This picture (Robert Hutton, The Critic) is of the bar at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, taken on lunchtime, Sunday 5th October. The Midland is the main conference hotel, inside the secure zone, and the Conference is already in progress…
John Crace reports in the Guardian (5th October) that it will be a long four days
There was the same sense of existential futility inside the conference hall. The place was like a ghost town. The bars and stands empty. As if no one had cared enough to come, apart from those who were contractually obliged to be there. A place where the Tory party had come to witness its own extinction. The conference highlights were ghosts of the past. Some Margaret Thatcher mementoes and a Winston Churchill AI.
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