‘Now’s not the time for an apprentice,’ says Cleverly, as he stresses experience in pitch to Tory conference – UK politics live

‘Now’s not the time for an apprentice,’ says Cleverly, as he stresses experience in pitch to Tory conference – UK politics live

Leadership rivals Jenrick, Cleverly, Badenoch and Tugendhat get 20 minutes to sell their vision to members

Richard Fuller, the Tory chair, is on the conference platform now introducing the morning session.

He starts with thanks to various people who have helped with the conference.

After a frenetic Conference for Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick the tiredness will be kicking in, but also for the teams of advisers who want, and maybe need, their principal to take another go at delivering the twenty-minute speech of their career.

It’s a four hoarse race.

The problem for the party, and for me, is that none of this gossipy chatter has taken the conference attendees much further forward – nor has any of the four taken conference by storm.

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