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Theresa May: Change is going to come for Britain

Theresa May vowed that "a change is going to come" as she set out her plan for the Conservatives to occupy the centre ground of British politics.

In her keynote address to the Tory Party conference in Birmingham, the Prime Minister spoke of her "vision for Britain" and insisted she had the "determination" to see it through.

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May: 'EU vote was protest against sense of privileged few'

Britain's vote to leave the European Union was spurred by a sense that the world "works for a privileged few".

Theresa May told the Conservative Party Conference that the vote had a broader meaning that just severing ties with the bloc.

"For the referendum was not just a vote to withdraw from the EU - it was about something broader, something the EU had come to represent", the Prime Minister said.

"It was about a sense - deep, profound and, let's face it, often justified - that many people have today, that the world works well for a privileged few but not for them.

"It was a vote not just to change Britain's relationship with the EU, but to call for a change in the way our country works and for the people for whom it works".

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