Given that the Labour Party has just won a comfortable general electionvictory, its annual conference last week was a surprisinglyintrospective affair.
Delegates, ministers and MPs in endless meetings talked of the need to"renew" the party, to find a new direction and how to ensure a fourthLabour victory.
Ian McCartney, the party's chair, used his speech to call for the partyto embark on a "process of renewal" while Tony Blair urged Labour toadapt to the 21st century in his conference address.
And Gordon Brown, Blair's heir apparent, told delegates that "the nextelection must and will be new Labour renewed".
But given that the party has already embarked on major reforms ofchildren's services and the education system is children's policy partof this renewal?
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