Kemi Badenoch is expected to mark the 100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's birth after paying a series of glowing tributes to her at the Conservative Party conference.

The Tory celebrations, 100 years after she was born on 13 October 1925, include a glittering dinner at the historic Guildhall in the City of London attended by a galaxy of A-list celebrities and veteran Tory grandees.

The Conservative leader led the tributes to Lady Thatcher at the party's conference in Manchester, declaring in her opening speech: "As one of my great predecessors, Margaret Thatcher, put it: 'The facts of life are Conservative'."

Later in the speech, she added: "In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher broke the cycle of high inflation, low growth and trade union strife, giving Britain back her national pri

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