
ALT On reflection, it would have been better for Andrew Griffith if he’d abandoned his speech when the announcer got his name wrong. He is the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, supposedly the second most important figure in the Conservative Party. If they don’t even know what he’s called, he should take the hint. It was an oration that party managers will describe as a cautionary tale to generations of MPs yet unborn He didn’t, of course. Perhaps he thought that after such a slip, things could only get better. If so, it was a judgement in which he was profoundly mistaken. He was about to give one of the all-time terrible party conference speeches. It was an oration that party managers will describe as a cautionary tale to generations of MPs yet unborn. Some speeches are written terribly. Some are delivered terribly. This one was so terrible in every way that it should be sealed in lead and buried at the bottom of the ocean.





























