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Hello and welcome to a special edition of Coffee House Shots from Tory Conference in Manchester.

I'm joined by Katie Balls and it's been a kind of classic opening day.

Boris Johnson interview on The Marsh Show and then speeches from the party chairman and the foreign secretary from the conference stage. Katie, you were in the studio when Boris Johnson was giving his

interview on Marr. What do you think his message was and what do you think his mood was?

I think it's an interesting one because we're here in Manchester and it is probably the first

Tory conference

for say four or five years where the party has not been in a crisis of its own yet you look around

and we see fuel shortages we're hearing a Christmas being at risk and therefore it's a point where

Boris Johnson seemed in a fairly positive mood but he also had to deal with the fact that there are lots of problems around him,

even if his poll rating is strong and he has the support of his party.

So I think for Boris Johnson, what we saw from that interview,

was he was really trying to push the point that yes,

we're seeing labour shortages, particularly in terms of drivers,

and that is having difficult consequences for lots of people across the country in terms of labour shortages, particularly in terms of drivers, and that is having difficult

consequences for lots of people across the country in terms of fuel shortages and other,

but this is part of a journey we are on, which is going to mean that they're higher wages

for workers. And I think you could start to see how almost ministers and Boris Johnson's

almost beginning to articulate it are thinking that

this move to higher wages could be a part of leveling up could be something to sell to voters.

And I think we saw both Boris Johnson starting to say that, but also the tension within it through

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