Good morning from Liverpool. This is my first First Edition on location, coming to you from the Labour party conference here. It’s not exactly Ibiza, but I will do my best to keep you entertained.
MPs, councillors, union officials and other delegates are descending on the city. On Sunday morning, Keir Starmer put down a striking marker for the next few days by saying that Reform UK’s plans to revoke the rights of thousands of people to live in Britain were “racist” and “immoral”. On the other hand, home secretary Shabana Mahmood will today set out a tougher set of conditions for permission to settle in the UK. And even if Rachel Reeves has a more cheerful policy to announce, a library in the 1,700 English primary schools that currently lack them, a flurry of protests from across the political spectrum in the afternoon underlined that Reform have chosen the battleground.
