Dewar dealt with the exam results fiasco and the lorry drivers ' strike , and attended the Labour party conference in Brighton in September , but at the end of September told the historian Tom Devine in Dublin that if there was no surge of the energy of old , he would have to reappraise the situation within a few months .
Dewar dealt with the exams results fiasco and the lorry drivers strike , and attended the Labour party conference in Brighton in September , but at the end of September told the historian Tom Devine in Dublin that if there was no surge of the energy of old , he would have to reappraise the situation within a few months time .