Labour has proposed charging business pass attendees to its Party Conference a whopping £2,500. For the pleasure of seeing a junior minister’s face over breakfast of stale croissants…
The party is launching all pass applications on the 11th of this month. Its conference services team currently asking previous business attendees a series of questions about their hopes and expectations and says “your input will play a key role in ensuring we get this right for you.“ Labour is even offering respondents a £100 Amazon or John Lewis gift card as a reward for their views…
The questionnaire asks:
“If the Annual Conference week pass was priced at £2,500, how likely would you be to purchase a ticket?”
Those business passes usually start at £900 before rising at the last minute stage. So Labour is proposing a price hike of almost 300%. Party finance desperation combined with hatred of growth-generators…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”