Sentence examples for tory audience from inspiring English sources

With the Scottish Tory leader, Ruth Davidson telling the selected Tory audience in Glasgow's Emirates Arena that her party were "back", "on the up" and had a "one in a lifetime opportunity in our grasp", there was an air of delusion about the joint performance with Mr Cameron.

"Bring back the grammars" has, though, always been an effective way of harvesting applause from Tory audiences.

Four years earlier 8.1 million tuned into election coverage up to midnight, while in 1997 the anticipation of a bloody defeat for the Tories swelled audience numbers to 11 million.

This was not the speech of a crypto-Tory to an audience of crypto-Tories.

His stance on immigration and free enterprise went down well with the Tories in the audience, his pops at Tory politicians less so, but everyone seemed to go away happy as Farage headed outside for that fag.

Eleven days ago, he told an audience of Tory activists in Southfields: If you want our precious green spaces protected, Sadiq Khan has form on this.

There is no one in the country other than Pumped Dave who believes that for a moment, not even the most enthusiastic Tory supporters in the audience, though they still felt obliged to give him an encouraging clap.

"You, the social entrepreneurs, the voluntary organisations the people doing the patient, painstaking work on the ground...you stand for love," he told the audience.The Tory leader, in the name of compassionate conservatism, and Mr Blair, in the name of public-service reform, are competing to claim what looks like more or less the same big idea.

As far back as February 2010, he told an audience of Tory activists: "What investor is going to come to the UK when they fear a downgrade of our credit rating and a collapse of confidence?" In the Tory manifesto, published weeks later, he said: "We will safeguard Britain's credit rating with a credible plan to eliminate the bulk of the structural deficit over a parliament".

Entertainment at the event was provided by the Leslie Bell singers, and according to Grosart, many in the audience were Tory supporters who had turned out to hear them.

Updated at 3.27pm BST 3.20pm BST Saying no to the Tories Clegg invites the audience to think what the government would have been like if the Tories had governed on their own for the last three years.