The party faithful were in raptures after Keir Starmer’s speech to the conference on Tuesday, but Labour mandarins will have been eyeing the reaction in unfriendly corners of the media more than they were surveying the room in Liverpool.
Media-watchers within the party ranks will have been desperately looking for any sign of a softening among the Rupert Murdoch-owned press – including the Sun and the Times – in its coverage of the speech.