now re—examined the situation in the red sea. and i didn't realise it was so perilous and so serious that shipping in the red sea now is being dramatically impaired on their routes to the suez canal on their routes to the suez canal, and this is going to put pnces canal, and this is going to put prices up around the world of all sorts of commodities. >> if you look at the price of brent crude, which is a good indicator, this is the canary in the coal mine, brent crude, you

know, as you know, it's trading at something like 30 for a few months. that's up to 74 per gallon. now. the other two, two interesting factors. firstly gold is spiking. interesting factors. firstly gold is spiking . yes. you know, gold is spiking. yes. you know, if you bought gold a week ago, you'd made a 20%. >> we've been talking about this for a year, you and i. >> indeed we have. >> indeed we have. >> indeed we have. >> i didn't take your advice though, stephen. i didn't buy any gold. that was a bit stupid, wasn't it? >> yeah, but you've got enough. >> yeah, but you've got enough. >> i'm sure gordon brown lost us £11 billion. oh, no he didn't. yes he did. i read that yesterday. 11 billion quid's worth of gold. he he sold it. >> indeed he did. and what did he do with that? he actually improved britain's housing. magnificent. let's leave that for a second. the ftse is up again in the 80s now. yes you talked about the military industrial. there are people making money out of this. there are. and that's desperately desperately right. but the thing about the houthis in the red sea, people are actually being diverted through the cape of good hope. now they get around south africa. that's right. so that will inevitably increase prices. now you remember, i mean, i don't know if you remember back in the 70s when opec whacked up the price price of oil, we had an economic crisis in this country and the lights were going out. yes. they

were terrified and so the national union of mineworkers thought this is a good time to strike. but yeah, but the reality is that oil prices do have a knock on effect for the rest of the world. the only thing that's different now is america is entirely self—sufficient in energy and exports thanks to fracking. and if only we had this in this country, we'd be in a lot better off. >> that's right. i mean, in the 70s. you're absolutely right, stephen. the oil price doubled and nearly trebled just because the saudis didn't like israel in those days. and so they turned the taps off. they turned the taps off. we're going to punish the western world now. it's more economic factors because actually, the saudis and israel get on quite well. >> a little bit of a gear change. let's talk about waiters with card machines shaming us to gearshift more. it is a gear shift. we want to get some light stuff as well today. >> brightness and lightness. >> brightness and lightness. >> the demise of cash is ironically boosting the size of tips given to people working in bars and restaurants . bars and restaurants. >> there's two aspects to this story. one is that a law has been passed now that waiters get all the tips, okay, the businesses have got to give it

to the waiters and do you know what i always do? i was in rules restaurant quite recently. you know very well steve won't you. >> i can't afford it. but i do know it. >> no. and actually i was with a group of people. the bill came to £450 each. no, for four of us, actually. and i put the standard tip on the bill, which is another £50 i think, or something. it was about 12% or something. it was about 12% or something like that. but then having done that i give it to the waiter who'd been very good to us. i gave that waiter man a separate £50 note and said, that's yes, i did . separate £50 note and said, that's yes, i did. i said, that's yes, i did. i said, that's for you, pal. you've given us great service. thank you very much indeed. i'm not sure you'll get the money off the bill, but that's from me to you.thank the bill, but that's from me to you. thank you very much . now, you. thank you very much. now, these days, two aspects to this, you've got to give all the money on the bill to the waiter. but the other aspect of this is that waiters now stand over you with a machine like this, and you're embarrassed into saying, yeah, you're embarrassing. oh, make it 15% a tip was originally, i think the words tip were to

ensure promptness i think was the original. >> well, i'll tell you what next time you go into a cafe or restaurant, every waiter is going to be running to your table. mike parry, you've just guaranteed great service. you've got to go. tatiana sanchez very patiently. he's waiting for us. we're late for the news. here's tatiana john mauger. >> thank you very much. the top stories from the gb newsroom israel will reportedly launch a significant retaliation to iran's missile attack within days that could target oil production facilities. that's according to us based news site axios. last night, the israeli prime minister said iran had made a big mistake with its attack and will pay for it. both the uk and the us have confirmed they've supported israel in shooting down over 180 iranian missiles headed for the country. the uk defence minister, john healey , said forces played their healey, said forces played their part to prevent further escalation in the region. the attack came in retaliation to israel's air and ground

operation in lebanon against iranian backed terror group hezbollah and the assassination of their leader on friday. in a televised address last night, prime minister sir keir starmer publicly supported israel's right to self—defence. >> utterly condemn this attempt by the iranian regime to harm innocent israelis. it cannot be tolerated. we stand with israel and we recognise her right to self—defence . self—defence. >> in other news, tory leadership candidate kemi badenoch is facing criticism for suggesting 1 in 10 civil servants are so bad at their jobs they should be jailed. meanwhile robert jenrick and james cleverly have both taken aim at reform uk and nigel farage, claiming they want to make the party redundant. jenrick badenoch , james cleverly jenrick badenoch, james cleverly and tom tugendhat will all address delegates in birmingham today in their bids to become rishi sunak's successor, tom tugendhat opening with his speech very shortly in the next 15 minutes or so. mrjenrick,

15 minutes or so. mr jenrick, who has attracted the most support from mps so far, is expected to call for a new conservative party if it wants to tackle , quote, the immense to tackle, quote, the immense challenges that it faces . challenges that it faces. meanwhile, the prime minister travels to brussels today in a bid to improve relations with the eu and to bolster the security, the safety and prosperity of the british people. sir keir will visit for talks with the european commission president, ursula von der lie—in, about resetting britain's relationship with the eu. he aims to push for a better trading relationship and greater cooperation on defence and security measures. but he's also under pressure to agree to brussels calls for a deal on youth mobility to allow young eu citizens greater freedom to come to the uk to study and work , and to the uk to study and work, and a metropolitan police marksman is due to go on trial over the fatal shooting of chris kaba . 40 fatal shooting of chris kaba. 40 year old martin blake is accused of the murder of 24 year old mr kabir in south london in

september. two years ago, mr kabir died after being shot once in the head through the windscreen of an audi car in streatham in south london. blake has denied the charge against him. his trial is expected to go on for up to three weeks. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. i'll have more news for you shortly . you shortly. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> up next, sir keir starmer, deeply concerned that the region is on the brink and i am deeply concerned about the risk of miscalculation. >> i want to repeat my advice to british nationals who are still in lebanon. you must leave now.

>> that was, of course, prime minister sir keir starmer addressing the nation last night after the conflicts in the middle east escalated. we're going to have the latest on that. this is britain's newsroom on gb

good morning. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with bev turner. now to the developing story. overnight in the middle east, both the uk and the middle east, both the uk and the us have confirmed that they were involved in an operation to shoot down over 180 iranian missiles fired at israel. joining us live now in the studio is our home and security edhon studio is our home and security editor, mark white. mark, is it worth just reflecting on how we've got to this point, that that anniversary of october 7 is coming around the corner? i cannot believe that's nearly a year ago. since that invasion by hamas into israel and the slaughter of all those innocent

people. fast forward almost 12 months. what are we looking at now? >> yeah. so we're just five days away from that anniversary, as you say, an absolutely horrific event that led to the deaths of 1200. israeli citizens and of course, 200 hostages being taken by hamas. that then resulted, of course, in israel going in to deal with hamas in gaza. they're still involved in that. the winding down to an extent, which has meant that the israeli forces are moving north to deal with the other threat, which is the other terrorist group, hezbollah, on israel's northern border in southern lebanon, which throughout the issues in the war in gaza, they have been firing 8000 plus rockets, missiles and drones across that southern border of lebanon into northern israel. israel now is

determined to deal with hezbollah . that's why we saw two hezbollah. that's why we saw two weeks ago the pager bomb attacks and the walkie talkie bomb attacks targeting specifically those hezbollah terrorists, high in, you know, ranking individuals and low ranking individuals, injuring 3000 and killing almost 50 of those terrorists , some civilians, a terrorists, some civilians, a small number of civilians. but this was quite a targeted approach. and then, of course , approach. and then, of course, we saw just at the end of last week that very significant development with the killing of the leader of hezbollah, hassan nasrallah. so here we are with iran now, striking israel last night with these ballistic missiles, almost 200 of them, in response for the killing of hassan nasrallah, the hezbollah leader, and also for the killing earlier in the year of ismail

haniyeh , who was the leader of haniyeh, who was the leader of hamas . very complicated mess. hamas. very complicated mess. but we are in a very dangerous situation now where iran has fired these ballistic missiles into israel. israel is absolutely going to respond. and the mood music we're getting from israel, from the politicians and the military leaders, is that this will be of a magnitude greater than the response back in april, when iran fired missiles and drones at israel. >> you've worked very hard on this station in the last 24 hours. mark. i saw you on patrick christys show last night up until 11:00, and one of the topics that was being debated on patrick's show last night is whether there are any iranian terrorist sleeper cells in this country that could be activated, should we be concerned about that? >> i think we should be concerned and certainly israeli interests and the jewish community in the uk should be

particularly concerned. last night we saw attacks that took place in sweden, in stockholm, and in denmark as well, sorry, in denmark and also in copenhagen, i should say in denmark and stockholm, in sweden, with the israeli embassy in those two countries targeted two explosions in denmark and then shots fired at the israeli embassy in sweden. and we've seen, of course, with the gaza conflict, terrorist attacks that have taken place in this country with the murder of that pensioner in hartlepool, stabbed to death, linked to gaza and other attacks in france and germany. so it's right to have some caution and concern about what's happening. >> brilliant synopsis. mark white. thank you so much for bringing us up to speed. up next, are the tories toast or are we about to see a new era for the conservative party?

we're going to hear from all four leadership hopefuls in the remaining time that we have on this show. so get your tea and toast. get comfy. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb.

good morning. it's 1046 good morning. it's1046 is britain's newsroom on gb news. we are waiting anxiously, excitedly for the tory leadership hopefuls to take to the stage. tom tugendhat is due there any moment now. he's first up, isn't he, andrew? how did they decide? do you know who went first? >> they drew straws. >> they drew straws. >> yeah, they they drew lots. so two and a half came out. so in order. so, there was no favouritism. so two and a half first. i don't know if it's best to go first or last because i suspect by the time kemi badenoch speaks, she goes last. some of them might be have had

enough already, because that will have been already more than an hour of speeches. so tugendhat is very pleased that he's going first. that's what he told me last night. and i suspect we'll hear him refer very quickly to what's happening in the middle east. bev with the iran launching all those missiles in there, and he's going to play up his military background as the soldier, the senior soldier, the sort of man you might need in charge of the country in these difficult times. they i'd be interesting to see how many of them speak without notes, because if you go all the way back to 2005, the last time we had a tory leadership contest during a party conference, david cameron stole the show when he spoke for an hour without notes the next day. david. david davis spoke with notes and it was a terrible speech. and cameron had the leadership was in the bag after one speech. it was it was a done deal one speech. it was it was a done deal. could that happen again today? >> and of course, they are talking to the public via the media in these speeches today.

but they're primarily talking, aren't they, to the tory party members, because they are whom they have to win over. i believe tom tugendhat is coming on to stage. andrew, i think we're going to take that live . we'll going to take that live. we'll be back to tell you what we think of it after he's spoken. yeah woo woo woo . yeah woo woo woo. >> well good morning . conference >> well good morning. conference should we try that again . good should we try that again. good morning. conference much better. >> look it's good to be amongst friends after let's face it something that was pretty frankly bruising that last election. boy, did that hurt. and yet four days here with all of you has helped turn my anger

and my disappointment into optimism. i can feel the energy. i can feel the determination. i can feel the hope you , the can feel the hope you, the beating heart of our party, know there is a way back for us. i know we can and we will rebuild this. i know we can and we will reconnect with the british people. i know we can and we will restore trust. and if we do that, we can and we will win again . again. but to do so, you know what it needs. it demands honesty . we've needs. it demands honesty. we've heard platitudes, not substance in this campaign. too much about

personality, not enough about principle, too much about change. without saying how. and i'm standing before you today because i've had enough of the lack of substance, the lack of principle, the lack of clarity. my principle, the lack of clarity. my friends , i've had enough of my friends, i've had enough of westminster's political games, petty point scoring and self—service. it's not becoming of our great party or our great nation. we can do better. now i'm standing because what we needis i'm standing because what we need is leadership . i'm standing need is leadership. i'm standing to lead. not just this party, but to be the next conservative prime minister of this great country . now, friends, i know

country. now, friends, i know what leadership really is . what leadership really is. before i stood for parliament, i was a soldier. i served our country and i faced our enemies. i know what leadership demands when everything else has been cut away and there's nothing left. character is what remains in afghanistan and in iraq. i served in combat alongside the best, and i've seen friends push themselves beyond their limits, and some made the ultimate sacrifice. but when it was hard, when it was tough, we kept going , when it was tough, we kept going, even after we were knocked down and thought it was over. i know what drove them and i know what drove me. it's leadership and our country is crying out for leadership, and leadership is not about empty promises. it's not about empty promises. it's not about empty promises. it's not about cheap rhetoric or

government. by management consultancy . it's not about consultancy. it's not about managing decline. and it's not about talking our country down. leadership is about making choices that serve our country and our people best. i promise you that as your leader, i will serve our country. i will lead with conviction. i will act decisively. my mission is the prosperity and happiness of the british people. together we can win . win. now, over hundreds of years, we have defended freedom around the world, and we've always known what our flag means. i'm proud to know that where it flies, our values are always defended . values are always defended. britain has been on the right side of history, and i'm proud of our history. unlike labour, i

will never apologise ever for who we are and the country that we . can be. and from churchill we. can be. and from churchill to thatcher, our party has led the fight for freedom, united against the threats that we faced. but we need to face the truth. many who share our values did not for vote us. so let me speak directly to those of you who have supported us in the past, but didn't this time . if past, but didn't this time. if you went to reform , i want to you went to reform, i want to show you the conservative values that we share. if you went to the lib dems, i want you. i want you to see the opportunities that only we can deliver and if you went to labour, i want to show you why freedom, not state control, is how we build. if you

stayed at home, i want to make you proud to vote conservative again . again. now i will grip this party so that we're ready to rescue our country from labour. i will turn us from a westminster club into a champion of conservative voices. from holyrood to cardiff bay and stormont, and every council across our great country. i will defeat labour and lead us back to power in five years time. we all know that this country cannot afford laboun that this country cannot afford labour. you can't afford labour, i can't afford labour. lord alli can't afford . can't afford. labour. but let's be honest, as a

patriot, i want what's best for our country. so i always want our country. so i always want our country. so i always want our country to succeed . labour our country to succeed. labour have already shown us who they are . they are the most venal and are. they are the most venal and vindictive administration in decades. vindictive administration in decades . starmer isn't just decades. starmer isn't just making pensioners pay for his union paymasters. he's undermining freedom of speech in our universities. he's trashing our universities. he's trashing our border security instead of keeping us safe. he wants to police smoking in beer gardens. he's freeing criminals, not standing up for the police. now i know what it's like when a labour government doesn't have your back. the last labour government left our troops without body armour in iraq and without body armour in iraq and without helicopters in afghanistan. as your prime minister i will never abandon those on the frontline .

those on the frontline. because, friends , i will always because, friends, i will always stand up for those who put their lives on the line to keep us safe because we are the conservative party, the party of security, the party of law and order. now starmer is half right when he says that things will get worse before they get better. they will certainly get worse. i can promise you that. we're going to have a lot of cleaning up to do when we're back in five years time. i hope you're ready, because starmer's bleak outlook is already hurting our country. his tax hikes are an attack on business, slowing growth and hurting families. his tax on education will cost everyone, either in higher bills or in larger class sizes. now they're even after three year olds at nurseries. i mean, i tell you. conference labour's new tax . it's quite literally new tax. it's quite literally a dummy tax . so when keir starmer

dummy tax. so when keir starmer talks about service you will understand that i don't really . understand that i don't really. believe him. that's not what we mean by service is it? conference. when i think of service is our teachers, our police officers, our armed forces, i think of those who sacrifice for our country every single day that service. when keir starmer thinks of service, he thinks of free tickets to taylor swift . now, friends, taylor swift. now, friends, that tells you everything you need to know. labour have told us who they are. they're rudderless , they are. they're rudderless, selfish and greedy. they're taking us back to the 1970s and the politics of division, socialism, higher taxes, more regulation, more control, the lowest common denominator, trashing hopes and dreams. conference. we have to fight to

rescue our country . rescue our country. now the politics that drives me builds on the best in us and makes us stronger. so to those who want to divide us, i say this i served with men and women of every religion and background with pride . we are one nation. with pride. we are one nation. we are one united kingdom and the conservative party . the the conservative party. the conservative party and our country are both built on the same thing. they're both built on patriotism and purpose. patriotism brings us together and purpose gives us each a stake in our future. so as

labour's mandate evaporates before our very eyes, we need to before our very eyes, we need to be ready. and as your leader, i will rebuild cchq from the ground up, putting you back at the heart of our. ground up, putting you back at the heart of our . party. and the heart of our. party. and i will turn us back into being the campaign winning machine that you know we can be. now my plan is to rebuild the conservative party and to make you proud again. my mission is to win the next general election . and i next general election. and i have never failed a mission yet . have never failed a mission yet. so conference, you know it. the fightback starts now . we will fightback starts now. we will focus on what the british people need and be absolutely ruthless

about delivering it, from healthcare and immigration to security and education, we will deliver and we can bring down taxes , but not if we treat these taxes, but not if we treat these symptoms separately. that is a prescription for managed decline. we can only fix the problem if we diagnose the cause, and it starts, as every conservative knows, with our economy, real growth, not the illusion of growth that has boosted, been boosted by migration has barely shifted in the past 30 years. now that's left us poorer and more vulnerable. we need to free the economy. we need a new conservative revolution. that's what margaret thatcher did. that's what we must do again. and we can do it. our conservative mayors have already shown the way. ben horsham in tees valley with investment to turn redcar steelworks from a

derelict ruin to the ground . derelict ruin to the ground. zero of growth for the north east, and andy street here in birmingham, with homes and transport connections that generated investment and brand new jobs. they focused on delivery, not ideology. they understand that britain needs leaders who just get it done because conservative leadership changes lives . changes lives. now i will build an economy that works for you, that delivers homes and jobs for our children, that helps people back to well—paid work that lets you choose what you do with your money. that's my politics. that's what i will deliver. that's what i will deliver. that's what i mean by a new conservative revolution. so let's talk about migration. of course we need an effective deterrent, but we must solve as well as stop. and that's why i

will set a legal cap on net migration at 100,000, not a target , not an migration at 100,000, not a target, not an ambition, a cap, but a cap alone won't work. this is about visas, not about foreign courts . let me tell you foreign courts. let me tell you something that my opponents probably won't. this isn't simple. we issued the visas because businesses need the staff for our care homes and our hospitals to look after our families. so how do we square this circle? well, we need to fix migration by fixing the gaps in education and skills in transport and in housing, so that we can recruit at home and not abroad. now i will end the cap on apprenticeships and use the immigration skills charge to invest in further education and train our own people. but it's not just skills we need higher wages. and for that, businesses

need to be able to grow faster with a fantastic, skilled and healthy workforce and less regulation holding them back. now to get our people ready for the future, the best education needs to be everywhere for every child. freeing schools and creating academies has seen our schools improve in labour run wales and the snp in scotland. standards are falling, but here in england my kids are getting a great education because our conservative government gave parents choice and trusted teachers to teach. that's what a conservative revolution delivers . conservative revolution delivers. and for our families to stay fit , and for our families to stay fit, you know it. we need the best health care in australia. across europe, they have better cancer

outcomes and better access to doctors . let's be honest, our doctors. let's be honest, our health service is not the envy of the world. our doctors and our nurses are fantastic. but the bureaucrats, the bureaucrats in charge slowed down their ability to deliver . it's not ability to deliver. it's not about money. we need to strip away excess regulations and barriers and put the patient at the centre of care. connecting communities , simpler planning communities, simpler planning laws, a great education wherever you live, a workforce trained to meet the needs of business and health care that delivers for the patient. it's all about trust. trust is the foundation of growth, the foundation of the growth that we need to see our country prosper. growth that we need to see our country prosper . trust allows us country prosper. trust allows us to simplify our laws and to bnng to simplify our laws and to bring down taxes. now, my vision of a conservative britain is a britain where people are trusted

and free. we need a conservative revolution in thinking across the government to get there, and the government to get there, and the only way that we're going to industrialise our economy and getjobs industrialise our economy and get jobs back here is to have a conservative revolution. now . conservative revolution. now. now. conference. i've often spoken about foreign affairs from china and how we need to reduce our dependence. to my warnings about the energy shocks that russia and iran could throw at us, all three countries threaten our security, and we need to change how we invest to protect our prosperity. let's face it, that starts with energy security . we need to build new security. we need to build new nuclear power plants again, so that we are never dependent on

tyrants . tyrants. the lesson from germany is stark they bet on cheap russian energy, on fast chinese growth and they left their borders open. now none of those bets have paid off. dictators are dictating the terms of trade once more, and that's why we need to stand with our allies. that's why i was proud to be in kyiv and to hear so many cheering boris johnson and ben wallace for their courage in standing up to putin. i will always stand for freedom . always stand for freedom. now freedom , as we know, is our now freedom, as we know, is our greatest strength. there is no weapon, no missile, no tank,

nothing more powerful than the courage of free men and women defending what is precious to them. and as chair, as the foreign affairs committee and as security minister, i have always called out our enemies and warned clearly of the dangers that we face. i was sanctioned by beijing, by moscow, and by tehran for the privilege. the same tehran that overnight launched hundreds of missiles against israel, a country it has vowed to destroy. and i'm proud of the role played by our armed forces overnight . forces overnight. in. in an ever more dangerous world conference, i will never stay silent in the face of aggression or when our freedoms are threatened. i will always remember the promise i made to keep our country safe.

friends, we need to remember who we serve and how our problems are connected and how we fix them together. we need to give young people the chance to own a home, connect that to home work and that work to growth. that's our route back. that's how we win again. by remembering that conservative principles start with the family and build to the nafion with the family and build to the nation by remembering that conservative economics helped you control your own life and your own wealth. by remembering that conservative delivery starts with the patient and the pupil, not the faceless bureaucrat. when . we. now bureaucrat. when. we. now conference, we know that when we deliver all three, when we actually deliver what people need, that's when we meet converts, when we bring people

to us, we don't make enemies. so conference, i will tell you what a conservative is someone who believes in britain, who believes in britain, who believes in britain, who believes in limited government, who believes in free trade and responsibility to others. now we are not afraid of the future because we are building on the strong foundations of the past. and i'm standing because i believe in britain, i have fought for britain and i've done i've had enough of those who want to manage decline. that's what socialism delivers. that's not who i am. it's not who you are. and nothing is more fatal to a mission than losing faith in the future. nothing is more fatal to success than setting our ambitions so low that we don't even try . and nothing is don't even try. and nothing is more fatal to a nation than giving up on our belief in it. and that's why we must win . not and that's why we must win. not in ten years, not in 15, but in

five. we can't afford labour. the country can't afford socialism. we cannot afford to wait. and i will not wait. it's time to seize the moment and turn this around . turn this around. now, friends , i get it. you've now, friends, i get it. you've had enough. so have i. but you have a choice in this leadership election. you have a choice. and it's a choice about change. my opponents claim that they've got more management experience around the cabinet table. sure that's true, but i'm not to here manage. i'm here to lead. that's true, but i'm not to here

manage. i'm here to lead . you manage. i'm here to lead. you. my manage. i'm here to lead. you. my friend, you know it. we're not going to change this party and this country with the same management, the same mantra, the same slogan . the only way to same slogan. the only way to build trust back is to show real change. and that's the new conservative revolution that i promise. that's the change only i can deliver. that's the change only i will bring. our mission is the prosperity and happiness of the british people , and we of the british people, and we start today . start today. >> so if you're just joining us, that was tom tugendhat setting out his stall to be the leader of the conservative party, stephen pound. we've got two minutes before the next one takes to the stage. i want three words off you, stephen pound, to describe that week , week, week. describe that week, week, week. >> mike parish yeah , for me it >> mike parish yeah, for me it was uninspiring, underwhelming and unoriginal. >> yeah, i would probably go

with weak, unconvincing and flaccid andrew pierce. i'm dying to know what you made of it. it was so much more entertaining than we thought it was going to be, but for all the wrong reasons. >> within two minutes, he played his trump card, which is his career in the army. and i said to you, bev, how quickly will you mention it? but also, he didn't mention there was no mention about to how tackle immigration, nothing about cutting income tax. you can't become tory leader on the basis of your position on foreign policy. so i don't think that's going to win him the leadership in any shape or form. >> yeah, i mean, it looked like he wasn't using notes. i don't know whether there was an autocue that we couldn't see there, but he looked like he was trying to talk from the heart, but they just didn't appear to be much heart to talk from . be much heart to talk from. >> there wasn't enough passion. and i've i've known tom a long time. he's had quite a good conference here, actually. he's performed well in all the hustings, but i think that was a flat a flat speech. and i think now he's going to probably regret going first, because you could sense in the room he hadnt could sense in the room he hadn't really captured the room. >> well, he started off

terribly. i mean, he came out and said, good morning, conference. hello chicago. yeah, we've got stephen pound and mike parry. and it was a bit like the headmaster that stands up at school and says, good morning, everybody. and then the pupils are meant to say, and good morning, sir. but nobody spoke back. and it started like panto. >> oh no, it didn't i know. >> oh no, it didn't i know. >> well that's, that's, that's , >> well that's, that's, that's, that's the army officer in him isn't it. you see he wants, he wants a response from, from from the privates. so yeah i think, i think disappointing i would say if i was marking it out of ten, five. >> yeah. really really poor. but but do you think knowing him you expected better than that ? expected better than that? because i haven't really heard him talk at length like this morning, and particularly with his military background, i thought he might have a bit of mettle about him, a bit of edge. the kind of guy you think? yeah. in a in a on a the kind of guy you think? yeah. inainaonawar the kind of guy you think? yeah. in a in a on a war footing. i'd quite like him to have a role to play, but he just didn't seem to bnng play, but he just didn't seem to bring any of that to the stage. >> no, he didn't. and i saw him at a fringe event last night, actually, where he spoke without notes. he only spoke for about two minutes. and the room was

roaring their approval of him. amazing isn't it? and yet he threw all that aside. i think perhaps that these people should just speak from the heart and rip up their notes and tell us what they really think. we didn't really get inside the psyche of this guy, did we? we don't really know what makes him tick, what he's passionate about . tick, what he's passionate about. and as i say, you can't become tory leader just because you're strong on defence. we've got the tory party has got a lot of rebuilding to do. and there wasn't much in that speech which shows he knows what the tories need to do to do that. >> yeah. stephen pound, ex—military man. maybe he's one of those soldiers stephen, that would kind of look so sort of meek and mild but could kill you with his bare hands. and you wouldn't know it was coming. >> i rather suspect he couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding. to be perfectly honest. i'm sorry, but he came. he came across as a sort of weak geek. >> he did. and a very poor communicator. that's the problem . communicator. that's the problem. you know, the people who lead us are the great communicators. that's why boris is such a successful politician. he communicates that guy hasn't got the powers of communication. so does trump. unfortunately, yes he does. yeah.

>> so who do you think will now we've seen him? i feel like i'm sort of hosting x factor here or something. i feel like i want to put a big golden what is it when you just put a anyway i don't watch enough of it. but the bottom line is right now he would be at the bottom of our league table. >> someone's going to have to come up with something impressive in one other one. he's down the bottom. >> yeah, well, i know that in the graham norton show they have this red chair where they press the button and you get flung backwards. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> stephen powis know, if i was, if i was cleverly or badenoch or or i have to say , or generic, or i have to say, or generic, i'd be rubbing my hands with glee because it's a very, very low bar that he set there . yeah. low bar that he set there. yeah. >> talking of which, andrew pierce, i believe that james cleverly is about to take the stage there. is he he's just doing press. >> yeah. he was the only one who, at the hustings this week got a standing ovation . so let's got a standing ovation. so let's see if he can deliver the same again today. nora forster. >> what's the purpose of our

party? what's our job? why are we . here we're currently in we. here we're currently in opposition, but we don't exist to be in opposition . we're in to to be in opposition. we're in to politics serve the british people and to make their lives better. it's not our right, but it is our mission, our duty and intent . so we need to get back intent. so we need to get back on track. but before we can do that, there's something we need to say . sorry sorry. on behalf to say. sorry sorry. on behalf of the conservative parliamentary party who let you down. and we have to be better . down. and we have to be better.

much better . and down. and we have to be better. much better. and under my leadership , we will . leadership, we will. be. for. the british people are never wrong . the british people told wrong. the british people told to us go and sort ourselves out. let's not make them tell us again. because if we wallow in self—pity and blame other parties, if we look backwards instead of forwards, if we focus on what we are against rather than what we are for, if we're complacent and just wait for the political pendulum to swing back to us, we might as well go home now . i to us, we might as well go home now. i hadn't planned to run for leader . i now. i hadn't planned to run for leader. i could have taken the

easy option , sat this one out, easy option, sat this one out, spent more time with my wife, with my boys , with my warhammer with my boys, with my warhammer figures . figures. but i went into politics to get things done. not watch from the sidelines. and all the more so after the defeat that we've just had. i need to do this for the party that i love and for the country that i love. my mum came here from sierra leone in the 1960s, and my father grew up on a council estate in downham in south—east london. he qualified as a surveyor and started a small business. she studied

nursing and became a midwife in the nhs . and i'm gutted that she the nhs. and i'm gutted that she didn't live to see me elected and become an mp or represent our country as foreign secretary . our country as foreign secretary. when i visited sierra leone . when i visited sierra leone. because some people love to talk, our country down. but this country has given so much to so many people . many people. including my family now, both my parents were in the business of optimism , the business of the optimism, the business of the future, because what can be more optimistic than helping people

buy their own home or bringing thousands of newborn children into the world like my mum did? that's what a politician and a political party should be for and should be optimistic. believing in the future but also doing the work to build that future . as you know , my wife future. as you know, my wife susie recently battled with breast cancer and when we found out she had cancer , it rocked out she had cancer, it rocked our lives . i out she had cancer, it rocked our lives. i could hardly out she had cancer, it rocked our lives . i could hardly speak. our lives. i could hardly speak. our boys were distraught , but our boys were distraught, but because of the amazing professionals, the doctors and the nurses of the nhs, her life was saved . so to all those in was saved. so to all those in the nhs, i say thank you .

the nhs, i say thank you. and it's because of them that she sits in this auditorium with us here today. and her courage , us here today. and her courage, determination , resolve and determination, resolve and optimism , her belief in the optimism, her belief in the future, our belief in the future is why we are here today and i suspect, ladies and gentlemen, it is also why you are here today. because tomorrow can be better and together we can make it better . it better. it's perhaps no surprise that i followed in my parents footsteps. small business and

then public service . optimistic then public service. optimistic believing in a better future. but also doing the work , doing but also doing the work, doing the hard yards . because getting the hard yards. because getting from my childhood home to this stage wasn't straightforward. i grew up a mixed race kid in lewisham . now at 19, i joined lewisham. now at 19, i joined the regular army, but i got injured and to i had drop out, so i joined the reserves and served for over 30 years in the royal artillery , finishing as royal artillery, finishing as a lieutenant colonel . now, i don't lieutenant colonel. now, i don't pretend to be a war hero, but i did command a battery in bristol of 100 soldiers , and one day i of 100 soldiers, and one day i got the call . i got mobilised of 100 soldiers, and one day i got the call. i got mobilised . i got the call. i got mobilised. i thought i was going to basra or baghdad , and i was sent to luton.

baghdad, and i was sent to luton. at work i spent a decade in the publishing industry , but like publishing industry, but like many, i got made redundant . so many, i got made redundant. so i set up a small business and we made some money. never a lot of money. and after the 2008 crash, we made no money at all. so i know what it is like to take risks to run a small business, to work crazy hours, to put food on the table. i know what it's like to stumble and to fall to and get up again and again and again. so when i talk about optimism, it's not just believing that tomorrow can be better than today. it's about

doing something to make it happen. my happen. my political hero was ronald reagan, and he knew what optimism was even in the depths of the cold war. he made americans want to vote for a conservative, not reluctantly, but with enthusiasm. and then what did he do? he cut taxes. he cut regulation. he boosted military spending. and he won a landslide. so let's be more like reagan. let's be enthusiastic, relatable , positive, optimistic. relatable, positive, optimistic. let's be more normal .

let's be more normal. let's be more normal. let's sell the benefits of conservatism with a smile. because if we do , yes. conservatism with a smile. because if we do , yes . because because if we do, yes. because if we do , we can see off the if we do, we can see off the threat from reform and the lib dems and win back labour and re—energize those conservatives who stayed at home at the last general election. get them off the sofa to the ballot box and voting conservative again . and voting conservative again. and let's make sure that they do it. not holding their nose, but with a spring in their step and a smile on their face. and we won't win back those voters by pretending to be something we're

not. we win back voters by being honest , by not. we win back voters by being honest, by being professional, by being . by being. conservative. and let's remind ourselves what our great party has done for this country . it was our party that country. it was our party that took children out of factories and put them into schools, started the abolition of the slave trade, created the metropolitan police and gave the united kingdom its first, second and third female prime ministers . and third female prime ministers. it was it was our party that passed equal marriage, quadrupled, clean energy raised education standards. it was our

party that delivered brexit, cut crime, created 800 jobs for every single day that we were in office. that, ladies and gentlemen, is a legacy that we should be proud of . don't should be proud of. don't let anyone trash our record. be proud of our record . and compare proud of our record. and compare that with what we saw at the labour party conference just last week. a party drunk on power who lied to the british people. glasses for passes , people. glasses for passes, favours for friends, swamped in scandal and even worse , scandal and even worse, inflation busting pay rises to

their union paymasters taken straight out of the pockets of british pensioners . our plans british pensioners. our plans for defence reversed a mass release of prisoners and no plan for our borders . and what did for our borders. and what did keir starmer say ? just last week ? keir starmer say? just last week? he wants the state to have more control over your lives. a nanny state, closing pubs early, banning smoking outdoors and even trying to control the price of oasis tickets . of oasis tickets. they are completely out of their depth and we need to be ready and we need to hold them to account, not next year or in

2030 or after that, but now . 2030 or after that, but now. and we know the lib dems won't do it. they're too wet . and in the case they're too wet. and in the case of ed davey soaking wet . and of ed davey soaking wet. and reform can't . they're just reform can't. they're just a pale imitation of our great party. it is up to . us. and party. it is up to. us. and never forget reform didn't deliver brexit. we did reform didn't cut immigration, i did and mark my words, we will beat reform by being the best version

of ourselves , not a pale version of ourselves, not a pale version of ourselves, not a pale version of anyone else. so no mergers, no deals . no deals. and if we are the best version of ourselves, if we sell conservative values, if we're proud of our record and confident in our future , we will confident in our future, we will win the country . because farage win the country. because farage and starmer are two sides of the same coin . they both think that same coin. they both think that life was better in the past. farage thinks life was better before he joined the eu. starmer thinks it was better before we left and they're both wrong. our

best days are ahead of us because just as my parents were in the business of the future, i am in the business of the future and so we need to reject this 19705 and so we need to reject this 1970s attitude that decline is somehow inevitable. but perhaps we should just fall off the perch slowly. we need to direct our focus, not in the rear view mirror, but at the road ahead . mirror, but at the road ahead. so conference, how are we going to face the great challenges of our time , the way we always have our time, the way we always have done when we succeed by being for stuff ? again, british

for stuff? again, british science and engineering shaped the modern world. we are the country that gave the world the vaccine twice. the steam engine, the light bulb, the world wide web, the bicycle, the tank, the people who split the atom. we need more . yes, we can both from need more. yes, we can both from our party and for our country. we need to build more homes so that we can build a new generation of optimism. in the tradition of millom and thatcher, we need to cut the cost of childcare so people can build a family. cost of childcare so people can build a family . we need to cut build a family. we need to cut red tape so we can build the energy and the transport infrastructure we need. but do so more cheaply and more quickly. we need to build, build, build and remake the argument for conservatism, for capitalism by our actions, not just our words .

just our words. and we need to get rid of bad taxes like stamp duty. we need to make sure that work always pays. to make sure that work always pays . we meet. we need to make pays. we meet. we need to make sure that work always pays, and that the state never takes more than half of any pound that you have earned . and let's . and have earned. and let's. and let's be the party of free markets and freedom of business and of enterprise. let's get on their side. but out of their way. these are my values. these are consistent values, not opportunistic. a signpost,

are consistent values, not opportunistic. a signpost , not are consistent values, not opportunistic. a signpost, not a weathervane. it's what i have always believed in. and it's what i always will believe in. because conference talk is easy. doing is hard , and we need a doing is hard, and we need a leader who can deliver from day one, someone who has already done the tough apprenticeship that you need to be the leader of the conservative party and our next prime minister. i led the conservatives on the london assembly, where i reformed and upgraded the london fire brigade, taking on the unions and winning. that was a tough apprenticeship on the metropolitan police authority. i kicked out corrupt coppers and

that was an important moral apprenticeship . as conservative apprenticeship. as conservative party chairman, i got our candidates selected in record time so that we could fight that 2019 general election . and i got 2019 general election. and i got our campaign machine ready to fight. and yes, you , we won the fight. and yes, you, we won the biggest majority since margaret thatcher. we got boris elected and we got brexit done. and . and and we got brexit done. and. and that whirlwind apprenticeship showed me what i need to do to fix our party machine, upgrade it, making it a modern campaigning organisation with better data and better training so we can have 300 excellent new candidates selected in 18 months, ready to take the fight to labour, lib dems and reform

and my pledge, my pledge to you today on candidate selection . no today on candidate selection. no more stitch ups . more stitch ups. conference. we need to choose someone to lead us who has already done their apprenticeship and get this party winning again as foreign secretary , i strengthened our secretary, i strengthened our posture on iran. i dealt with putin's nuclear threats. i worked with ben wallace to get tanks delivered to ukraine and in beijing , i tanks delivered to ukraine and in beijing, i told the tanks delivered to ukraine and in beijing , i told the chinese in beijing, i told the chinese foreign minister to his face, do notinvade foreign minister to his face, do not invade taiwan and lift the

sanctions . and i told him sanctions. and i told him directly to lift the sanctions on my parliamentary friends, even those who have decided to run against me . i rejected run against me. i rejected the advice of foreign office officials , and i was the first officials, and i was the first foreign minister to go to israel after the 7th of october terrorist attacks . because terrorist attacks. because leadership is about standing by your values and standing shoulder to shoulder with your allies and friends and i today restate my unwavering support to

the people of israel and their right to defend themselves . right to defend themselves. ihave right to defend themselves. i have seen firsthand how dangerous the world is, and that is why i commit to an increase in defence spending to 3% of gdp . in defence spending to 3% of gdp. because it's not enough to talk tough . you have to be willing to tough. you have to be willing to be tough. it's why within weeks of becoming home secretary, i introduced immigration controls that are now cutting net

migration in half. i didn't complain about immigration or walk away from the challenge . i walk away from the challenge. i got it down by 300,000 people a year.i got it down by 300,000 people a year. i deported foreign criminals and terrorists. i stripped citizenship from those who seek to do us harm. and i supported our jewish community here in the uk , tightening the here in the uk, tightening the policing response to the protests about gaza and holding the police accountable for their actions and their inactions. the police accountable for their actions and their inactions . but actions and their inactions. but the point is, we can deliver for the point is, we can deliver for the british people once again with the right leader , with me

with the right leader, with me as your leader. with the right leader, with me as your leader . because as your leader. because leadership is about things like making the tough decisions when you get that ugly phone call in the middle of the night about keeping this country safe . and keeping this country safe. and because i've been there , because because i've been there, because i know in detail what the government should be doing right now. i know in detail how they're failing now is not the time for an apprentice . time for an apprentice. i'm not doing this because i want to be something i'm doing this because i want to do something. renew. yes rebuild.

yes. to deliver for our party? yes. to deliver for our party? yes. but mainly to deliver for our country and the labour party has not wasted one second in undoing our work. so we must not waste one second getting back to work. i i can unite this party around conservative values. i can hold to labour account for their failures and take us back into government. in four short years . because the people in years. because the people in this room standing for election in may can't wait a day longer than is necessary for to us get our house in order. there is no time to lose, and i don't lose .

time to lose, and i don't lose. so if you want a winner , choose so if you want a winner, choose one. choose someone who can deliver results. who can communicate effectively and who campaigns relentlessly. choose someone who you know and who is tested and who doesn't hide from the media. choose someone who is not afraid of the public, but is popular with the public and choose the candidate who starmer , choose the candidate who starmer, farage and davey fear the most. because i will not accept the status quo. i will not accept defeatism and i will not accept defeatism and i will not accept defeat . defeat. everyone running in this

leadership contest needs to ask themselves, do they want to be themselves, do they want to be the leader or do they want to lead ? and i know what i want to lead? and i know what i want to do. i want to get the heel of the state off of your neck, get their noses out of your business, and get their hands out of your pocket . out of your pocket. as your leader, i will not waste a day dreaming about yesterday . a day dreaming about yesterday. i will use today to make good on the promise of tomorrow. i will deliver a positive vision, a conservative vision. but conference. we must start now. keir starmer has been prime

minister since july the 5th and since then we've had a hundred reasons to regret it. it's called july the 6th and july the 7th and july. the eighth. and i don't know about you, but i don't know about you, but i don't want to live under a labour government for one minute more than we must. so it's in our hands, yours and mine , to our hands, yours and mine, to turn this around. and we can, because the facts of life , the because the facts of life, the simple desire to aspire and achieve, to provide safety and security for your family, to own a home, to build a life and give your children a better tomorrow than today. these are conservative facts we may have lost our way, but it's time to

get back on track because history shows that while we have no right to govern, we govern when we get it right. so let's unite. let's rebuild this party of ours , council by council, of ours, council by council, seat by seat, ward by ward, street by street. one party with one purpose to turn the page on this useless labour government to get to government. to look to the future with one voice and say that it is morning once again in this great country of ours. that must be our mission. that must be our purpose. so join me on this journey and together we will win and we will be in the business of the future. thank you . thank you. >> so that was james cleverly. i don't know what be in the

business of the future. but obviously it was a more statesman like performance , statesman like performance, stephen powell, mike perry than it was from tom tugendhat, i thought. but i'd like three words from both of you before we go to andrew, who is in birmingham. stephen ponderous platitudes, policy light. mike. >> well, for me , dull, >> well, for me, dull, predictable. but directionless. >> okay, i would probably go on this occasion with. i thought it was quite arrogant. i thought it was quite arrogant. i thought it was very out of touch with the voters, particularly all the attacks on the reform party and nigel farage. those are the people he needs to win back. so don't tell them they're wrong. and i thought in many ways it was quite hypocritical. and so much of our inbox, andrew here in the studio is telling us, hang on, you've had 14 years to do this stuff. why can you stand on the stage now? how can you stand on the stage now and say you're going to make changes you didn't do those things in 14 years. what did you make of it? andrew >> well, he's got he's obviously got a much better delivery than tugendhat . it's

got a much better delivery than tugendhat. it's a fairly got a much better delivery than tugendhat . it's a fairly low tugendhat. it's a fairly low what i liked about it though, bev, i like the fact we had a we had a true we had a conservative someone saying he wants to reduce the role of the state get what does he say? get the state off of our necks. i thought that was interesting and he was quite robust, in which i thought i cheered that here and also he was he championed, the free market and capitalism . about market and capitalism. about time you've heard the tories saying that. but, priti policy, like there was one policy in there abolishing stamp duty, which of course would appeal to younger voters, but he certainly way ahead. isn't he, of tom tugendhat, but as somebody just said , i think in your in the said, i think in your in the studio perhaps it's a low bar. >> yeah . the biggest clap >> yeah. the biggest clap actually was when he talked about getting rid of capital gains tax wasn't it. sorry. stamp duty. stamp duty. sorry, but we commented here in the studio. we commented here about the fact that he said no government should take more than 50% of every pound, 50%. we all want 50%. that's quite a lot. you're meant to be a conservative government >> well, i well, and they've been taking a lot more than that

anyway. if you add national insurance to the top rate of tax , insurance to the top rate of tax, it's above 60% at the moment. yeah, i'd like to see the tories get tax to down 40% or lower. let's have a low tax society. so he's got work to do on tax. but i sensed in the audience they they liked it. they warmed. they're warming to james cleverly far more this week than i expected , i expected, >> stephen, your thoughts on that as we go into i think next is going to be a generic and i think badenoch goes goes last, doesn't she, this morning, what can generic do to, do a better performance than cleverly. now inspire actually some real vision, some policy heavy inspiration and also stop beating yourselves up. >> there's no point in whipping yourselves backwards and forwards and saying, we we're sorry, we're dreadful. we've done terrible things. and if you on the one hand, you've got to say, we were absolutely bloody awful, and then you've got cleverly saying, actually i was brilliant. i managed to cut immigration down. i'm sorry, be honest. but above all, give them

some passion, for heaven's sake. >> and, mike, we need to say sorry. i know why he said that. because he feels that that is what the electorate want to heat what the electorate want to hear. but actually, that that audience they're in, they don't want to hear that. >> no, of course, of course they don't. they think, well, hang on a minute. >> we worked really hard for you. rishi sunak needs to say sorry for pulling the trigger so early on in the election, making so many mistakes in the last couple of years. but they were like, well, we don't need to say sorry for anything. >> look too much of that speech was like electioneering. you know, i thought i was listening to a bloke who was actually approaching a general election next thursday. i want to build on steven's point. we need some excitement, some electricity, some blow your socks off, some send some some nigel farage. yeah, but what i'm saying is it was delivered at a funereal pace and i'm moving towards kemi badenoch before i've even heard of her, because she has dynamic electricity and pace and something different and can jump up and down, and nobody so far

has done that. and i don't believe jenrick will do it ehhen believe jenrick will do it either. so i would say it's all moving. >> this is a man who commanded a battery in bristol. >> talking of which, here is robert jenrick taking to the stage . stage. >> hello, it's great to be here, it's great to be home. i'm a midlands man. i grew up just down the road in wolverhampton and it is good. it's good to be back. and it is good. it's good to be back . luke, before i tell you , back. luke, before i tell you, before i tell you about where i want to take this party, where i want to take this party, where i want to take our country , let me want to take our country, let me tell you about the place that made me 50 years ago in 1974, my dad , bill, and my mum jenny came dad, bill, and my mum jenny came here to birmingham. dad got a job at the last great iron

foundry of the black country in coseley. it was a vast victorian metal works that had made the pots and pans of the empire. it was called cannon industries because it had made the cannon for wellington's army . my because it had made the cannon for wellington's army. my dad loved that mum and dad came here to the west midlands to put down roots , to get on in life, but roots, to get on in life, but their dreams were put on hold because britain was broken , because britain was broken, industries were crippled , industries were crippled, councils were bankrupt, hope was gone. then, as now, a new labour government. so fresh, but already so stale. and what about us? what about the conservatives in opposition? well, the truth is, we were broken to . we had

is, we were broken to. we had drifted into accepting a failed status quo, into believing that the best the conservative party can do in government is to manage decline . but in that year , manage decline. but in that year, in that momentous year for my family , 1974, in that momentous year for my family ,1974, our party made a family, 1974, our party made a big decision. we chose to change. we chose to change our leadership, to change our policies . we chose to reject policies. we chose to reject defeatism . we reignited our defeatism. we reignited our confidence by looking again at our purpose and saying loudly, what this party stands for and the choices we made that year, 1974, led our party to victory.

in 1979, under one of my heroines, a woman as strong as the iron cast in my dad's foundry, margaret . thatcher. and foundry, margaret. thatcher. and friends . friends, her friends. friends, her conservative party, her conservative party, her conservative party, her conservative party reversed britain's decline and it did so by backing people like my mum and dad. they bought a home. they started a family, they founded a small business. they didn't need to tell me what their values were . they lived their values were. they lived them in the sweat and the sacrifice of building that business around their kitchen table. in the love and the security they gave to our family in the solemn duty and respect they showed to queen and country decency , hard work, aspiration,

decency, hard work, aspiration, patriotism . those were their patriotism. those were their values , cast in iron, built to values, cast in iron, built to last.i values, cast in iron, built to last. i am so grateful to my parents and i want to say thank you. i am in politics for the millions of people in our country just like them . devoted country just like them. devoted citizens , good neighbours , the citizens, good neighbours, the people who get up early in the morning to put food on the table for their families . yes, the for their families. yes, the people who start small businesses around their kitchen tables, the people for whom there is no pressure group pressing their case, no lobby demanding their so—called rights . demanding their so—called rights. so let me tell you, if i am your leader, the pressure group for britain's hard working majority will be us, the conservative

party . that's who i will be us, the conservative party. that's who i am in politics for. but who is sir keir starmer in politics for? well, the last three months have shown us who convicted criminals walking free illegal migrants given an amnesty , well—paid given an amnesty, well—paid train drivers given yet more money, all the while the hard working silent majority waiting for huge tax rises , the nation's for huge tax rises, the nation's wealth creators fleeing en masse and millions of pensioners betrayed. imagine. imagine, friends. imagine how cowardly you have to be to rob poor pensioners just to placate your union paymasters. in fact , in

union paymasters. in fact, in fact, that is not just cowardly. thatis fact, that is not just cowardly. that is shameful. that is shameful. now, listen, they have had 14 years, 14 years to prepare for government . where's prepare for government. where's the vision? where's the boldness? the country just voted for change and all we've got is more managed. decline sir keir starmer, sir keir starmer will take the knee, but he will never take the knee, but he will never take a stand. he doesn't even take a stand. he doesn't even take a stand. he doesn't even take a stand at the football anymore. he's up there. he's up there in the executive box with his mates . there in the executive box with his mates. look, it is painful that starmer can't see what we see. a nation that has given more to the world than any other, a nation brimming with potential, with talent, with so

much to offer, let down only by big government and small mindedness, by high taxes and low ambition. starmer sees a britain fated for decline, needing more migration , more needing more migration, more tax, more spend, more woke . the tax, more spend, more woke. the country needs a leader instead. with starmer, we've got an undertaker . with starmer, we've got an undertaker. and? and what about the cabinet? what about our new cabinet? well, rachel reeves , as cabinet? well, rachel reeves, as wooden as pinocchio and only barely more honest. and then we've got ed miliband . whoever we've got ed miliband. whoever tells you the grown ups are back in charge. look at ed miliband , in charge. look at ed miliband, a wallace missing his gromit . a wallace missing his gromit. and then . and then there's david and then. and then there's david lammy, our foreign secretary

living proof that there is a more annoying lbc presenter than james o'brien . but seriously james o'brien. but seriously, friends, if we are going to change this party, if we are going to turn it around, we've also got to be honest about where we've got to and what we did in our 14 years in office. i am so proud of the achievements that we made in government. am so proud of the achievements that we made in government . we that we made in government. we reversed the appalling damage done by gordon brown to our pubuc done by gordon brown to our public finances. we transformed our schools. we unleashed a decade of record levels of employment. we created a fairer welfare system. we got brexit done and we stood by ukraine in

her hour of need, we led europe in the defence of ukraine. so friends, i will always celebrate our achievements. but we can't . our achievements. but we can't. we can't bury our heads in the sand just as we celebrate those achievements. we need to be honest with ourselves. the country just doesn't trust us right now. we've just suffered our worst ever electoral defeat. we lost more seats and we won fewer votes than any government ever. fewer votes than any government ever . it was a comprehensive ever. it was a comprehensive defeat and it needs a comprehensive rethink . so just comprehensive rethink. so just as i will defend our achievements , i will be achievements, i will be painfully honest about our failings . we failed to deliver failings. we failed to deliver the strong nhs, the strong economy and yes, the