It’s all in the delivery as Boris Johnson faces worried Tories at conference

Analysis: The prime minister needs to shake a sense of national paralysis and reassure his party before a daunting winter

When preparations began for this year's Conservative party conference, what most struck Boris Johnson and his senior aides was research suggesting voters feel the country is paralysed - that valuable time has been lost to the pandemic and that everything else is at a standstill.

Above all, Johnson's aim for the conference will be to try to shake that sense of inertia. He will characterise himself as the delivery prime minister, even if his own MPs complain there has been precious little delivery so far.