Labour pains left behind by a united and confident party conference

Labour Party conferences have been factional and unsettled affairs for some years. Health campaigning in the Corbyn era was largely against fictional NHS privatisation. And fights then between the dominant hard left and the centrists made the annual conference atmospheres tense, if not actually unpleasant.This was not so in Liverpool last week. For the first time in many years Labour actually seemed, sounded, and acted like a prospective party of government. This was all helped by the government’s self-immolation over the mini-budget, which hit the bond and sterling markets hard.AnnouncementsLabour’s conference saw big pledges on the NHS.1 Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves promised that reversing the cut to the 45 p top rate of tax will fund a variety of increases in NHS workforce training. The money would fund a doubling of district nurses qualifying every year, 5000 new health visitors, and additional 10 000 nurse and midwife placements each year.More…
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