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Article: Who said we don't like Europe? Conservative Party conference.(Iain Duncan Smith's first conference as Conservative Party leader)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2001
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Nobody much was watching, but IDS did rather well
FOR Iain Duncan Smith, the new leader of the Conservative Party, it was just as well that the conference was a sideshow to events elsewhere. A harsher spotlight would have exposed what an odd, diminished crew he is now leading.
Compared with his predecessor, William Hague, Mr Duncan Smith is no orator. The applause from the audience after he gave his first conference speech was more dutiful than enthusiastic. But, despite a frog at times in his throat and the occasional stumble, he made a decent job of it.
With IDS, as he is universally called, what you see is what you get: a straightforward, ...