Alastair Harper is Green Alliance’s senior policy adviser on Political Leadership and roving party conference diarist.
This is his final diary posting from the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, first published on Business Green.
Well, thank God that’s over with. Three lanyards now dangle from the side of my monitor like campaign medals. It’s lucky we’re largely a three party system. One more of these things and I’d have developed trench foot.
I’m home for good. Home for the last few days has been a hotel in an industrial part of Birmingham two miles from the secure zone. In the lift, there was an advert for an upcoming Roy Chubby Brown tribute night. This, it is fair to say, was not the prime minister’s hotel.
Anyway, with it all done, I thought I’d use this final diary to list some of the things I’ve learned from this party conference season – Read more