All was not well at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.
The steady drip of knee-jerk policy announcements revealed a government in chaos; hardly surprising given the string of scandals over the past year, often for mistakes as basic as failing to report donations.
What’s more, Keir Starmer’s top team has suffered a weekly resignation or firing for five weeks running now – No 10 strategist Tom Kibasi, deputy leader Angela Rayner, US ambassador Peter Mandelson, senior aide Paul Ovenden, and communications director Steph Driver – and Labour has been behind Reform UK for over 100 consecutive polls, even facing wipeout in the party’s traditional Welsh heartland.
