This is likely to be the last party conference before the election, so it is the ideal time for Labour to reassure people it understands the scale of the toxic legacy it will inherit after 13 years of Tory rule. And, more importantly, that it has a programme to match this challenge.
Siren voices are advising Labour that all it has to do is say very little on policy – certainly nothing that would upset the editors of the Sun and Daily Mail – and instead just allow the Conservative party to implode.
