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BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says David Cameron drove his Tory tanks across Labour's lawn with that speech. It's one you could have almost imagined Tony Blair making, she adds.

"This was a clever speech", Laura tells Daily Politics, although she wonders whether in time the lack of "Tory meat" in Cameron's address will be enough for the party and to dampen down leadership froth.

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Michael Gove clashes with Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil over his questioning on the Tories' housing record. Mr Gove accuses the presenter of "show-boating" rather than "forensically trying to get to the point".

Andrew Neil replies: "The viewers will  decide who's show-boating Mr Gove and who's using facts", and continues with his questioning.

At the end of the interview, relations soften a bit as the two men say how much they enjoyed the exchange.

David Cameron spoke about equality and opportunities for all people in the UK regardless of their race, colour, gender or sexuality. 

He said: "I want us to end discrimination and finish the fight for real equality in our country today."  

Labour shadow cabinet minister Jon Ashworth offers his reaction to the PM's speech. He says that for all David Cameron's "talk of making life better for people", working people are "worse off under the Tories".

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Justice Secretary Michael Gove - who was name-checked by the PM in his speech - is challenged over the Tories' home ownership pledge. Asked why home ownership has fallen in recent years, Mr Gove says it's down to the impact of the 2008 financial crash. He predicts home ownership will begin to rise "in the next few years" and argues that no party is doing more to boost home building than the Conservatives.

The Conservatives are the party of home ownership in Britain today, the prime minister tells his party conference. He spoke of a "dramatic shift in housing policy" and affordable homes, with a pledge of moving from "Generation Rent to Generation Buy".

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Daily Politics reporter Adam Fleming catches activists on the way out of the conference hall to gauge their reaction to David Cameron's speech. And everyone he's spoken to so far seems very pleased with what he had to say.

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Reacting to the PM's speech, former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Heseltine says it was "arguably one of the most visionary speeches by a Conservative leader that I've listened to, and also the most courageous".

As the PM concludes his speech, the party faithful give him a long round of applause and rise to their feet in appreciation of the leader. The music playing in the background is Fleetwood Mac's, Don't Stop.

Summing up his speech David Cameron says he believes the 2010s can be a "defining, turnaround decade" for the UK.

"We can be that Greater Britain because we know this: nothing is written," he tells party members and activists.

He pledges no more people "dragged down or held back" and "no more children with their noses pressed to the window as they watch the world moving ahead without them".

David Cameron says freedom, democracy and equality are Britain's "precious" values, and says the country is "the proudest multi-racial democracy on earth".

"That’s why we’re making sure they learn British history at school. That’s why we started National Citizen Service to bring different people together," he says and adds:

David Cameron announces: "If an institution is teaching children intensively, then whatever its religion, we will, like any other school, make it register so it can be inspected."

"Be in no doubt", he adds, "if you are teaching intolerance, we will shut you down".

David Cameron says that "for too long, we’ve been so frightened of causing offence that we haven’t looked hard enough at what is going on in our communities".

"This is passive tolerance," he tells the hall and says it leads to forced marriages, female genital mutilation and a less integrated country.