{"id":125485,"date":"2019-10-04T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=124898"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:59:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T14:59:05","slug":"get-brexit-done-the-conservative-party-conference-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/get-brexit-done-the-conservative-party-conference-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Get Brexit Done\u2019: the Conservative Party Conference 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Conservative Conference will probably be judged by party insiders to have been a success. Certainly, the feedback from delegates in the bars and fringe meetings in Manchester was one of optimism and a determination to get Brexit delivered by the end of October.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The stories about Boris Johnson\u2019s private life, either relating to Jennifer Arcuri or allegations by the journalist Charlotte Edwardes<\/a> that he had squeezed her thigh at a Spectator lunch in 1999, seemed to have very little cut-through with Conservative party members and activists. They queued around the block to hear his first leader\u2019s speech<\/a> and it was well received in the conference hall, even though there was surprise from the press pack that not a single new policy was actually announced, with journalist Gaby Hinsliff calling it \u2018a triumph of rhetoric over reality\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is likely that any new policy ideas are being saved for the inevitable General Election campaign or they will be unveiled in the Queen\u2019s Speech on 14 October.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless the Prime Minister set out his vision for the UK post-Brexit with his characteristic optimism. His concluded with: \u2018This country has long been a pioneer. We inaugurated the steam age, the atomic age, the age of the genome. We led the way in parliamentary democracy, in female emancipation. And when the whole world had succumbed to a different fashion, this country and this party pioneered ideas of free markets and privatisation that spread across the planet.<\/p>\n

\u2018Every one of them was controversial, every one of them was difficult, but we have always had the courage to be original, to do things differently, and now we are about to take another giant step to do something no one thought we could do.<\/p>\n

\u2018To reboot our politics, to relaunch ourselves into the world, and to dedicate ourselves again to that simple proposition that we are here to serve the democratic will of the British people.<\/p>\n

\u2018And if we do that with optimism and confidence then I tell you we will not go wrong. Let\u2019s get on with sensible moderate one nation but tax-cutting Tory government, and figuratively if not literally, let us send Jeremy Corbyn into orbit where he belongs.<\/p>\n

\u2018Let\u2019s get Brexit done. Let\u2019s bring our country together.\u2019<\/p>\n

The conference also gave Mr Johnson\u2019s newly appointed cabinet ministers opportunities to speak from the main stage and many were impressed with Sajid Javid\u2019s authentic greeting to his mother<\/a>, who was in the audience to see his first conference speech as Chancellor.<\/p>\n

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Thank you mum #CPC19<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/rRPT2Xximx<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) September 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n