Reviews of the 2023 Tory Conference have so far been poor. The Manchester summit has been described as “a wake”, “funereal”, and a “ghost town”, with a “fin d’une époque” feel, and that was day one.
But Rishi Sunak put on a brave face at a 1922 Committee and ConHome party last night, urging Tories to “smash that general election”. He attacked Sir Keir Starmer directly, saying he “thinks the Angel of the North is a Tube station in Islington”. Sunak also said that co-host Michael Ashcroft had written two volumes of his biography (“selling well in India” Ashcroft interjected helpfully), but “what I’m really looking forward to is volume three that talks about the 2024 Conservative party general election victory.”
