Tory leader will need a barnstorming conference performance to quell fears that her party is slipping into irrelevance

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The Tory leader was greeted by a crowd of activists outside the Midland Hotel on Saturday afternoon - and insists her Party are the only one with a 'credible plan' on the economy…

Conservative leader speaks to The Telegraph as she prepares to lay out concrete policy proposals at party conference

Tory leader will need a barnstorming conference performance to quell fears that her party is slipping into irrelevance

Conservative leader has achieved the seemingly impossible: she has taken the Tories even further backwards

Eye-catching pledges are not enough. The public need to believe the Conservative Party can deliver

The conference offers a flailing leader, Trumpite policies and rivals jockeying for position. It is comical, but also worrying, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan