Parties should stop channelling leaders of the past and be themselves, The Independent's editor-in-chief Geordie Greig has said, ahead of the Conservatives launching their annual party conference with a series of fresh policy proposals. Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (4 October), he was asked whether Tory support for the triple lock was principled or simply pragmatic, given half their voters are pensioners. Geordie Greig said the two m…