Give all you can — but make it small
16 December 2006
Forgive the presumption but you, as a Spectator reader, are one of the best informed people in this great land of ours. You are particularly well informed about politics. So put aside your Christmas quiz and try this little test. Drag from your memory half a dozen noteworthy speeches made by party leaders at their annual conferences.
It shouldn’t be difficult. The party conference speech is the high point of the leader’s year and gets massive coverage. If he were a circus act, it would be the moment when the acrobat dives from the tiny platform 100 feet above the sawdust, through a flaming hoop into the mouth of a lion and emerges unscathed to the roar of the crowd. But I bet you can’t remember more than a couple of speeches.
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