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A Conservative member of the London Assembly was escorted out of the Tory party conference after he appeared to heckle Suella Braverman’s speech on Tuesday, 3 October.Andrew Boff was led away by police after declaring “there’s no such thing as gender ideology” while the home secretary was speaking about “those who fail to conform” are “chased out of their jobs for saying that a man can’t be a woman” when “the left gets the upper hand.”Ms Braverman continued with her speech after Mr Boff was led away. More

Liz Truss was questioned by reporters upon her arrival at the Conservative Party conference, with one asking if she was attending to “cause trouble”.The former prime minister delivered a speech at the event on Monday 2 October.As she made her way inside the building, someone was heard shouting: “Didn’t your plan for growth fail Ms Truss? Are you just here to cause trouble?”The same voice then asks her: “Is Rishi Sunak getting it wrong?”During Monday’s speech, Ms Truss bizarrely claimed that we “need more GB News” as she defended the channel. More

Anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray was ejected from a Conservative Party Conference event on Monday 2 October, footage shows.Mr Bray – known for his daily protests outside Westminster – was removed from a meeting hosted by the Bruges Group think tank on the fringe of the event in Manchester.“Where’s your Brexit benefits?” he was heard asking as other members of the audience manhandled him.“What a load of bulls***, I’ve never heard so much crap in my life. Brexit is a disaster,” Mr Bray added, as he was being removed from the room. More

Liz Truss bizarrely claimed that “we need more GB News” as she opened her speech at Tory conference.The former prime minister addressed Conservative Party members in Manchester on Monday 2 October, backing the news channel less than a week after Laurence Fox and presenter Dan Wootton were suspended after Fox made a series of remarks about political correspondent Ava Evans.“In my view, we need more economic journalism, and we need more GB News,” Ms Truss said.“Challenging the orthodoxy, broadcasting common sense and transforming our media landscape. So long may it continue.” More

Rishi Sunak blamed the Covid pandemic for Britain’s failing railways as he refused multiple times to rule out scrapping HS2’s northern leg in a series of excruciating interviews.During a round of interviews with local BBC radio hosts, the prime minister said running train services has been “very difficult” because the pandemic made people “stop travelling on the rail network”.“There have obviously been challenges on the rail network more generally, and it’s across the country because of the pandemic,” Mr Sunak said when grilled by BBC York’s Joanita Musisi over why he has “failed the North’s rail passengers so badly”.“It was bad before the pandemic, prime minister,” the presenter replied. More

Suella Braverman used a speech in the US to say that “simply being gay, or a woman” should not by itself be enough to gain protection under international refugee laws.The home secretary told the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC: “Let me be clear, there are vast swathes of the world where it is extremely difficult to be gay, or to be a woman. Where individuals are being persecuted, it is right that we offer sanctuary.”She added: “But we will not be able to sustain an asylum system if in effect simply being gay, or a woman, and fearful of discrimination in your country of origin is sufficient to qualify for protection.” More

Tim Farron was booed by audience members at the Lib Dem conference during a heated debate over housing.The row centres around the party replacing its pledge to build 380,000 new homes a year with a new social housing commitment.In his speech, the former Lib Dem leader criticised what he called “vague” housing targets, arguing that they benefit housing developers rather than people trying to get on to the housing ladder. As he called the amendment to the party’s housing pledge “pure Thatcherism”, he was met with a chorus of boos from members of his own party. More

Andy Burnham has urged Rishi Sunak to avoid scrapping HS2, warning that the decision would leave the north of England with “Victorian infrastructure”.Speaking on Monday morning (25 September), the mayor of Greater Manchester questioned why those living in the region are treated as “second-class citizens”.“We need new north-south rail lines and we need new east-west rail lines, London has never been forced to choose between those two things,” Mr Burnham said.“London gets everything. Why should we always be forced to choose? Why should the public here always be treated as second-class citizens?” More