Proud you make our girls in me every single day. Every single day. Conference. Thank you for letting me gatecrash to tell you, to tell you a little bit more about the rishi that i know and the rishi that i hope most people will come to understand. People will come to understand. Now. It gives me the greatest pleasure to introduce you to a wonderful, wonderful father , my wonderful, wonderful father, my best friend and your Prime Minister, rishi sunak. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Conference. Thank thank you. Conference. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, you. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Thank you. Thank you for that introduction. And thank you for always being there for me. My wife, truly the best long term decision for a Brighter Future i ever made. Ive been future i ever made. Ive been blessed in my life. I have a wonderful wife and two daughters who make me proud every single day. And i was also lucky enough to grow up in the most loving of homes
Brighter with a few showers and it is still going to be worn this weekend. Its wednesday the 4th of october. After weeks of speculation, the Prime Minister is expected to use his leaders speech at the conservative Party Conference to confirm that hes scrapping the second leg of h52 from birmingham to manchester. Labours andy burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, accused the government of treating people in the north as Second Class Citizens, while the West Midlands mayor andy street, a conservative, was said to be distraught. Our Political Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports from the conference in manchester. Pushing his way through the late night conference crowds, rishi sunak, relaxed and smiling. He has, it seems, made his mind up. Its the end of h52 to manchester. This was what the pm was saying 2a hours ago. What i want to do is make the right decision for the country. This is an enormous amount of peoples money, taxpayers money, everybody watching, billions and billions
For a brighterfuture. Will you announce your decision tomorrow on hs2 . I know theres a lot of speculation on this, but what i can say is im going to approach this the same way, i approach everything thoughtfully, carefully across the detail and making what i believe is the right decision in the long term for our country. Thats what i did recently on net zero. Thats how i approach all decisions because thats the change i want to bring. I think for too long politicians have just taken the easy way out, focused on the short term. I want to do things differently and i think if we can change politics, thats how were going to change our country. And thats the type of leadership that i want to bring. Youve said that government after government has taken decisions that no one seems to be happy with. Whats been going wrong, in your view . Well, i think net zero is a great example of this. I think a consensus had built up that we were just on this path and no one had stopped to think, hang on,
Probably a fair summary. Disagree with it. I think that is| probably a fair summary. What disagree with it. I think that is probably a fair summary. What the Justice Secretary is going to announce in the next few minutes, it has been trailed overnight, is that people who kill their partners will lose their parental rights on arrest. The idea being that too often when there is a situation of Domestic Violence or domestic killing that you still have access to children despite the pain and suffering that can cause. That is something the justice suffering that can cause. That is something theJustice Secretary has promised to look at for a while and will announce further moves on over the next 20 minutes. He has also got an announcement coming on strengthening whole Life Sentences to mean that people going through the justice process at the moment who are sentenced to whole Life Sentences will face tougher punishments already being introduced by the government. That is the thing the governm