Tory party conference: leadership rivals battle with free merch

The Conservative Party conference kicks off in Birmingham - throwing the race to become the next opposition leader wide open. And as the hopefuls promote themselves to the Tory membership, there’s an unusual array of candidate promotional ‘merch’ being offered.The Standard’s chief political correspondent, Rachael Burford, has the details.But is it actually helping convince members that they should back James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick?The jury’s out, but there’s also been some very interesting polling on who the public’s thinks has what it takes to become a future prime minister.In part two, as the UK’s last remaining coal-fired power station shuts down, is it possible to ensure clean energy while cutting consumer bills - and how would this power grid of the future operate?We’re joined by climate scientist Simon Lewis, professor of global change science at UCL. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.