Corbyn has upped his rhetorical game – and he appears to be developing his political savvy a bit, too

His promises are unaffordable, and his spending plans are reckless, but he has started to offer retail policies.

WATCH: Corbyn – Labour “is ready to transform Britain”

“We have defined the new common sense,” the Labour leader tells his Party conference.

Starmer chances his arm by challenging McDonnell and McCluskey over Brexit

It’s a bold gambit. The Labour Party may be changing, but the people the Shadow Brexit Secretary is taking on still have claws.

WATCH: “Nobody is ruling out Remain”, Starmer announces

The Shadow Brexit Secretary’s comment is at odds with his colleague the Shadow Chancellor.

Damian Hinds: Schools policy. Memo to Labour: going backwards isn’t progressive

Rayner’s new proposals would mean that the progress we have seen over the last eight years would be sacrificed – and it is our kids that would pay the price.

The Moggcast. May should drop Chequers now – and not delay until after the Tory conference.

Rees-Mogg on Javid’s approach to the post-Brexit immigration system. And he sees no way in which Parliament can block Brexit if the Government holds its nerve.

McDonnell is more dangerous than Corbyn – not just because he’s more extreme, but because he is more intelligent

Even the Labour Party itself seems aware that the Shadow Chancellor is visibly more wily than his leader.

WATCH: McDonnell – “The full weight of the Treasury will…take on any vested interest that try to thwart the will of the people”

The Shadow Chancellor praises Corbyn’s “dignity” in the face of “vilification” by the media.

On the question of a second referendum, Labour’s easiest answer is yet more careful, deniable ambiguity

Corbyn is willing to bend his principles. But he and his advisers will cling more closely to their strategy of being all things to all sides.

WATCH: “Are you an antisemite?” Marr asks Corbyn

The Labour leader then refuses to comment on his experience of being accused of racism by Margaret Hodge.

WATCH: Watson – It’s “inconceivable” that the Labour leadership would defy a conference vote for a second referendum

“But I’m already in the boundaries of talking hypotheticals with you,” he caveats.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson’s column: Why it’s right for Britain to lose its marbles over Brexit

We should prove our commitment to democracy and the individuated nature of nations by promising now to return what Lord Elgin looted.

The hollow hall

Conservative Party Conference is not really a conference at all. The audience are a source of obedient applause, not trusted to speak or vote – and they know it.

Eric Pickles: My general election review is a blueprint for a stronger party

I want our Party to come out of the process stronger and more adept at campaigning – ready to win.

Iain Dale: Pull yourselves together, Johnson, Hammond – the whole squabbling lot of you. Or we’ll have Corbyn in Downing Street.

Plus: The Labour leader’s other Brighton speech: “It was a full-blown Marxist rant. Put up taxes. Employers are evil. You know the sort of thing. They lapped it up.”