Theresa May pulled the big rabbit out of her hat today as she took the major step of personally launching the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham.

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The PM tried to end infighting on Day One by unveiling a Great Repeal Bill and announcing Article 50 will be triggered before the end of March 2017.

In a rare first-day speech to delegates she attacked MPs who want to vote on Brexit in Parliament as "insulting the intelligence of the British people".

Mind you, it took her a while to get going, and nobody seems sure why.

“They're not standing up for democracy, they’re trying to subvert it," she said.

She was followed by Brexiteer ministers David Davis and Priti Patel.

The main hall programme rounded off with a rousing (if rambling) speech from Boris Johnson, where he made an unfortunate boo-boo about Africa.

Meanwhile, we took a tour around the facilities to find the most quintessentially Tory things at Tory Conference.

And outside the high-security fence, a huge anti-austerity protest raged on the streets of Birmingham.

Here's how it happened.