Many thought that after Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, the Tories would once again become a force interested in serious politics. Your party conference in Manchester shows: Not true.
At the end of this strange event, John Hayes, a 65-year-old Tory MP who has been in Parliament for 26 years, took to the microphone. “The future belongs to us,” Hayes shouted into the microphone, and it was not entirely clear whether he meant the “New Conservatives” group that had invited people to this event as part of the party conference in Manchester – or the entire party. Most likely, he meant both. And that’s the problem now.