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Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. I'm Katie Balls and I joined by James Seif and Fraser Nelson, but all just back from Conservative Party Conference.

And while there, we noticed a certain level of excitement when one cabinet minister entered a room. This is the rise of trust mania.

Fraser, in your telegraph column this week, you talk about Liz Truss, the new foreign secretary,

and she's creating a bit of a buzz. What are you picking up? Well, there was a moment where we did

our live coffee house shots recording in conference where Frank Luntz decided

to do a poll of the audience there. And I was really surprised to see Liz Truss emerge as their

favourite for the next Tory leader. And ever since then, I went around conference, basically asking

audiences similar things, doing my research, and it all fitted into place. You could tell Willis Truss was speaking,

not because you had to have a look at what room she was in, but you just looked around for the

biggest cues on the way in and the biggest smiles on the way out. She's created this sense of

excitement, which reminds me very much of excitement that Boris Johnson used to create when he was

in party conference.

He used to come in and sort of entertain cause mayhem.

People went along just to be lifted up, to be entertained by him, not because they necessarily

cared about what he had to say about the economy or anything like that.

And this trust is having the same effect.

I spoke to some other MPs who were saying they were struck that how, you know, the Saja

Javid, even the Rishi Sunek audiences were not quite as large, not quite as excitable as the

Liz Truss audiences.

And then if you look at the Conservative Home polls, they poll Tory party members regularly.

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