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Although Northern Ireland people have addressed the Labour conference before in their capacity as trade union delegates, Boyd Black made history this morning when he became the first NI constituency delegate to speak from the platform in a hundred years.

He was opposing a move by Islington North and Luton South to prevent the Labour party organising in NI. Islington North's Ceri Holywell argued that Labour shouldn't compete with the SDLP and its 200 local members should be reassigned to the party's international section.

But the move was opposed both by the Labour National Executive Committee and a speaker representing Labour's Irish Society. The general assumption is that, when the votes are counted later today, the proposal will be rejected.

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