Labour conference diary: Slick and orderly, a few bums aside
Luke James gets under the skin of Labour conference
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.
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