THE Conservative Party conference kicked off today amid calls for the event to be cancelled as financial turmoil engulfs UK markets and Liz Truss’s (pictured) premiership risks being defined as an “unprecedented disaster”.
The event, held in Birmingham, lasts until Wednesday and begins with tributes to the late Queen, before speeches from Penny Mordaunt, the local Conservative mayor Andy Street, the chair of the Tory party Jake Berry, Douglas Ross and secretaries of state in Truss’s government.
The Prime Minister will not speak at the event until the final day and is likely to round off the conference on Wednesday.
