The sun shone and the grassroots basked in the mood music,but there was little mention of the refugee crisis, Syriza, and Redcar’s steel plant or the VW scandalBurly Tom Watson,the union apparatchik unexpectedly tasked with keeping Labour’s feet on the ground as Jeremy Corbyn’s current deputy, rounded off this week’s Brighton conference at lunchtime in the rousing John “send ’em domestic cheerful” Prescott spot.
There was Prescottian Tory bashing knockabout and some rousing passages. But it was a thoughtful and inclusive speech that embraced the imperatives of a digital economy, and small businesses and tough-pressed dairy farmers,as well as women, minorities and even the traditional working class.
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Source: theguardian.com