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Boris Johnson gets the crowds for conference speech Crowds pack in to hear Boris Johnson set out his Tory vision
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Ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson is delivering a wide-ranging speech at the Tory conference, urging the party not to "ape" Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Crowds have packed into a speech by former foreign secretary Boris Johnson at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
Having resigned from government in July, Mr Johnson's appearance is limited to one day at a fringe event. Mr Johnson - one of the leading critics of Theresa May's Brexit plan - said he wanted to "put some lead in the collective pencil" and end a "seeping away of our self-belief".
He will touch on housebuilding, law and order and tax cuts - areas for which he never had ministerial responsibility. Long queues formed outside the event more than an hour before he began.
More than an hour before his speech, there were large queues to get into the hall he was speaking at in Birmingham. He began with a self-deprecating joke about the chancellor's Brexit warnings.
Party chairman Brandon Lewis brushed off claims Mr Johnson's alternative agenda sought to undermine Theresa May. Philip Hammond's prediction that Mr Johnson would never be prime minister, he said, could be "the only Treasury forecast in some time to have a distinct ring of truth".
Mr Johnson also called for an increase in house-building, describing it as an "open goal" for the Tories.
He also spoke up for police use of stop-and-search and said the Conservatives should rule out tax rises.
Earlier party chairman Brandon Lewis brushed off claims Mr Johnson's alternative agenda sought to undermine Theresa May.
"It's always dangerous getting into hypotheticals about what people may or may not say in the future, even if it's just later on today," he said."It's always dangerous getting into hypotheticals about what people may or may not say in the future, even if it's just later on today," he said.
Mr Johnson has been a vocal critic of the prime minister's Brexit plan since leaving the Cabinet, calling it "a moral and intellectual humiliation" when setting out an alternative last week.Mr Johnson has been a vocal critic of the prime minister's Brexit plan since leaving the Cabinet, calling it "a moral and intellectual humiliation" when setting out an alternative last week.
Ahead of his conference appearance, he was pictured out jogging, in what some interpreted as a "parody" of Mrs May's claim that the "naughtiest" thing she did as a child was to run through a field of wheat.Ahead of his conference appearance, he was pictured out jogging, in what some interpreted as a "parody" of Mrs May's claim that the "naughtiest" thing she did as a child was to run through a field of wheat.
When asked before the fringe event how she had been getting on with Mr Johnson, the prime minister laughed and told BBC One's Breakfast: "Well, I'm sure that's going to be a very lively event."When asked before the fringe event how she had been getting on with Mr Johnson, the prime minister laughed and told BBC One's Breakfast: "Well, I'm sure that's going to be a very lively event."
Questioned again later on BBC Radio 4's Today about how she felt that her former colleague appeared to be mocking her, she replied: "What I feel is that I, and this government, and this party, are getting on with the important job... of getting a good deal for the United Kingdom when we leave the European Union."Questioned again later on BBC Radio 4's Today about how she felt that her former colleague appeared to be mocking her, she replied: "What I feel is that I, and this government, and this party, are getting on with the important job... of getting a good deal for the United Kingdom when we leave the European Union."
Mr Johnson will use his lunchtime speech to activists at a fringe event organised by the Conservative Home website to urge the party to take "basic conservative ideas and fit them to the problems of today".
During the conference, some Labour MPs have accused the Conservatives of "copying" policies, such as a plan to ban employers, including restaurants, from making deductions from staff tips.
Mr Johnson will say: "We must on no account follow Corbyn, and start to treat capitalism as a kind of boo word."
Referring to the Labour leader's conference speech last week, he will add: "It was astonishing that he (Corbyn) had absolutely nothing to say about the wealth creating sector of the economy - the people who get up at the crack of dawn to prepare their shops, the grafters and the grifters, the innovators, the entrepreneurs - he didn't mention any successes."
Mr Johnson's attitude towards business - he was reported to have used the f-word in response to their Brexit concerns - was criticised by Sir Digby Jones, former boss of lobby group the CBI, at the weekend.Mr Johnson's attitude towards business - he was reported to have used the f-word in response to their Brexit concerns - was criticised by Sir Digby Jones, former boss of lobby group the CBI, at the weekend.