2:15pm Cameron comes out to a rapturous reception. He tells the audience this might be a messy as he’s got no autocue, Cameron unspun.
Fraser emails in:
I notice all the shadow cabinet on stage. This is part of their strategy to show the Tories are a team, where Labour is a one man Brown band. Cameron announces to us that he has no notes “so it might be a bit messy but it will be me”. Subtext ‘unlike that control freak brown, imagine him doing this eh?’ And I love the reference to Thatcher’s long march to freedom, a reference to the Nelson Mandela biography of the same name.
2:20pm Cameron is tying the party into the project; paying tribute to it for the increased number of women candidates, its campaigns on the environment and the like.
Sayeeda Warsi gets a generous name check.
Fraser writes: I don’t know why Cameron says “we’re not going to be lurching to the right” the phrase is coined by Brown to attack the Tories.
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