‘The boss was just amazing,’ said one of the PM’s inner circle after her conference appearancesThe reaction to Theresa May’s two speeches at her first party conference as prime minister will define the rest of her time in office. When she brought the faithful to their feet on Wednesday with a clever appeal to the Tory grassroots and disillusioned Labour voters, a minister who had not backed her to be leader turned to another and said: “That’s her set fair until 2025.”The speech combined the virtues of hard work with a blast at tax-dodging corporate bosses, prompting the left-wing journalist Jonathan Freedland to remark that it “could have been co-written by Ed Miliband and…

Source: The Times October 08, 2016 23:03 UTC