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Conservative MP Lee Anderson mocked Bradford during a discussion about HS2.In a fringe event at the Tory conference in Manchester on Tuesday 3 October, the deputy chair of the party was questioned about the possible scrapping of the high-speed rail line between Birmingham and Manchester and how it would affect services in places like Bradford.“Would you want to get there quicker?” Mr Anderson responded, sparking laughter from the audience, which was made up of Tory members and activists.“That’ll be on the front of The Guardian tomorrow,” he then added. More

BBC presenter Victoria Derbyshire clashed with Conservative MP Michelle Donelan as she accused the political party of “making things up”.Ms Derbyside showed Ms Donelan three clips of MPs at the Conservative Party Conference discussing the public sorting their rubbish into seven different bins, councils limiting how many times people can go the shops, and Labour taxing meat.She then asks Ms Donelan: “How can you be the party of facts when none of that is true?“I am not going to let this go. They are fiction. It is really disrespectful to voters.” More

English rock band Toploader performed their famous hit “Dancing in the Moonlight” at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.The footage was shared by media personality Emily Hewertson online with the caption: “10/10 performance from Toploader at Party Conference.”Footage from another party in the city went viral earlier this week, when Nigel Farage and Priti Patel were spotted dancing together.The final day of the conference takes place on Wednesday 4 October, with prime minister Rishi Sunak expected to finally confirm he will scrap the HS2 rail link to Manchester. More

Suella Braverman suggested the Human Rights Act should have been called the “criminal rights act” during a speech at the Tory party conference on Tuesday, 3 October.”Our country has become enmeshed in a dense net of international rules that were designed for another era. And it is Labour that turbocharged their impact by passing the misnamed Human Rights Act,” the home secretary told an audience in Manchester.“I’m surprised they didn’t call it the ‘Criminal Rights Act’,” she added.Ms Braverman used her anti-immigration speech to claim that Britain faces a “hurricane” of migrants. More

A Conservative member of the London Assembly was escorted out of the Tory party conference after he appeared to heckle Suella Braverman’s speech on Tuesday, 3 October.Andrew Boff was led away by police after declaring “there’s no such thing as gender ideology” while the home secretary was speaking about “those who fail to conform” are “chased out of their jobs for saying that a man can’t be a woman” when “the left gets the upper hand.”Ms Braverman continued with her speech after Mr Boff was led away. More

Liz Truss was questioned by reporters upon her arrival at the Conservative Party conference, with one asking if she was attending to “cause trouble”.The former prime minister delivered a speech at the event on Monday 2 October.As she made her way inside the building, someone was heard shouting: “Didn’t your plan for growth fail Ms Truss? Are you just here to cause trouble?”The same voice then asks her: “Is Rishi Sunak getting it wrong?”During Monday’s speech, Ms Truss bizarrely claimed that we “need more GB News” as she defended the channel. More

Anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray was ejected from a Conservative Party Conference event on Monday 2 October, footage shows.Mr Bray – known for his daily protests outside Westminster – was removed from a meeting hosted by the Bruges Group think tank on the fringe of the event in Manchester.“Where’s your Brexit benefits?” he was heard asking as other members of the audience manhandled him.“What a load of bulls***, I’ve never heard so much crap in my life. Brexit is a disaster,” Mr Bray added, as he was being removed from the room. More

Liz Truss bizarrely claimed that “we need more GB News” as she opened her speech at Tory conference.The former prime minister addressed Conservative Party members in Manchester on Monday 2 October, backing the news channel less than a week after Laurence Fox and presenter Dan Wootton were suspended after Fox made a series of remarks about political correspondent Ava Evans.“In my view, we need more economic journalism, and we need more GB News,” Ms Truss said.“Challenging the orthodoxy, broadcasting common sense and transforming our media landscape. So long may it continue.” More