Lovely to see Shazia Awan’s conference diary in which she describes herself as a “conference virgin”. I did suggest that since this is my twenty fourth conference the Blue Blog might title this offering as the Diary of a Conference Slut, but that was felt to be too near the knuckle for those in the Party of a more delicate disposition.

I’m getting ready to head to my first Party Conference – I thought I’d be nervous, but I’m just really so excited. I’m proud to be a member of a party with such a fresh and modern outlook and am certainly looking forward to not being a conference virgin anymore.

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, reports back from his trips to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing.

So after months of planning and prep, the new conservatives.com has gone live – and miraculously for an IT project, it’s on time, delivered ready for Party Conference. Still a few kinks to iron out – postcode search and some login problems, but I hope these will be smoothed out shortly and that they don’t detract from the overall experience.

Our conference is about to start in Birmingham and as I was saying in the latest webcameron clip we’ll be focusing on the financial crisis and publishing our plans for helping people with the downturn and building a strong economy for the long term.