Full text: David Davis’s conference speech

Ladies and gentlemen, on the 23rd of June the British people voted for change. And this is going to be the biggest change for a generation: we are going to leave the European Union. It was we, the Conservative Party, who promised the British people a referendum. It was David Cameron, a Conservative Prime Minister, who honoured that promise. And now it will be this government, a Conservative government that will lead the United Kingdom out of the European Union and into a brighter and better future.

This must be a team effort. And I am proud to count myself part of Theresa May’s team. I don’t know what it is about our great women leaders, but aren’t we lucky that they’re there when we need them? I remember hearing the first one, Margaret Thatcher, talking about the difficulties a woman in politics faces. “To get to the top,” she said, “a woman has to be twice as good as a man.