it's a really awkward backdrop for stephen barclay.ed about bringing down waiting lists, trying to improve some of more significant waiting lists you get in the nhs and that's been made harder ljy the nhs and that's been made harder by the fact that the strikes are taking place and i think it will address that and want to address the broader questions of nhs funding. i suspect there will be a lot of politics in there. one theme people will have picked up on in the speeches we've been carrying on the bbc in the last few days is that the speeches follow a bit of a pattern, here is what we have done as a government and here is what we want to do and here is the political attack on the labour party on the thing we don't think the opposition party will do so we will hear a lot more of that over the next few wiles, especially in stephen barclay�*s beach but it all comes down to the question of probably in the last conference before a general election, can the conservatives give themselves the rocket boosters they really need to take off and

if stephen barclay is serious capital about stopping woke and gender ideology, the nhs needs stop employing stop employing diversity and gender woke employees. wastes time making employees. it wastes time making red tape and costing billions. people go the nhs to be people go to the nhs to be treated, be preached treated, not to be preached at well . i worked closely with well. i worked very closely with steve and of my steve barclay and one of my ministerial roles and he is one of the most serious and effective in the effective ministers in the government. john asks jrm has working on gb news given you a better insight and understand reading of how the public views the current conservative party, reading of how the public views thnwhich nt conservative party, reading of how the public views thnwhich the onservative party, reading of how the public views thnwhich the onserva'ise party, reading of how the public views thnwhich the onserva'is yes rty, reading of how the public views thnwhich the onserva'is yes ,:y, reading of how the public views thnwhich the onserva'is yes , not to which the

of course, the stephen barclay, the stuff and all barclay, the nhs stuff and all that. specifically onthat. but specifically on that point rishi sunak is point where rishi sunak is basically look, the basically saying, look, i am the man stand for the man for the job, i stand for the long term tough decisions. do you that? long term tough decisions. do youi that? long term tough decisions. do youi don'tat? long term tough decisions. do youi don't think we've seen the >> i don't think we've seen the evidence of that, that he's here for long decisions. i for the long term decisions. i mean, in favour mean, personally, i'm in favour of i would build all the of hs2. i would build it all the way to scotland if i could. way up to scotland if i could. i think that's the kind of thing that's kind investment that's the kind of investment that's the kind of investment that bring rewards. we'd that would bring rewards. we'd get that investment. get returns on that investment. i scrapping that seems i think scrapping that seems like short decision to like a short term decision to please the bean c

kenny kemi badenoch stephen barclay . susan hall maybe barclay.use he's up surprisingly, because he's up for election to be maybe replaced sadiq khan in the mayoral elections in london in may. gillian keegan was named, but no one from the right. this party has been all but no one from the right. this party the has been all but no one from the right. this party the battlingas been all but no one from the right. this party the battling on)een all but no one from the right. this party the battling on the all but no one from the right. this party the battling on the right about the battling on the right of yeah, that was of the party. yeah, that was a thing which sunak avoided. i've got to also name talk about the small boats briefly. he said that will whatever it takes that i will do whatever it takes to boats that for to stop small boats that for many in the hall meant echr reform that is on the table. it was brief to the weekend papers and that's didn't say echr withdrawn the speech, but that's what it's to mean. that is withdrawn the speech, but t

. >> to just reflect on >> and to just reflect on stephen barclay the health secretary's speech thishe said he was challenging wokery in the health service. now theresa may, the former prime minister, said she would be happy to be called woke. >> are you walked? okay, okay. well, listen , i think there's a well, listen, i think there's a lot of selling going at lot of book selling going on at this particular conference, this this particular conference, as they will no doubt be the labour listen, labour party next week. listen, i that that that that label means lots of different things to lots of different people. i think what i do reject is where if you weighed into an issue that people are worried about, for example statues being removed, we that problem in removed, we have that problem in stroud and you make a case because you passionately believe in protecting history and you just want the item explained rather than removed and you get called racists and things like that. i think that you should be able to make that case positively why you positively and explain why you want to do

the street, water, electricity at the best of times only 12, 13 hours a day at actually what stephen barclayg how very very difficult it's all going to be. now, what is the israeli ground operation going to be? we know what the objective is that they're going to try to root out hamas , get into the bunkers , get hamas, get into the bunkers, get into their deep underground systems where they're not only preparing these rockets, but where they they can fire them from. it's almost the wicked problem is the terrible plight of the civilian ones there. not all of whom and far from all of whom are in complete support of hamas that have been running a dictatorship there since . since dictatorship there since. since two thousand and seven. and i think at the moment, the problem for israel is that they need to go in. the implication is that they will have to occupy for quite a time . that's very, very quite a time. that's very, very difficult in all kinds of urban warfare of this kind . warfare of this kind. >> and robert , this is what's >> and robert, this is what's going to be discussed. we know th

stephen barclay isn't coming back to the table, so unlikely where we could so it's unlikely where weom nationwide building society saying that they stalled last month. they remained on 5.3% in september . let's go to liam september. let's go to liam halligan on this one who again is at conservative party conference today. liam good news, bad news stuck in the middle . how would you analyse it ? >> which end of the telescope you're looking through? eamonn if you're a house owner, then this drop of about 5, an annual drop in house prices as shown by the nationwide, a very authoritative index is probably bad news if you're looking to sell. on the other hand, if you're a young family trying to get on the housing ladder, a drop in house prices is to be welcomed on the other hand, eamonn, of course, the fact that interest rates means that interest rates are up means that even house prices are even though house prices are down, it may cost you more in terms of monthly payments on your mortgage to buy that house. but look, this is the first drop in house prices , an annual drop in house pric