But many London Jews find it is too soon to speak of the horrific events in Israel, and are filled with sombre forebodings.
The audience loved this story of a Prime Minister who finds true love by taking long-term decisions for a brighter future.
The effect of the train strikes on attendance, the trauma of recent years, and the change in the nature of the Tory Conference itself leave the question hanging.
With breathtaking audacity she quoted Shelley, long a poet the Labour Party assumed was on their side.
On the first afternoon the Government lacked an orator who could make Conservatives feel good about being Conservative.
He cannot be blamed for his political colleagues’ personal affairs. But making this speech revealed serious political naivete, and the effect was catastrophic on Conservative credibility.
Instead of a Conservative housing policy that emphasises home ownership and architectural beauty, it will now be done the Labour way. When tower blocks start rising over the Home Counties, I hope that our remaining MPs realise their mistake.
82.5 per cent of all jobs in this country are in the private sector. Of these, 61 per cent are in the SMEs – small and medium-sized enterprises. In other words, over 50 per cent of all jobs in the United Kingdom are now in small businesses.
The joint One Nation Caucus and Tory Reform Group conference last weekend, following the recent National Conservative Conference, are pointers to the shape of a possible future.
He may have less than a year, as Parliament returns and his Party’s conference looms, to persuade voters of his case – which he has scarcely even begun to make.
The Government is now trying to make T levels the main vocational alternative to A levels. It is not clear that they can take on such a big role.
It is a generation since Margaret Thatcher abandoned Neo-Keynesian thinking, set her face firmly against prices and income policies, and made it clear that the key to tackling inflation was curbing the growth in money.
I believe firmly that it is in our environmental, economic, moral, and – yes – political interests as Conservatives to make sure we lead on this issue rather than talk it down. We shouldn’t be coy about putting forward this positive vision.