THE Conservative party conference, gave Teresa May the opportunity to allay people’s fears about Brexit and to explain how she was going to deliver it for the British people.

Instead of that, she chose to tell us nothing apart from stating the obvious, such as “we are going to get the best possible deal” and “we are going to make a success of it.”

Instead, the Tories used their conference to orchestrate a show of unity. 

Anyone would think that the whole of the Conservative party voted for Brexit and they were there to celebrate their victory.

It was difficult to find  anyone at that conference who was not thoroughly enthusiastic about our future outside the EU.

They were all singing from the same hymn sheet, which seems to have been written by Nigel Farage.

In reality, there are still many disgruntled Tory remainers, who are causing Mrs May to be over-cautious.

The media is calling them “Cameroons” but most of them decided to keep a low profile at the party conference.

Not so the blustering new Home Secretary Amber Rudd, (who? Her name sounds like a Dickens character.)

She made the mistake of speaking up and was roundly booed by the audience, when she admitted that she voted to remain.

Unfortunately for the Tories, she is not alone.

Conference decided to ignore the fact that 185 other Tory MPs, also voted to remain, along with Teresa May and 70 per cent of her new Cabinet. Why were they not booed?

Then we came to the big u-turn.

For six years, we had been told by the Tories that cutting the deficit was essential for our economy and, as a result, the country was plunged into crippling austerity.

At the same time, the wealthy were lining their pockets and laughing all the way to the bank.

Now, all of a sudden, Mrs May is telling us that this was very unfair and has to change.

In a speech that made the Tories sound like the socialist workers party, she expects us to believe that, for the first time in their history, they have suddenly become the party of the working class.

It seems that the Cameron and Osborne years are being shunted aside as if it did not happen and was just a figment of our imaginations.

It would be hilarious if it were not so hypocritical.

Conservative ministers have invented new catchphrases like, soft Brexit, hard Brexit and my favourite, Brexit means Brexit.

This is like saying cheese means cheese – there are many different types of cheese.

Mrs May says that she will invoke Article 50 by the end of March 2017. This remains to be seen but she must remember that a week is a long time in politics, so anything could happen by then.

– P Young, Chepstow.