Watching Tony Blair electrify his party conference with a bravura, perfectly pitched speech that left them cheering and in tears, it felt little different from those heady early days of Britain's New Labour. And to judge from the
waterfall
of "bold, radical" policy ideas that spouted during the week from baby-faced ministers
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such as David Miliband and James Purnell, the party's next generation of leaders has plenty of steam.
That was the upbeat side of Labour's annual conference last week in Manchester. But its evil twin lurked close by. Delegates seemed
afflicted
with a cocktail of...