2026年9月27日，利物浦工党年会现场。摄影：克里斯托弗·汤姆森/《卫报》 波莉·托恩比 在利物浦，首相对该党乃至整个国家的雄心显而易见。不应自满，但也不必恐惧，因为他的雄心壮志之大，仿佛从太空可见，他承诺将带来“英国40年来最大的变革”。安迪·伯纳姆承诺了此前任何首相都不敢做的事，打破了撒切尔主义长期的统治。她在公共服务领域推行的虚假垄断市场已经崩溃。财政大臣约翰·希利承诺开启“工业化新时代”，打破她那个时代工业荒漠化的局面。她将社会护理体系炸裂成的互不相连的私有化碎片，将转变为国家护理服务。某种新事物正等待诞生。
People at the Labour Party annual conference in Liverpool, 27 September 2026. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Polly Toynbee Here in Liverpool, the PM’s ambition for the party – and the country – is evident. There should be no complacency, but also no fear is ambition is big enough to see from space as he promises the “biggest change to Britain in 40 years”. Andy Burnham pledges what no prime minister until now has dared to, breaking the long spell of Thatcherism. Her sham monopoly markets in public services have crashed. The chancellor, John Healey, promises a“new age of industrialisation”, breaking with her era of industrial desertification. The social care system she blew into disconnected privatised fragments will become a national care service. Something new is waiting to be born.
事情发生得很快。仅仅一年前，工党还绝望地跪倒在地，震惊地发现奈杰尔·法拉奇在其压倒性胜利后不久便占据了主导地位，改革党以12个百分点领先于工党惨淡的22%。法拉奇是
Things happen fast. Only a year ago, the Labour party was on its knees in despair, thunderstruck to find Nigel Farage ruling the roost so soon after its landslide win, with Reform UK 12 percentage points ahead of Labour’s dismal 22%. Farage was the