Open Brexit warfare as Boris Johnson takes on May at Conference

Theresa May says she wasn’t watching Boris Johnson’s speech. But hundreds of activists were.

Some 1,500 people crowded into a hall at the Conservative conference fringe to hear the former foreign secretary denounce Mrs May’s Chequers plan as “an outrage”.

With loud applause from the audience, he declared: “If we bottle Brexit now, the people of this country will find it hard to forgive.”

Warning: there is flash photography in this report.