Political history is full of Labour leaders who find their own party conference to be a source of annoying opposition. Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson, Jeremy Corbyn: they all had to face the rough music of Labour members.
Sir Keir's would-be opponent was Sharon Graham, leader of Unite, Britain's second-biggest trade union. Her motion opposing the cut was scheduled for early Monday afternoon while the entire frontbench was in Liverpool.
Meg Russell relates that as early as 1907, Keir Hardie threatened resignation rather than be held to conference policy on female suffrage, demonstrating the historical tensions within the Labour Party.
If Bismarck really did compare laws to sausages (it is better not to see them being made), the old Prussian should have tried sitting in the meeting room of a conference center at some blurry hour after midnight.
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