Blog posts tagged "Conservative conference 2009"

October 7, 2009 1:26 pm 43 Comments

I’ve just done a ‘sit down’ with David Cameron, and met his wife too – tall, elegant, very personable. We all met on the 23rd floor of the Hilton here in Manchester, an eerily deserted place with splendid views across the jumble that is Manchester and the sun kissed Pennines beyond. Talked with Cameron for [...]

October 6, 2009 12:51 pm No Comments

There is so little wiggle room. Nothing so defines the current political contest as the contesting measures that have finally aired from both major parties for paying off the debt. A pay freeze on higher public sector pay and and delay in the national age of retirement. It doesn’t really matter now who says it [...]

11:39 am No Comments

Here’s rather sweet aside from the rain stricken wastes of Manchester. Last night I ran into David Cameron and his crew, amongst whom was a protection officer from Greater Manchester. I had met him before.

October 5, 2009 5:01 pm 8 Comments

It hits you like a tidal wave. No sooner are you through the doors of the Manchester Exchange than you are amid a morass of suited, white-shirted, tied-up business folk. Or that’s what it appears.

12:04 pm No Comments

I'm not sure I can remember a UK political party gathering that has been so full of uknowns - Europe inheritance tax, cuts, slashing incapacity benefit - as this year's Conservative party conference.