OPINION: Labour’s conference gaffes give Tories hope

We have just emerged from the most intense PR month of the year - the party conference season. It comes appropriately in the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Through a fog of words, all the parties try to portray themselves as being pregnant with promise. The winners were the Nationalists - Welsh and Scottish - and the Conservatives. The losers were ’New’ Labour and the UK Independence Party, which sacked its entire 16-man executive. Nobody takes the Liberal Democrats seriously anymore, even with a new leader, now that they are Blair’s Poodles.