5 Oct 2023

UK: Tory conference, HS2 scrapped, Braverman irks

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 5 October 2023
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (L) and Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman attend a meeting with local community and police leaders following the announcement of a new police task force to help officers tackle grooming gangs, in Rochdale, northern England on April 3, 2023. (Photo by PHIL NOBLE / POOL / AFP)

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Interior Minister Suella Braverman. Photo: AFP / Phil Noble

UK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Kathryn to talk about the Conservative Party conference that is being held in Manchester, where Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivered an hour-long address outlining his plans for the Tories.

He confirmed the HS2 link - high speed rail between Birmingham and Manchester would be ditched - saying it was due to huge costs and long delays.

Meanwhile Home Secretary Suella Braverman's comments that UK child grooming gangs were "almost all British-Pakistani men" has been ruled misleading by the press regulator.

She's continued to warn of a "hurricane" of mass migration - comments that will anger her colleagues.

Matt Dathan is Home Affairs Editor at The Times