Early evening summary
Overseas nationals denied benefits under a Conservative plan to limit social security to UK citizens would have the option to return to their own countries, the shadow chancellor, Mel Stride, has said. Stride was speaking as he unveiled details of plans to cut public spending by £47bn (see 7.59am, 8.09am and 12.36pm.) Most of the money would be used for deficit reduction, but Stride also announced plans for a £4bn tax cut for business, a £2.8bn tax cut for young people and plans to cut household energy bills by £165 on average every year. (See 11.27am.)
For a full list of all the stories covered on the blog today, do scroll through the list of key event headlines near the top of the blog.
James Cleverly, the shadow housing secretary, attacked Sadiq Khan’s housing record as London mayor in his speech to the conference this afternoon.
Since 2010, Conservatives have delivered 2.5m homes – a million of those in the last parliament alone.
Last year in the south-east of England, and the east of England, Conservative-run regions, about 2.5 new homes were built per thousand people.
In London, run by Labour for the best part of a decade, 0.5 homes per thousand.
And so, what do those figures mean, for real people, for ordinary hard-working Londoners?
In 1980, the average London home cost £25,000, and that was about four times the average national salary.
Today, the average London house costs over £500,000.
And that is fifteen times the average salary.
That is Sadiq Khan’s record of failure.
We should not, and we cannot, and we must not accept it.
There is speculation that Cleverly may put himself forward as the Tory candidate for London mayor at the next election, in 2028.
Updated
