Blink and you'd miss it
Northern Ireland got a mention in the PM's speech this afternoon, although to say it was a glancing reference would be an overstatement. He pledged to complete devolution, but provided no detail as to how he intends to do it.
Otherwise I found it a solid, relatively impressive performance, more convincing than the speech by David Miliband yesterday. He told the party rebels the people would not forgive them if they looked inwards at this difficult time and defended Labour's track record during more prosperous times against Tory attacks by insisting that "we did fix the roof while the sun was shining."
I'm still waiting to find out if NI has been expelled (it seems unlikely). The conference has adjourned for the day and the Labour press office says the result of the vote should be announced tomorrow.
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