Parliament may be prorogued - at least until tomorrow - but Brexit continues to dominate politics as conference season gets underway.

The Liberal Democrats are gathering on the seaside in a much better state than many would have anticipated, with it securing defections from both Labour and the Conservatives.

Its latest signing was the former Conservative minister Sam Gyimah who only a month or so ago was pitching to be leader.

Timing is everything in these things - announcing his defection just as the party get-together was underway.

The party’s pledge to cancel Brexit and revoking Article 50 will cement its standing as the “remain” party but has brought some concerns that in its exuberance, it is falling into a familiar trap of promises that it cannot deliver.

The move of Sam Gyimah may add to those who are keeping an eye on the party’s selection of its candidate for Canterbury.

That was postponed last week on the instructions of the national party, fuelling some speculation that the party is keeping open some seats with an eye on encouraging associations to adopt some of these high profile defectors.

This may not go down too well with the grassroots - especially given that the Liberal Democrats prides itself on being a party where local autonomy is all important.

Still all things considered, the party’s resurgence is undoubtedly putting a spring in its step.

Political autobiographies are often about settling old scores and David Cameron has fired both barrels at some of his former colleagues, notably Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, both of whom come in for some heavy criticism over Brexit.

Although he was rather less of a political big beast, it will be interesting to see whether the former Rochester and Strood MP Mark Reckless comes in for any retribution in Cameron’s memoirs over his defection in 2014 to Ukip, which led to an historic by-election.

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