Reality Check

Boris Johnson has told his party conference that delaying Brexit beyond 31 October would cost £1bn a month.

The problem with this figure is that if there is a Brexit deal, as Mr Johnson says he wants, it will include payments to the EU, currently expected to be about £33bn.

That figure includes budget contributions until the end of a transition period.

So unless there is no deal, contributions to the EU budget will have to be made anyway.

The figure also ignores money coming back to the UK - you can read more about it here.

Boris Johnson tells the Conservative conference his proposals on Northern Ireland represent a compromise by the UK and, in response, the EU must compromise as well.

If the EU is unable to do that, he insists that the UK is ready and willing to leave on 31 October without an agreement.

"Let us be in no doubt that the alternative is no deal. That is not an outcome we want. It is not an outcome we seek at all."

"But let me tell you this conference it is an outcome for which we are ready”.

He asks the crowd whether they agree with him and, unsurprisingly, the audience applauds.

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Meanwhile in the Commons, Tory MP Zac Goldsmith is making his debut at the despatch box - answering questions from MPs as an international development minister.

At mid-day, it will then be the turn of Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to stand in for Boris Johnson at PMQs, with shadow home secretary Diane Abbott asking the questions for Labour.

Moving onto the detail of his Brexit proposal, Boris Johnson insists in his conference speech that there will be no customs checks "at or near the border in Northern Ireland".

He says the peace process and Good Friday agreement will be honoured.

Furthermore, the existing regulatory arrangements for farmers and other businesses on both sides of the border will be protected, he adds, underpinned "by a process of renewable democratic consent by the executive and assembly of Northern Ireland".

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Labour MP Jess Phillips does not think much of the leaks of Boris Johnson's "final" offer to the EU.

She said: "This is a game to Boris Johnson. He wants the European Union to turn it down so that he has got a whipping boy. I am totally sick of it. I wish Boris Johnson would stop pretending and just be honest.

"He wants a no deal. The end.”

After a brief political attack on Labour and some of its policies, the PM starts elaborating on the new Brexit offer he is making.

He says his plan is "reasonable and constructive" and will enable the whole of the UK to leave the bloc as one and protect its integrity.

"We love Europe. We are European but after 45 years of really dramatic constitutional change we must have a new relationship with the EU a positive and confident partnership- and we can do it," says the prime minister.

The European Commission has said it expects to receive the text on Boris Johnson's Irish border proposals this afternoon, and will examine it "objectively, and in light of our well-known criteria".

A spokeswoman added that Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will speak on the phone to Boris Johnson and "technical talks" with his Brexit adviser David Frost will take place this afternoon as well.

Any alternative plan to the Irish backstop must be "legally operational" and meet all the objectives of the existing backstop plan, she added.

The PM says his government "will work for a deal with our EU friends; but whatever happens we must come out by the end of October".

Mr Johnson makes a joke about 'I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here', saying voters have less choice about who they want to run the country than evict from the jungle.

"Just at the moment when voters are desperate for us to focus on their priorities, we are continuing to chew the supermasticated subject of Brexit when what people want what leavers want, what remainers want, what the whole world wants – is to be calmly and sensibly done with the subject, and to move on."

Mr Johnson says the country is in good economic shape but sometimes the UK feels like a "world class athlete with a pebble in its shoe".

The pebble, he claims, is the deadlock over Brexit.

He goes on to blame Parliament for the paralysis, saying if it is was a school it would be "shut down or put in special measures".

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There's a big cheer as Boris Johnson arrives on the conference podium. He says it has been the best attended conference for years.

He says the Conservatives should not be "abashed or downcast" about any abuse they get because their job is to serve the public.

He starts with a short tribute to his predecessor Theresa May, saying he will build on her legacy, particularly in the areas of modern slavery and domestic violence.

He also praises the former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson.

The Welsh secretary claims the party is "flirting" with nationalism and ignoring Welsh Leave voters.

The PM addresses his party conference in Manchester before submitting the new proposals to Brussels.

Members of Boris Johnson's cabinet have taken their places ahead of the speech - with Sajid Javid and Priti Patel in prominent positions.

We don't know yet how long the speech will be.

The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg says she understands the PM was still working on it until about an hour ago. Given Mr Johnson's political style, she says many people will not be "surprised" he has left it to the last minute.

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Boris Johnson has arrived at the conference hall in Manchester ahead of his big speech.

His partner Carrie Symonds arrived separately.

Apparently the prime minister is expected to deliver his conference speech from notes - he hasn't memorised it like David Cameron famously did on several occasions.

He won't have an autocue to help him out but he will have a lectern.

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The prime minister says there are "grounds for optimism" a Brexit deal can be reached.

The shadow home secretary will face Dominic Raab at mid-day, with the PM in Manchester at the Tory conference.