Joyous Labour frontbenchers, council leaders and councillors cheered Keir Starmer's leadership and vowed to win the next election.
Enthusiastic Labour staffers and members filled a hall at a Liverpool hotel with cheers and whoops for shadow cabinet members at the Labour to Win event after what appeared to be a successful day at conference.
Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor, got a standing ovation, as members praised her performance at the mini-budget, before she said: "Over the last 12 years, I have never felt more optimistic about our party’s future and our chance to govern again.”
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting kicked off event with a rallying cry, telling members they have already won the party back from infighting.
"We won the party, now let’s go out there and win the country."
Peter Kyle, Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, slammed the Tories as a party no longer fit to rule.
He told the audience: “The Tories are no longer a party fit to govern our country. They have failed the British public.
"They’ve stopped pretending to be anything else."
It comes after Lisa Nandy launched an F-bomb takedown of Liz Truss as she warned there is now a “fight for the soul of Britain.”
The ex-shadow foreign Secretary jokingly compared her failed Labour leadership bid in 2020 to Ms Truss taking the Tory crown.
She told an event at Labour conference: “If you’d told me a woman could emerge from a very divided party, take on the foreign brief, and rise to become leader, I wouldn’t have believed you.
“All I can say is, and I think I speak for the whole labour movement on this, thank f*** it was them and not us!”
Ms Nandy said after Friday’s mini Budget which axed the 45p top tax rate for 660,000 wealthy earners: “I have never been so angry.
“There are very clear dividing lines that have now opened up in British politics - and those dividing lines matter.
“There is a very clear view from this Tory government that the way this country will succeed is by the few, for the few.”
She added: “There is so much at stake. This is a fight for the soul of Britain.”
The shadow levelling up Secretary also took aim at BT - one of the sponsors of the party, hosted by the New Statesman at the Museum of Liverpool.
She said: “I would like to thank the sponsors for tonight’s event, but I would just gently say to BT that if you can afford to pay for a drinks reception and to give your CEO a 32% pay rise, you can afford to pay your staff properly.”
BT staff walked out last month over an offer the firm said was worth 5% on average.
Ms Nandy said after years in the wilderness after the 2019 election Labour could now win.
She said: “Two years ago we came to conference demoralised, wondering how our labour base had collapsed in every nation and region… this week is about showing we are ready to win.”
