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Chris, tell me things that reveal you could only be at Tory Party Conference.
What in this building or what with the blue carpet?
Well, you can get blue carpet.
Yeah,
you get you do get blue carpets in other places Don't you what else could there could there be Margaret Thatcher's iconic outfits to mark the fact it's a hundred years
since her birth Yes,
which is quite something and you sort of read the history associated with them and the particular speeches that she wore them for the particular moments that she was wearing them for and for me it's that there's two things one is the ongoing reverie with which she is held 35 years after she left office.
But the other observation I would make is that this is a party for better or worse,
and you hear both of these accounts privately from conservatives about the extent to which there should be still a reverence around someone from such a long time ago,
because some think that there's almost a karaoke thatcherism that goes on and that this is a different era and all the rest of it.
Equally, you'll hear people privately within the Labour Party saying,
we'd never be able to do the same thing about Tony Blair, you know,
an equally, electorally successful leader,
because there are plenty of them in the Labour Party who really don't like the legacy of Tony Blair.
They have to go back to Atley for one they can all agree on.
Well, you need a bit of that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Whereas Conservatives, as I say, depending on who you ask for better or worse,
are reverent about Lady Thatcher because, principally, because they see her as a frequent winner.