David Lidington praises the rehabilitation work done by coffee shop Redemption Roasters and businesses including Timpson and Greggs, who hire ex-offenders.

"A former prisoner who's got work... is far less likely to re-offend in the future," the justice secretary says.

But there will not be quick solutions: "We're dealing with some of the most troubled and troubling people in society."

He adds that he wants charities and voluntary groups to play a bigger role in reforms.

Community sentences need to "command the respect of the courts and the public," David Lidington says.

He argues that rehabilitation is vital to help prisoners "change their attitudes once they get out".

There will be more powers for prison governors to "innovate" when it comes to training and education for prisoners, with governors held responsible for the results.

And he pledges new funding for reform of youth custody, with specialist staff recruited.

The justice secretary says smuggling in prisons extends to "spraying children's drawings... with liquid synthetic drugs".

He announces action to track drones used in smuggling and work "with the technology companies to block mobile signals and drones within the prison walls".

There will also be new body scanners and 2,500 extra prison officers, David Lidington promises.

David Lidington says Theresa May has been "unwavering in her fight against injustice".

This includes acting against modern slavery and "racial disparities" with next week's planned report, he says.

After his tribute to the prime minister, he also pays tribute to prison officers for work that sometimes "goes unseen behind prison walls".

Prison officers face "enormous pressure" with rates of violence, suicide, self-harm and drug use among prisoners too high, the justice secretary adds.

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Responding to the debate, European Commission Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier thanks MEPs for their "support" in the Brexit talks.

He dismisses comments from some that the Commission is seeking to punish the UK, saying "you will never find the tiniest speck of vengeance in my attitude towards you".

He also rejects criticism that the EU is playing for time in the talks, adding that it was the UK that "took the time" to wait nearly a year before sending the Article 50 letter.

He would like to speed up the talks "to the greatest possible extent", he tells MEPs.

Transitional arrangements would have to be a "short period", during which the "rules of the single market" would have to apply.

Justice Secretary David Lidington is up next, saying that the young delegates speaking this morning show "the future of our party is going to be in good hands".

He goes on to describe attending Westminster Abbey as Lord Chancellor in "all our bling", as he calls it.

But what was being marked was not wigs or robes but "the rule of law", he adds.

Mr Lidington accuses Labour of supporting "illegal strikes" - in opposition to the Conservatives' Trade Union Act - calling this "a shameful abdication of responsibility".

Louis Mosley urges everyone to think about the impact of language on people with mental health problems.

He says: "We have all had a 'mad' or a 'mental' or a 'manic' day at work. We have all called an eccentric friend 'bonkers'."

But, he says, people can sometimes forget how much harder they make it for people who do have a mental illness to talk about their condition.

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BBC political editor

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Guess what. It's not about Boris Johnson. He sucks the oxygen, grabs the attention, "the blond one" excites the Tory crowds, as well as driving his colleagues up the wall with his behaviour.

Today in a speech about "the lion that will roar", (wonder what he's trying to say there?) activists may cheer him and colleagues will gnash their teeth as, in a way only he can, he tickles the party's tummy.

The fuss around Boris Johnson is the symptom not the cause. The problem that is increasingly on people's minds at this grisly conference is that the Tories might be only at the start of a decline, which becomes impossible to escape.

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Jeremy Hunt concludes his speech by arguing that "quality of care matters as much as quantity of money".

He insists the Tories want "the safest, highest quality healthcare system in the world" - and the party faithful applaud.

Next year, the health secretary says, "like Prince Charles and like Lulu, the NHS will turn 70".

Party members then see a video of a health minister announcing its formation in 1944.

"[Labour's] Nye Bevan deserves credit for founding the NHS in 1948," Jeremy Hunt tells them.

"But that wasn’t him or indeed any Labour minister. That was the Conservative Health Minister in 1944, Sir Henry Willink, whose white paper announced the setting up of the NHS.

"He did it with cross-party support. And for me that’s what the NHS should always be: not a political football, not a weapon to win votes but there for all of us with support from all of us."

However, Mr Hunt gets party political again when he says: "Corbyn and McDonnell’s disastrous economic policies... would bankrupt our economy and bring our NHS to its knees."

The NHS needs to "get much better at supporting doctors and nurses when they make mistakes", Jeremy Hunt says.

"Everyone makes mistakes - but only doctors and nurses have been brave enough to choose a career where the price of those mistakes can sometimes be a tragedy."

He adds: "Unless we support staff to learn from mistakes we just condemn ourselves to repeat them. That means dismantling the NHS blame culture and replacing it with a learning culture."

Jeremy Hunt says that NHS trusts placed into special measures because of problems with the quality of care provided were often in budget deficit, whereas successful ones were in surplus.

He says this was the case "because poor care is about the most expensive care you can give".

He adds: "The staff in every trust going into special measures were exactly the same as the staff coming out... It wasn’t about the staff, it was all about the leadership."

The health secretary says "transparency" in the NHS is important, saving lives but also money.

"Last year I said we'd increase the number of doctors we train by a quarter," Jeremy Hunt tells conference.

"Today I can tell you we'll increase the number of nurses we train by 25%," the health secretary continues.

"We are backing the biggest expansion of nurse training in the history of the NHS."

He also announces that "new flexible working arrangements will be offered to all NHS employees during this Parliament".

The UK health secretary's remit covers England only, with health policy devolved in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Debra Hazeldine spoke earlier about the neglect her mother was subjected to at Mid-Stafford General Hospital in 2006.

She describes taking in food, fluid and blankets for her mother, Ellen Linstead, and how the window next to her bed was broken.

She recalls how, on one occasion, she arrived at the hospital to hear her mother screaming.

"I dropped my bag and ran. She was half on a commode and on the floor screaming in pain. She grabbed my hand and said please Deb don't let me die in here."

"I failed categorically to be able to save her and keep her safe. That's something that haunts my every waking and sleeping hours."

Her mother died of C-difficile.

Debra Hazeline set about campaigning for an inquiry into events at Mid-Stafford hospital.

An inquiry began in 2010 and concluded with a damning report in 2013.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says it was "an incredible privilege" to hear mid-Staffs campaigner Debra Hazeldine's "moving story".

Mr Hunt says the Manchester Arena bombing was an incident that reminded people "how lucky we are to have an NHS".

He thanks "all those suberb NHS staff for being there when our country needed them" who are there in personal, as well as national emergencies.

Joy Morrissey, a Conservative councillor in Ealing, west London, says Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn goes "from one fawning, Trump-style rally to another".

She says Conservatives often dare not express their views "for fear of the consequences from Big Brother Corbyn's self-righteous army".

Ms Morrissey adds: "There is only one way to defeat a bully: stand up and fight back."

There's speculation this morning that the Haltemprice and Howden MP David Davis is planning to quit his position in 2019.

Mr Davis who is currently the Brexit Secretary has been quoted in several newspapers as saying he believes Brexit will be his "last big job", and plans to "retire" in 2019.

The Press Association are reporting sources close to Mr Davis are playing down the comments.

James Pearson, vice president of the National Conservative Convention, opens Tuesday's session with condolences for all those affected by "Sunday night's horrific attack in Las Vegas".

"It was an act of despicable barbarity," Mr Pearson says.

"Our hearts go out to all those affected and to the people of Las Vegas."

He then opens the morning's session, on the theme of "fighting injustices".

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Irish Fine Gael MEP Mairead McGuiness says today's motion simply "states the obvious" that not enough progress has been made to move talks onto trade.

She says that if the situation on the island of Ireland is to remain the same, then the UK will have to remain in the single market and the customs union.

"If that is not to be, then please tell me what will replace that?" she adds.

Another Irish MEP, the independent Marian Harkin who sits in the liberal ALDE group, says that Ireland may be even worse hit than the UK "in the event of a hard Brexit".

She says that the prospect of Northern Ireland remaining in the customs union and internal market would gain the support of a majority of people in Northern Ireland.

People who repeatedly view terrorist content online will face up to 15 years in prison, the home secretary is to tell the Conservative Party conference.

Amber Rudd will set out her intention to change the law to increase the maximum penalty from 10 years.

The offence of possessing information likely to be useful to a terrorist will also apply to material viewed repeatedly or streamed online.

Currently it applies only to material that is downloaded and stored.

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