It's absurd to take this Labour Party conference as a rejection of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

[Ken Burch]

The delegates to this conference were chosen before Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader and under, I assume, a selection process totally controlled by the New Labour old guard(to use a phrase with a deeply conflicted verb tense), so it was always going to be dominated by defiantly right-wing speeches.

Next year's conference, in which the delegates will be chosen by a different and undoubtedly more democratic process, will be a better measure of Corbyn's actual level of support within the party.

And, if nothing else, Corbyn should get credit for not trying to bully conference into line behind his own views.