The four Conservative leadership candidates vying to replace Rishi Sunak have made their final pitches to the party's conference in Birmingham
Kemi Badenoch was the last to speak, telling the audience that the Tories "must defend our beliefs and values"
Just before her, Robert Jenrick said the “era of mass migration must end”
Before them James Cleverly pledged to "sell the benefits of Conservatism with a smile", while first speaker Tom Tugendhat promised to rebuild trust through a "new Conservative revolution"
Tory MPs will then pick a final two candidates next week - with party members then voting for the winner, who will be announced on 2 November
Badenoch says she is a Conservative because she has seen what happens when a country loses sight of its principles.
She says her party lost power because it lost its faith and stopped acting like Conservatives. "We spoke right and governed left," she adds.
She is not a climate change sceptic, Badenoch says, but she is a net zero sceptic because it is setting a target without a plan.
Badenoch insists the Tories need to go back to "first principles", adding that "much of what made me conservative" came from her parents.
She credits her late father for teaching her responsibility and how to solve problems.
The shadow housing secretary says she grew up "where fear was everywhere", which ensured she is not worried about becoming embroiled in social media rows.
She adds her experience in Nigeria has also made her appreciate freedom "above all."
"It is not enough just to be in government", Badenoch tells conference.
Without a plan governments run into trouble, she says, "as this Labour government are quickly finding out".
Badenoch jokes that she didn't think they would unravel so quickly, however.
She says the her party "has to get this right" after its "historic defeat".
The Conservatives reverse decline, she says.
Brian Wheeler
Loud cheers for Badenoch as she strolls to the centre of the stage. She’s also going noteless - no podium.
Kemi Badenoch opens by saying it is "time to tell the truth" about the Conservative Party, politics and the future.
"For too long, politicians have told the public what they wanted to hear, and then done their own thing," she says.
"Well I say enough."
Badenoch tells the audience she is a veteran of four government departments.
"I have seen the system from the inside. The system is broken."
Image source, EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockThe shadow housing secretary is riding high in polls with Tory members with her Renewal2030 campaign.
It promises to champion capitalism and Brexit, bringing the party "back to its roots".
She held a series of ministerial jobs under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, who promoted her to business secretary.
But it is arguably through her other former role - as minister for women and equalities - that she has emerged as a darling of the modern Conservative right for her stance on trans rights.
A row over her comments suggesting maternity pay had "gone too far" dominated the first day of the Conservative Party conference.
And the final Tory leadership contestant is now on stage ready to outline her plans for the party.
She is he final candidate to make her case to take over the reins of the Conservative Party.
Brian Wheeler
A standing ovation for Jenrick but he doesn’t hang around as long as the previous two speakers, he strides offstage after just 30 seconds.
Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent
Throughout this conference, Labour’s issues over donations and tickets seem to have provided the candidates with about 90 per cent of their jokes.
And so with Robert Jenrick, quipped earlier that Keir Starmer won’t stand up for Britain because he “doesn’t even stand at the football anymore”.
He then made a series of jokes about senior members of the shadow cabinet.
Too jocular? Well, one of the key roles of a leader of the opposition is to use mockery to land serious blows at the weekly sessions of prime minister’s questions.
So the quality of these jokes might actually be a better test of the candidates than you’d think.
Jenrick moves on to calls for sweeping reform across public services, calling for a "state that works and not fails".
We need to do for public services what we did for our schools in the 2010s, he argues.
He says this means empower the good leaders, kick out the bad ones and have zero tolerance for failure.
Jenrick promises his five pledges will work: securing our borders, no to net zero plans, building, defending culture and building small state that works.
“Together let’s take a stand of the country that we love,” he promises – ending his speech to rapturous applause.
Jenrick goes on to talk about housebuilding, and says he will "get Britain building".
He says If the Conservative "want to be the party of low tax, growth, and business" then they we "also need to be the party of fixing the broken system that stops us building the homes, factories, centres and roads".
Jenrick adds that Britain desperately needs investment and the Tories will stand for urban densification.
Jenrick goes on to attack the target of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 now.
He says they "must take a stand" as since 2001 "energy prices in our country have quadrupled", blaming the country becoming "reliant on expensive forms of energy" like offshore wind".
Ed Miliband wants to phrase out gas he says, which Jenrick claims would "send energy prices sky high".
He says they need to end the "mad targets" and his party will "stand for cutting emissions.
"But we will never do it, never, on the backs of working people and by further deindustrialising our great country," Jenrick adds.
Jenrick keeps on the theme, arguing the “era of mass migration must end”.
Immigration is not making the country richer, and is instead “putting immense pressure” on housing, hospitals and roads.
“The sheer scale and lack of integration is sapping at our culture and our nation cohesion,” he says.
He promises a freeze in net migration and “cast it in iron” via a vote in Parliament.
The UK will "still be open to the best and the brightest” but will no longer allow in “the world and its wife and all their extended family”.
Brian Wheeler
Jenrick’s tough line on immigration is going over well, although not everyone in the hall applauded his flagship policy of leaving the ECHR.
We're now getting to the heart of Jenrick's pitch for the leadership of the party.
He once again says the Conservatives need to "restore trust" and win back the confidence of the people - but the only way to do it is by building "a new Conservative Party".
The foundations of the new party need to be built "on the rock of our proudest traditions," he says. And then pinpoints the main challenge they now face.
He warns "we must take a stand to secure our borders" after more than 120,000 people entered the UK illegally under the watch of the previous government.
"The way to do that is to detain and deport everyone who comes illegally," he adds.
Jenrick says to do that, the UK must leave the European Convention on Human Rights and "Tony Blair's Human Rights Act".
The choice is to leave or remain, he says, adding "I'm for leave" - echoing the Brexit choice to much applause.
Jenrick says in order to move forward, the party must be honest about their time in government over the past 14 years.
"I am so proud of the achievements that we made in government," he tells the crowd.
He says the Tories "reversed damage by Gordon Brown" on finances, transformed schools, created a fairer welfare system, got Brexit done and stood by Ukraine.
He says the country doesn't trust the party now, and that they failed to deliver a strong NHS, economy and border.
"We must never fail our people again," he says.
Brian Wheeler
Jenrick’s jibes about the Labour cabinet are going over well with the audience. Rachel Reeves is “as wooden as Pinocchio”, he says, and Ed Miliband is “Wallace without a Gromit”.
He also says David Lammy is "living proof there is a more annoying LBC presenter than James O'Brien".
Jenrick continues taking swipes at Labour, noting they had 14 years to "prepare for government".
"Where's the vision? Where's the boldness?", he asks the audience in Birmingham.
"It is painful that Starmer can't see what we see," which he says is a nation with potential, talent and "so much to offer". Jenrick adds people are being let down by the government.
Jenrick says he is in politics for "the millions like my parents".
These people are "devoted citizens, good neighbours", people who get up early, who start small businesses, he adds.
Conservatives will work for Britain's "hardworking majority", he says and poses the question: "Who is Sir Keir Starmer in politics for?”.
Imagine “how cowardly you have to be to rob poor pensioners just to give to your union paymasters,” he says.
That is “not just cowardly it’s shameful” he adds.
Jenrick says the year his family took the "momentous" decisions to move to the West Midlands is the same year the Conservatives "chose to change, to change our policies".
He notes the pivotal shift resulted in the election of one of his political heroes, Margaret Thatcher, as leader of the party in 1975.
Jenrick says she was "as strong as the iron" in his father's factory, a reference to her nickname the Iron Lady - adding that Thatcher's strong will helped reverse "Britain's decline."
His admiration for the late PM was further made clear yesterday, when he revealed one of his daughter's second name is Thatcher.