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Party conference fun continues with a failed purge and Brexit policy remaining a moving target
Classic Dom. He’s got the Labour party just where he wants it. Taking a leaf out of the Conservative party playbook. The Tories have spent the last few years fighting over Europe and conducting drive-by shootings on each other. And the lesson that Labour appears to have taken from this is that if it wants to be successful at the next election and form the next government, then it has to behave in much the same way.
There were so many things that Labour could have been talking about on the opening two days of its party conference. Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament. The imminent supreme court judgment that could lead to a recall. The Incredible Sulk’s alleged cavalier attitude to public money – hell it was only a few grand – while London mayor. The lack of any progress towards a Brexit deal. The Non-Papers that happened to contain Non-Ideas. Continue reading...