Theresa May pledges end to austerity in Tory conference speech
PM makes several policy pledges in effort to show Brexit has not blown her off course
Theresa May has made a bold pledge to bring a decade of austerity to a close, as she appealed to the public over the heads of her squabbling party to back her to deliver a Brexit deal.
Speaking in Birmingham on Wednesday at the end of the Conservatives' annual conference, which was marred by repeated clashes over Europe, May cast aside the chancellor's concerns about the health of the country's finances and signalled Brexit would mark an end to public spending cuts.
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Lifting the cap on local authorities borrowing to build new council homes.
Setting new targets for early cancer detection as part of a new "cancer strategy".
Freezing fuel duty for the ninth consecutive year.
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