Welcome to Coffeehouse Shots for Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. It's day three the Tory Party conference.

Boris Johnson has given his speech, as has Sajad Javid, the Home Secretary.

I'm Fraser Nelson and I'm here in Birmingham with Katie Balls and James Forsyth.

Now, James, just after breakfast, you and I were strolling up to the hall.

We were stopped by a delegate saying,

do we know what route Boris is going to take on his way into the hall?

Now, this is becoming a bit of a tradition of Boris,

so the arrival itself is so he comes down in the back of a donkey

and the delegates will wave hands at him and things.

I mean, so he does like his

theatre. Did it work for him? This is a technique that Boris pioneered when he was mayor of London,

a kind of smash and grab raid on Tory conference. You do one big event, you only turn up for a few

hours, so everyone who wants to see you has to queue up. And he got what he wanted today, Boris Johnson.

Huge queues round the block, a full auditorium, an auditorium that seemed to be. to see you has to queue up. And he got what he wanted today, Boris Johnson. Huge cues around the

block, a full auditorium, an auditorium that seemed to me noticeably full of and the conference

hall has been at any point so far in this conference. And the party managers gave him this big

auditorium. I mean, I think there are some Toremps who are furious that he, Boris Johnson,

was able to book the largest room inside the secure zone

other than the conference hall. I think that will lead to some questions about the organisation.

I thought what was striking about his speech was it was about so much more than Czechos and

Europe. He started off talking about housing policy from there to local government finance

and then

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