 Thank you very much. Thank you all very much. It's fantastic, of course, to be here in Manchester at the best attended conference for years. And I gather there was quite a lively mood last night in the hotel bars. And I want you to know, I understand that some of you may have been lightly, mildly peppered with abuse on the way in. Were you? Well, they're good. Good. I'm delighted that you weren't. But even if you were, even if you were, I don't think any of us are abashed by that kind of thing or downcast because we're conservatives and we get on with serving the people of this country. And speaking of service, I should begin by paying tribute to my predecessor, Theresa May. I know the whole conference remains full of gratitude to you and to Philip May for your patience and your forbearance. And yes, we will continue with your work of tackling domestic violence and modern slavery and building on your legacy. I've been prime minister for only 70 days, but I've seen so many things that give me cause for hope. Hospitals that are finally getting the investment to match the devotion of the staff. Schools where standards of reading are rising through the use of synthetic phonics. Police colleges where idealistic young men and women are enrolling in large numbers now to fight crime across the country. Shipyards in Scotland that are building superb modern Type 26 frigates for sale around the world. And every one of those high-wage, high-skill jobs in shipbuilding, in government is a testament to the benefits of belonging to the United Kingdom. The most successful political partnership in history, which we will protect and defend against those who would wantonly destroy it. And I say to Ruth Davidson as well, thank you, Ruth, for everything you did and have done for the cause of conservatism in Scotland and we will honour your legacy too. And I'm proud of the role that this government is playing in every one of those investments. And of course, they are only possible because it was this conservative government that tackled the debt and the deficit left behind by the last Labour government. It was because we cleared up the wreckage they left behind that we now have record employment. Wages rising the fastest for 10 years and we have record foreign direct investment of £1.3 trillion, more than any other country in the EU. So we have so many reasons to be confident about our country and its direction and yet I feel sometimes we're like a world-class athlete with a pebble in our shoe. There is one part of the British system that seems to be on the blink. If Parliament were a laptop, then the screen would be showing, I'm afraid, the pizza wheel of doom. If Parliament were a school, if Parliament were a school, instead would be shutting it down or putting it in special measures. If Parliament were a reality TV show, then the whole lot of us, I'm afraid, would have been voted out of the jungle by now. But at least we'd have had the consolation of watching the speaker being forced to eat a kangaroo testicle. The sad truth is that voters have more say. Voters have more say over I'm a celebrity than they do over this House of Commons, which refuses to deliver Brexit, refuses to do anything constructive and refuses to have an election. Just at the moment, when voters are desperate for us to focus on their priorities, we're continuing to chew the super-masticated subject of Brexit. When what people want, what leavers want, what remainers want, what the whole world wants is to be calmly and sensibly done with the subject and to move on. And that is why we are coming out of the EU on October 31st, come what may. Conference, conference, let's get Brexit done. We can, we must, and we will, even though things have not been made easier by the surrender bill, we will work for a deal with our EU friends, but whatever happens, we must come out by the end of October. Let's get this thing done, and then let's get ready to make our case to the country against the fratricidal anti-Semitic Marxists who were in Brighton last week. Last week, Jeremy Corbyn had a number of damaging and retrograde ideas in his speech. He wants a four-day week, which would slash the wages of people on low incomes. He wants to ban private schools and expropriate their property, and he wants the taxpayer £7 billion to educate the kids. He wants to stamp out excellence in schools by banning off-stead the inspectors who ensure that schools are safe for our children. But he had one good idea. He had a whole paragraph repeating what he has said every week for the last three years. He wants an election now. That is what he was going to say. Poor fellow. The only trouble is that the paragraph was censored by John McDonnell or possibly Keir Starmer, so we have the astonishing spectacle of the leader of the opposition gagged prevented by his colleagues from engaging in his constitutional function, which is to try to remove me from office. In this age of creative litigation, I am surprised that no one has yet sued him for breach of contract. Well, though it now appears that the SNP may try to bundle him toward the throne like some Constantine Chernenko figure, look it up, reluctantly propelled to office in a Kremlin coup so that they can get on with their programme of total national discord, turning the whole of 2020, which should be a great year for this country into the chaos and cacophony of two more referendums. A second referendum on Scottish independence, even though the people of Scotland were promised that the 2014 vote would be a once-in-a-generation decision, and a second referendum on the EU. Can you imagine another three years of this? But that is the Corbyn agenda. Stay in the EU beyond October 31st, paying a billion pounds a month for the privilege, followed by years of uncertainty for business and everyone else. As for the Lib Dems, their idea of serving the national interest was to write to Jean-Claude Juncker, urging him not to give this country a better deal. Well, when the leader of the Liberal Democrats has called for a second referendum, while pledging to campaign against the result, it's time to respect the Trade Descriptions Act, my friends, and take the word Democrat, out of Liberal Democrats. After three years, after three and a half years, people are beginning to feel that they are being taken for fools, and they're beginning to suspect that there are forces in this country that simply don't want Brexit delivered at all. And if they turn out to be right in that suspicion, then I believe there will be grave consequences for trust in our democracy. Let's get Brexit done on October 31st. Let's get it done because of the opportunities that it will bring, not just to take back control of our money and our borders and our laws, to regulate differently and better to take our place as a proud and independent global campaigner for free trade. Let's get it done because delay is so pointless and expensive and debilitating. Let's get it done because we need to build our positive new partnership with the EU. Because it cannot be stressed too much that this is not an anti-European party. This is not an anti-European country. We are European. We love Europe. I love Europe anyway. I love it. But after 45 years of really dramatic constitutional change in our relationships, we must have a new relationship with the EU, a positive and confident partnership. And we can do it. Today in Brussels we are tabling what I believe are constructive and reasonable proposals, which provide a compromise for both sides. We will, under no circumstances, have checks at or near the border in Northern Ireland. We will. We will respect the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement and by a process of renewable democratic consent by the Executive and the Assembly of Northern Ireland, we will go further and protect the existing regulatory arrangements for farmers and businesses on both sides of the border. And at the same time, we will allow the UK whole and entire to withdraw from the EU with control over our own trade policy from the start. And we will protect our precious union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. And yes, yes, this is a compromise by the UK and I hope very much that our friends understand that and compromise in their turn. Because if we fail to get an agreement, because of what is essentially a technical discussion on the exact nature of future customs checks, and technology is improving the whole time, then let us be in no doubt conference of what the alternative is. The alternative is no deal. And that is not an outcome we want. It is not an outcome we seek at all, but let me tell you, my friends, it is an outcome for which we are ready. Are we ready for it? Yes, we are. Are we determined to resolve this? Yes, we are. Let's get Brexit done by October 31st because we have to get on and deliver on the priorities of the people. To answer the cry of those 17.4 million who voted for Brexit, because it is only by delivering Brexit that we can address that feeling in so many parts of the country that they've been left behind, ignored, that their towns were not only suffering from a lack of love and investment, but their views have become somehow unfashionable or unmentionable. And let's get Brexit done for those millions who may have voted remain, but who are first and foremost Democrats and who accept the result of the referendum and want to get on. And when I say that I want us to work together now to bring this country together, of course you're entitled, it's the first time I've spoken to you as party leader and Prime Minister at this conference, you're entitled to ask about the interests and the ideals that drive me and are going to drive me as your Prime Minister. And I'm going to follow the example of my friend Sajid Javed who gave a brilliant speech. I'm going to quote that supreme authority in my family, my mother. And I know that there are some keen students of alleged divisions in my family on matters of the EU. I want you to know, conference, that I have kept my ace up my sleeve. My mother voted leave. My mother taught me one thing she taught me many things, but she taught me to believe strongly in the equal importance, the equal dignity and the equal worth of every human being on the planet. That may sound banal, that may sound banal, that may sound trite, but it is not. You have to understand that and believe in that. And there is one institution in this country that sums up that idea. The NHS is holy to the people of this country because of the simple beauty of its principle. That it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from, but when you are sick, the whole country figuratively gathers at your bedside and does everything it can to make you well again. And everybody pays to ensure that you have the best doctors and the best nurses and the most effective treatments known to medical science. And after 70 years, the results are on the whole amazing. When I was a kid, the word cancer heart attack was a terrifying thought. Well, we are slowly beating back the legions of disease. This country has seen the fastest falls in breast cancer in Europe, but we have so much more to do. On Monday I went to the North Manchester General Hospital and I saw the incredible work that they are doing with maxillofacial reconstructive surgery. On people who only a decade ago would have been probably permanently disfigured by their traumas. People for whom hope and confidence is so important. And I talked to the patients, every one of them bursting with praise for the staff, for their energy and care. But that conference, that fantastic hospital was built in 1876 to serve the work house. And we were walking down long narrow nightingale wards that were designed by the pioneer of nursing. And as one of the managers told me, it's asking professionals, asking professionals to work in that environment is like asking a premiership footballer to play on a plowed field. And so I was proud to tell them that under this government we will totally rebuild that hospital. And thanks to the work of Health Secretary Matt Hancock we're not only recruiting more doctors and nurses and training them, but in the next 10 years we will build 40 new hospitals in the biggest investment in hospital infrastructure for a generation. Because after 70 years of the existence of the NHS and 34 of them under a conservative government, it is time for us to say loud and clear we are the party of the NHS. And I claim that title. I claim that title because it is our one nation conservatism that has delivered and will deliver the economic growth that makes those investments possible. And it's we conservatives too who will solve the problems of social care and end the injustice that so many people have to sell their home to pay for their old age. And if you ask me how are we going to do it? How are we going to pay for it all? How are we going to grow the UK economy? I will tell you it is by raising the productivity of the whole of the UK, not with socialism, not with the deranged and ruinous plans borrowed from the playbook of Bolivarian revolutionary Venezuela, but by creating the economic dynamic free market capitalism. Yes, you heard that right. When did you last territorially to talk about capitalism? We are the party of the NHS precisely because we are the party of capitalism, not because we shun it or despise it. And we understand the vital symmetry at the heart of the modern British economy. We need dynamic enterprise culture and great public services. And I have seen that formula in action for a long time myself. Now who comes from London? Hands up. It's all right, it's all right, who lives there? Don't worry, nothing, no discrepancy. I used to be mayor, I used to be mayor there. It's one of the fantastic place, greatest city on earth, greatest city on earth. And it's one of the many astonishing things about our nation's capital. It is the most productive region in the whole of Europe for lots of reasons in 1863 amongst other things we were the first place to think of putting trains in tunnels and that kind of thing. Yet there are many other regions of the country that are far less productive. And that represents not just an injustice, though of course it does, but a massive opportunity. Because I believe that talent and genius and hutzpah are evenly distributed across the UK, but it is also clear that opportunity is not evenly distributed. And it is the job of this one nation Conservative government to unlock talent in every corner of the UK. Because that is the right thing to do in itself and because that is the right way to release the economic potential of the whole country. And the first thing you've got to do, basic hygiene if you're going to spread opportunity is to insist on the equal safety of everybody's street wherever they live. And that's why we're recruiting 20,000 police officers. Pretty indeed, thank you, Saj. And that is why we are committed to rolling up the evil county lines drugs gangs. The evil county lines drugs gangs that predate on young kids and send them to die in the streets to feed the cocaine habits of the bourgeoisie. And we will succeed. And yes, we will be tough on crime. We will make sure that the police have the legal powers and the political backing to use stop and search because it may be controversial, it may be controversial, it has to be done politely and in accordance with the law but believe me when a young man, and I'm afraid it's almost invariably a young man, is going equipped with a bladed weapon there is nothing kinder or more loving or more life saving you can do than to ask him to turn out his pockets and produce that weapon. And yes when people are found guilty of serious sexual or violent offences we will make sure that they serve the sentence they should if only for the protection of the public. But we will also as one nation conservatives do everything we can to stop people becoming criminals with rehabilitation, with education in prisons so they are not just academies for crime but also by investing in youth clubs and better FE funding, further education funding to give young people the best possible antidote to the criminal instinct that is the prospect of a good job and indeed the best way to level up and expand opportunity is to give every kid in the country a superb education. So that's why that's why we're levelling up education funding across the country with the schools that have fallen furthest behind now seeing the biggest increases every child has the chance they deserve to express their talents and it's so that they can get the jobs that we are creating so that they can get the fantastic jobs that we are creating that we're improving connectivity investing in transport a fantastic project of Northern powerhouse rail that is now getting the go ahead from Manchester to Leeds just the first leg and of course a huge new program of rail rail improvements but of course of road improvements as well and I think of the M60, the A66 what are the other ones sad you've recited them yesterday the A3, the A3, the A5 the A3, the A3 they're huge the Lincoln roundabout we're doing there's a huge range of things that we will be investing in now and furthermore I admit that it's been exposed in the past I am a bit of a bus nut I confess that I like to make and to paint slightly inexact, very inexact models of buses with happy passengers inside I'm actually more interested in the passengers and the buses it's not just that I am a bus nut that we want to expand just because I'm a bus nut that we want to expand bus transport we want to make our buses cleaner zero carbon zero emission across the country with contactless payment by card or by phone so that people want to use those services we get the cars off the road we reduce congestion we reduce pollution and a good bus service can make all the difference to your job to your life, to your ability to get to the doctor, to the livability of your town or your village and indeed to your ability to stay there and start a family have a business there and it's for exactly that reason to increase connectivity and livability that we are now accelerating the program for gigabit broadband so fast and it's going to be to be truthful I'm not entirely sure of the exact technical details of gigabit broadband we're bringing it forward by eight years and it will mean that everybody has not just super fast but incredibly fast speed of light broadband spreading into every home in the country like super informative vermicelli and bringing people together giving people opportunity giving people certainty that they can as I say start a business raise their family where they are and that is the way I think with better connectivity with better transport better education to unite the country and to bring it together but there is of course another vital effect of the right infrastructure technology you increase the productivity of the whole UK economy if the streets are safe, if the transport links are there, if you have good Wi-Fi, good broadband connections what else do you allow to happen Eddie you allow new housing to go ahead huge numbers of new houses on brown field sites that were never considered viable before and that's the way forward and you allow young people to get a foot on the housing ladder and you allow young people to live near the good jobs and above all with safe streets and affordable housing and fantastic Wi-Fi we give as I say business the confidence to invest and to grow is the virtuous circle, the balance and the symmetry at the heart of our One Nation project and there are so many ways in which this country is pulling ahead London has overtaken New York as the number one city for investment in FinTech firms and that's before we've even delivered Crossrail which by the way was on time and on budget when the last mayor left office and isn't it isn't it time isn't it time we had a mayor isn't it time we had a mayor who is focused on the job of running London and isn't it and isn't it time isn't it time we got behind our fantastic candidate Sean Bailey let's back Bailey for London in 2020 and here in Manchester things are stormy and we're seeing an extraordinary growth in genomics a flood of inward investment from banking and insurance to IT and that's before we've delivered northern powerhouse rail linking up the whole of the northern region in the way that we're going to do in the west midlands we are already seeing a 21st century industrial revolution in battery and low carbon technology just as the west midlands led the world in the previous industrial revolution 19th century absolutely true one in five electric vehicles sold in Europe is now made in this country it's a fantastic thing and we're going to increase it we're going to accelerate we are going to have a battery a battery gigafactory a battery gigafactory and that is before we have even begun with Andy Streets mayor Andy Streets brilliant vision of a west midlands metro system that's the future and it's a linking up the urban centres of the west midlands in the way that needs to be done and what we conservatives are going to do it's always conservatives who lead the way on great infrastructure projects and with infrastructure education technology we are going to drive up the productivity of this country and bring it together now look I don't for one moment doubt the patriotism of everybody on all sides of the Brexit argument but I'm fed up myself of being told that our country can't do something we believe that it can and thanks to British technology there is a place in Oxfordshire my former constituency actually in Oxfordshire that could be soon the hottest place in the solar system I think they told me it was already the hottest place when I went there it is the Tokamak fusion reactor in Cullum and if you go there we told that this country has a global lead in fusion research and that they are on the verge of creating commercially viable miniature fusion reactors for sale around the world delivering delivering virtually unlimited zero carbon power now I know that they have been on the verge for some time it's a pretty spacious kind of verge but I think they tell me now I'm on the verge of the verge but I remember all you skeptics I remember it was only a few years ago when people were saying that solar power would never work in cloudy old UK and they said that wind turbines would never pull the skin off a rice pudding remember that well there are some days now when wind and solar power are delivering more than half our energy needs and we're going to be zero carbon neutral by 2050 we can do it with new technology we can do it we can become carbon neutral by 2050 we can beat the skeptics we're already using gene therapy to cure blindness this country leads the world in satellite technology and we're building two space ports one in Sutherland and one in Newquay and soon we'll be the whole of the UK benefit from these investments and soon we'll be sending missions to the heavens geostationary satellites which will be by the way infrastructure in space will be of huge value to this country now conference can you think of anyone who could trial the first mission can you think can you think which communist cosmonaut we should coax into the cockpit let's well there you go let's the invitation is there let's get brexit done on October the 31st not just because we have such an immense agenda to take this country forward but because of course brexit is an opportunity in itself we will take back control of our fisheries and the extraordinary marine wealth of Scotland and it's one of the many bizarre features of the SNP that in spite of being called names like salmon they wanted to hand back control hand back control they want to hand back control of those fish to the EU Alistair we want to turbo charge the Scottish fishing sector they would allow Brussels to charge for our turbot you see that one coming you can see but it's true we will be able to allow UK business when we leave the EU we will be able to allow UK businesses and manufacturers to have bigger tax breaks for the investments they make in capital and new technology out of the EU we can do free ports we can use the tax regime to do free ports and new enterprise zones we can ban the cruel shipment of live animals that has offended the British people for so long and yes we will have those free trade deals so as I have the honour to tell you just actually in the last few months I've seen an Isle of Wight shipbuilder that exports vast aluminium leisure catamorans to Mexico we export Jason Donovan CDs to North Korea would you believe it and we exported Climate Change to America though he seems to have come back across the world there are countries and anybody who's involved the foreign side anybody who travels abroad will testify to this across the world there are countries that are yearning to engage with us where we have old friendships and burgeoning new partnerships and that and particularly in the Commonwealth it was that was that pretty heckling me from the front interjecting from the front from a sedentary position you're quite right the Commonwealth 2.4 billion people the fastest growing economies in the world amazing opportunities and and that is our vision for Britain a country that is open outward-looking global in mindset insisting on free trade a high wage low tax high skill high productivity economy with incomes rising fastest for those who are lowest paid a country where we level up and unify the entire United Kingdom through better education better infrastructure and technology a country where provided you obey the law and do no harm to others you can live your life and love whomever you choose a country a country that leads the way with clean green technology and reducing the greenhouse gases that cause climate change a country that is happy and confident about its future that is the vision for the country we love and when the opposition finally screw their courage to the sticking point and agree to have an election when the chlorinated chickens finally waddle from the Henkoop where they are hiding that is the vision for the country that we will put to the British people and the choice is clear we put up wages with the biggest expansion of the living wage for a generation Corbyn Corbyn would put up taxes for everyone we back our superb armed forces around the world and look after our veterans Corbyn has said he wants the armed forces disbanded we want an Australian style points based system for immigration Corbyn has said he doesn't even believe in immigration controls if Jeremy Corbyn were allowed into dining street he would whack up your taxes he would foul up the economy he would rip up the alliance between Britain and the United States and he would break up the United Kingdom we cannot allow it to happen but he's it is worse than that because it's become absolutely clear that he's now determined to frustrate Brexit what do we want to need do we want more dither and delay do we want to spend another billion pounds a month on EU membership when that could be going on the NHS no let's get Brexit done let's finally believe in ourselves and what we can do this country has long been a pioneer we inaugurated the steam age here in Manchester we inaugurated the atomic age the age of the genome we led the way in parliamentary democracy in female emancipation and when the whole world had succumbed to a different economic fashion this country and this party under a female Prime Minister pioneered ideas of free markets and privatisation that spread across the planet every one of those ideas every one of those ideas was controversial every one of them was difficult but we always had the courage as a country to be original to do things differently and now we are about to take another giant step to do something no one thought we could do to reboot our politics to relaunch ourselves into the world and to dedicate ourselves again to the simple proposition that we are here to serve the democratic will of the British people and if we do that if we do that with optimism if we do that with optimism and confidence then we I tell you we will not go wrong so let's get on with sensible moderate one nation but tax cutting conservative government and figuratively figuratively if not literally let us send Jeremy Corbyn Corbyn into orbit where he belongs conference let's get Brexit done and let's bring this country together thank you very much