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Ben Glaze & Andy Lines

Labour shadow ministers belt out Common People at the Mirror's conference party

The Mirror party was again the highlight of Labour conference as guests danced, sang and drank into the early hours of Wednesday.

Labour MPs, staffers and peers joined union activists, party members and senior Mirror journalists at the traditional bash on the last night of conference.

Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner and Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth were the stars of the show.

They duetted on Oasis’s 1995 Britpop anthem Don’t Look Back In Anger as well as Pulp’s Common People.

Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner and Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth were the stars of the show - joined by our editor-in-chief Lloyd Embley (Phil Harris)
They duetted on Oasis’s 1995 Britpop anthem Don’t Look Back In Anger as well as Pulp’s Common People (Phil Harris)

New Labour soundtrack Things Can Only Get Better, by D:Ream, was belted out with gusto.

The White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army, which inspired the “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn !” chant, also rang out around the Walkabout bar in Brighton.

And a Boris Johnson lookalike wandered round in a Prime Ministerial daze gobbling pork pies.

"Boris Johnson" appears at the Labour Conference Mirror Party
A Boris Johnson lookalike wandered round in a Prime Ministerial daze gobbling pork pies (Phil Harris)
And of course, he met the Mirror Chicken (Phil Harris)

The invitation-only bash is the must-have ticket of Labour conference.

Lucky guests also posed for pictures with the Mirror Chicken, fresh from our feathered friend's hounding of Boris Johnson for refusing to face proper scrutiny in the Tory leadership campaign.

The fun will be back next year when Labour returns to Liverpool for its yearly autumn get-together.

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