Shabana Mahmood, newly appointed Home Secretary, speaks on the mainstage in the conference hall on day two of the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. The problem was Lord Glasman told them unequivocally that he didn’t think it had. Glasman blamed Thatcher and Blair equally for the globalisation and deindustrialisation of the UK, saying that while Thatcher started it, “Blair consummated it”. As a result, he told his audience he would not be voting in Labour’s ongoing Deputy Leadership contest. So what does Glasman – seen to be on the right of Labour – think about the Conservatives who will holding their conference in Manchester next week.
