Have all had to deal with unprecedented challenges. And i will be straight with you. We have mountains to overcome still. But today we have made three huge decisions to change the direction of our country. We will give britain the infrastructure it needs, protect the infrastructure it needs, protect the long term future of our nhs and cut cancer deaths by a quarter and create the best Education System in the Western World to set up our children for the opportunities of the future. If we commit, if we come together, we can achieve truly great things. We can build a country where work is truly valued, where welfare is a safety net are not a way of life, where Small Businesses drive our economy, where innovation makes life better, where our nhs is properly funded and properly reformed, where our children are the best educated in the Western World, whether that is at university, or yes, through an apprenticeship. Where the scourge of Anti Social Behaviour is treated as the crime it is not some social condition. Where for the most violent offenders, life means life. Where the people and their government decide to come here and who cant. Where the next generation can achieve the dream of owning their own home, where the elderly grow old with dignity and where the young rock with opportunity, where decency and Mutual Respect by communities together, where the very idea of britain is a symbol of hope and stability across the world and where our United Kingdom remains united. Applause all this and more. It is ours if we want it. But we have to fight for it. At the next election, the choice to people face is bigger than party politics. Do we want a government committed to making long term decisions . Prepared to be radical in the face of challenges and to take on vested interests . Or do we want to stand still and quietly accept more of the same . You either think this country needs to change or you dont, and if you do, you should stand with me and every person in this hall. You should stand with the Conservatives. Applause today, this party put the needs of the british people first. Weve taken the decision many should have done but didnt. We have ended the h52 drama, and in its place we will hs2 drama, and in its place we will embark on a full Scale National reinvestment in the infrastructure people actually use and want and the Skilled Workforce who will build it. And no more hiding, no more pretending in the face of overwhelming evidence. Too many sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, are lost to lung cancer, heart disease, dementia, stillbirth and we can change that. Today we went beyond ideology and put the people first again. And committed ourselves to ensure our children and grandchildren can be the first generation that doesnt have to to suffer the false choice to quit smoking or not because they will never have started. Today, we set a course where our Education System that will shut our children up for the opportunities of the future set our children. No rip off degrees, no low aspiration, no denigration of Technical Education, just the best Education System in the Western World. We will be bold. We will be radical. We will face resistance, and we will meet it. We will give the country what it so sorely needs and yet, too often, has been denied. A government prepared to make long term decisions so that we can build a brighterfuture for everyone. Be in no doubt, it is time for a change, and we are it. Thank you. Cheering and applause rishi sunak, the Prime Minister ending his long Conference Speech to be joined ending his long Conference Speech to bejoined by his ending his long Conference Speech to be joined by his wife, ending his long Conference Speech to bejoined by his wife, who introduced him with her own very intimate personal style about them, their family, intimate personal style about them, theirfamily, how they intimate personal style about them, their family, how they met and his values. He set out, first of all, the decision that had clearly been made and we had talked about really all week, and that is, as he said, i am cancelling hsz, the leg from birmingham To Manchester. And he set out what will happen instead, all the promises his government will make in terms of reinvesting the £36 billion that will be saved into infrastructure and transport projects. Notjust in the north of england, but right across the country. But the theme of his speech and what he was trying to set out was that he is and can be the change candidate for the Conservatives, despite his party having been in power for 13 years and despite, as he says, that over the last 30 years politics has not worked the way it should. I3 politics has not worked the way it should. 13 years of those under successive conservative governments. There were some announcements, but much of it we already knew. He covered a whole range of topics across government including education, made an announcement about raising the smoking age, and about raising the smoking age, and about preventative health, and again about preventative health, and again about his own identity and success that his family have had in this country. Let me bring on our guests, lara spirit, henry hill, who are listening to the speech with me as we will keep watching the pictures of rishi sunak and his wife being greeted and congratulated by members in the conference hall. Lara. Greeted and congratulated by members in the conference hall. In the conference hall. Lara, what did ou in the conference hall. Lara, what did you make in the conference hall. Lara, what did you make of in the conference hall. Lara, what did you make of it . In the conference hall. Lara, what did you make of it . Well, in the conference hall. Lara, what did you make of it . Well, it in the conference hall. Lara, what did you make of it . Well, it was l did you make of it . Well, it was interesting, like you say. The number of the main packages in the speech that we had heard much in recent days already, so you cant move in westminster and manchester for mention of the future of hs2. This had been long expected since we were here, that major announcement that we saw today but we also had a flavour of the smoking ban that had been rumoured to be coming in to try and stop future generations from smoking, and also of the education packages. The question was, was that brought together in some form of coherent whole or repackaged to have a thread running through where we could tell what rishi sunak� s vision would be . We know what the pitch could be in the next election and we hide from people before saying they want to know what it will be in the next election and what the message will be, and one of the abiding things that came out of that is the real focus on education. We things that came out of that is the realfocus on education. We had things that came out of that is the real focus on education. We had the precise wording around the Silver Bullet, the fact the Prime Minister believes that is the closest thing we have, the Silver Bullet is crucial, that he wants to invest more in schools and we have also known his long running ambition to move to wards some former british Baccalaureate that we saw, so it was not absent, new measures, but questions around hs2 and where the money will be going remain, and how the government can answer that in the government can answer that in the coming days will be the most crucial thing. figs the coming days will be the most crucial thing crucial thing. As lara said, it is how, crucial thing. As lara said, it is how. How crucial thing. As lara said, it is how, how will crucial thing. As lara said, it is how, how will he crucial thing. As lara said, it is how, how will he do crucial thing. As lara said, it is how, how will he do the crucial thing. As lara said, it is how, how will he do the many| crucial thing. As lara said, it is how, how will he do the many things that he promised in that speech . Many of the announcements people will agree with, perhaps on smoking, and i know you dont particularly agree, but on Raising Standards in schools, but questions will be asked about how. The schools, but questions will be asked about how. ,. ,. ,. , about how. The fascinating one is no more ripoff about how. The fascinating one is no more ripoff degrees. About how. The fascinating one is no more ripoff degrees. That about how. The fascinating one is no more ripoff degrees. That is about how. The fascinating one is no more ripoff degrees. That is a about how. The fascinating one is no more ripoff degrees. That is a big l more rip off degrees. That is a big ask if more rip off degrees. That is a big ask if you more rip off degrees. That is a big ask if you define them how the government defines them which is a degree government defines them which is a degree which doesnt end up giving someone degree which doesnt end up giving Someone A Degree which doesnt end up giving someone a salary boost, but how will you do someone a salary boost, but how will you do it someone a salary boost, but how will you do it exactly . Shut the courses down . You do it exactly . Shut the courses down . Stop you do it exactly . Shut the courses down . Stop people going to university. Theres nothing there and that university. Theres nothing there and that is university. Theres nothing there and that is quite a big announcement. And i find it fascinating when we talk about education, he said one of the things im proudest of is our record on education im proudest of is our record on education and what did he do . The Conservatives put work it into t levels. Conservatives put work it into t levels. 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So much of what rishi sunak said is in opposition to what had been brought in by his predecessors, notjust Prime Ministers, but conservative governments on a whole range of areas of government. Absolutely. He kept saying that weve absolutely. He kept saying that weve done politics differently for 30 years weve done politics differently for 30 years but this is a different politics. 30 years but this is a different politics, its a series of announcements, which is how weve always announcements, which is how weve always governed. I wasnt expecting, well, always governed. I wasnt expecting, well, hoping, he might dig into why those well, hoping, he might dig into why those had well, hoping, he might dig into why those bad decisions were made and explain those bad decisions were made and explain how he would make decisions differently explain how he would make decisions differently. There wasnt any of that differently. There wasnt any of that. � ,. , differently. 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