Labour conference: will unions rebuke Starmer?

Keir Starmer plans to put a conservative, conformist stamp on the Labour Party conference (25-28 September) by opening it with “God Save The King”. (No, in 1952, when monarchism was much stronger, the Labour conference didn’t do that. Its main event was big advances by the left in elections for the National Executive.) However, according to the Observer (18 September) “several motions backed by the country’s most powerful unions have been submitted to the conference underlining the duty of MPs to support strikers”.