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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.
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
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
With Labour governments either side of the border, the distressing times we live in demand much more collaborative working, argues JESS TURNER