What the Conservative party wants, May is listening

IT is what Theresa May didn't say that has been the most interesting aspect of her Conservative party conference performances.

This is a woman in love with her party and its activists, which was never the case with David Cameron or Tony Blair.

We forget at our peril that, from her early schooldays, Mrs May was a Conservative party "geek". When she left Oxford university with a degree in geography, she worked for the Bank of England. Former BOE officials recall a woman obsessive to the point of being boring about local Tory party politics.