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* 1980 Conservative Conference:
{{quote| "To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. [[Margaret Thatcher|The lady]]'s not for turning!"}}
* 1984 Conservative Conference. A bomb is set off by the IRA in the hotel where the Cabinet are staying, killing five people. Thatcher survives, having just left the worst hit area.
* 1985 Labour Conference. In which Neil Kinnock took on the hard-left in his party with this brilliant quote, referring to Militant-dominated Liverpool City Council:
{{quote| I'll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, out-dated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council - ''[[What the Hell, Hero?|a Labour council]]!'' - hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers.}}
** There were walkouts from people who didn't like this speech. Militant were kicked out of the Labour Party a few years later, and Kinnock's strategy of taking the party to the centre eventually worked... although almost failed in 1992 due to a ''[[British Newspapers|very famous]]'' headline.
* 2003 Conservative Conference. "The Quiet Man is turning up the volume"- Iain Duncan Smith was thrown out by his own parliamentary party at the end of October, just over a month later.
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References in fiction:
* In the ill-fated ITV sitcom ''Barbara'', Neil and his girlfriend Lucy visited Blackpool during the Tory Party Conference and is asked about the trip by his sister, Linda.
{{quote| '''Linda''': So tell me, where did you and Lucy do it this time? Under the pier? On top of a tram? Or on the Countwood Harry Ramsden's with a pickled egg in each hand?<br />
'''Neil''': Oh no, we went a bit more up-market this time.<br />
'''Linda''': Oh yeah? Where?<br />
'''Neil''': Tory Party Conference. (Sees news coverage on the TV). Well, you see Ann Widdecombe?<br />
'''Linda''': Yeah.<br />
'''Neil''': See the way the lecturn's wobbling? <br />
'''Linda''': Yeah.<br />
'''Neil''': We're at it under the stage.<br />
'''Linda''': Ann Widdecombe? You were doing it under Ann Widdecombe? Well, I suppose it's the nearest she'll ever come to it. }}
 
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