Full text: Amber Rudd’s conference speech

I succeed one of the most successful Home Secretaries of modern times.

You may define success as holding the post for longer than any prior Conservative incumbent since World War Two.

You may judge it by introducing the Modern Slavery Act … Which has delivered tough new penalties to put slave masters behind bars.

Or, you may judge it by the eventual, hard-won deportation of Abu Qatada – and the message that sent.

Well, Theresa May is now Prime Minister, and I am honoured to be Home Secretary in her Conservative-only Government.

It’s no secret that earlier this year I campaigned on behalf of the Remain side in the EU Referendum.

I travelled the country setting out my views and reasons.

I sparred with the Foreign Secretary live on television …

Now he keeps offering me lifts in his car.

But it comes down to the fact that the British people made their wishes very clear, and I absolutely accept the result.