Labour’s party conference slogan is ‘stronger future together’. It’s sufficiently anodyne that despite it being emblazoned all over a massive set in the hall, no one mentions it at all. Instead, the slogan the party’s senior figures seem to have adopted is ‘why didn’t the government have a plan for this?’
Call for parliament to be recalled: something the government would struggle to do, thereby making Boris Johnson look weak
It’s the refrain you hear over and over again on everything, from Covid cases to school exams to the current fuel crisis. In fact, on that last one, it’s really the only thing you will have heard at all from Labour’s frontbench, who seem only mildly aware of what’s going on in the world outside the conference bubble. All of these party events are a bit isolated from the rest of the news agenda, but this particular conference bubble has very thick walls indeed.
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