Can Labour make the right kind of news this week?

The great Labour worry about this week is that they’ll be relegated to the ‘in other news’ section of the evening bulletins. There’s a real sense of a struggle for relevance. As one Labour MP half-joked to me last week, ‘do you think the conference of the third most interesting party in British politics will get much coverage?’

But those close to Ed Miliband can take some satisfaction from the opening hours of this conference. The leader’s arrival with his wife and children produced some nice pictures for the Sunday papers, his interviews on the morning news shows went well enough and he looks likely to get the changes to the party rules he wants through with ease. (Although, Labour’s gambit on tuition fees is not going down particularly well) 

There is, though, one particular cloud on the leader’s horizon: his brother’s appearance at a rally tonight. This will reopen the whole Miliband-family drama.