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Conservative Party Conference: Boris Johnson and Zac Goldsmith speeches; Boris Johnson speech SOT - fiscal devolution, with our great English cities free to spend the business rates they raise - a new National Living wage - pooling pension funds (as we have done with Lancashire) to create a half billion pound sovereign wealth fund for infrastructure - new rules on strike ballots to stop hardworking people being held to ransom by a tiny minority in fact the only type of crime currently going up is the theft of City Hall policies - a crime I entirely condone and we are not done yet, as we come now to what we call operation juddering climax we will defeat the haters of beauty and instal a garden Bridge we will extend the northern line to Battersea - or the Wandsworth powerhouse, as it is probably now called in the Treasury we will get a night tube and thanks to the support of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor I am confident that we will get Crossrail 2 in the ground by the end of the next decade because you can't be a builder in London without Crossrail 2 and if we are going to build new airport capacity let's not bodge it with one runway in the wrong place in a short termist and environmentally disastrous solution - one of the many things on which I agree with Zac and let's compete with every other major economy, from Germany to France to Spain to Holland to India to every Gulf state to Turkey to China and do the job properly this time round in this confident and progressive generation with the hub airport we will need for the country that most forecasts believe will overtake Germany, by 2050, to be the largest, the most powerful and the most dynamic economy in Europe So much done; so much to look forward to Are we going to fumble and knock the ball forward beneath the feet of our political foes? what an enemy, my friends As I came into the conference area yesterday we had to go through a kind of...