Photo gallery: the Conservative party conference

September 30 2007: David Cameron, the Conservative leader, visits a sweet shop in Blackpool Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

September 30 2007: A policeman looks round a door Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

September 30 2007: Mr Cameron in conference Photograph: Martin Argles/Guardian

September 30 2007: Mr Cameron and his wife, Samantha, make their way to the conference Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

September 30 2007: Two members of Mr Cameron's press team - George Eustice, head of press, and Gabrielle Bertin, deputy press officer - watch as the Tory leader gives an interview on the Andrew Marr Show Photograph: Martin Argles/Guardian

September 30 2007: Mr Cameron claps during the conference Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

September 30 2007: The shadow foreign secretary, William Hague Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

September 30 2007: Mr Cameron listens as Mr Hague speaks to the conference Photograph: Martin Argles/Guardian

September 30 2007: Delegates at the conference Photograph: Martin Argles/Guardian

September 30 2007: Boris Johnson is seen through a camera viewfinder as he addresses the conference Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

September 30 2007: Lord Heseltine addresses delegates Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty

September 30 2007: An Abbot artillery tank used in a protest by the Conservative Way Forward group, calling for better equipment for our armed forces, is loaded on to a trailer after their demonstration was stopped by police Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty

September 30 2007: Theresa May, the shadow leader of the Commons, addresses the conference wearing leopard-print wellington boots Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

September 30 2007: The lobby of a Blackpool hotel awash with Sunday newspapers Photograph: Martin Argles/Guardian

September 30 2007: A pint of lager sits on a beer mat depicting Gordon Brown Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty

September 30 2007: A man wearing anti-government posters protests outside the Blackpool Winter Gardens Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty

October 1 2007: The shadow chancellor, George Osborne Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

October 1 2007: Party delegates at the conference Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian