The latest updates from the Conservative Party conference in Manchester as the home secretary addresses delegates and the PM claims the country doesn't want an election.
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"The leaders agreed that Putin has made a strategic miscalculation in invading Ukraine and pointed to the stark Russian losses on the battlefield and loss of capability as evidence of that. And Niall sits down with Katie Perrior, former director of communications at 10 Downing Street for Theresa May, and William Hague's former special adviser Chris White to discuss the election chances of the Tory party.Rishi Sunak is to blame for allowing his opponents to accuse him of"shafting the North", the Conservative West Midlands mayor Andy Street has said.
The HS2 scheme was given a budget of £55.7bn in 2015 but costs have ballooned, with an estimate of up to £98bn - in 2019 prices.Classic Braverman speech will delight fans but dismay criticsShe may be the darling of the rank and file, but not all Tories like the Suella Braverman band of populist, anti-woke, anti-immigration rhetoric.
But then, predictably, she turns on the Tories'"politically correct critics", claiming they like open borders because migrants are"mowing their lawns or cleaning their homes".And you thought it was Labour politicians who preach the class war! Our political editor Beth Rigby put it to the prime minister that he was a"man without a mandate" - having lost the Tory leadership election last year, before being appointed weeks later without a vote from members.
"This poverty nonsense. Go in a time machine back into when I was growing up in the 70s - that was real poverty. It's nonsense now, it's absolute nonsense. "We didn't go on TikTok or Facebook or moan and say: 'I've got no food,' because my mum and dad's philosophy was simple: 'They're our kids, we'll feed them.' That's how I was brought up."
Sam says:"It's very hard to say you support something you think benefits criminals but at the same time that is campaigning rhetoric to stretch the collective position of the government.Truss the darling on the fringe of Tory conference, but Braverman is the star performer in the hall But the issue that cheers up the activists these days has moved on from capital punishment to immigration. Immigration is too high, she declares, winning her first big round of applause - and a few cheers - in the hall.Leadership pitch? Oh yes. Not the first and it won't be the last. And the activists love it.Andrew Boff, Conservative member of the London Assembly, has been kicked out of the main hall as Suella Braverman delivers her speech.
But, she says,"nobody can deny" there are"far more people" who would like to move to the UK"than can be accommodated"; The minister says:"It is Labour that turbocharged their impact by passing the misnamed Human Rights Act. I am surprised they didn't call it the Criminal Rights Act";Ms Braverman says this"won't work against Rishi Sunak, and it won't work against me";
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