The Lib Dem conference has been quite the circus, with Davey prancing about playing volleyball, zipping around on jet skis, and the party members falling over themselves to pat each other on the back. Today, a Lib Dem councillor toasted the supposed “success” of South Cambridge council’s four-day week. A scheme that hardly warrants a celebration…

Lib Dem Councillor Bridget Smith, who ignored the Tory government’s calls to scrap the scheme, declared today that the four-day week had been a roaring victory. The scheme was initially touted to save £1 million on agency staff. Then that figure quietly shrank to £434,000, before being revised again to a measly £370,000 – clearly moving the goalposts to make this bungled plan seem like anything but a disaster. If this is their idea of success, one dreads to think what failure looks like…