Gordon Brown has just finished his first speech to the Labour Party as Prime Minister. It was a laundry list of socialist policies, peppered with the occasional nod to social conservatism, all presented with Blairite-level spin. As such, Brown has happily blended Old and New Labour. ConservativeHome has the live blog summary. The Prime Minister has an eight-point lead in the polls, which translates to a significantly increased majority. Speculation is rife that he will call an election for November 1 or thereabouts. Without an incredibly successful Conservative Party conference next week, David Cameron stands to be trounced at the polls, “modernization” and all. And the result will likely mean a Britain finally being subsumed completely by the European behemoth, a weaker British military and an era of big government surpassing anything seen since the Butskellism era of the 1950s.