Braverman suggests support for immigration is a ‘luxury belief’ and claims ‘hurricane’ of mass migration is coming – as it happened

Suella Braverman. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

6.18pm BST

Early evening summary

• Suella Braverman, the home secretary, has given a speech denouncing liberalism, support for immigration and opposition to Brexit as “luxury beliefs”. (See 3.51pm.) She was heckled by Andrew Boff, a Conservative member of the London assembly, who was thrown out of the conference in response. He said her speech was homophobic and ridiculous. (See 5.11pm.)

• Rishi Sunak has hinted that Nigel Farage could potentially be welcomed back into the “broad church” of the Conservative party – only for the former Ukip leader to say he was not interested. Asked if he would like to see Farage back in the party, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former business secretary, replied:

A resounding yes. Actually he should be in the House of Lords. The problem is if he became an MP I think any leader of the party might be looking quite nervously behind his back.

• Transgender hospital patients in England could be banned from being treated in female- and male-only wards, under plans announced by Steve Barclay, the health secretary.

• Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, has announced the government is considering plans to rent prison spaces from foreign countries as a solution to overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales. (See 5.39pm.) In response, his Labour shadow, Shabana Mahmood, said:

There’s no greater symbol of the way in which the Tories have run our criminal justice system into the ground, than the fact they are ‘exploring’ putting prisoners in foreign jails because they are incapable of building the prisons places this country needs to keep our people safe.

• Lobbyists from TikTok, Amazon and gambling and crypto companies paid £3,000 a head to sit with ministers as part of the Conservative party’s business day, where Rishi Sunak set out his pitch to stop big corporates being wooed by Labour.

Updated at 6.48pm BST

6.02pm BST

The Conservative MP Peter Aldous has voiced his disdain for rhetoric used by Suella Braverman and Claire Coutinho about net zero targets. The home secretary referred to environmentalists as holding “luxury beliefs”, while the secretary for energy security and net zero referred to eco campaigners as “zealots”.

Aldous, who represents Waveney in Suffolk, said:

My constituents in the east of England are a coastal community at the forefront of climate change and also actually see net zero in a positive light, as an opportunity to bring great jobs to the area and to have sustainable economic development. I wouldn’t describe them as holding luxury beliefs, or as zealots.

Updated at 6.50pm BST