🚨 Prime Minister update from #CPC26 Day Two.

🏺 Morning: David Cameron, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, John Major, Boris Johnson, Theresa May.
🏺 Lunch time: Cameron, Major, May.
🏺 Afternoon: the return of Boris.

🫤 No Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak all day.

🗓️ A year ago today at #CPC25 I was stood next to an outfit of Margaret Thatcher's with 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.

🤦🏻‍♂️ It is just a memory because at #CPC26 there are *no* books for sale.

➡️ It's available online with 30% discount:
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178590920...

Oh, my.

She's so fkn awful.

#Badenoch #CPC26 #IronDome #bbcpm

bsky.app/profile/paul...

Whose bright idea was it to have a Ukrainian kids choir sing under a Shahed drone suspended from the roof? #CPC26

The @patients-association.org.uk and Allergy UK at the
@hanovercomms.bsky.social Health Charity Showcase yesterday at Conservative Party Conference #CPC26

Many degree programmes do no more than “eat three years” of students’ lives, according to the shadow minister for work and pensions. Georgia Louise Luckhurst reports from #CPC26 #highered #education
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bad-degrees-eating-young-peoples-lives-shadow-minister

The Conservatives couldn’t build a railway for 14 plus years and they’re now promising a ballistics shield? Do us a favour #CPC26 #Conservatives

HAVE YOU BEEN MIS-SOLD THE END OF HISTORY?

#CPC26

"I've become Shadow FS by mistake" #CPC26

I'm surprised to hear Britannia Shield being spoken of in such exalted terms today. I was at school with her and recall that her exam results were the worst in the school's history. Teachers used to complain that no matter how hard they tried to educate her, nothing ever got through.

#CPC26

IPPR at Conservative Party Conference #cpc26
Starting soon! London at a Crossroads: Compete or Decline
👉Rt Hon James Cleverly MP
👉Shivani Menon
👉@londonchamber.bsky.social
👉@harryqp.bsky.social
👉@sebastianpayne.bsky.social

🕐11.30 – 12.30
📍Onward Marquee, Birmingham ICC

Magic Money Tree seems to have made a comeback. Oddly I don't see the Tory press screaming BUT HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PAY FOR IT? ARE YOU GOING TO PUT TAXES UP? WHAT ABOUT THE POOR PENSIONERS?

#CPC26

Andrew Griffith's #CPC26 pitch: scrap a tax every Budget, shrink the state, bin the red tape. He gave no costings.
The last Tory red-tape crusade is on the Grenfell Inquiry's record: it found the deregulation drive meant fire-safety warnings were ignored. 72 died.

He's promising a sequel 🧵
#r4today

He had been expected to make an announcement at the Budget later this month. 3/3 #CPC26

Allowing certain universities to charge more in tuition fees will undermine the importance of teaching-focused institutions, according to a vice-chancellor. Georgia Louise Luckhurst reports from #CPC26 #highered #tuitionfees #edusky
https://ow.ly/2Mri50ZUzH0

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social on @conservatives.bsky.social :
‘If Badenoch is not for turning, to survive it will need to turn her out’
She’s right, and some at #cpc26 know it

📁 At the start of Day Two of #CPC26 it's very good to see some material about Margaret Thatcher at the Conservative Party Archive stand.

📰 You can read her article, 'Finding Time' on the Thatcher Foundation website: www.margaretthatcher.org/document/100...

🚨 Today’s mystery MP has been selected

🟦 Party: Conservatives
📍 Region: South East

Unlock more clues by playing #Politicle 👉 politics.co.uk/politicle/ #CPC26

‘We were shit and we got a fuck of a lot wrong whilst in Government’ - not exactly a ringing endorsement of how you’re going to perform in Government, is it, Helen Whately? #c4news #cpc26

oh she is properly chuffed with the result #CPC26