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How's the mood at Tory conference?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

It's day two at Tory conference and the mood seems muted and lacking in energy. This is in direct contrast to Rishi Sunak who appeared to have fire in his belly in a tetchy interview over the weekend with Laura Kuenssberg. He will be hoping to use this conference as his reset moment, but will he be undermined by those in the cabinet with an eye on the leadership?

In Manchester, Katy Balls and Isabel Hardman discuss. 

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I'm Isabelle Harman and I'm with Katie Balls

0:33.0

in Manchester at the Conservative Conference Katie.

0:37.0

The question that everyone asks of conferences is,

0:40.1

how's the mood? Well, I think as you've pointed out as well,

0:43.9

I think initially at least the mood we were speaking on Monday morning,

0:46.8

but on Sunday it was just quite muted, quite quiet.

0:50.4

I actually haven't got that sense of pure despair

0:53.7

that perhaps, off to my way this time last year,

0:56.4

in the conference halls, but it does feel a little bit flat for sure.

1:00.3

And I think, you know, if you look at James cleverly speech yesterday,

1:03.6

the fact that the hall was about a third empty now,

1:05.5

lots of people were arriving on the Sunday,

1:07.4

so I think it's interesting to see if it's any more.

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