Behind The Scenes At Labour Party Conference
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer won a whopping majority to become Labour leader on a platform of party unity, radical policies, integrity and electability. Has he stuck to his word? How divided is Labour - and how angry are its members at his perceived betrayals? Does Starmer have the confidence of his own members - and does he have an inspiring vision for the country?
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| 0:00.0 | Universal credit cuts, fuel crisis, anti-supermarket shells, |
| 0:04.0 | COVID-19 and 150,000 dead, Britain is in a mess. |
| 0:08.0 | But is Labour offering an inspiring alternative |
| 0:11.0 | to a calamity that the Tories have unleashed? |
| 0:14.0 | Was the leadership more intent on fighting a civil war |
| 0:17.0 | with its own side? |
| 0:18.0 | Is Keir Starmer honest? Has he abandoned the pledges he made |
| 0:21.0 | to become leader? |
| 0:23.0 | And does he have the confidence of people here, |
| 0:25.0 | including the people who voted for him to be leader? |
| 0:28.0 | We're here, of course, at Labour Party Conference in Brighton, |
| 0:31.0 | the first conference of the Starmer era, |
| 0:33.0 | and we're going to find out exactly what's going on. |
| 0:44.0 | Come on, Barry, how is Keir Starmer doing? |
| 0:50.0 | He's going to do the Conservatives. |
| 0:55.0 | That's what he's going to do. |
| 0:57.0 | It's not what he's doing, it's who he's doing. |
| 1:00.0 | No, no, no, no. |
| 1:01.0 | We're going to do the Conservatives at the next election. |
| 1:03.0 | And that's the point of the Labour Party, |
| 1:05.0 | and he's the leader of the Labour Party. |
| 1:07.0 | So we're going to do the Conservatives, |
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