George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, David Cameron, the Tory leader, and William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, walk to the International Conference Centre in Birmingham, where the Conservative conference is taking place, to give their reaction to the financial crisisPhotograph: Christopher Furlong/GettyA delegate walks to the Tory conference past posters of Margaret Thatcher, the former Conservative prime ministerPhotograph: Christopher Furlong/GettyCameron's hands as he speaks on the economyPhotograph: Stephen Hird/Reuters
Cameron reacts in a radio interview to the overnight world financial turmoil during the Tory conferencePhotograph: Christopher Furlong/GettyOsborne leaves the stage after addressing the conferencePhotograph: Stefan Rosseau/PAMake-up is applied to Osborne's face before a TV interview, after he gave his keynote speech to delegatesPhotograph: Christopher Furlong/GettyThe mayor of London, Boris Johnson, addresses the conferencePhotograph: Christopher Furlong/GettyAndrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, gives a speechPhotograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/APCameron leaves the stage after addressing the conferencePhotograph: Rui Vieira/PAHague and Osborne in the audiencePhotograph: Chris Radburn/Press AssociationIain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, speaks to the conferencePhotograph: Stephen Hird/ReutersA delegate sleeps through a debatePhotograph: Christopher Furlong/GettyPolitical posters line the walls at the ICCPhotograph: Christopher Furlong/GettyDelegates read the papers during a breakPhotograph: Chris Radburn/Press AssociationCameron jogging in BirminghamPhotograph: ReutersDelegates help themselves to free bananas given away next to a cut-out of Labour's foreign secretary, David Miliband. Miliband was pictured last week holding a banana at the Labour conferencePhotograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
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