When the party's over

By Dr Jonathan Carr-West | 08 October 2013

So that’s it for party conferences 2013.  A month of late nights, folding chairs, cheap white wine and intense debate is over for another year.  As the politicians, activists, lobbyists, journalists and assorted hangers on head wearily for home, it’s time to ask what it all means.

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