Low interest is challenging organisers, with business day tickets still not sold, speakers reluctant to engage and attenders dialling back their time
‘Not much appetite to hear four cats mewing’: business adviser Jon McLeod on Tory leadership contenders, from left, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat.‘Not much appetite to hear four cats mewing’: business adviser Jon McLeod on Tory leadership contenders, from left, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat.
One source, who wished to remain anonymous, added that many former senior Tories said they would not be attending this year. And while Labour’ssold out in hours, with the great and the good of the corporate world keen to rub shoulders with the new government, the Tories are still trying to sell theirs – despite conference season starting this weekend with the
“Not out of any mean-spiritedness – it’s partly because they’ve got the leadership parade and it’s difficult to work out materially what the candidates want. “Interest is down, but it’s not totally abandoned. A lot of people are going up for a day, whereas before they would have gone for a couple of days.”
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