Hey, Gordon... come up and see me sometime
They're almost in adjoining bedrooms. The Prime Minister and 19-year-old dance student Jasmin Moss.
The PM only moved into his suite at the Metropole on Brighton's sea front at the weekend, and Jasmin's been in her student digs a week or two longer - since starting at college in Lewes - but she's keen to meet her new neighbour.
Jasmin is so keen in fact she's hung a banner from the third storey balcony inviting Gordon in for a cup of tea. He can't miss it - it's right above the VIP entrance to the Labour conference site.
The students got the house by accident. "We went in looking for the cheapest place we could," Jasmin explains.
"We couldn't believe it when we saw one on King's Road, right on the seafront, next to hotel rooms that sell for £500 a night."
From the balcony Jasmin has been watching all the cabinet ministers coming and going, but the one she really wants to meet is Gordon Brown.
She promises not to talk politics, in fact she doesn't really like it much.
She doesn't have a TV - student finances and all that. But she doesn't really need one to follow the conference since all the action's happening on her doorstep.
It might be tricky for her to hop across the balcony. There's Sarah, of course, and the armed anti-terrorist officers.
But Jasmin reckons the PM needs all the friends he can get right now.
If Gordon would like to pop next door for a bag of sugar, Jasmin's waiting, the kettle's on.
Welcome to the hustings! I'm Peter Henley, the BBC's political reporter in the south of England. From parish councils in Sussex, to European politics in Oxford, this is the blog for you. 
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