This time last year, Labour’s pro-development camp crammed into a dour, stuffy hotel room in the middle of the afternoon to discuss their progress and their plans for the year ahead. 

The atmosphere among delegates in the room that day might be described as quietly confident. If the sense that day was of a movement on the rise, then this year’s Labour YIMBY Rally, in its glitzier environs, was that of a movement whose time had come.