Former prime minister Rishi Sunak thanks Conservative Party workers and apologises for losing the general election in his “final conference” speech as leader during an event in Birmingham. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Thank you everyone, it's great to see you all, absolutely great, and there is a brilliant
00:23buzz at this conference, isn't there? It's fantastic, terrific energy, thousands of you
00:29here, we've got members, councillors, MPs, businesses, in fact, it's such a hot ticket,
00:36I'm surprised that Keir Starmer hasn't asked somebody to buy him one!
00:42Now, I want to start by saying thank you. Thank you for everything that you do for our party,
00:48and the support that you've always given up to her and me. You all worked tirelessly during the
00:54election campaign, and I'm only sorry that I could not deliver the result that your efforts deserved.
01:00And as you know, as you know, this is my final conference as leader.
01:08A new leader of our party will be announced in just five weeks' time,
01:12so I'm not delivering the usual leader speech,
01:15and instead this week the stage will be for the four leadership candidates.