Depite Labour claiming they only care about Reform and that the Tories are dead, they’ve put some effort into breaking the usual conventions around conference announcements. A longstanding gentlemen’s agreement establishes that you don’t make announcements or do media during the other party’s conference…
The government has completely flouted this rule. Shabana Mahmood literally travelled up to Manchester to tell Laura Kuenssberg why she wants to impose more restrictions on protests. After that, the Labour did a big housing policy announcement with an accompanying media round. Back in 2023, when Sunak went on TV once during Labour Conference, the party complained that it was “a bit below the belt and a bit naff“ and “desperate stuff” which “shows they’re rattled by a changed Labour Party and our plans to change Britain.” See how that went…
Starmer is already doing a Gordon Brown by taking assembled hacks and businesses to India for almost no reason during Tory Conference. Hilariously those same hacks are now pursuing Starmer over a serious and developing scandal involving China and Jonathan Powell…
