Conservatives’ pointless press conference backfires

Although Theresa May insists that she is not complacent about the election result, the Conservatives do feel confident enough to hold press conferences even when they have nothing much to say. Today the lobby trooped 20 minutes east on the Jubilee line to Canary Wharf to hear Theresa May and Philip Hammond repeat yesterday’s Conservative attack lines about Labour’s manifesto sums not adding up.

Aside from coming out with the usual buzzwords (stable, strong etc), May did reveal that the Conservative manifesto — which will launch tomorrow — will cite the five great challenges facing the UK over the next five years and say how a Tory government would respond. But they stopped short of shedding any light on what the answers would be — let alone what policies they would plump for.

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