Since 2007, the principal party conference site in the UK since the 1920s has not hosted an autumn conference.
However, following a well-publicized by-election in Blackpool South, the town is once again making headlines, and prominent politicians have been visiting Blackpool.
Speaking in Blackpool in October 2007, the opposition leader provoked the newly appointed prime minister, who had become the unchallenged head of his party, to call for a general election.
Do you recognize this? But Sir Keir Starmer was not challenging Rishi Sunak. Then, just after Gordon Brown took over as prime minister from Tony Blair, it was David Cameron making fun of him.
Blackpool has a rich political past. In fairness, the Conservatives did conduct their spring conference in 2022 there, but that was a far smaller gathering than the large fall jamborees.
