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Boris Johnson has just delivered his first speech to Conservative Party Conference as leader and Prime Minister.

It was mercifully brief and free of policy.

But it was stuffed to the gills with lies, half-truths, exaggerations and misleading statements.

It's been a rum old week for the Tories, who've been holed up in Manchester for their annual gathering.

Pictures emerged of a senior Tory MP blacking up. Another senior Tory MP got in a fracas with a security guard and the police were called.

And just as they were talking about homelessness and poverty - a massive pallet of Champagne arrived.

And here's the icing on the cake. A round up of all the things in Boris Johnson's speech that weren't strictly true - or were, at the very least, misleading.

1. The public have more say over I'm a Celebrity than they do over the House of Commons

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This is, of course, nonsense.

Every MP in the House of Commons is elected by their constituents.

On the other hand, the public did have more say over I'm a Celebrity than they did over Boris Johnson being elected Tory leader and Prime Minister, a private vote only open to Tory party members.

For the record:

Votes cast in 2017 election: 32,196,224

Average viewers for I'm a Celeb 2017: 9,960,000*

Votes cast in Tory leadership contest 2019: 138,809

* ITV don't release the number of votes cast in I'm A Celeb

2. Four day week would slash wages of people on low pay

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In 1868, the average British worker put in 62 hours a week.

If you include part time workers, the figure is now roughly half that. And funnily enough, people tend to be paid more for their trouble now than they were in 1868.

The consultancy firm PWC - who do a lot of work for the government - say UK Gross Domestic Product will be up to 10% - or £2 billion - higher in 2030 because of Artificial Intelligence.

The argument is a lot of jobs will take less time to perform because of automation - and the country will be richer because we'll be more productive.

So the only reason a four day week has to slash the wages of those on low pay is...if greedy bosses decide not to pay them fairly.

3. A Brexit delay would cost the UK a billion pounds a month

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The Full Fact fact-checking website says this cost is only when compared to a no-deal Brexit in which the UK refuses to pay any divorce bill.

It also doesn't include money the UK gets back out of the EU, Full Fact said.

Don't forget Boris Johnson is insisting he'll get a Brexit deal, which could of course involve a continuing relationship with the EU.

4. We put up wages, with the biggest expansion of the Living Wage in a generation

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While it is undoubtedly the biggest expansion of the Living Wage in a generation, that's only because Sajid Javid's announcement that 21-24 year olds will now qualify is the only expansion of the National Living Wage since it was introduced.

5. When was the last time a Tory leader talked about capitalism?

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Tory leaders talk about capitalism all the time. They love capitalism. It's kind of their thing.

For the record, the last time we can find a Tory leader going on at length about how great they think capitalism is, was way back in...September 2017.

Theresa May gave a speech at the Bank of England in defence of Capitalism, saying it was "the greatest agent of collective human progress ever created".

6. What people want, w hat leavers want, w hat remainers want, w hat the whole world wants – is to be calmly and sensibly done with the subject, and to move on

While this is perhaps true in a purely literal sense, polling suggests the clear sentiment - that the British public just want to "Get Brexit Done" - is far from certain.

A poll published while Johnson was on his feet suggests only 40% of people think Britain's vote to leave the EU was right.

Some 49% think it was wrong - and the figure has risen more or less steadily since the Referendum.

7. Remember it was only a few years ago when people were saying ... that wind turbines would not pull the skin off a rice pudding

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That seems like a remarkably silly thing for someone to to say.

Who could possibly have said it?

Oh...here we are.

It was Boris Johnson, back in 2013.