Greg Hurst has been making shocking allegations about the Liberal Democrats:

WAS this the moment the Liberal Democrats finally grew up?

The significance of the conference vote on tax policy goes beyond the fact that Lib Dem delegates managed to curb their perpetual instinct to lob grenades at the party's leadership. Sir Menzies Campbell would, of course, have suffered a blow to his authority had the tax plans he so clearly backed been tinkered with in the way the left-wing MP Evan Harris proposed. A beaming - and clearly relieved - Lady Elspeth Campbell left the conference floor telling companions: "I can't stop grinning."

The real point is that Evan Harris and his supporters wanted the radical and redistributive elements of the tax package on offer and a symbolic top rate of tax to squeeze the rich. They wanted the substance and the symbolism; to have their cake and eat it.

But the conference decided instead that it must choose, that it couldn't have both. It was this judgement that was the real test of maturity.

Feels pretty good...

Martin Kettle takes a similar line:

if the Liberal Democrats are to regain economic credibility while simultaneously inspiring their radical supporters with their green idealism, then today's debate was the party's first key test- and it went far better than either friend or enemy could have expected.

Writing this, I am struck at the contrast between the fractious conference in Blackpool last year, and the united party here in Brighton.