Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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First up, though.

The Conservative Party Conference is getting into full swing in Manchester.

In more normal times, Britain's Parliament would be in recess so the party could lay out its plans.

These are not normal times. Lawmakers are back at work while much of the ruling party is elsewhere.

The big policy pronouncements are spilling out concerning new hospitals and spending on roads,

but the theme of the conference is get Brexit done. Just what Prime Minister Boris Johnson

has been saying so doggedly, with new scandals that emerged over the weekend that might become

unbelievably even harder.

There's a very strange mood at the Tory Party Conference in Manchester.

Our political correspondent Duncan Robinson is in Manchester, soaking up the atmosphere.

On the one hand, you've got Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister marching around being applauded

by activists wherever he goes. And on the other hand, you've got Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister

on the front page of newspapers, being accused of a whole host of misdemeanors.

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