Drunken singalongs with an ex-PM, bad jokes by the cabinet, and Michael Gove getting told off for smoking on the Tory chairman’s hotel balcony. It must be the Tory party conference, this time in Manchester.
Last time in Birmingham, it went very wrong for Liz Truss, as her brief fever dream in power blew up spectacularly. So one positive for Rishi Sunak in his first conference as PM: it wasn’t as bad as that. However, there wasn’t much else to cheer about. The big story was his Government cancelling the high speed rail link to the host city, while his rivals openly touted their right-wing credentials as they jostled for position.
