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We're in a huddle just outside the main auditorium, ahead of Liz Truss's main conference speech, which starts at 11.

It's half past 10, so there's still half an hour for it to fill up.

But at the moment, it feels dead and pretty quiet.

And I think the media, the press, probably in the majority here.

And the warm-up man is the Conservative Party chairman, Jake Berry. It's worth just paying the first 15, 20 seconds

of what he says, because it didn't get the reaction he was expecting. My friends, what a

conference it's been. That wasn't meant to be the funny bit, but thank you for laughing.

Anyway, we heard this morning that a WhatsApp message went out from the WIPPS office today

to Tory MPs, cabinet and backbenchers saying, don't talk to the press, the media,

they're trying to bring you down. And that is, in essence, the mood. If you had self-confidence, if you had belief, you would not

be telling your MPs to avoid everybody like the plague. This is a party that has retreated

into its shell and it's feeling fragile.

We've been told that List Trust will come on to a 90s classic.

We're all having bets what that will be. Mine is simply the best.

Oh come on, you've got to have irony.

Surely it's got to be things can only get better.

But today on the newsagents, we're going to be taking you through the speech.

We'll play out the chunks that really strike us as particularly interesting.

And we'll give you our assessment of actually what she said, what it means and what it's going to do.

We're also going to be speaking to one of the architects of the policies that Liz Truss has been pursuing.

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