In a normal year, a prime minister would spend the next few weeks crafting a party conference speech to communicate their sense of purpose and demonstrate that the government they lead knows where it is going. Conference is one of those rare moments when a government has the nation’s ear, as David Cameron wrote in his memoir For the Record. He recounted how, in the autumn of 2012, he saw conference as an opportunity to rebuild after a tough year that had included George Osborne’s “omnishambles” budget. The Olympic gold medallist rhetorician had recently been re-elected as mayor of London. He treated the delegates to some zippy

Source: The Times September 03, 2020 23:03 UTC