THERESA May today announced the end of austerity after a near decade-long financial squeeze.

The PM promised the end of public spending cuts, telling hard-pressed voters: "The end is in sight".

As part of her make-or-break party conference speech today she signaled to voters that Britain's strivers had helped get the public finances in order, and the country could finally get spending again soon.

"Because you made sacrifices, there are better days ahead," she promised.

The PM said that at next year's spending review the Tories would set out a new approach for Britain's future, where austerity would be binned.

She told them: "A decade after the financial crash, people need to know that the austerity it led to is over and that their hard work has paid off."

But she didn't give any more detail about when the end of the squeeze might come.

Chancellor Philip Hammond is set to deliver his Autumn Budget in just a few weeks.

Praising the fall in the deficit, Mrs May added today: “This is a historic achievement - but getting to this turning point wasn’t easy.

"Public sector workers had their wages frozen, local services had to do more with less, and families felt the squeeze.

"Fixing our finance was necessary - there must be no return to the uncontrolled borrowing the past, no undoing all of the progress of the last eight years, no taking Britain back to square one.

"But the British people need to know that the end is in sight. And our message to them must be this - we get it."

Mrs May began her speech by dancing her way onto the stage - to the delight of the audience.

The PM poked fun at her Maybot image as she got her groove on to Abba's Dancing Queen before appealing to the party to get behind her.

And in a blast at Boris Johnson, Mrs May warned that anyone obsessed with getting "the perfect Brexit" risk leaving us tied to the EU forever.

She also took a pop at the top Brexiteer over his "f**k business" jibe - vowing to "back business" instead.

In the hour-long address, the PM:

Repeatedly blasted Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism and his hard-left economic polices – saying Tories have a “duty” to keep him out of power
Announced the end of austerity, vowing that spending on public services will rise
Suggested she'll continue in her job for years to come
Announced a new NHS cancer strategy, after revealing her goddaughter died last year from the disease
Scrapped the cap on how much councils can borrow in order to see more homes built
Failed to mention the word “Chequers” once after criticism of her EU exit plan

Her speech was aimed at providing an upbeat vision for Britain post-Brexit - and after eight years of austerity.