Another local councillor, Davida Ademuyiwa, is incredibly pleased by the speech.

"I am very interested in skills and he spoke so much in terms of levelling up and helping stop all the potential wasting away," she says.

"I believe in him and what he has said. He has delivered on so much already, like delivering Brexit and who knows what would have happened if we had a Labour government during this crisis.

"I care about the future of young people, and I believe he will deliver."

Jennifer Scott
Political reporter, BBC News

The vibe on the conference floor as the members flood out of the speech is upbeat and celebratory.

Words like "brilliant", "fantastic" and "great" come from the party faithful who are beaming with pride at their prime minister.

One local councillor tells me the people that used to call him "Tory scum" are now some of his biggest supporters because of Boris Johnson.

"The speech was passionate and exciting, and I'm excited about what the future holds," says Alastair Chambers.

"[Johnson] kept us going through the pandemic, the country came together, and he will help us level up."

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Reality Check

Early on in his speech, Boris Johnson said that as a result of the coronavirus vaccine roll-out we have “the fastest growth in the G7” group of big economies.

UK GDP, which is a measure of everything produced in the country, grew 4.8% between April and June, compared with the first three months of the year, and that is more than any other G7 country.

But the UK economy was hit particularly hard by the pandemic, and if you take a longer view the picture looks less rosy.

If you compare GDP between April and June 2021 with the last three months of 2019, before the pandemic hit the UK, the UK had joint-fifth best growth in the G7, equal with Germany and with only Italy doing worse.

And as we have mentioned before, there are differences in the way that different countries work out their GDP figures.

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New Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries says the PM delivered "a visionary speech".

On Politics Live she was asked if Johnson was criticising his predecessors David Cameron and Theresa May when he said "past governments dithered and delayed", Dorries says: "You'd have to ask him."

"I think we are very much in a world.... It is a new direction for a new age," she adds.

"I don't think I'm looking over my shoulder, I don't think the prime minister is - that wastes time."

Nick Eardley
Political correspondent

Spirit. This is the sort of stuff Conservative delegates love - an impassioned defence of key parts of British life.

Boris Johnson is so popular with many in his party because he makes them feel good and is overwhelmingly positive.

The final section of the speech encapsulated that - and is key to understanding Johnson's success.

Jennifer Scott
Political reporter, BBC News

The end of the speech appealed to the sports fans and gets them riled to hold aloft their signs and cheer out the boss, more like a rally than a Tory conference.

Applause continues as he walks through the crowd and they seem to have got what they wanted.

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The PM delivers a final riff on the "spirit" of the British people "that can be found in the hearts and minds of kids growing up everywhere".

He picks up his notes, gets a standing ovation from the crowd.

At just under 45 minutes it was roughly half the length of Sir Keir Starmer's speech to Labour's conference last week.

The PM steps up the rhetoric as he reaches the climax of his speech, which has gone by in near record time.

"We need the spirit of the NHS nurses and the entrepreneurs because each enables the other," he says.

He hails the England football team and the "indomitable spirit" of tennis sensation Emma Raducanu.

He says people admire the UK for its traditions, they love the groovy new architecture and the fashion and the music.

He says he was "minded to ignore" people who attack Winston Churchill as a racist.

"But as time has gone by it has become evident that this isn’t just a joke they really do want to re-write our national story," he says.

"We really are at risk of a cancel culture know-nothing iconoclasm."

He says Conservatives will defend "our history... not because we are proud of everything but because trying to edit it now is as dishonest as a celebrity trying furtively to change his entry in Wikipedia."

Nick Eardley
Political correspondent

This speech is designed to be a broad pitch to the country; what Boris Johnson wants to do as prime minister.

Levelling up is at the heart of it and the PM has talked about addressing geographical inequalities and getting better teachers into schools in disadvantaged areas. Is it enough?

I don't think many in government would argue the definition they've given is comprehensive.

This is an idea that ministers want to develop in the coming months and years.

Some will want considerably more detail on what it will involve.

The prime minister says his government will use "Brexit freedoms to do things differently".

He reels off a number of pledges including protecting grassroots fan-based football and building new free ports.

"We will fulfil our ambition of becoming a science superpower," he says citing gene editing, data management and AI.

He says Brexit also allowed the UK to sign the Aukus deal - "I know that there has been a certain raucus squawkus from the anti-Aukus caucus," he says.

But adds that Aukus is "simply a recognition of the reality that the world is tilting on its economic axis".

Sir Keir Starmer is "Captain Hindsight", says the PM, "attacking one week then rowing in behind when it seemed to be working the human weather vane, the Starmer chameleon".

It's a line of attack familiar to Prime Minister's Questions viewers, but the Tory faithful are enjoying it.

Johnson reaches for some exotic metaphors for the customary attack on the opposition.

He calls Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer a "seriously rattled bus conductor - not that they have bus conductors nowadays - pushed this way and that by a Corbynista mob of sellotape-spectacled sans-culottes or the skipper of a cruise liner that has been captured by Somali pirates".

(We're told the sans-culottes were the people of the lower classes in late 18th century France who became militants in the French revolution)

On to the environment now, with the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow just weeks away.

He launches into an anecdote about a visit to the Moray Firth, to see "an aquatic forest" of wind turbines.

He says Britain can get to net zero carbon by 2050, saying it will take "massive private sector investment" as well government action.

Nick Eardley
Political correspondent

We have a policy! The prime minister has talked about levelling up a lot in this speech - and the education announcement we've just had is inteded to put some meat on the bones.

The government will fund £3,000 premiums to get the best science and maths teachers into schools that need them.

It's the first policy of the speech so far - in a conference where beyond justice crackdowns, there hasn't been much.

"We will enable more and more young people to share the dream of home ownership," Johnson promises.

He adds that the left "privately share" that dream "but publicly disparage".

He also says his party is protecting the countryside by planting more trees and re-wilding.

"Otters are returning to rivers from which they have been absent for decades, beavers that have not been seen on some rivers since Tudor times are now back.

"Build back beaver," he says.

Boris Johnson loves announcing infrastructure projects - and he is in his element here as he trumpets new road schemes and Northern Powerhouse Rail.

"Transport is one of the great leveller-uppers," he says.

Johnson says his government is also investing in skills.

He says UK universities are “one of the great glories of our economies” but adds that some of the best people didn’t go to university.

“You need urgently to plug all the other gaps in infrastructure that are still holding so many people and communities back”.

This includes broadband which he says his government is improving across the country.

"When I became leader of this party there were only 7% of households that had gigabit broadband and by the new year that will be up to 68 per cent."