To Birmingham, where the Conservative party conference is in full swing. As well as the formal leadership hustings taking place this week, the four rivals vying for the top job are busy behind the scenes trying to convince their colleagues – and membership – to back them. Robert Jenrick staged his latest rally bright and early on Monday morning, treating attendees to breakfast, mountains of merchandise (including printed copies of the Jenrick Post) and the dulcet tones of, er, Avicii. But that wasn’t all – the Tory frontrunner couldn’t quite resist taking a pop at Sir Keir Starmer’s crowd either…
Launching into his speech, Jenrick blasted the rather gloomy attitude that underpinned the lefty lot’s Liverpool conference last weekend. ‘What a contrast to the Labour party conference the other day,’ he crowed. ‘That was a parade of the inadequate and the unserious. If anyone says the grown ups are back in charge in our country – just look at Ed Miliband.’
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