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Anna Soubry turns on young Tories

The Tory tradition of blue-on-blue attacks at the party’s conference continues. Today, it’s the turn of Anna Soubry to mock young Tory activists. When Telegraph journalist Christopher Hope said that the pictures of empty seats in the main conference hall didn’t tell the full story of what is happening in Birmingham and that many fringe meetings were buzzing with young activists, Soubry replied with the following:

Mr S isn’t sure that’s quite the right way to encourage the next generation…

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