His speech from last year

Ed’s last two party conference speeches have dominated the political landscape, two years ago it was the One Nation speech, last year it was the energy price freeze speech. Both speeches saw a temporary uplift in his personal ratings. This year, given that this is his last speech to conference before the general election, I’m expecting a major announcement, my own hunch, based purely on my feelings, is that we’re going to get something to do with the railways.

How will the betting markets react to his speech? Here is the current betfair odds for the next General Election.

Over to you Mr Miliband.

But the interesting political news of the morning is to do with the Heywood & Middleton by-election, Will UKIP achieve the double on October the 9th?

Have been told be three separate well-placed Labour people that Heywood and Middleton could go Ukip

— Jennifer Williams (@JenWilliamsMEN) September 23, 2014

One just said to me that the party leadership have finally started to clock the threat

— Jennifer Williams (@JenWilliamsMEN) September 23, 2014

I think Labour (nationally anyway) had assumed so far that Heywood would be fine. Sounds like the penny is dropping now

— Jennifer Williams (@JenWilliamsMEN) September 23, 2014

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