
Brandon Lewis fails to draw a crowd
Oh dear. Ahead of Tory conference there had been talk among the European Research Group of plans to ’empty-hall’ Theresa May’s leader’s speech in protest of her Brexit plan. That plot has since been abandoned. But it turns out that some Cabinet ministers are still being ’empty-halled’ all on their own accord. This afternoon party chairman Brandon Lewis held a ‘Challenge the Chairman’ event exclusively for party members in the conference hall. Here they were given the opportunity to ask Lewis anything. Only it seems they didn’t have much they wanted to say to him. Only a handful of members could be bothered to show. Mr S’s mole has sent
