Responding to the chancellor's speech, Lib Dem economic spokesman Susan Kramer said it failed to address that Philip Hammond "has already lost the most important battle of his time as chancellor".

"The Hard Brexit plan set out by his boss will damage our economy, kill jobs and blow a hole in our finances.  Hammond knows it, he even hinted at it, but he won’t come out and be honest about it with the British people," the peer said.

She added:

The prime minister still wants to involve Scotland in talks ahead of the UK's Brexit negotiations, the Scottish secretary insists.

Adam Fleming
Daily and Sunday Politics reporter

Brexit day at the Conservative Party Conference saw the prime minister reveal that Article 50 will be triggered before March next year - starting a formal two-year process of negotiations.

And there will be a vote in Parliament next spring confirming that Britain will leave at the end of that process - in a move being called the Great Repeal Bill.

Daily Politics reporter Adam Fleming was listening to the speeches and trying to get some answers from the ministers in charge of Brexit, amid reports they are not allowed to speak to the media.

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Paul Johnson from the Institute for Fiscal Studies says Philip Hammond gave "no sense of what his new fiscal framework or rule is going to be", having abandoned George Osborne's deficit reduction target.

Mr Johnson says he expects more detail in the chancellor's Autumn Statement in November.

Closing his speech, Philip Hammond says the British people made a decision to the leave the EU and the government must not let them down.

The government will "repatriate our laws, assert the supremacy of our courts, control our borders" but will not turn its back on Europe, he says.

The chancellor also says that the UK's economic future must not be not "defined by Brexit alone".

Philip Hammond lists what he sees as the UK's competitive advantage, including the Enlish language, which he calls "our secret and unfair advantage".

The chancellor announces "£220m of support for tech innovation" before dealing with a feeling that "large parts of our country feel left behind".

He envisions "the benefits of economic growth shared" across regions and says the government's ambitions are "not limited to the Northern Powerhouse".

Mr Hammond also speaks up for the "Midlands Engine" which is "delivering" for the conference host city of Birmingham.

The chancellor says the economy is still too focused on London and the south east.

"Closing that gap" between London and other major cities will be "key" to the UK's future, Philip Hammond argues.

"We're not building enough new homes," he says. "This government is determined that the dream of home ownership should be for the many, not the few."

Tom Moseley
Political reporter, Birmingham

One of the more eye-catching exhibits at the Conservative conference is a shooting simulator. Several MPs have tried their hand, choosing between firing at grouse or clay pigeons on the screen.

It's organised by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) which says it wants to showcase the "serious side" (conservation) and the "non-serious side" (shooting) of its work.

There's a steady stream of delegates filing into the tent to have a go.

"We will not have a surplus by the end of this Parliament," says Philip Hammond, signalling a break with former Chancellor George Osborne's target.

But he adds that "fiscal consolidation will continue."

Turning on Labour, he says the opposition's "big idea is to spend an extra half a trillion pounds" - and he says Labour MP Chris Leslie warned that taxes would need to double in order to fund the party's spending plans.

"It would be the poorest and the most vulnerable who will pay the biggest price," Mr Hammond warns.

The chancellor says he understands that businesses are uncertain about "the post-Brexit world".

He pledges that the government will fight for "the best possible deal" for business.

He says businesses bidding for EU funds before the UK leaves will have a UK government guarantee of a continuation of "multi-year" payments once Brexit has taken place.