The Tory conference parties are in full flow and the political speeches are underway. At the TaxPayers’ Alliance reception, shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick was the speaker of choice – and he didn’t disappoint. Crowning himself the ‘drug mule’ of the party, Jenrick laughed about the Ozempic trend that has taken over London:

I’ve managed to persuade quite a few people in this room to get slim. I’m like Pete Hegseth now. Fit, not fat.

And the weight loss analogy didn’t stop there:

On a serious note. The work that has been done to ensure, through the brilliant campaigns that you have been waging, that we actually begin to turn the tide, and that we start one day to shrink. The size of the state is immensely valuable. And we’ve got to do that now more than ever, because you see what

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