party conference 2010
With the party conference season over for yet another year we reflect on the month that was dominated by cut speculation including child benefits, quangos and defence. Concluding his first Conservative conference as Prime Minister, Cameron returned to his ‘Big Society’ theme and called for the nation to pull together in the national interest to tackle the deficit. In an unrelated development it was announced that the party’s deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft (and a leading critic of Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ concept) will be replaced by leading MP Michael Fallon.
Labour’s first non-Governmental conference in 13 years was not without commotion when the “new generation” Ed Miliband was elected Leader on the back of trade union votes over his more ‘Blairite’ brother who held the popularity of Party members present in larger numbers at the conference.
The Lib Dem conference, expected by many to be explosive, turned out to be the most united. Nick Clegg proclaimed the Coalition as ‘genuinely radical’ and then left two days early to address the UN as Deputy PM.
In other news, amid doubt the Commonwealth Games opened this week although not without further crisis with athletes falling ill. And in European news hanover Brussels is to co-host a discussion on eHealth tomorrow.
For a round-up of all three party conferences click here.