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Good morning from the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
Theresa May knows that Brexit will dominate her time in Downing Street.
But she does not want it to overshadow completely her domestic agenda.
The question is: what are her plans for the country?
So far the only evidence of what May's Britain will look like has been the expansion of grammar schools which the government was bounced into announcing after a cack-handed leak.
On all other areas the Prime Minister has defined herself through the negative of not being David Cameron.
Some believe she has been unduly hasty to airbrush her predecessor from history, others would argue his imprint, apart from the EU referendum, was so slight that Mrs May barely needed a duster to sweep away the footprints.
Certainly, her tone is markedly different to Cameron's.
The big society flim flam has been replaced by more robust rhetoric on tackling the "burning injustices."
What has been absent so far is any indication of how she intends to make Britain a more equal and justice country.
Are the plans to bring back grammars an anomaly or the first in a series of steps to resurrect 1950s' Conservatism in a modern setting?
In an interview with Radio 4's Today programme Mrs May banally said she entered politics because "I wanted to make a difference. I wanted to be doing a job that helps improve people's lives."
Which is nice but hardly amounts to a comprehensive programme for government.
Conference kicks off this morning with a speech from the Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson.
Davidson can expect a warm reception.
She is overseeing a revival in Conservative fortunes north of the border and was one of the few people to emerge from the Remain campaign with her reputation enhanced.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd is also addressing conference this morning.
The Mirror reveals today that before entering politics she was involved in a string of firms that went bust with debts totalling millions of pounds.
Education Secretary Justine Greening, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green speak this afternoon.
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