A loud, clear message to money men

IT was the day of Labour's big beasts in Liverpool. And Rachel Reeves was the star turn.

- PAUL ROUTLEDGE

In an upbeat defiant speech that prompted repeated standing ovations, she declared: "We've just got started", and appealed for folk to "have faith" with Labour's patriotic project of renewal.

And she was roundly applauded for a masterly put-down of a lone protester in the hall brandishing a Palestinian flag: "We are now a party in power, not a party of protest." That got them on their feet because it rings true.