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The mood at conference has changed. Today has without a doubt been one of the most interesting days here for me – managed to make it into David’s speech at 11am this morning – a packed out conference hall.

Today a statesmen addressed his Party’s conference. With the global economy in turmoil and savers and homeowners across the world frightened for their family’s security, David Cameron spoke to us and to the whole country to reassure us all and enourage calmness.

I think I’ve attended over twenty party conferences and I’m pretty sure that this year’s is one of the best so far. It is fantastic to be in Birmingham and there is a real buzz here. All the delegates that I’ve caught up with so far seem to be impressed with the new venue. All the staff are unfailingly polite, friendly and helpful and even the weather has been shining on us!

Another great day at Conference – I got to ask a question in the first session, met Tim Campbell from the Apprentice and spoke to the blonde bombshell himself – Boris Johnson.

The night before conference ended up going out to explore Birmingham- there’s such a buzz around the city-promised myself an early night…got to bed about 3am I think with so many Conservatives in one place sleeping is clearly over rated!!

Something happened this morning that I don’t think has ever happened before. Party conferences are usually about talk. But today something special happened: the Bishop of Birmingham held the conference in total silence.

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.

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.