The Prime Minister said “change has started” as he arrived at the Liverpool conference centre.

The left, just like the right, is a broad but unhappy church – will its internal rifts reach breaking point at Labour’s upcoming conference in Liverpool? Asks Helen Thomas

This Sunday, Liverpool plays host to the Labour Party conference, where the party’s competing wings will jostle under the harsh glare of the government spotlight. Just as the right wing of the UK political system has fractured under pressure, Labour too is showing fault lines, with ideological tectonic plates shifting beneath its feet. The rumble of division is growing louder, as internal internecine warfare over what it means to be “Labour” has broken out into a messy public battle now that fiscal constraints are forcing tou

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