16 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Sir Mel, fresh as a porpoise, gave a splendid speech. Alas, few were there to hear it

Dawn brought news from the office of Sir Melvyn Stride, Shadow Chancellor: 'Ten Things You Didn't Know About Mel.'

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17 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: The sight of Maggie's old outfits at Tory conference is creepy. It's time for the party to end its obsession with her if it is to have any chance of a revival

Before the Conservatives win any election they will need to chime with 21st-century Britain and its voters. To use a German word, they will need to find the zeitgeist, writes Quentin Letts.

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19 h. ago Video shows empty seats during key Conservative party conference speech

There were several empty seats at the Conservative Party's conference on Monday, 6 October, as Sir Mel Stride laid out the opposition's economic plans if they win the next election.

Culture

25 h. ago Jury out on man accused of stalking radio star Myleene Klass

Peter Windsor, 61, denies causing serious alarm and distress to the former Hear’Say singer and her Classic FM colleague Katie Breathwick.

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30 h. ago Top Tory says Reform 'marching to the left' as he plots draconian welfare cuts

Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride has said foreign workers who unexpectedly lose their jobs may have to go back to their homelands as he announced sweeping welfare proposals

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30 h. ago Tories to ditch business rates for pubs and shops if they win election

Sir Mel Stride made the commitment as he addressed the Conservative Party conference

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30 h. ago Tories vow to give young people £5k towards a first home (but only if they get a job)

Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride unveiled the plan to 'reward work' in his speech to the Conservative conference in Manchester this morning.

Society

42 h. ago Foreigners will be BANNED from claiming benefits under Tory plans to save £50billion

Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride will unveil plans for cutting welfare, foreign aid and the size of the civil service to put the public finances on a more stable footing and pave the way for tax cuts.

Economics

43 h. ago Tories to set out plans to cut £47bn from government spending

Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride will unveil proposals at the Tory party conference.

Economics

43 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi Badenoch stood there, small, still, musing in that smoky voice... not shouting like a larky fake

Arriving ath the Tory Party conference, writes QUENTIN LETTS, it could have been day one of a county cricket match (division two).

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3 d. ago Mel Stride issues warning to Tory leadership plotters on eve of conference

Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride has spoken to The Independent ahead of the Tory conference in Manchester

Events

5 d. ago Cover Reveal For Alan Moore's I Hear A New World: Long London Vol 2

Cover Reveal For Alan Moore's I Hear A New World: Long London Vol 2  Bleeding Cool News

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5 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Ambitious Ed took ownership of the PM. Maybe, just maybe, he could seize the helm again...

When we could all have done with some soothing liniment, up stepped Ed Miliband to create a fresh squall of argy-bargy. It was the last morning of Labour's tetchy conference.

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6 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: For a grinding hour, Sir Keir pulverised the nation into a powder of boredom

Sir Keir Starmer lumbered on stage, clerical and boxy. His hair was scraped, the face shiny. A plodder newly released from the barber's chair. He did a walk of destiny.

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7 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: She droned on and on like a robot with a bunged

She has gone the full Bernard Bresslaw. A horrible year in office has tarred Rachel Reeves's voice. It is deeper, more adenoidal. In her conference speech she kept honking.

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8 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: His eyeballs thrashed in their sockets during his BBC party conference interview... the Prime Minister was jolly cross

Reform bashing was everywhere. It cheered up the delegates. Charlatans, snake-oil salesmen, peddlers of division and hatred: these were but some of the insults hurled at Mr Farage's brigade.

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1 week ago QUENTIN LETTS: Bereft of ideas, plunging in the polls, Labour's come up with a patronising new buzzphrase. Give me strength

After the Big Society and Levelling-Up, we are now to be lectured about another opaque political idea, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

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1 week ago QUENTIN LETTS: Jutting his jaw and stiffening his neck, Ed Davey's Lib Dems speech was a performance rehearsed in front of a full

While Donald Trump was making a serious speech about 'the death of western Europe', writes QUENTIN LETTS, Sir Ed Davey was musing about sunshine and rollercoasters.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Ed Davey's seesawing Dems don't know if they're Liberal or not

Here in sunny Bournemouth, amid the conference sound system's canned Vivaldi and the gentle burps (and worse) of Lib Dem activists during debates, you hear swipes at Sir Ed Davey.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Is it time to retire the stunts? 'Nooo' the activists shouted, and Sir Big Ed beamed

Sir Big Ed arrived at his party conference with a marching band, writes QUENTIN LETTS, pretending to be a drummer. Soon he was dressing up to reflect his party conference 'buzz'...

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