Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Boris Johnson has said he is ready to take 'big, bold decisions' to rebuild the country following the pandemic as the Tory Party conference opens in Manchester.
The Prime Minister arrived for the start of the annual gathering buoyed by opinion polls showing the Conservatives ahead of Labour.
However, behind the optimism, Conservative MPs heading to the city are aware of a number of storm clouds gathering. READ MORE: We asked people in Manchester what they think about Boris Johnson, Andy Burnham, and the Tory Conference In a statement released on Saturday he declared: “We didn’t go through Covid to go back to how things were before – to the status quo