As an exercise in party management, this has been the most successful conference for Labour since Tony Blair's last in 2006. There was buyer's remorse the moment Gordon Brown took over in 2007; the conferences of the Ed Miliband years left deeper scars than evident in public; and that was nothing compared to the civil war of the Corbyn era. Last year, Keir Starmer's first proper conference was consumed by clashes with his left flank and Corbyn groupies. This year, his own party - with a very different membership turning up in Liverpool - decided to give Keir Starmer pretty...