This light-up shrine of Jeremy Corbyn was an unexpected highlight of Labour's annual conference in Brighton.

The conference floor was delighted when one delegate brandished a large, framed painting fo the labour leader, trimmed with flashing fairy lights.

Atop Corbyn's head was a halo made of golden tinsel.

As the crowd cheered him on, chanting "Jeremy! Jeremy!", the conference chair declared: "I've seen it all now."

Onlookers noted the painting's similarity to religious iconography.

Others compared it to portraits of Lenin, like this one held byn elderly Russian outside his Mausoleum in Red Square to mark the 127th anniversary of the revolutionary leader in 1997.

It emerged last night that Labour officials hoped to kick off the conference with Corbyn literally walking on water.

Organisers looked at the idea of the party leader making a rousing eve-of-conference rally speech while perched on a mini raft off Brighton beach.

Activists would stand on the pebble shore as “JC” pledged to pump money into the NHS, reverse Tory cuts and slash inequality.

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Planners even investigated tide times in the English Channel, but the idea was scrapped and never reached the party hierarchy.

While the weather was gloriously sunny in Brighton on Saturday, sea conditions were relatively choppy with big waves crashing onto the Sussex coastline.

Mr Corbyn eventually delivered his stirring speech in a skate park.

Of course, the internet found the light-up shrine both entertaining and baffling