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The chancellor insists the cabinet is agreed on a Brexit transition of "around two years", despite talk of splits.

Before his conference speech, Philip Hammond visited a new housing estate in Walkden, Greater Manchester, with Prime Minister Theresa May and Communities Secretary Sajid Javid.

The government has pledged an extra £10bn for the Help to Buy scheme to let another 135,000 people get on the property ladder.

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Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon tells the Daily Politics that Philip Hammond was "right to alert people to the dangers" of Labour policies.

But the chancellor also reassured voters that the Conservatives were listening to their concerns, Mr Fallon adds.

Peter Henley
Political editor, South of England

Boris Johnson recently enjoyed a cycling holiday in the Highlands of Scotland with his family – and four unexpected guests.

The foreign secretary was taken by surprise when twice the number of tickets than expected landed on his doormat, sources say.

Despite his protestations, the Johnson family were followed everywhere by his security detail on their own bikes, apparently.

There was a standing ovation for Philip Hammond at the end of the chancellor's speech.

The biggest economic challenge facing the Chancellor is, of course, Brexit. During his speech Mr Hammond said people voted to "take back control" but they didn't vote to "get poorer".

He says the British people have "chosen independence over integration" and that independence must be used in the UK's best interests.

He sounds a warning note, stressing that the UK must pick its way "carefully and cautiously" across the difficult terrain of EU negotiation "to ensure we arrive in good order".

To push the point home, he calls Brexit "one of the most challenging tasks ever undertaken by a peacetime government in this country".

But he reckons that with focus, determination and unity it will be possible to deliver a Brexit that "works for Britain".

Boris Johnson has commented after at least 50 people were killed and another 200 wounded in a mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert.

Philip Hammond says Labour has "abandoned the centre ground" so the Conservatives will be the party to "embrace the future" while Labour "embraced the past".

And he makes "a clear commitment to the next generation that they will be better off than us". It is a remark that wins enthusiastic applause and Theresa May nods her head in agreement.

Mr Hammond says that with Jeremy Corbyn abandoning the aspirations of "ordinary working people" if fell to "this great party" to stand up for the "hardworking decent people of this country".

The chancellor turns his attention to the Labour party of 2017, turning his fire on the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

He says that at Labour's conference in Brighton last week the party had been exposed as a "clique of hard-left extremist infiltrators". He calls them people who "despise Britain's values".

"We will defeat them," he declares "with the power of argument. We will not resort to the politics of the mob".