“BRING on the Clowns”, and Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees Mogg and company duly obliged, giving us a preview to the main event, which was “The Dancing Queen”.

As our Prime Minister pranced onto the stage at the Tory party conference, I was reminded more of Saint Vitas than Saint Theresa.

We were all cheered by the good news that austerity had ended, the National Debt had been reduced and, when she has completed successful negotiation with the EU over Brexit, we would all live happily ever after.

You could have fooled me.

I have not heard of any food banks closing.

Universal Credit is still causing great hardship.

The NHS is still in crisis.

Brexit negotiations are still stagnating.

As for the National Debt, the last count I heard put it in the region of £1.8tr – more than the £1tr when Labour left office in 2010.

Despite the Tory promise that the deficit would be eliminated by 2015, the latest forecast suggests it will be £35bn in 2025.

Mrs May did, however, play her trump card by stating that the freeze on fuel tax would be continued. It was Gordon Brown who first applied it and woe betide any government that reactivates it.

I feel that I must draw attention to a particular part of her speech for which she should be thoroughly ashamed. She called Jeremy Corbyn a racist.

This coming from a woman who when she was Home Secretary transported Windrush descendants who were British citizens while removing the right to work for others leaving more destitute. Instead of accepting personal responsibility she shifted blame on her successor who was compelled to resign.

Jeremy Corbyn has campaigned against racism for most of his life. He was arrested outside the South African embassy protesting against apartheid while a Tory government was supporting an oppressive regime.

I reckon Theresa May has been leading as all a merry dance.

Maurice Baker, Middlestone Moor.