  In this paper we study a novel realization of inflation, based on Weyl
invariant gravity with torsion. We show that requiring the classical action for
the scalar field to be Weyl invariant introduces a dilaton which induces a non
trivial modification of the field space geometry of the scalar sector, which
allows for inflationary phase that begins at the conformal point of the
inflaton $\psi$, i.e. $\langle\psi\rangle=0$. Since the model is Weyl
invariant, the inflaton condensation models a process of spontaneous Weyl
symmetry breaking. For a wide range of parameters the spectral observables of
the model are in good agreement with the CMB measurements, such that the scalar
spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio approximately agree with those of
Starobinsky's inflation, i.e. $n_s\simeq 0.96-0.97$ and $r \approx 3\times
10^{-3}$. The simplest version of our model contains two scalar degrees of
freedom, one of them being an exactly flat direction. If that degree is excited
early on in inflation and if inflation lasts for about 60 e-foldings, we find
that the Unverse undergoes a short period of kination that predates inflation.
Such a period strongly suppresses the amplitude of large scale CMB temperature
fluctuations providing thus an elegant explanation for the lack of power in the
lowest CMB multipoles.
