Boris Johnson: It is our mission as Tories to promote opportunity

Promoting opportunity across the UK is "our mission as Conservatives," Boris Johnson has told his party conference.

In his leader's speech, the PM said fixing the "broken housing market" and boosting infrastructure would help "level up" the economy.

And he vowed to deliver a "long overdue" change in approach by controlling immigration to boost wages.

The 45-minute conference address was his first directly to Tory members since the Covid pandemic.

He insisted that current supply chain issues and labour shortages were the result of an economic rebound in the wake of Covid shutdowns.

And he said a "new direction" on immigration would deliver on the Brexit referendum and represent the "change that people voted for".