We happy few. The morning after the afternoon before. It was a curious decision to schedule Keir Starmer’s speech for the Tuesday of the party conference. Almost like saying that the real business was in effect over with a day to spare. An invitation to some to pack up and go home early, which many delegates had happily accepted. Or else they had been partying late and forced to throw a sickie. Either way, most of the conference centre looked like something of a ghost town early on Wednesday.
But the show had to go on. Conferences abhor a vacuum. So we kicked off with Starmer doing a victory lap on the media round. They were some of the easiest interviews he will ever do, as no one had any tricky questions for him.
