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Should Tories sit in the middle or move to the right?

The Conservatives won the general election and face a new more left-wing Labour leader, so some in the party think this presents an opportunity to straddle the centre ground of British politics.

But others reckon it is a chance to deliver a more radical Tory agenda to cut welfare, shrink the size of the state and change Britain's relationship with the EU.

Adam Fleming took the Daily Politics mood box - an unscientific test with a plastic bin an balls - around the Manchester conference centre to see where delegates think the party should place itself on the left-right axis.

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