North Rhine-Westphalia: "Sense of party and compass lost"

Vice Chancellor Klingbeil faces harsh criticism at the NRW SPD state party conference. He warns the party's left wing against polarization – and dares to commit to the radical center.

Now, after nearly four hours of the party conference, he's had enough. Lars Klingbeil , now the most powerful socialist in the country, listened patiently. He made small talk, smiled, stared at his cell phone. And for forty minutes, he let all sorts of things be thrown at him in Duisburg's deep red-lit Mercatorhalle. Verbally, anyway.