All eyes will be on the new leader of the Labour party today (Monday), at its annual conference in Manchester with Ed Miliband at the helm.
Among the audience will be Economic Development Minister Allan Bell, attending on behalf of the Manx government.
Mr Bell says Labour's focus will be more inward than outward for now - with the party rebuilding itself after losing the general election.
But he sees Labour's young new leader as having a broad left-wing agenda.
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