Well played, that security woman. Keir Starmer had just arrived on stage and said ‘thank you’ five times to the applauding delegates when some young idiot ran up and threw glitter over him. Frightening at first. The lanky protester danced around Sir Keir, putting an arm round him while shouting ‘true democracy is citizen-led, politics needs an update’.
Sir Keir, 61, tried to fend off the attacker with one arm – John Prescott needs to give him boxing lessons – but the man was undeterred. Where were Sir Keir’s police bodyguards? It took them a surprisingly long time to react.