Labour Party Conference diary: Ed Miliband leaves some feeling nostalgic

WHILE Ed Miliband’s conference speech may have set his party on a new path of One Nation Labour, his plea that there cannot be a return to Old Labour has not been entirely listened to.

The People’s Museum in Manchester contains an almost complete archive of Labour’s historic and recent documents.

And, for some reason, after Mr Miliband’s speech the People’s Museum stall in the conference centre did a roaring trade in posters of the first minutes of the parliamentary Labour Party in 1912.

Bottled Blair proves in student raffle

There have been claims made that Tony Blair’s New Labour and its champagne socialism is now dead and that the party has started on a different path under Ed Miliband.

But this radical change of emphasis appears to have been overlooked by a group of Labour students, who have been running a raffle at the conference in Manchester.

Eyebrows were raised when it transpired prizes included a bottle of champagne signed by Mr Miliband and a bottle of whisky signed by Mr Blair.

Ed’s son Sam gets in on the act too

AT just 22 months old, little Sam Miliband has said his first political slogan, his father Ed has claimed.

And inevitably, the toddler’s words – spoken during Mr Miliband’s keynote speech to the Labour conference on Tuesday, according to his wife Justine – were “One Nation”.

The Labour leader used the One Nation slogan more than 40 times during his speech and the message certainly appears to have got through to his son. Now there’s a story to tell him when he’s older.