Michael White is joined in the Manchester Central conference centre by political editor Patrick Wintour and head of business Dan Roberts to pick over George Osborne's economic proposals.
The speech was well received by delegates in the hall, but as Jon Dennis found on the streets of London, there was a more sceptical reaction from the public.
Today the Conservatives discuss what they call the 'broken society'. Polly Toynbee gives her take on the phrase.
And Kenneth Clarke tells the Observer's Andrew Rawnsley why he does not support the abolition of the Human Rights Act.
