It’s now five years since I first attended party conferences for my job, and I’ve noted some quite different atmospheres over the years.
The 2009 party conferences were the most striking: the quietly confident Conservative conference where champagne was strictly off limits, Labour’s failed coups and sense of impending downfall, and the pre-Cleggmania stoicism at Lib Dems. All this with the backdrop of the MPs’ expense scandal rumbling on.
Fast forward to 2012 and it’s quite a different … Read more