This is the third party conference I have attended in which the hosting party has just been kicked out of office: the other two being Labour 2010, Liberal Democrats 2015. They've all had a similar vibe, and maybe this one will have the same ending:

This Tory conference reads like a familiar story, risking a longer spell in opposition

Leadership frontrunners appear to prescribe moving the party closer to its activist base, but this approach rarely pays off

In a sense the worst thing Starmer ever did to the Conservative Party was to give it hope this early in the electoral cycle

They are out of power for a generation. They just haven’t realised yet.

If the perfectly sane and sensible Ed Stone had been elected in 2015 the country would be in a better state than it is now. That cannot be said of 2029 with the current state of the Tory Party.

The vibe for the conservatives I would guess is something like: "We were right, they'll see, we didn't get our message across sufficiently, we don't need to do something different in fact we didn't do it boldly enough!" That right? The others were similar?