Labour Party Conference: Bournemouth Highlights
Tony Blair, of course. That is a perk of the top job.
BAD DAY
Fox-hunters: Looked out-of touch when the Prime Minister joked about them in his key address.
REBEL OF THE DAY
Ken Livingstone: He said he only rebelled "once a day" when they told him Millbank was drawing up a disloyalty dossier about him.
SOUNDBITE OF THE DAY
Tony Blair on being Prime Minister, with shades of Prince Hal: "It's a big job. A lonely job. The red boxes [of Government papers] really do come at you day and night, papers to read, decisions to make."
BEST FRINGE MEETING
Annual Tribune rally where Tony Booth, Rhodri Morgan and Tony Benn appealed to the left-wing of the party.
BEST PARTY
Jack Straw and Rodney Bickerstaffe were due to boogie at the "Asia Nite" at the Highcliff Hotel.
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Woolwich attack exclusive: Man in bloody video - named 'Mujahid' - was known to Anjem Choudary's banned Islamist group Al Muhajiroun
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That's some guestlist! Stunning images show huge dynastic wedding between Ultra-Orthodox Jewish families which attracted 25,000 guests
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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World news in pictures
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Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a child'
- 1 Woolwich attack exclusive: Man in bloody video - named 'Mujahid' - was known to Anjem Choudary's banned Islamist group Al Muhajiroun
- 2 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 3 Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
- 4 Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a child'
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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