Nigel Farage took to X after Kemi Badenoch’s first speech to the Tories’ annual conference.

He said: “More people have joined Reform in the past 24 hours than were in the room for Kemi’s conference speech.”

“We will deport all foreign criminals. Not some, all,” says Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says plan to leave the European Convention on Human Rights follows a thorough review. “If we can’t control our borders then we are no country at all”, he says.

“This party will always protect our identity and always protect our security”.

He says the number of small boat arrivals this year “has been the worst in history … this government has lost control of our borders.”

He says that as Home Secretary, he will deport any non-British citizen who expresses extremist views.

The Tory leader said: “We have listened, we have learned and we have changed.”

She ends her speech by saying “we are up for the fight”.

Kemi Badenoch said: “I want you to know that the next Conservative manifesto will contain our commitment to leave. Leaving the convention is a necessary step but it is not enough on its own to achieve our goals.”

She added: “This is the only way to end spurious claims from immigrants with spurious lawyers and excuses. This is the only way to allow the next British government, a Conservative government, to deliver a British borders plan in full.”

Kemi: “I know there will be particular challenges [with leaving the ECHR] in NI, but difficulties are not a reason to avoid action. They are a reason to work harder to get it right.

“So to ensure this is an orderly and respectful process across the whole UK I am asking Alex Burghart to leave a review into union-wide implementation.”

She says the Tories won’t offer the ‘vague mush from Labour, nor the vacuous posturing from Reform” but will have a fully credible plan ahead of the next election.

Adds that Reform and Labour are “two sides of the same coin.”

Kemi Badenoch said the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) was a “well-meaning” treaty “drafted with the best of intentions” that was “now being used in ways never intended” by their authors.

“What should be shields to defend the vulnerable have instead become swords to target democratic decisions and frustrate common sense. This isn’t just damaging our security, it’s also damaging our prosperity.”

Mrs Badenoch added that the “place to start” was the ECHR.

The longest round of applause from audience members comes when Mrs Badenoch says: “We must leave the ECHR and repeal the Human Rights Acts.”

Economic responsibility will “run through this conference like the words in a stick of Blackpool rock”, Kemi Badenoch has said.

The Conservative leader told the party’s annual conference: “Our mistakes on the economy and on immigration lost us the trust and confidence of the public.

“So, we start this week saying we have learnt and we will never repeat the financial irresponsibility of spending commitments without saying where the money is coming from.”

She added: “This week, we will set out how we have changed, how we will be different and, most importantly, how we will make a difference.

“Economic responsibility is the hallmark of the Conservative approach and today it is right back at the heart of everything we stand for.

“We may be in Manchester, but the theme of economic responsibility will run through this conference like the words in a stick of Blackpool rock.”

Every Conservative candidate must sign up to leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) or face being barred from standing at the next election, Kemi Badenoch earlier said.

Mrs Badenoch kicked off the Conservatives’ annual conference in Manchester with a pledge to leave the ECHR as part of a plan to deport 150,000 people a year from the UK.

Having initially been cautious about leaving the ECHR, Mrs Badenoch committed her party to the policy ahead of this week’s conference after commissioning Tory peer Lord Wolfson to examine the practicalities of such a move earlier in the year.

The policy forms part of a so-called “borders plan” that also includes a Donald Trump-style crackdown on immigration, backed by a new “removals force” modelled on the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency.

While not mentioning her by name, Kemi Badenoch blasted the “financial irresponsibility” of announcing £150billion of spending commitments alongside sweeping tax cuts without having any idea how to pay for them.

Kemi Badenoch actually acknowledges the Tory period of rule from 2010-2024:

– We slashed the deficit every year so when the pandemic hit, we had the means to weather the storm

– School reforms

– Reformed welfare, got people into work

– 4 million new jobs were created

– Gave voters a choice on EU membership and implemented that decision – Fastest vaccine rollout in the West

– Billions of pounds worth of new trade deals

Mrs Badenoch said the Tories attempted to stop the boats but she concedes “we didn’t achieve enough”.

Mrs Badenoch said that in the last 12 months the Conservatives under her leadership had started to do politics “in a new way”.

Quoting Margaret Thatcher, Mrs Badenoch said “the facts of life are conservative”, adding: “There is a gap for the responsible, optimistic conservative approach, an approach rooted in values.”

Mrs Badenoch said: “We have tolerated this in our country for too long and we have tolerated the radical Islamist ideology that seeks to threaten not only Jews but all of us of all faiths and none who want to live in peace. So the message from this conference, from this party, from every decent and right-thinking person in this country must be that we will not stand for it any more. We cannot import and tolerate values hostile to our own.

“We must now draw a line and say that in Britain you can think what you like and within the bounds of the law you can say what you like but you have no right to turn our streets into theatres of intimidation and we will not let you do so any more.”

Kemi Badenoch has begun her address by paying tribute to the jewish community in the city following a “horrific and despicable” terror attack at a Manchester synagogue on Thursday.

She called it “an attack on all of us”.

Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, died in the attack after the terrorist drove a car at members of the public before stabbing people.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has begun her speech at the Conservative Party conference. She receives a standing ovation.

I’m in the speech room for Kemi’s first speech of this party conference, a first from a Tory leader in many years.

Traditionally we only hear from the leader on the final day.

From memory it seems like a small room than previous years, and it’s not packed to the rafters.

Perhaps that will change for Wednesday’s keynote speech.

The Conservative Party was “too soft” and “too eager to please everyone” in government, the party’s chairman Kevin Hollinrake has said.

He told the Tory conference in Manchester: “Let’s be honest. Despite the good, the good we did at times, we made mistakes.

“At times we were too soft. We forgot about tough love. We were too eager to please everyone. In politics, you can’t please all the people all the time and it’s a mistake to even try.

“Look at the country today. We are led by a weak Prime Minister who blames everyone but himself for his failures, the economic doldrums we are experiencing, the limbo we are in today. They are purely down to him.”

Conservative Party activists held a minute’s silence at the beginning of the party conference in Manchester in memory of the two people killed in the terror attack at a synagogue on Thursday.

Party chairman Kevin Hollinrake said: “Thoughts are with the families of those who lost their lives and with the entire community.

“Antisemitism is a stain on our nation’s soul. Stand in grief and solidarity with the Jewish community, I ask everyone to join me in a minute’s silence in their memory.”

Scottish Conservative Party leader Russell Findlay has said “these are difficult times” for the party as he pledged to focus on the economy in the lead-up to the Holyrood elections.

Speaking at the Scottish fringe at UK Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Mr Findlay said the party had “learned lessons since the general election”.

He added: “Alongside our straight-talking UK leader Kemi Badenoch, I’ve been honest about where we went wrong. On taxes, on immigration, on many conservative principles – we could and should have done better. We are a new Conservative Party.

“Over the past year, we’ve engaged with those who lost trust in our party. Since being elected, I’ve travelled to all points of Scotland to hear directly from real people.

“In the north, I’ve met workers in oil and gas and renewables. In the south, I’ve met farmers and hospitality workers. In the west, I’ve met apprentices and shop workers and in the east, I’ve met nurses and tech entrepreneurs.

“And the most common thing I hear is this: Everything has become too expensive. Not just the punishing rates of income tax, but everyday living costs.

“Folk feel crushed under the weight of constantly rising prices. They are frustrated at declining local services. They despair at the lack of opportunity for young people.”

I’ve been through the Tory conference brochure for this year and last year, and compared the presence of corporations at both conferences.

The total number of exhibitors in the main hall is only down slightly – 38 in 2024 versus 43 in 2025.

However there is a decrease in the quality of those here in Manchester.

Some big names who decided not to pay for stalls include:

– Global

– Google

– London Gatwick

– The National Farmers Union

– RenewableUK

– Transport for the North

Of those here, a higher proportion are charities and shops.

One of the most eye-catching stalls here at party conference. The owner tells me he’s marking all the paintings at £200 starting price and will award them to the highest bidder.

Iconic Margaret Thatcher outfits are on display at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.

The Conservatives’ new policies on immigration are a “desperate” attempt to gain credibility, according to Reform UK chairman Dr David Bull.

He told the Camilla Tominey Show on GB News: “This is a desperate, large ditch attempt to have some sort of credibility and semblance of actually being able to do something.

“In fact, when I read that policy last night, my mouth dropped open, because it’s pretty much a copy and paste of the policy that we launched some month or so ago, Operation Restoring Justice.

“I think you were at that launch, and pretty much they are doing exactly what we said. And this is very much like a copy and paste. They’ve literally taken every single word.”

In response to Kemi Badenoch’s BBC interview, a Labour Party spokesperson said: “Kemi Badenoch has been Conservative Leader for 338 days now and the British people are still waiting for an apology for the mistakes her party made. Her Conservative Party has learned absolutely nothing from 14 years of failure.

“Badenoch can’t answer the most basic questions about the policies she’s supposedly spent months thinking about. It’s the same old Tory Party making the same old mistakes – and the public shouldn’t and won’t forgive them.

“While the Tories and Reform scrap over who’s copying whose policies, Labour firmly chooses the path of national renewal, by driving forwards growth, securing our borders and making working people better off.”

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says people who express extremist views should face deportation.

He told Sky News: “If anyone in this country who is not a British citizen, expresses extremist views or supports terrorism, those are not the kind of people we want in this country, and they should be, frankly, deported.”

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has said the economy “will be on fire” if Reform UK wins the next general election.

She told GB News: “Nigel Farage wants to spend loads and loads of money on welfare.

“You look at the plans he’s talked about, our economy will be on fire if he gets in. None of it makes sense.”

Every Conservative candidate in the next election must back the policy of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has said.

Mrs Badenoch told Camilla Tominey on GB News: “I was very clear at the shadow cabinet – where we agreed completely, it was unanimous – that we cannot have a party where people do not abide by manifesto commitments.

“If you do not agree with leaving the ECHR, then you should not and cannot stand as a Conservative candidate.”

Asked whether she will “kick people out” if they rebel on this issue, she said: “They can be in the party, but they cannot stand as MPs.

“We have lots of members who have lots of views, we don’t remove people for having slightly different views on policy.

“But if you want to be a Member of Parliament as a Conservative, then you need to understand that leaving the ECHR is a manifesto commitment.”

As the Tory conference begins, Labour’s civil war continues.

Labour needs to “tell a much stronger story” about the purpose of this Government, according to party deputy leadership candidate Lucy Powell.

Former Commons leader Ms Powell told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: “I think when you have a narrower and narrower group of people making decisions that are not connected to the communities that we are here to serve, that is when mistakes are made.

“I think that we have got to tell a much stronger story about the purpose of this Labour Government.

“Whose side are we on and in whose interests are we governing?”

Asked whether she would quit if the Conservative Party’s fortunes did not get better, Kemi Badenoch told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: “The fact is I was elected to do exactly what I’m doing now and I think the Conservative members are going to keep their faith in me.”

Kemi Badenoch has described her party’s recent performance in polling as a “small political price” for an approach that would “pay off eventually”.

The Conservative leader told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: “Nothing good comes quickly or fast.

“It will pay off. I’m an engineer and the way I was taught to do things is you have a plan, you work it through.

“It’s not about being the first to announce a policy. It’s about having the best policy. That is what I’m offering.

“And, yes, there may have been a small political price to pay in the polls. It will pay off eventually.”

Britain is “spending all of our money” on dealing with immigration, rather than the NHS or other public services, Kemi Badenoch has said.

The Conservative leader told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: “Right now, we have people, you know, in social housing, we’re spending loads of money, not just on hotels, but asylum centres, all of the policing that goes around it, that Epping protest after that horrific sexual assault that cost well over £1 million.

“We are spending all of our money on dealing with migration issues instead of the NHS, instead of education, instead of, you know, our health, our police force.”

Earlier, she had said failing to deport people was “basically inviting every single person across the world to our shores, because we don’t know where they would go”.

“This is a fatalistic and defeatist attitude, and I will not have that.”

Discussing her proposal to deport 150,000 people a year, the Conservative leader told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: “People need to go back to their countries.

“They can go to safe third countries if that’s the best thing for them.”

Asked where they would go, she said: “Not here, not here. They don’t belong here, they are committing crimes, they are hurting people.”

She added: “I’m tired of us asking all of these irrelevant questions about where should they go. They will go back to where they should do or another country, but they should not be here.”

The Conservatives would support Labour’s proposal to expand policing powers to deal with persistent protests, Kemi Badenoch has said.

She told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme: “Of course we will support them. But what took them so long?

“And the issue, from my perspective, is why should the public trust a Home Secretary who not that long ago was protesting herself, lay down, closed a Sainsbury’s supermarket because it was stocking Israeli goods?”

She added: “We believe in free speech, but that has to be within the bounds of the law.

“If people are using protest to intimidate, if they’re using protest to incite violence, then no, it’s not protest.”

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said she was working to close a “gap in the law” on protests.

She told Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips: “The strengthening of the legislation that I’m going to bring about is based on the ability of the police to place conditions and restrictions on protests.

“And what I will be making explicit is that cumulative disruption – that is to say, the frequency of particular protests in particular places – is, in and of itself, a reason for the police to be able to restrict and place conditions.

“That is to say, they can move them to a different place, they can restrict the time that those protests can occur on, so that will unlock all of the broader measures that the police can already do on protests.

“It’s been clear to me in conversations in the last couple of days that there is a gap in the law and there is an inconsistency of practice, so I’ll be taking measures immediately to put that right.

“And I will be reviewing our wider protest legislation as well to make sure the arrangements we have can meet the scale of the challenge that we face, which is protecting the right to protest, but ensuring that our communities can go about their daily business without feeling intimidated and also that public order can be maintained.”

The Conservative leader will deliver a short speech today at her party conference, and her main speech on Wednesday.

But she has already issued outspoken comments, in an essay for a report by think tank Policy Exchange published today.

She said: “When intellectuals and activists romanticise violence, they give licence to those who see bloodshed not as tragedy, but as a political tool. Two years ago, it was this ethos that underlay Hamas’ attacks on Israel: the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

“We have also repeatedly seen the deadly results of this mindset here in Britain, most recently in the appalling terrorist attack in Manchester on Yom Kippur. This was not an isolated act of hatred: it flows from a wider culture that legitimises violence in the name of “justice”, cloaking it in the language of resistance.”

A new Conservative party is here which is determined to deport “every illegal immigrant”, according to Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick.

The shadow justice secretary said Britain needs to “send a very clear signal” that anyone arriving illegally had “zero chance of making a life in the UK”.

He added: “We have to secure our borders and we have got to bring the numbers of people coming into our country right down and give everyone breathing space.”

The Conservatives have pledged to deport 150,00 people a year with a Donald Trump-style immigration crackdown.

Kemi Badenoch said she would create a new “Removals Force” modelled on the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency.

The proposals would see the Removals Force given £1.6 billion and “sweeping new powers” including the use of facial recognition without warning to spot illegal immigrants.

Mrs Badenoch told the Telegraph she “wouldn’t be surprised” if US President Mr Trump “loved” her migration plan, but said she was more interested in the views of people in the UK.

She pledged to stop “silly arguments” about human rights from stopping her doing the “right thing” if she was in No 10.

Today is the first day of the Conservative Party’s annual conference in Manchester.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is due to appear on the BBC’s Sunday Morning with Laura Kuenssberg and she will give a welcome speech to the gathering at 2.45pm.