"After navigating a half-hour queue to get through security, a group of us were told we needed to go back outside, walk 10 minutes and then go through security again to reach the media centre. Which would have been fine except the staff at the new entrance had been given instructions not to admit the media, and told us to go back to where we had started and queue for security a third time."
"The theme for this year's Reform party conference is Ready for government. It would have been nice if they were ready for their own conference first. Piss ups and breweries. Still, Reform can't prepare for every eventuality. Labour couldn't have come up with a better way of derailing the opening day of Reform's conference if they had tried. The downside was that it came at the cost of Angela Rayner's enforced resignation."
Security failures forced journalists and attendees to queue multiple times, causing many media to leave before events began. The conference ran behind schedule with delayed speeches and sparse attendance despite claims of thousands of delegates. Nigel Farage dominated attention, overshadowing other party figures such as Richard Tice and Zia Yusuf. Speakers recycled familiar themes including immigration, opposition to 'woke' culture, and net zero criticism, alongside Brexit nostalgia. Labour's intervention disrupted the opening day and coincided with Angela Rayner's enforced resignation. The overall impression combined logistical incompetence with personality-driven politics and predictable messaging.
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