After last year’s showdown with the Labour left on party rules and the resignation of a shadow cabinet minister, Sir Keir Starmer is hoping for a calmer, happier conference in Liverpool.
But the leader knows he is not in control of all his party’s levers – and his bête noires in Momentum and the Corbyn-backing left-wing factions may distract from his attempt at a prime ministerial pitch.
“We’re a democratic party,” a Starmer ally said with a wry smile. “Unlike the Tories. So delegates will debate all sorts.”
“There won’t be any monumental fights over internal party matters,” conceded one campaigner organising the anti-Starmer fightback. There will, however, be a battle over policy. Or rather a battle over whether the conference even gets to debate policy.
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