One absentee from the Labour conference was a certain protege of Schools Minister Lord Adonis who, in years gone by when he was an academic, had encouraged a student to apply for a job as an economic adviser to a political party. The student took the advice and has not looked back. He's now Liberal Democrat education spokesman Ed Davey.
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