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Slightly croaky and in need of a good night’s sleep at the end of a very busy week.

The highlights for me were Alistair Darling’s critique of the Tories economic ‘strategy’, Mandelson’s fantastic performance and extension of the car scrappage scheme and Gordon Brown’s speech – full of vision and packed full of policies.

The decision taken by the Sun was obviously disappointing, but as John Prescott put it, it will be “the son, daughter, uncle, mother and friend wot win it in 2010. Endorsements from ordinary people not media barons”. Well put John.

On a personal perspective, it was a privilege for me to chair a meeting on climate change last night with David Miliband and Douglas Alexander. David and Douglas, along with Ed Miliband and the Prime Minister are providing intellectual political leadership in the run up to the Copenhagen summit in December. Copenhagen must go down in history as the defining moment when the world faced up to the scale of the climate change threat. As Douglas put it – there’s no plan B.

Back to Leeds now to take our message out to voters. We go in to the general election as the underdogs, but like all delegates returning to their constituencies today – I’m up for the fight.