Even the weather’s balmy at this ‘weird’ Labour conference

Jeremy Corbyn delivers his first keynote speech during the third day of the Labour Party conference

Warm sunshine, a glistening sea, party members drinking on terraces in front of the Grand Brighton Hotel – the seaside town had the look of a political holiday resort for the starry-eyed.

In his keynote speech and first to conference as new Labour leader, Mr Corbyn asked people to be kinder and create a more caring society in what has been dubbed the New Politics.

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His shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, had already promised to underpin this with the New Economics, an overhaul of the tax system hitting large corporations and higher earners.

Mr Corbyn told the audience: “Let us put our values, the people’s values, back into politics.”

Another first was his use of the autocue, and the ever so slightly more polished Corbyn touched on Syria, Saudi Arabia, Trident and the struggle of low paid workers. It was utterly scattergun but he got three standing ovations.

He said: “Time and time again, the people who receive a great deal tell the many to be grateful to be given anything at all.

“They say that the world cannot be changed and the many must accept the terms on which they are allowed to live in it.

“Don’t accept injustice, stand up against prejudice. Let us build a kinder politics, a more caring society together.”

It appeared too to be a pitch to be the party of social mobility, with phrases ex-miner and Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough MP Harry Harpham said he hadn’t heard for years.

Being ‘born poor’ doesn’t mean you have to stay poor, said Mr Corbyn. “You don’t have to be grateful to survive in a world made by others.”

Mr Harpham, a Labour MP since May, said: “I thought it was good. What he said was well received.

“I was always taught at school that if you work hard and studied hard you could make a good living for yourself and a better living than your parents but it seems that young people are struggling to achieve that now.”

Banning free schools and selection, the public take-back of the railways, fighting for workers’ rights, registering people to vote, and statutory maternity pay for the self-employed were his big plays to ensure people he has ideas beyond the new consensus politics.

He showed his personality with a few genuinely decent jokes, and was romantic in his quoting of Nigerian author Ben Okri and Labour Party leader Keir Hardie.

Barnsley East MP and shadow Culture Secretary Michael Dugher said he thought Mr Corbyn’s message would have truly spoken to many members and voters.

He said: “Our slogan at this conference is straight talking, honest politics. I mean that could have been written for a Yorkshire audience.

“I think people are sick to death of politics as usual. Jeremy’s new approach, wanting to do politics in a different way, I think people will be open minded and quite receptive to that.”

Yet despite the beautiful weather, which no doubt had the influx of £3 voters thinking they’d arrived in some kind of left-wing nirvana, all was not ‘kind’ at the conference.

Tristram Hunt, on the right of the party and who quit the shadow front bench after Corbyn was appointed, made no bones of the fact he thinks anti-austerity will have middle England running scared in a fringe meeting held the day before.

He was allegedly mocked by another MP at a private party.

One high profile Yorkshire MP – far from Corbyn politically – described this conference as just plain ‘weird’.

All anyone wanted to hear  from the New Politics was policy. And there was really very little of that.

John Healey’s plan for 100,000 new council and housing association homes a year was an excellent start based on thorough research, and the shadow Energy Secretary Lisa Nandy working with councils and communities to set up publicly owned power stations was another potentially eye-catching proposal.

But after a speech lasting nearly an hour, did members leave with little else than the message to be kinder to one another?

Mr Dugher responded that now wasn’t the time to roll out a comprehensive election manifesto. He said: “We are five years away from an election. It wouldn’t make sense for us to unveil a comprehensive programme for government five years away.”