Labour at Blackpool: LAST WEEK AT THE CONFERENCE
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Tony Blair for his New Covenant speech and defeat-free conference
Baroness Turner lost her frontbench job in the Lords for standing by Ian Greer
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"Can't we just go back to Bambi? Or maybe Kim Il Sung's official title? 'The Great Wise Leader, President for Life, Dearly Beloved and Sagacious Leader'?" Tony Blair on his nicknames
"Life's better under the Tories - Sounds to me like one of Steve Norris's chat-up lines." John Prescott
SMILE OF THE WEEK
Harriet Harman after retaining her seat on the national executive
JOKE OF THE WEEK
"Someone said to Harriet Harman, 'I've got a problem with the Kashmir'. She replied, 'Take it down to the dry cleaners'." Tribune Rally
EGO TRIP OF THE WEEK
Baroness Castle, 85, and still able to milk the conference while twisting her pensioner's knife in Ms Harman
MYSTERY OF THE WEEK
Identity of the Sierra owner who convinced Tony Blair Labour would lose the 1992 election.
SPIN DOCTOR OF THE WEEK
Peter Mandelson, intervening during a live TV interview with Diane Abbott, scribbling notes to the producer.
RAPTUREMETER OF THE WEEK
Tony Blair
6 min 9 sec 95 decibels
John Prescott
3 min 42 sec 95 decibels
Robin Cook (foreign affairs)
1 min 39 sec 94 decibels
Gordon Brown (shadow chancellor)
1 min 25 sec 95 decibels
David Blunkett (education)
1 min 15 sec 93 decibels
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