TRG@Conference 2007
As the Conservative Party Conference opens in Blackpool, today, I find myself flicking through the official handbook. It has the complete listing of main hall and fringe events. One name that keeps coming up is that of David Willets MP. He seems to have the most hectic schedule of any speaker at the fringe, this year. If you think anyone else is doing more, then let us know.
The TRG’s own programme for conference looks pretty impressive and I should stress that I don’t have much to do with organising these things, that is mainly down to Tim Crockford, our events committee chair, and Clare Whelan, our National Director, so thanks (in advance!) to both of them.
We are hosting “4 Days, 4 Events”, with speakers including Lord Hurt, Oliver Letwin, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Damian Green, David Mudell, Sayeeda Warsi, Nick Bourne, Dominic Grieve and others. It should all be informative and, hopefully, a lot of fun. As things develop, we will try and get some things posted on this blog to offer the TRG’s perspective on the conference as it unfolds!
I have written before about the split between town and country, which I view as one of the biggest divides in Britain today. One lady, Jane O’Neill, feels the same way and has been on Radio 4 this morning.
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In the bus from the airport to the conference venue, several of the other attendees for the EIN event could not understand why I was getting so excited about the chance to meet Garry Kasparov.
You know how it is. While innocently sitting at my desk this morning, the father of a friend of mine sent a round-robin email with a link to a piece of video. Mostly, these things tend to be rubbish, occassionally funny, but rarely informative. Today, this one was.
As the last of the Tory’s major policy review groups to report, the finding of the Quality of Life team are particularly welcome. Firstly, their weighty tome has added a large number of exciting new policy options to the party for its consideration. Some were to be expected, such as calls to curb airport expansion. Others were less so.
Following from our very definate result in the poll on David Cameron this month, and mindful of the approaching conference season, we thought we would stick with the theme of political leaders this month and ask a question about the venerable Ming Campbell.


