From the gag of the day to a snazzy pair of political heels – here are the highlights from the Tory conference
The Sun's Westminster Correspondent reports back on all the best bits from the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday
The Conservative Party Conference is underway in Birmingham – a big one for the party, as it is Theresa May’s first as PM, and the first since the Brexit vote.
Here, our Westminster Correspondent rounds up the highlights from the third day.
- With the boss on a walking holiday, it fell to top Jeremy Corbyn aide Seumas Milne to draft Labour’s response to the PM’s speech. Mr Milne was spied on a train to London Waterloo yesterday agonising for 20 minutes over whether to write "sowing division" or "fanning the flames".
- Rising star Nusrat Ghani introduced herself as the Tories' first female muslim MP, adding people always think she “must be from an oppressed minority, and they’re right, before I was elected I was a Conservative at the BBC.”
- Chief Whip Gavin Williamson has scotched rumours that government whips keep “a special black book where we record all of the misdeeds and the mistakes.” In a rare public appearance he revealed it’s actually blue.
- An electricity outage was reported in David Cameron’s Oxfordshire seat during Theresa May’s big speech yesterday. Not the only power to drain away from ex-PM recently.
- Ukip’s only MP Douglas Carswell was not fussed by the sudden resignation of his party boss on Tuesday evening. Ignoring a frenzy of media interest he tweeted: “In the middle of supper. Not taking calls about UKIP stuff. It's shepherds pie, by the way.”
GAG OF THE DAY
The PM gently ribbed BoJo: “When we came to Birmingham this week, some big questions were hanging in the air. Do we have a plan for Brexit? Can Boris Johnson stay on message for a full four days? Just about.”
HERO OF THE DAY
Theresa May for aiming to complete the modernisation of the Conservative Party by flipping her own withering 2002 soundbite about the Tories on to Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour: “You know what some people call them? The nasty party.”
ST MOTHER THERESA BROWN NOSE OF THE DAY
When the PM sacked Michael Gove she said he must prove his loyalty to her from the backbenches.
Not even she could have imagined the gushing praise he lavished on her conference speech, culminating in a comparison to US President Abraham Lincoln.
“JUST GETTING BY” AWARD
One of the last fringe events held at this year’s conference was a debate called: “Inequality does it matter?”
The panel of right-wing pointy heads concluded it did not.
PM TRIBUTE KITTEN HEELS
Scots Tory leader Ruth Davidson was wearing PM worthy pink heels.