Delegates attending the Labour Party conference in Manchester are in for a special treat when they arrive at the G-MEX centre next week. Waiting for each of them will be a commemorative bottle containing a lifelike replica of chairperson, Hazel Blears. The free giveaway novelty is the brainchild of event organiser Hilary Crudd who hopes that delegates will be encouraged to sign up to the full set of commemorative bottled ministers. ‘In the coming months, we’ve got plans to have Tessa Jowell, David Miliband, and Des Browne bottled, though plans to include the Deputy Prime Minister in the first batch have been postponed until we can get hold of some bigger rounder bottles’.

Asked why he had decided to give Hazel Blears away for free, Mr. Crudd explained: ‘We wanted everybody attending the conference to go away with a small gift that symbolised the modern Labour Party: small-minded, bossy, and liable to break under the slightest pressure’.

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