Labour's rule changes are a dream come true for Tony Blair and the Tories, warned the first of five conference delegates to speak against the Collins proposals.
Hampstead and Kilburn constituency delegate Pete Firmin complained that party members had only seen the proposals a month ago.
“Important change requires far-reaching discussion in the party, but we have not been able to have that,” he said.
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
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
The Gala’s core message of working-class solidarity offers renewed hope and provides the antidote to the anti-worker policies of Reform UK, argues IAN LAVERY MP
KATE CLARK recalls an occasion when the president of the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers might just have saved a Chilean prisoner’s life


