Latest updates: outgoing prime minister to travel to Balmoral to see monarch before new Tory leader replaces him in office
Johnson says it is the Conservatives who understand “the vital symmetry between government action and free market capitalist private sector enterprise”.
He is now rattling through a list of what he sees as his achievements in government: more police, new hospitals, more nurses. He even repeats the (false) claim that the government is on course to build 40 new hospitals by the end of the decade.