The Tory party conference in Manchester is all about survival – no one except those close to the PM have much faith in a reset
ot so much a party conference. Not even an end of the pier show. More of a funeral wake. At which most of the participants appear to have already died. Four years ago the Tories won an 80-seat majority and looked set to remain in power for another decade. Now they act like the walking dead. Shell-shocked, out of ideas. Desperate to find someone other than themselves to blame for the mess they’ve caused. Desperate to reinvent the unreinventable.
But some kind of normal service has to take place. A meta conference for a meta party. Performance politics. So Rish! began the day with the traditional Sunday morning leader’s interview with Laura Kuenssberg. Probably not his ideal start to the day, but then it’s hard to think what is. Other than refusing to come out of his hotel room while consuming vast quantities of psychedelic drugs.
Next, RishGPT jumped on to his favourite new bandwagon. He was the motorists’ motorist. No one cared more about cars than he did. It’s just that he hadn’t yet worked out how to fill one up with petrol. Or how to pay for it. Guess helicopters must be different. But Labour hated cars. But he loved them. Never walked anywhere. And he’d be absolutely thrilled if someone driving at 30mph just happened to run him over. It would be a helluva way to go. Death and glory.
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