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Off To Manchester

Mark Devenport | 15:17 UK time, Friday, 19 September 2008

I'm off to Manchester this weekend for the Labour conference. It should be interesting to watch the wolves circling around Gordon Brown. Local Labour activists are in a celebratory mood, as they will have a fully accredited delegate, Boyd Black. That's the first time there has been such a delegate since 1918.

If the 200 or so local Labour party members think they are on a roll, though, their party colleagues in Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn's constituency) take a different view. They are proposing a rule change which would restrict party membership to Great Britain. It's thought the Labour National Executive Committee will oppose this, but the move reflects the reluctance with which many Labour activists have embraced their supporters here, in contrast to the current Cameron Empey love in.

I am hoping to update the blog from Manchester, but if the process proves a bit erratic, you can blame my limited technological prowess in navigating the interface between my lap top and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Conference computer system. Hopefully, all will go smoothly.

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