Eric Pickles delivered an extraordinary speech at the Tory party conference yesterday, in which he evoked "cigar-chomping Commies", the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the reality TV show 'The Only Way is Essex'.Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, repeatedly slammed the Labour party in his colourful speech, but still found time to praise his own party. "It was the Conservative Party that helped me get where I am today," he claimed.
The MP admitted to having...
