How does Theresa May plan to reinvigorate her party and send it out, united and happy, after this week’s conference? If the extracts of her speech that have been trailed tonight are anything to go by, it’s not clear that the Prime Minister knows how to answer that question, either. It’s either the case that May is holding back a series of announcements for the speech itself or for individual newspapers, or that she is planning to make motherhood and apple pie look controversial in comparison to the epithets she is going to deliver.
The Prime Minister will tell the country that ‘our best days lie ahead of us and that our future is full of promise’. She also plans to attack the Labour Party – something hardly unusual for a Tory leader in or out of government – saying:
‘Millions of people who have never supported our party in the past are appalled by what Jeremy Corbyn has done to labour.

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