Can A Conference Speech Win An Election?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
As Keir Starmer makes his final pitch to the public ahead of the next general election, Matt looks back at the pre-election conference speeches of previous Labour leaders with Tony Blair's former speechwriter Phil Collins and former Ed Miliband adviser Ayesha Hazarika.
Plus: Columnists Daniel Finkelstien and Miranda Green on ministers calling pro-Palestinian protesters in London to stay at home, and who emerges victorious from this year's party conference season.
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| 1:06.9 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Surely, big of the rest of my time to show politics |
| 1:11.5 | about the boy bits you can listen live, Monday to Friday, 10 till 1, on your DAOB radio, |
| 1:15.7 | on your smartspeaker or download the Times Radio app. Coming up on today's episode, |
| 1:20.4 | the last one from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, as Keir Starmer lays out his final |
| 1:27.4 | pitch he hopes as leader of the opposition at a party conference. We take a look back at |
| 1:33.2 | pre-election pitches in history. The ones that have worked essentially Tony Blair and the ones that |
| 1:38.4 | haven't, everyone else. That's coming up in just a moment. But first, as we always do, |
| 1:43.2 | I want to choose to have a chat with these two. |
| 1:49.6 | The columnists on Times Radio. And as everyone to choose to, we are joined by Daniel Finkelstein. |
| 1:56.7 | Morning, Danny. Good morning. Can I just correct you, Matt, in your |
| 1:59.4 | earlier statement that I hated Lib Dems? Obviously, not only is hate an alien and a motion to me, |
| 2:04.4 | but I love Lib Dems so much that I don't want them to waste their time anymore on |
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