It’s day three of Labour conference and proceedings are in full swing. Whether it’s one of Andy Burnham’s 11 fringe events or yet another interminable motion in the conference hall, the rooms of Brighton have been packed to the rafters with Labour’s long-suffering members.
Clearly Covid spreads in teaching settings but has the grace to stop at the doors of conference jollies
Yet walking around various venues Mr S was surprised to see just how few attendees were wearing their masks in poorly ventilated rooms, with no windows or open doors. With Covid cases still low, normally such a state of affairs would pass without comment. But Labour has made such a show of wearing masks over the past 12 months – especially in the House of Commons to highlight their difference with maskless Tories – that it seems somewhat incongruous to see them so lax on measures which the party (apparently) consider essential to public health.
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