Where to look for unity in Corbyn's Labour

The phrase you will hear repeated from Team Corbyn at the Labour conference this afternoon is: "Let's wipe the slate clean."

So when I sat down with Jeremy Corbyn, moments after his re-election was confirmed, I asked how the slate wiping was going to work.

What about those who resigned en masse from his shadow cabinet table before the summer?

His response suggested he doesn't want all of his former opponents back on his top team.

"We are in discussions and there are people with huge talents. Those talents can be deployed on select committees.Those talents can be deployed around the Shadow Cabinet," he said.

In other words, he'd rather some Labour MPs went elsewhere to do the work of holding the government to account - on House of Commons committees rather than on Labour's frontbench.

He said he was still "having discussions" about how his shadow cabinet would be chosen - appointed by him or elected by Labour MPs (as most MPs want).

So no unity there.

But he insisted the unity did exist when it came to policy and he plans a major push on grammar schools in the coming week - an issue to which all Labour MPs are opposed, as we saw in the last session of Prime Minister's Questions.

I also asked Mr Corbyn about his deputy, Tom Watson.

The leadership election has left relations between the two men strained.

This was his answer:

"We had a very convivial chat this morning over breakfast ... He's the elected deputy, he has a separate mandate from me."

You might agree, that doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement.

So the outbreak of unity hasn't happened yet.

But after this second leadership election, it's abundantly clear who has the mandate and, consequently, the upper hand.