Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

We know how much the government loves a three word slogan.

A team dominated by veterans of the Vote Leave campaign, with its eye catching pledge to "Take Back Control," then gave us "Get Brexit Done" during the election campaign.

Since then, other triplicates, sometimes extending beyond three words: "Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save lives".

Oh, and "Hands. Face. Space."

Now another one to get used to, complete with alliteration: "Build Back Better."

We'll hear it a lot.

The aim: a sense of optimistic defiance about the future, which acknowledges the difficulties many people are facing now.

Extending the medical metaphor, the PM says the pre-Covid British economy also had “chronic underlying problems" such as a lack of skills and transport infrastructure.

He says he aims to "do better" than simply "going back" to the state of play in 2019.

He says delivering "great public services" will form the "bedrock" of his plans to improve economic productivity in the years to come.

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

In typical conference season style, the speech begins with thanks to the party's activists.

In typical Boris Johnson style, the phraseology is colourful.

Leaflets weren't just posted through letterboxes in the election campaign, but "into the jaws of dogs."

Touching elbows, the replacement for handshakes, is, he says, like the "birdie dance."

Quoting the band M People while telling the country he was too fat when he got the virus.

Johnsonian rhetoric, but without the usual conference pyrotechnics: a packed hall and rapturous applause.

Instead, a TV studio in east London.

Boris Johnson says reports that his fight with Covid-19 had left him "robbed off my mojo" are "nonsense" - and "no power on earth" will stop him trying to deliver his party's commitments.

He says he had a "common underlying condition" that he was "too fat" - but he has since lost weight.

Boris Johnson begins his speech by thanking members for campaigning during the last election "to save this country from socialism".

He moves straight on to coronavirus saying he has had more than enough of this disease which attacks human beings but also the best things about our country - pubs, sport, theatres pubs and "the gossipy gregariousness and love of human contact"

"Your government is working night and day to repel this virus," he says.

"We will succeed by collective efforts.

But he adds: "We have been through too much frustration to just settle for the status quo."

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Boris Johnson has taken to the podium and is starting his speech.

The podium is in place, the PM's catchphrase "Build Back Better" is on display.

And we're poised to bring you Boris Johnson's conference speech in full ... do stay with us...

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

Normally at this moment, a few minutes before the Prime Minister's Conference speech, the hall would be packed.

There would be expectant, excitable chat among party activists, crammed in, waiting for the big moment.

After several days in each other's company, curry would have been eaten, wine would have been swigged...and by now suitcases would have been packed. Those handful of days in a political bubble in Birmingham - that's where this conference was meant to be - coming to an end.

Instead, I'm at my desk in Westminster.

And the Prime Minister's limbering up in a makeshift studio, where he'll soon address a camera and hardly anyone else...his audience instead watching on the telly, their laptop or their phone.

No standing ovations, no whoops of tribal delight, but something rather different.

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Boris Johnson's speech this morning comes during the final day of the Conservatives' annual conference, which began on Saturday.

Like the other political parties, this traditional jamboree for the party faithful, which had been due to take place at a conference centre in Birmingham, has largely moved online due to Covid-19.

The official slogan for this year's event is "Build back better" - a theme we are sure to hear more of during the PM's speech in around ten minutes.

The party has sought to replicate the usual fare of speeches, policy panels and fringe events for party members - but without an audience as would normally be the case.

You can read more about this year's online party conference season here.

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Boris Johnson has insisted his "levelling-up" agenda to spread investment in the country has not been shelved as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

But the health crisis has had an impact on public finances and could limit what the government can do.

Our reporter Gavin Stamp has been looking at whether the prime minister can still deliver on his promise to address regional inequalities.

You can read his piece here.

And here is Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven reacting to Boris Johnson's wind farm investment: "The prime minister's recognition that last year's Tory manifesto commitment on offshore wind can generate jobs whilst cutting energy bills and carbon is a great lightbulb moment.

"If carried through it would help cement the UK's global leadership in this key technology.

"But delivering 40 GWs of power on to the grid by 2030 requires action in this Parliament."

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There has been some reaction this morning to Boris Johnson's wind farm announcement.

Labour's shadow energy secretary Ed Miliband focused on the PM's pledge to spend £160m to build more wind turbines.

Mr Miliband said: "The funding announced today spread over ten years is a drop in the ocean, and pales in comparison to the investment by France and Germany in green jobs.

"The Government must urgently bring forward a genuinely ambitious green recovery that will create jobs now on the scale needed to meet the challenge of the climate emergency and unemployment crisis."

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One thing we do know Boris Johnson will mention in his speech is his plan to invest in offshore energy.

A £160m investment for building wind turbines could, he will say, create 2,000 jobs in construction and support 60,000 more.

He is also expected to tell the virtual audience the government will commit to produce enough energy from wind farms, to power every home in the UK by 2030.

You can read more about the announcement here.

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Mr Johnson won't be able to harness the energy of an audience for his speech today.

Due to coronavirus, this year's conference season has been staged behind closed doors, with the key speeches and events streamed online.

But the PM will hope his speech can lift people's view beyond the current atmosphere of coronavirus, and try to present he has big plans and a clear focus for the future.

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Hello and welcome to the Politics live page.

We're here to take you through Boris Johnson's speech to the Conservative party's annual conference - which is being held online.

The PM is due to start speaking at 11:30 BST.

We'll bring you all the details live, with analysis from our political correspondent Chris Mason.