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🔴The Conservative Party conference will kick up a gear today, as the Chancellor addresses delegates in Manchester.

Yesterday saw Boris Johnson wow the crowds at various fringes.

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🇬🇧Lord Frost will today issue a threat to the EU that the UK is prepared to trigger Article 16 unless the bloc agrees to replace the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol, it is understood

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🔴Pig farmers are protesting the Conservative Party conference today, with the chief executive of the National Pig Association saying she was "disgusted" by Boris Johnson's comments yesterday.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿In an outspoken speech to the Scottish reception at the Conservative Party conference, Boris Johnson suggested that the First Minister was losing her popularity after a series of debacles

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Boris Johnson has shrugged off concerns over rising inflation, tax rises and the Universal Credit cut.

"What you're seeing in the UK at the moment, and over the last year or so, you've seen for the first time in more than a decade... increases in wages"
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🏘️Michael Gove has suggested he will change the way developers are incentivised to build social housing in a bid to address the "scandalous" conditions that some people live in
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Rishi Sunak has opened the door to council tax rises to pay for social care, and failed to rule out an income tax rise, ahead of his speech to the Conservative Party conference today.

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Rishi Sunak has hailed his first party conference, telling delegates the pandemic was a "daunting" phase as the newly-promoted Chancellor.

He begins by saying building up debts for future generations "is not just irresponsible, it is immoral", he says
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Rishi Sunak emphasises the "very deep" differences between the Conservatives and Labour - and not just on taxes.

The Chancellor says: "Right now we are facing challenges to our supply chains... and we are determined to tackle them head on"

Sunak has said the "economy cannot be what we need it to be without the courage, creativity and sheer force of will that each new generation brings".

He highlights that one in three people under the age of 25 were furloughed, which led to the creation of the Kickstart Scheme

Rishi Sunak: I put principles first when I backed Brexit

"That’s because despite the challenges, in the long term I believed the agility, flexibility and freedom provided by Brexit would be more valuable in a 21st century global economy"
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Rishi Sunak has announced the creation of 2,000 "elite AI scholarships" for disadvantaged young people as he looks to tap into opportunities provided by emerging technology.

He also announced he will double the number of Turing AI research fellows

Sunak takes potshot at Labour divisions.

The Chancellor told the Conservative Party conference that divisions are formed "when people get scared", but you cannot make progress "if you’re pitting people against each other

"We saw it last week in Brighton"
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🔴The EU must change its stance on renegotiating the Northern Ireland protocol in the "next couple of weeks or so", or risk the UK triggering Article 16, the Brexit minister warned

➡️Lord Frost called for "short, intensive" talks to thrash out a solution
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📣Choppers Politics podcast is being broadcast live from the 2021 Conservative Party conference.

The Telegraph’s Chief Political Correspondent, @christopherhope is joined by Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries in front of a live audience.

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🔴 There remains unease in the Conservative party over who is taking the blame for the hike in National Insurance contributions.

"There is a sense that Rishi has gone native and Boris is the one who has ended up taking the flak for it"
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🔴The Government has abandoned Conservatism, a senior Tory MP has said, telling the party conference: "We're all socialists now"

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🇨🇳HSBC bosses are sacrificing democracy to ingratiate themselves with the Chinese Communist Party by backing a crackdown on freedom in Hong Kong, the City grandee Dame Helena Morrissey has said

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