Unity returns

AS JEREMY Corbyn entered the Liverpool conference hall yesterday, The Farm’s anthem All Together Now played out to delegates who are part of his rejuvenated Labour party.

For a conference scripted to be about Brexit divisions, debates on de-selecting MPs, all under the shadow of an antiSemitism row, it ended remarkably united.

That might be because Corbyn has vanquished his moderate enemies but also because Keir Starmer managed to steer a path between the grassroots Remain instincts and Corbynite scepticism about a second EU referendum.

All options are on the table for Labour and the party might just have been pushed by Starmer an inch back towards Europe.

Whatever the catastrophe that comes out of Brexit talks, Corbyn and Labour stand ready as an alternative.

They have a change agenda, more public ownership, taxing big corporations and using the power of government to drive the economy.

For voters, the SNP’s “get me out of here” offer of independence doubles down on the chaos of Brexit, heaping further division on a divided country.

Corbyn’s core message is that tinkering will not solve the many injustices people face.

The success of this week is that Labour made radical ideas sound sensible and tugged the middle ground of politics a little further to the left.