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I was in my father's house to believe in
democracy trust the people we are the
masters of our faith that the task we
can each set us it's not above our
strength that it's pains and toils are
not beyond our endurance as long as we
have faith in our course and an
uncomfortable willpower salvation will
not be denied us it's a proud thing to
be given the office of Prime Minister
but as for courage character I know the
British people have these in full
measure Britain
has been great is great and will stay
great provided we close our eggs and get
on with the job
I have only one thing to say u-turn if
you want to
the lady's not for turning I will not
change just to court popularity I am
happy that my successor will carry on
the excellent policies that in fact have
finished with the decline of socialism
and have great prosperity to this
country which are raised witness
standing in the world and in fact have
brought about your truly capital owning
democracy
I believe that when our children and our
grandchildren look back on this
turbulent century now look at those
years from 1979 onwards and they'll say
these years changed the face of our
nation and they changed the fate of our
nation and they changed them both for
the better we campaigned for hope not
fear we campaign for change not more of
the same and I am very proud this will
be a new modern conservative party in
Parliament us is a great country our
future is in our hands together let's
seize it together let's build a better
Britain
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ladies and gentlemen please welcome the
chairman of the Conservative Party
Brandon Lewis
[Applause]
thank you
good morning and this morning marks the
culmination of a contest who has shown
the very best of our party our values
our ideas our people and our
organization a party that is
fundamentally strong and united in its
common purpose to deliver for Prosperity
opportunity fairness and security for
everyone in our United Kingdom
I've been hugely proud as chairman of
everyone in our party throughout this
election the voluntary the parliamentary
and professional party working together
to deliver a fair and efficient election
we've held hustings in 16 towns and
cities right across the United Kingdom
in every region and in every nation our
candidates have covered some 3,000 miles
taking over 400 questions and answered
hours and hours worth of questions in
interviews culminating in that fantastic
event at the excel just last Wednesday
and we have welcomed thousands of our
party members and friends and family to
hear directly from our candidates and in
a first for a political party we held an
online live hustings open to everyone in
our country and indeed beyond I want to
pay tribute to the team at CC HQ in
particular for running both the
membership ballot and these fantastic
hustings and I also want to thank my
parliamentary colleagues for their
support through that process in
particular the members of the 1922
committee brilliantly led by Charles
Walker and day Michelle Gilliam who have
been of attorney officers throughout
this process and have given us such an
efficient professional and effective
start and run through this process and
to all of the members of the
Conservative Party Thank You those
members our friends our family and our
colleagues have undertaken a solemn duty
in choosing our next leader who will be
this country's next prime minister they
have engaged constructively thoughtfully
and positively in the process a chance
to choose our leader is a privilege and
I believe our party has risen to that
task but finally I want to take this
opportunity to say a thank you to our
current Prime
Tereza may her leadership of our party
in our country over the last three years
something that was never going to be an
easy task and it is now paramount that
we come together that we unite as a
party for our country to deliver in the
national interest to get behind our new
leader and our next prime minister to
deliver on the result of the referendum
and to deliver for the whole of the
United Kingdom and we are a party that
does that best when we are united and
that's a party will be led by one of our
two fantastic candidates that we've seen
out on the roads over the last few weeks
ladies and gentlemen please welcome
Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson
a lazy gentleman to announce the results
of the leadership election please
welcome our attorney officers named Cho
Gilliam and Charles Walker
[Applause]
well Thank You Brandon can I thank you
and your team that conserved a central
office for doing a fantastic job it's
been a team effort and shown the
conservative family at its best and if I
could make one plea as a backbencher can
we be kinder to the next prime minister
than we've been to the current Prime
Minister
[Applause]
so without further delay I'm going to
hand you over to the wonderful co-chair
of the 1922 committee Dame Cheryl
thank you very much Charles on the 24th
of May the Prime Minister the right
honourable Theresa May announced that
she would be standing down as leader of
our party on the 7th of June and over
the past 46 days
the 1922 committee organized five
ballots of members of Poland and then
worked with the party chairman and the
electoral reform services to present the
final two candidates so all qualifying
members of the conservative and unionist
party could vote for our new leader I
want to echo Charles's thanks to Brandon
and in particular to the party board and
the party staff for all their sterling
work on the hustings and also the ers
who have conducted a very professional
operation collecting and Counting the
votes from home and abroad and also the
1922 Executive especially my co-chairman
Charles Walker with him it has been a
pleasure to work and at least we have
brought equality to the top of the 1922
committee
gender balance is important and the
offices of the 1922 committee Sir
Geoffrey Clifton Brown Bob Blackman and
Nigel Evans all together here today and
our own parliamentary staff who have
given up their spare time to help
conduct what I believe has been a very
successful election finally I would like
to thank all those party members who
voted and those who stood in the
election and particularly my colleagues
Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson who
despite the challenges of a contest run
in the glare of Press comment and public
scrutiny I believe have emerged as
worthy candidates for the position of
leader
now I think you've all been waiting long
enough but in in the honored tradition
I'm going to ask my beautiful assistant
to handle hand me the envelope for the
announcement it's called teamwork I Dane
Cheryl Gillan the joint returning
officer for the conservative and
unionist party leadership election
declare that the total number of
eligible electors was one hundred and
fifty nine thousand three hundred and
twenty the turnout in the election was
eighty seven point four percent the
total number of ballot papers rejected
was five hundred and nine and the total
number of votes given to each candidate
was as follows Jeremy Hunt 46,656 Boris
Johnson 92153 and therefore I give
notice that Boris Johnson is elected as
the leader of the conservative
[Applause]
thank you very much
well thank you very much good morning
everybody thank you
[Applause]
Thank You Carol
thank you so much thank you sir thank
you Charles thank you very much Brandon
for a fantastic that deafening well
organized campaign I think it did a lot
of credit as as Brandon has just said to
our party to our values and to I our
ideals but I want to begin by thanking
my opponent Jeremy
by common consent an absolutely
formidable campaigner and a great leader
and a great prodigy Jeremy in the course
of twenty hussies amor I mean 20
hustings or hustings style events it was
more than 3,000 miles by the way it's
about 7,000 miles that we did criss
crossing the country you've been
friendly
you've been good-natured you've been a
font of excellent ideas all of which I
propose to steal and above all I want to
thank our outgoing leader Theresa May
for her extraordinary service to this
party and to this country it was a
privilege
[Applause]
it was a privilege to serve in her
cabinet and to see the passion and
determination that she brought to the
many causes that are her legacy from
equal pay for men and women to tackling
the problems of mental health and racial
discrimination in the criminal justice
system Thank You Teresa
thank you and I want to thank all of you
all of you here today and obviously all
everybody in the Conservative Party for
your hard work for your campaigning for
your public spirit and obviously for the
extraordinary honor and privilege that
you have just conferred on me and I know
that there will be people around the
place who will question the wisdom of
your decision and there may even be some
people here who still wonder what quite
what they have done and I would just
point out you that and of course nobody
no one party no one person has a
monopoly of wisdom but if you look at
the history of the last 200 years of
this party's existence you will see that
it is we conservatives who have had the
best insights I think into human nature
and in the best into the best insights
into how to manage the jostling sets of
instincts in the human heart and time
and again it is to us that the people of
this country have turned to get that
balance right between the instincts to
own your own house your own home to earn
and spend their own money to look after
your own family good instincts proper
instincts noble instincts and the
equally noble instinct to share and to
give everyone a fair chance in life and
to look after the poorest and the
neediest and to build a great society
and on the whole in the last 200 years
it is we conservatives who have
understood best how to encourage those
instincts to work together in harmony to
promote the good of the whole country
and today at this pivotal moment in our
history we again have to reconcile two
sets
two noble sets of instincts between the
deep desire for friendship and free
trade and mutual support in security and
defense between Britain and our European
partners and the simultaneous desire
equally deep and heartfelt for
democratic self-government in this
country and of course there's some
people say that they're in
irreconcilable and it just can't be done
and indeed I read in my Financial Times
this morning devoted reader than I am
seriously it's a great great great great
British great British brand I read in my
financial times this morning that there
are no incoming leader no incoming
leader has ever faced
such a daunting set of circumstances it
said well I look at you this morning and
I asked myself do you look daunted do
you feel daunted I don't think we I
don't think you'd have remotely daunting
to me and I think that we know that we
can do it and that the people of this
country are trusting in us to do it and
we know that we will do it and we know
the mantra of the campaign that has just
gone by in case you've forgotten it
you probably have it is deliver brexit
unite the country and defeat Jeremy
Corbyn
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I know I know suck some wagons already
pointed out that deliver your knight and
defeat was not the perfect acronym for
an election campaign since our portion
aliy it spells dud but they forgot the
final E my friends IVA energize and I
say I say to all the doubters dude we
are going to energize the country we're
going to get brexit done on october 30
was going to take advantage of all the
opportunities that it will bring in a
new spirit of can-do and we are once
again going to believe in ourselves and
what we can achieve like some slumbering
giant we are going to rise and ping off
the guy ropes of self-doubt and
negativity with better education better
infrastructure more police fantastic
full fiber broadband sprouting in every
household we are going to unite this
amazing country and we are going to take
it forward I thank you all very much
for the incredible honor that you have
just done me I will work flat-out from
now on with my team that I will build I
hope in the next few days to repay your
confidence but in the meantime the
campaign is over and the work begins
thank you all very much
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