A familiar face was spotted on the train from Liverpool today. A co-conspirator snapped Labour’s very own Lord Mandelson, comfortably perched in a first-class seat, rolling into Euston at 1 p.m. He clearly wasn’t interested in sticking around for Starmer’s 2 p.m. speech with the rest of the party faithful…

The co-conspirator shared another rather amusing tale from a taxi driver who picked up other conference attendees last night:

“I had four of them and it was an eight pound fare. They asked for a a receipt for £2 each so they could claim it on expenses. I wrote out one receipt, tore it into four pieces and gave them one each.”

Who can blame the dark lord for shooting off early…