Wednesday 1 October 2008

Conference Wednesday - Leader's speech


I joined candidates on the stage for David Cameron's speech bringing conference to a close in the grand setting of Birmingham's Symphony Hall. Not his best speech as some suggest, as that was his claim to the leadership, but the statesmanlike presentation of why we are the party to deal with today's problems that the country wants (and needs) to hear. As someone whose first experience of the general election process was 1979 when the former Chancellor, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary & then Prime Minister Callaghan was replaced by a new Conservative leader, I enjoyed his rebuttal of Labour's claim of inexperience. It will be interesting to see how the polls react now that the conference season is over and all parties respond to the economic turmoil we now face.