Welcome to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Podcasts with Allison Pearson.

Hello?

And me Liam Halligan.

Co-pilot Pearson and I are having a well-deserved Christmas break from steering the

rocket of right thinking, but to help keep you sane

dear citizens of Planet Normal, during this festive period we're bringing you some of our biggest

interviews from our recent archive, the discussions we've had on the flying refuge of reasoned views.

Now back in the autumn, Planet Normal welcomed former Home Secretary and former Secretary of State

for International Development pretty, buti Patel onto the Rocket.

Allison and I caught up with her on the fringes of the Tories Manchester Party Conference.

Priti Pottel, thanks a lot for joining us on Planet Normal.

I'm thrilled to be joining you both, I really am, thank you.

Pretty, on Sunday here at Conservative Party Conference,

it's fair to say that Liz Trost made a bit of a splash and you were there with her. What happened?

So you know this conference actually feels very energized, dynamic, people like me have always

been at the forefront of you know know, being with the grassroots,

battle of ideas, and that's effectively what happened, Liam.

So you saw, we held something called a growth rally and it was good old-fashioned debate, you know, party political debate

about what we conservatives in the Conservative Party do need to do to actually

get Britain growing again. But with this and this is incredibly important, in the years time we could be in a general election.

So we want to be able to influence the manifesto so we can have literally a full-blooded conservative manifesto that is based on our values, beliefs, our

principle, sound money, free markets, capitalism, the freedom to succeed, all the positive issues around the economy that effectively help the country, will help

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