3/3. Plotting. Whenever two politicians gather together, there's bound to be a plot. At the party conferences, there are hundreds of politicians and nearly as many plots. Sometimes they're trivial; sometimes they're no more than party horse-trading; but sometimes they can cause the downfall of a leader or the emergence of a new one. Gyles Brandreth , former MP and minister, and an experienced conference hand, offers his rules for plotting at conference time. producer Chris Bond Repeated from Sunday at 10.45pm