Military good, migrants bad, Tory candidates tell conference
(left to right) Tory leadership candidates, Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat, stand together on stage after delivering their speeches at the Conservative Party Conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, October 2, 2024
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TORY leadership contenders made their final conference pitches, seeking to outbid each other in anti-migrant sentiment, bellicosity and fealty to Israel.
The four candidates took to the stage in Birmingham to outline their perspectives for reviving the battered Conservative Party, aiming their appeals at the party’s reactionary membership rather than the wider public.
The 121 Tory MPs will whittle the list down to just two over the next week, who will then go to a ballot of the Tory membership.
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