Has Labour got anything new to say at its party conference?

Have you learned anything about this Labour government from the conference speeches so far? Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ address to the hall in Liverpool this lunchtime was an announcement-free zone, and the same is true of all the other ministers who have got up to speak so far. All of them have followed the same format: attack the Tories and say things were so much worse when Labour came into office than expected, then move onto listing what the government is doing in very general terms, and then appeal to the party to work with the minister to get this done.

Business secretary Johnny Reynolds, for instance, told the hall that: ‘What I found, when I walked through the door of my department on 5 July was a mess left by Conservative ministers who had simply ceased to govern… The Conservative overspending – that £22 billion black hole in the Treasury reserve – put at risk things that could not be more important to the British people: money for the steel industry, compensation for postmasters.