Chief Minister Tony Brown is stressing the importance to the Isle of Man of having ministerial input at the major party conferences in the United Kingdom.
Mr Brown and Treasury Minister Anne Craine are in Birmingham for the Conservatives' first conference in government for 14 years.
Economic Development Minister Allan Bell has already represented the Manx government at the Labour and Liberal Democrat summits, and Mr Brown believes the approach is paying dividends:
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