Very stale ideas wafted round the ICC like a broken aircon. (The royal yacht; rwanda; woke civil service wah wah). One notable exhibit: insurgent free-thinker Badenoch's argument (briefed out the night before) that the Tories failed because of Blair/Brown and the "Left never left"....

... which is uncannily similar to that of Rishi Sunak "thirty year consensus speech" of the Conservative conference twelve months prior...