Theresa May opens crunch speech with blistering attack on Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism

THERESA May today launched a blistering attack on Jeremy Corbyn in her make or break conference speech - warning that Tories have a “duty” to keep him out of power.

The PM said the Labour boss was making Jewish Brits feel unsafe in their own country and claimed the party has lost its moral backbone.

Mrs May said: “The Jeremy Corbyn party rejects the common values that once bridged our political divide.”

She added: "What has befallen Labour is a national tragedy.

"What has it come to when Jewish families today seriously discuss where they should go if Jeremy Corby becomes Prime Minister?

"That is what Jeremy Corbyn has done to the Labour party. It is our duty, in this Conservative party, to make sure he can never do it to our country."

The crucial address is a last-ditch bid to unite her bitterly divided party and see off threats to her leadership from Boris Johnson.

Starting her speech, the PM said: “You do have to excuse me if I do cough during the speech. I’ve been up all night super-gluing the backdrop.”

But in a heartfelt message to supporter, Mrs May added: “There are some things about last year’s conference that I have tried to forget.

“But I will always remember the warmth I felt from everyone in this hall. Thank you.”

She came on stage DANCING for her big speech at Tory conference, to the tune of Abba’s Dancing Queen

Britain has its best days ahead, Theresa May will say today as she sets out an optimistic post-Brexit vision.

The PM will make a pitch to carry on leading the country after we quit the EU in her speech at the Tory party conference.

She is set to describe the Conservatives as “decent, moderate and patriotic” - in contrast to Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.

The keynote address comes after Boris Johnson urged the Tories to show more vision and ambition or risk letting the hard left into power.

And Cabinet ministers have started calling on the PM to set out a timetable for her departure, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Mrs May will say: “I passionately believe that our best days lie ahead of us and that our future is full of promise.

“Don’t let anyone tell you we don’t have what it takes - we have everything we need to succeed.”

She is expected to add that the Tories are the only party standing up for the majority of voters who want to see mainstream politics succeed.

The PM will say: “Millions of people who have never supported our party in the past are appalled by what Jeremy Corbyn has done to Labour.

“They want to support a party that is decent, moderate and patriotic. One that puts the national interest first. Delivers on the issues they care about. And is comfortable with modern Britain in all its diversity.

“We must show everyone in this country that we are that party.

“A party that conserves the best of our inheritance but is not afraid of change. A party of patriotism but not nationalism. A party that believes in business but is not afraid to hold businesses to account.

“A party that believes in the good that government can do but knows that government will never have all the answers.

“A party that believes your success in life should not be defined by who you love, your faith, the colour of your skin, who your parents were, or where you were raised - but by your talent and hard work.”

Mrs May’s speech comes at the end of a conference designed to bring the party together after bruising Brexit battles.

Yesterday Boris Johnson made his own “alternative leader’s speech” where he claimed the Tories will leave the centre ground open for Labour if they don’t present a radical message of reforming capitalism.

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