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🗓️ 29 September 2021
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0:17.5 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. |
0:21.9 | I'm Katie Pools and I'm joined by James Recipher and Isabel Hardman. |
0:26.5 | Isabel and I are speaking from Labour Conference, where we've just heard Keir Stama's leader speech. |
0:32.3 | Now, there's a lot to get through, but I think to begin with, let's just hear a few of the interruptions that |
0:38.9 | Kirstama probably would like to avoid it. Isabel, we knew this was going to be a difficult event |
0:47.1 | for Kirstama. Last time around, his first conference speech, it was done remotely. He didn't |
0:52.1 | need to worry about ultimately booze in the hall |
0:55.1 | from delegates who are unhappy. And there was a lot of pressure on Kirstama too to set out his |
1:00.9 | vision and who he was. How do you think being physically there impacted things? |
1:08.5 | Well, the most obvious answer to that is that it gave people who don't like him the opportunity to heckle him because you can't heckle somebody over a virtual live stream. |
1:18.5 | And I think it's fair to say that they actually really helped Kirstama. |
1:22.7 | He'd obviously prepared lines for there to be heckles and not just the sort of, oh, Jeremy Corbyn that we heard at the |
1:29.7 | start of his speech, but what delegates were focusing on was shouting £15 an hour, |
1:36.5 | which is this minimum wage commitment that he hasn't made that apparently prompted Andy McDonald's |
1:41.8 | resignation. But he had lines prepared for that as well. |
1:45.0 | So initially he said, at this time on a Wednesday, it's normally the Tories who are heckling me. |
1:50.1 | Then his most effective repost, which gained him two standing ovations, was him saying, |
1:55.1 | shouting slogans or changing lives conference in response to one woman who was repeatedly shouting from the middle of the room. |
2:03.4 | And some of these heckles came when he was talking about his mother being seriously ill and |
2:06.8 | intensive care, which I think really had anyone had any sympathy for those people that quickly |
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