Penny Get My Vote13 Jul 2022 11:56
Mordaunt sets out priorities: 'Restoring standards and trust'
Setting out her stall, Penny Mordaunt begins by recalling growing up in Portsmouth and as a child watching the Task Force set sail for the Falklands in 1982. Mordaunt says the party needs to return to those old values of "duty, service and sacrifice".
She says the Conservatives' greatest failings have been when they've come adrift of those values and "lost a sense of self". She wants a return to low tax, a small state and personal responsibility.
Mordaunt speaks of the country facing "serious challenges" - from the war in Ukraine to staving off recession. She says her prime objective is to restore standards and trust.