Lots of new guests are in Liverpool for the Labour party conference this year. Right-of-centre magazine The Spectator held its first ever party at the event last night, and shadow cabinet heavyweights Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting and Angela Rayner turned up.
Editor Fraser Nelson said this was “terra incognita”, but he wants to have a bash every year from now on. “When the Corbyn era was here our party would have probably been more of a firebomb target than a place of hospitality,” he joked. Nelson said he and his journalists had designed “a politically sensitive drinks menu”, with no champagne, for the Labour crowd. Instead, the bar served Guinness and cocktails including a “Keir Royale” after the Labour leader. Reeves had one, but Rayner and Streeting didn’t. One guest told us hers tasted a little bland.
