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Even the leaflet pushers lurking outside Labour’s annual conference were looking respectable yesterday.
The delegates, staffers and volunteers dishing out material for their rallies, fringe meetings and factions have almost all been decked out in their Sunday best.
And the freebies being handed out are of a higher class — glossy copies of the Total Politics and House magazines no less.
Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
CHARLEY ALLAN reports from Clacton on Farage’s fears his by-election stunt has backfired
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP