Scottish Labour’s conference in Glasgow at the weekend was a happier place than one might have expected – perhaps even more than it had a right to be.
Whatever the polls are saying – and they’re not saying anything good, with Labour now below 20 per cent in some polls – those in attendance were having an excellent time. And, I suppose, why not? Despite the troubles Keir Starmer and his ministers are experiencing, the party is in government at Westminster with a thumping majority. There are still four years to turn around a worrying narrative of misjudgment, and the Tories are precisely nowhere. This is, on the surface at least, a happy family.
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