Key takeaways from the Conservative Party conference

By Daniel Gayne2023-10-05T09:29:00

This party conference will long be remembered as the place HS2 died. But rail was far from the only topic on the agenda in Manchester, as Daniel Gayne reports

By the time Rishi Sunak took to the stage in Manchester yesterday, there was no secret about what he was about to do.

Having refused to be “rushed” into a decision, the question of HS2’s future had inevitably come to dominate the Conservative Party’s annual conference in the northern city, despite the desperate hopes of MPs to talk about anything else.

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