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• Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, has opened her party’s conference by publishing a short book setting out her political philosophy. As the Press Association reports, a major line of thought throughout Badenoch’s new political bible appears to be that government should not spread its resources too thinly, but should be strong in the areas in which “the state is required”: defence, borders, public order, the rule of law and essential infrastructure. Badenoch told the conference:

There is always an emergency. There is always a good reason to spend government money or time on something, but we don’t have unlimited resources. Government is about making tough choices, deciding how you will spread your resources, what you are going to focus your time on.

The “fundamental analysis” at the heart of the document is that government needs to create the conditions for economic growth, and then get out of the way to allow businesses “the freedom to grow our economy”, the Tory leader added.

• Damian Green, the former first secretary of state, has told a fringe meeting that revising the pensions triple lock to make it less generous makes sense. He said:

The mechanical straitjacket of the traditional triple lock seems to me no longer desirable.

And, of course, you have to look at the consequences for the public finances for everything we’re discussing – as we have a population more and more skewed towards those receiving the state pension, then it will become inexorably more expensive.

So tax cuts, or desirable spending on, which I’m sure people in this room would like, on things like defence, become that much more difficult [if the triple lock stays].

For a full list of all the stories covered on the blog today, do scroll through the list of key event headlines near the top of the blog.