A news round-up of Theresa May and Ken Clarke's Conservative party conference speeches

By Joseph Willits 
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Here is some of the press coverage following on from Theresa May and Ken Clarke's speeches to the Conservative party conference:

• Theresa May's speech in full - Politics.co.uk
• The Human Rights Act must go to restore "sanity" - Independent
• May says immigration law will be "amended so that article eight of the human rights act - the right to a family life - could no longer be misconstrued" - Channel 4 News
• Criminal migrants rights could be axed - BBC
• Have we just taken one tiny step to restoring sanity to Britain’s borders? - Daily Mail
• Right wing Conservatives thrown some "red meat" in May's speech - Sky News
• David Blackburn describes the disagreements over the Human Rights Act as a "smokescreen" - Spectator
• Theresa May set the tone at an otherwise subdued Tory conference for problems ahead on Europe - The Commentator
• Reality Check: 'Can owning a cat be grounds for appeal against deportation? - Guardian
• Live blogs from the speeches, and the rest of the conference - GuardianI Times (£) I Telegraph
• Ken Clarke's speech in full - Politics.co.uk
• Clarke says we must tackle a "feral underclass" and that prisons should be places of both retribution and reform - Telegraph
• Sir Richard Branson backs government plans for more convicted criminals to be given jobs - BBC
• 'Prison with a purpose - it's not rocket science' - Public Service

The Telegraph live blog has comment from Ken Clarke at one of their fringe events with Peter Oborne. Here are some of his comments:

• Asked about May's speech on the Human Rights Act, Clarke says, ""Well, she was giving her opinion, and it's not my opinion, as it happens"
• Clarke says that you have to remember the human rights of the offender: "You're going to deport some Somali who's been here since he was 5 years old... what about the human rights of his wife and children, who are going to lose their father?" 
• Clarke also describes May as being "upset" about certain parts of the Human Rights Act, not the whole thing itself
• Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor, says Clarke's public rebuttal of May's speech is "astonishing."
• Ken also doubts May's claims about someone not being deported for owning a cat