A Glittering Labour Conference
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It’s an 'alright' from Liverpool this week as the rocket orbits the Labour Party Conference. So, as the glitter settles around Keir Starmer’s speech, and jacket, what do your co-pilots make of the opposing Party’s speeches?
Liam thinks the Labour Party leader delivered a ‘blinder’ and is impressed by the Party’s focus on issues such as housing and the cost of living crisis.
Allison agrees but ponders if Labour are simply appealing to the many disillusioned Conservative voters.
And what really went down at this year’s fringe meetings? Liam has the inside track.
Hopping aboard the rocket this week is former head teacher Mike Fairclough who shares his heartbreaking and shocking story of how he has been ostracised and disgraced as a teacher for giving his opinion on school closures and vaccinations at his former school.
And both Allison and Liam respond to the devastating events in Israel.
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| 0:00.0 | The telegraph. Podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | Here Starmer's made a pitch to dissolution conservatives. |
| 0:14.0 | And he's basically saying, you're safe with us. |
| 0:18.0 | Many of my colleagues within the education profession, |
| 0:21.0 | they saw children as human shields. |
| 0:26.0 | Both Starmer and Rachel Reeves |
| 0:28.0 | looking at a dance site more impressive than the conservative lot last week. |
| 0:34.0 | At the minute you cross the threshold of Pearson Tower, |
| 0:37.0 | just straight into Gavin and Stacey Mode. |
| 0:39.0 | I've seen you in your slippers and your rollers, but anyway. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, |
| 0:49.0 | the telegraph podcast of Alison Pearson. |
| 0:51.0 | Hello. |
| 0:52.0 | And me, Liam Halligan, a rather delayed hello there co-pilot. |
| 0:55.0 | Do wake up. |
| 0:57.0 | Greetings from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, |
| 0:59.0 | where delegates are streaming home. |
| 1:01.0 | No train strike this week, |
| 1:03.0 | not like when the Tories had their conservative party conference in Manchester. |
| 1:06.0 | And I have to say, Alison, |
| 1:08.0 | there's been an air of happiness and excitement at this conference |
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