The Party Conference season is over and I am back in Parliament again but I have been reflecting back on all that was said and done by the key political protagonists in Brighton, Manchester and Birmingham.

I have to confess that the only part of the LibDem conference in Brighton that registered with me was the embarrassing and insincere apology, that wasn't an apology, by Nick Clegg about the LibDem betrayal on tuition fees that was then hilariously put to music on U-Tube and went viral. "I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry." I don't think so Mr Clegg.

I was privileged to be in the hall in Manchester when Ed Miliband gave his main speech without notes or tele-prompts and laid out his vision of a One Nation Britain. It was an impressive performance but more than that he spoke to the whole country of the urgent need for everyone to pull together in these difficult economic times.

The contrast with David Cameron could not be greater. He has led us into a double-dip recession, with 1 million young people out of work. Borrowing – which this Government said was its number 1 priority – is going up, not down.

David Cameron can’t be the One Nation Prime Minister that Britain needs. He’s pursuing policies that divide the country – north from south, public from private, those who can work from those who can’t. He’s giving 8,000 millionaires a tax cut of £40,000, while asking millions to pay more. He’s failing to stand up to the banks. Failing to take action on youth unemployment. Cutting thousands of police officers.

And he’s breaking his promise to protect the NHS as the fight to save our local hospitals shows only too graphically.

Ed Miliband has set out One Nation Labour’s mission to rebuild Britain. Labour wants a country where everyone has a stake, where prosperity is fairly shared and where we preserve the institutions that bind us together.

That means focusing not just on the 50% who go on to university, but also the forgotten 50% who do not. Labour would bring in a new gold standard vocational qualification and deliver thousands of apprenticeships.

It means not cutting taxes for millionaires while raising taxes for pensioners next April. It means telling the banks that if they won’t put right the problems in their industry, the next Labour Government will legislate to break them up so that they’re serving the country, not themselves.

And it means repealing David Cameron’s top-down reorganisation of the NHS.

The Conference season has given a clear picture of the current political realities and where the country needs to go. The LibDems and Nick Clegg are holed below the waterline and have little influence over an increasingly right wing Tory party that is dividing the country, hopelessly out of touch with ordinary people and has caused a damaging double dip recession through its own incompetent economic policies.

The only ray of light has been the way Ed Miliband has stepped into the breach showing real leadership and talent to offer the country a united way forward as one nation. He will make an excellent Prime Minister.