The return of Gordon Brown

He's back. And they love him.

I am writing this from a dark corner behind the stage at the Labour Party conference where Gordon Brown, unnoticed to passing delegates, can be spotted through a tiny window animatedly practising the speech he is about to deliver to the party faithful and media gathered here for the leadership announcement shortly.

Labour loves its past leaders, and Brown will no doubt go down well here. Certainly delegates he passed on his way here leapt to their feet to...