Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home with me Alan Tolhurst.

And this week we've got something a little bit different for you.

What you're about to hear is my dispatch from Labour's annual party conference,

giving you the inside track on how things unfolded in Liverpool over the past few days,

speaking to MPs, pollsters and the rest of the

pole home team. So sit back and enjoy the story of this year's event.

So it's lunchtime on Sunday. I've just arrived in Liverpool and headed straight to the

conference centre, which is already extremely busy. I'm just walking around the exhibition hall next to the

media centre. There are lots of the usual stalls from kind of charities and lobbyists of businesses.

Just nearly walked into a man putting a golf ball there. Has he made his pot? He has made his put.

I'm not quite sure what that was about, though. Anyway, the atmosphere seems fairly upbeat as Steve Reed walking past the new housing secretary

wearing his red build baby build hat.

His aides have already been handing out bucket hat versions of that to journalists,

fairly bemused journalists in the press room we've got to say.

But the big draw this afternoon is inevitably the man of the hour, Andy Burnham, who is addressing

a fringe on electoral reform in a couple of hours.

And despite the government's attempt to kind of set the agenda with various announcements

on digital ID and plans to tackle legal migration, the run-up to this event has really been

dominated by the Manchester Mayor's manoe maneuverings in those interviews that he gave

ahead of conference. So I think it's going to be interesting to see what the mood is like as he

speaks at this event. He's got another couple of other fringes coming up tomorrow too. And whether

kind of the whole conference becomes kind of the Andy Burnham show or whether kind of Kirstarman

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