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Full text: Amber Rudd’s conference speech

I succeed one of the most successful Home Secretaries of modern times.

You may define success as holding the post for longer than any prior Conservative incumbent since World War Two.

You may judge it by introducing the Modern Slavery Act … Which has delivered tough new penalties to put slave masters behind bars.

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