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Charles Moore’s notes: Boris’s brilliance; Labour’s Joe McCarthy

Plus: The rage of Denis Healey; a clarification for Sir Geoff Palmer; and why there’s no party for my new book

issue 10 October 2015
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Maybe it was because of the contrast with Theresa May’s chilly, disingenuous monotone minutes before, but I really think Boris Johnson’s speech to the Conservative party here in Manchester was brilliant. It is a constant puzzle that senior politicians, who spend such ages worrying about how to communicate, do not learn how to make platform speeches.

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Charles Moore is The Spectator’s chairman.

He is a former editor of the magazine, as well as the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph. He became a non-affiliated peer in July 2020.

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