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| Theresa May speech - live: Prime Minister set to tell Tories to 'shape up' and focus on working for ordinary voters at Conservative party conference | |
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| Welcome to The Independent’s liveblog on the final day of the Conservative party conference. We’ll be bringing you all the latest updates as Theresa May gives one of the most important speeches of her political career – and her first to the party faithful since gambling away the party’s majority at the general election. | Welcome to The Independent’s liveblog on the final day of the Conservative party conference. We’ll be bringing you all the latest updates as Theresa May gives one of the most important speeches of her political career – and her first to the party faithful since gambling away the party’s majority at the general election. |
| She is expected to draw a line under weeks of turmoil by telling squabbling Cabinet ministers to stop worrying about their own “job security” and focus on the national interest. | She is expected to draw a line under weeks of turmoil by telling squabbling Cabinet ministers to stop worrying about their own “job security” and focus on the national interest. |
| Ms May will tell her party she will now “hide from a challenge” and demand that after a lengthy period of soul-searching following the election that ministers “shape up”. | Ms May will tell her party she will now “hide from a challenge” and demand that after a lengthy period of soul-searching following the election that ministers “shape up”. |
| In her speech, Ms May will say: “Let us do our duty by Britain. Let us shape up and give the country the government it needs.” | In her speech, Ms May will say: “Let us do our duty by Britain. Let us shape up and give the country the government it needs.” |
| The Prime Minister will go on: “Beyond this hall, beyond the gossip pages of the newspapers, and beyond the streets, corridors and meeting rooms of Westminster, life continues – the daily lives of ordinary working people go on. And they must be our focus today. | The Prime Minister will go on: “Beyond this hall, beyond the gossip pages of the newspapers, and beyond the streets, corridors and meeting rooms of Westminster, life continues – the daily lives of ordinary working people go on. And they must be our focus today. |
| “Not worrying about our job security, but theirs. Not addressing our concerns, but the issues, the problems, the challenges, that concern them. Not focusing on our future, but on the future of their children and their grandchildren – doing everything we can to ensure their tomorrow will be better than our today.” | “Not worrying about our job security, but theirs. Not addressing our concerns, but the issues, the problems, the challenges, that concern them. Not focusing on our future, but on the future of their children and their grandchildren – doing everything we can to ensure their tomorrow will be better than our today.” |
| But once again the focus is on her Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson after he prompted outrage on Tuesday evening at a fringe event after claiming a Libyan city could be transformed into the new Dubai once “they cleared the dead bodies away”. Mr Johnson’s off-colour comment drew gasps and shocked laughter from the audience at a global trade fringe event at the Conservative conference. Three of his colleagues in the party have since called for his resignation. | But once again the focus is on her Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson after he prompted outrage on Tuesday evening at a fringe event after claiming a Libyan city could be transformed into the new Dubai once “they cleared the dead bodies away”. Mr Johnson’s off-colour comment drew gasps and shocked laughter from the audience at a global trade fringe event at the Conservative conference. Three of his colleagues in the party have since called for his resignation. |