Build a railway in the uk than just across the channel in france. And the chancellor also france. And the chancellor also announced today plans to freeze the expansion of the Civil Service and reduce its numbers to pre pandemic levels. During his speech at the conservative Party Conference in manchester today, jeremy hunt said it would save the government £1 billion a year. Meanwhile the chancellor announced tougher benefits sanctions on those who are capable of working but choose to. Not and he announced a National Living wage rise to £11 an hour. We promised in our manifesto to raise the National Living wage to two thirds of Median Income and ending low pay in this country. We at the moment its £10, 42 an hour, and were waiting for the low Pay Commission to tell us next years recommendation. But i confirm today, whatever that recommendation, well increase the National Living wage to at least £11 an hour next year. Thats a pay rise for next year. Thats a pay rise for 2 million workers. Well, at the same conference, liz truss called on the chancellor to cut Corporation Tax from 25 back down to 19 in his next autumn statement. His next autumn statement. Speaking at a fringe rally, the former Prime Minister urged the tory leadership to axe the tax cut bills and build homes. Her comments came after jeremy hunt told gb news no substantial tax cuts were possible this year. Ms cuts were possible this year. Ms truss said businesses, though , truss said businesses, though, are choosing not to locate in the uk and they shouldnt be treated like a cash cow. Now treated like a cash cow. Now away from politics, a Second Police force is investigating allegations against the comedian russell brand. In a statement, Thames Valley police said its received new information relating to harassment and stalking allegations dating back to 2018. They added it would be inappropriate to comment on an Ongoing Investigation. It Ongoing Investigation. It follows a joint investigation by the sunday times and channel 4. Russell brand denies all accusations of criminal city and lastly tonight, thunderstorms are set to batter the country. Are set to batter the country. Tonight, the met office issuing a yellow weather warning for areas right across the uk from manchester and birmingham, right to down london and southampton. Currently there are two dozen flood warnings in place, mainly in east anglia. And the met in east anglia. And the met office has warned of intense downpours, lightning and gusty winds, downpours expected as well , we understand, for the well, we understand, for the rest of the week. Yellow weather warnings in place until friday. All autumn has arrived on tv onune all autumn has arrived on tv online dab radio and the tune in app. This is gb news, britains news channel. Britains news channel. Its time now for my alternative rishi sunak speech to conference. Ive written it so he doesnt have to. Lets hope hes listening. Conference hope hes listening. Conference ihave hope hes listening. Conference i have a simple goal, which is to reclaim the best aspects of our past and the things that many of you feel weve lost whilst also striding confidently into the future. Were seeking into the future. Were seeking new opportunities. So into the future. Were seeking new opportunities. So im into the future. Were seeking new opportunities. So im here new opportunities. So im here to restore and to revive, to restore starts with our values for fundamentals like the Family Research act, for the law self response ability and free speech, which no one should lose. Their Bank Accounts lose their job, or be lose. Their Bank Accounts lose theirjob, or be publicly their job, or be publicly demonised used for their legally held views. Weve got to go back held views. Weve got to go back to a time when people could have different opinions and that wasnt just accepted, but embraced. Its time to end the embraced. Its time to end the age of intolerance and the cancer of cancel culture, which is why im going to tackle the insidious woke culture which has begun to infect our Public Institutions. I will be institutions. I will be britains first anti woke Prime Minister. Its not acceptable for the nhs to refer to women as birthing humans, cis females or chest feeders. Ill make sure that the Public Sector embrace the fundamental facts of human biology. And whilst people are biology. And whilst people are of course free to identify as they wish and be respected for that, theres no place for biological men in female spaces or female sports. I will restore or female sports. I will restore what it is to be a woman and protect it in law and let me put this on record. Zero women have this on record. Zero women have penises. Not even the butch ones penises. Not even the butch ones. Its not acceptable for Civil Servants to be brainwashed into ideas like Critical Race Theory, which divides our communities and goes against the wise words of Martin Luther king, who aspire to a colour Blind Society dodi. So im going to fight out the war on woke and im going to win. The immediate challenge for win. The immediate challenge for the economy is to get inflation down to 3, which is like a tax cut for everyone. Once thats cut for everyone. Once thats been achieved at taxes will come down across the board, but not before four. It should be you who decides how your money is spent , not the state. So how spent, not the state. So how will i achieve these tax cuts . Two things. As a government focussed exclusively and aggressively on growth. Plus, i aggressively on growth. Plus, i will drastically cut public spending. Britain lives beyond spending. Britain lives beyond its means and we spend more than comes in on my watch that will end. Itll be hard. You cant make an omelette without breaking a few eggs and im going to make the worlds biggest omelette with 5 Million People of working age. Not active in the economy unless youre physically unable to, you will get back to work. Getting up in the morning, getting out of the house and putting a shift in has got to pay more than sitting at home receiving handouts at the taxpayers expense. Yes, everything has got expense. Yes, everything has got to shrink. And i dont just mean to shrink. And i dontjust mean my rather short trousers as the nhs is too bloated, too big, too inefficient and employs too many diversity officers and not enough oncologists and nurses , enough oncologists and nurses, were going to build more houses on brown and greenfield sites with a blitz on red tape planning laws. Developers sitting on land and nimbyism. I sitting on land and nimbyism. I will build our great cities of the future , but building more the future, but building more housesis the future, but building more houses is pointless if demand continues at current levels with legal net migration at over 600,000 a year and illegal immigration running into tens of thousands too. Weve got to invest in our own people so were not reliant on cheap foreign labour, which means aiming for net migration annually at 200,000 max and eliminated illegal crossings in the channel entirely. These the channel entirely. These crossings are an Economic National Security and humanitarian disaster and im willing to exit the echr and do whatever else it takes to end this daily nightmare which hurts the many people , the thousands the many people, the thousands of people who do have a valid claim for asylum in this country. And im replacing net zero with what im calling smart net zero or smart zero, which means a Long Term Plan to reduce emissions. But one with three new red lines. Number one, new red lines. Number one, evidence based science so that we can have tangible proof that renewables and electric cars and windmills and all the rest of it are actually going to make a difference. Number two, we will have the economy at the forefront. So we dont bankrupt ourselves or clobber hard working brits with crippling extra costs. And number three, extra costs. And number three, the will of the people so that each and every one of you are aware of the costs , is aware of aware of the costs, is aware of the sacrifices needed and support the plan on smart zero backs, Green Renewables , but backs, Green Renewables, but grants new oil and gas licences in the north sea to because the resources are there, why buy them from russia , saudi arabia them from russia, saudi arabia and the United States . Its and the United States . Its smart. Zero reverses the ban on petrol and diesel cars and perfectly good boilers to but not until 2030 or 2035. If indefinitely. Thats right. Indefinitely. Thats right. Until the technology is affordable and catches up. And lastly , i will tackle crime, lastly, i will tackle crime, which is the new epidemic shop lifting knife crime, burglaries, assault. Its getting out of assault. Its getting out of hand and i will create a culture in which people are afraid to break the law and afraid they will be caught. I will let police, police again, but ill make sure its not a crime to be patriotic , to celebrate our patriotic, to celebrate our complicated but glorious history and to love this country. What and to love this country. What binds our Diverse Society is that we are all british. So i want to us be one country again. Its time for all of to us come together, to Work Together and build a Bright Future for the united kingdom. Lets put the united kingdom. Lets put the great back into great britain. Your reaction to my britain. Your reaction to my Conference Speech . There you go. Its like rishi sunak was saying those words. Lets hope saying those words. Lets hope he was listening. Mark gbnews. Com is the email. Ill gbnews. Com is the email. Ill get pundit reaction shortly, but lets cross live now to tory Party Conference in manchester and our Political Correspondent catherine forster. Catherine, catherine forster. Catherine, i wont ask you to comment on my speech because im not the Prime Minister, but tell me about the atmosphere up there in in manchester. What is the mood . Manchester. What is the mood . Well , very mixed. Well, very mixed. Well, very mixed. There are some conservatives here that still believe its possible that they might win the next election. Rishi sunak Still Believes that they are now only 10 behind labour. In one recent poll. I use the word only advisedly, but there are many, many people here who already believe that they have lost the general election and are already basically setting out their stall to get rishi sunaks job in the future. Now the big set piece event today was the chancellor jeremy hunts speech and not very exciting announcements. I think were certainly going to have to wait till the spring for those long awaited tax cuts if they come. Awaited tax cuts if they come. But conversation here really dominated by a couple of things. First of all, the almight row of hs2 and secondly, rishi, you sunak seems to be haunted by the sort of ghosts of Prime Ministers past now on hs2 to the governments official line is that no decision has been taken. But i was told this afternoon by an impeccable source that michael gove, the levelling up secretary, has said that it is going to be axed and expects the announcement to be made in rishi sunaks speech on wednesday. Also now liz truss has been causing a lot of Media Attention calling for tax cuts , for growth, all for tax cuts, for growth, all the things she normally talks about. The things she normally talks about. I the things she normally talks about. I think rishi sunak probably doesnt appreciate the interventions , but shes very interventions, but shes very much still present at conservative conference well, listen, catherine, ill let you get back to conference and hopefully michael gove on the dance floor. My thanks to our Political Correspondent catherine forster. Lets get catherine forster. Lets get reaction now to my Conference Speech. There you go. I wrote speech. There you go. I wrote rishi sunaks keynote so he doesnt have to. Daily express columnist carole malone, former labour Party Adviser and i should add speechwriter Matthew Lazar and former brexit party mep belinda de lucy. Belinda i think thats what rishi sunak should say on wednesday. Whats your view . I think if it came from any other party other than the tories or god forbid, labour or anything like that , people might anything like that, people might believe it. The problem is weve heard tough rhetoric before the tough rhetoric before from the conservative party. If rishi did that so if rishi did make that speech about people speech, its all about do people trust would deliver on it . Trust he would deliver on it . And thats the issue at the moment conservative moment with the conservative party. His party. Rishi needs to put his big pants on and show to the big boy pants on and show to the to the country. He has a purpose and what he stands for because at the moment no ones quite sure what he stands for. And i was dinner last was at the gala dinner last night in manchester at the cd0 gala with priti patel, and it is clear that the sort of actual conservative in the conservative party at the moment are seen as the rebels and rishi needs to distance himself from from the left wing of his party. And he has started that, hasnt he, with his rethink on net zero, he has on net zero. Has a rethink on net zero. And interestingly, coming interestingly, recently coming out and saying he will ignore the future rulings the echr the future rulings of the echr if they go against rwanda. And i if they go against rwanda. And i thought that was quite interesting as well. Again, lets hope it all plays out. But until he does make that break from the left wing of the party, the of lib dems who are the sort of lib dems who are masquerading conservatives in masquerading as conservatives in the i think hes the party, then i think hes handing the keys to labour. One thing about your speech, i would like you like to just comment on. You talked. One of the talked about crime. One of the big triggers of all this mass crime. You see a lot of the youth doing is social media and how social media plays a part. And what i think the country would really benefit from is , is would really benefit from is, is the government to look at social media how a part in media and how it plays a part in youth crime and to cut down on that, provide that, you know, provide solutions to the problem . Well, definitely. And social media for media is a disaster also for Mental Health, isnt it . Not just for young people, but probably karen probably most of us. Karen malone that malone my big focus in that speech economy. Thats speech is the economy. Thats number cost of living number one, the cost of living crisis. And crisis. Our viewers and listeners at the listeners are struggling at the moment. Were looking at moment. Plus, were looking at other key structural issues within whether its Energy Security. There wasnt time for roads and transport and the rest of it, but the culture wars, britains first anti woke Prime Minister, i think he could go far with that message. Far with that message. All i can say is thank god youre not Prime Minister. Thats the thing. Thats the thing. Thats the thing. Thats uppermost in peoples minds. Well, i think its very important. People are anchored by by by the of women with penises. The idea of women with penises. I dont think its an election winning policy necessarily. I think yes, of course , we i think yes, of course, we have to tackle. Of course we do. But we tackle on a daily but we tackle that on a daily basis anyway i think, basis anyway. But i think, you know, me , for the first time know, for me, for the first time in quite time , im in quite a long time, im looking now and im looking at rishi now and im seeing a path to victory. Fraser nelson used those words in a piece in the spectator today. Im looking at him and im seeing a bloke whos trying to shake off the car salesman image. Hes trying to get tough. Hes looking tougher, hes sounding tougher. Last week he said things i think said a lot of things i think would people about, said a lot of things i think wou know, people about, said a lot of things i think wou know, hes people about, said a lot of things i think wou know, hes peopto about, said a lot of things i think wou know, hes peopto fightt, said a lot of things i think wou warn, hes peopto fightt, said a lot of things i think wou war onles peopto fightt, said a lot of things i think wou war on motorists to fightt, said a lot of things i think wou war on motorists. O fightt, this war on motorists. Hes, you know, hes slowing down the rush to net zero. You down the rush to net zero. You know, he is going to announce the cancellation of g. S. T. Or at least theyre going, you know, theyre just going to do the manchester sorry, the london to birmingham route. And i think that resonate that will that will resonate with a lot of people. I mean, were going to discuss this later. To say, you later. Were going to say, you know, is a betrayal know, is this is this a betrayal of the i think its the of the north . I think its the total opposite t