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today I'm Patrick Gibbons and today I'm joined by Kate

Hello and welcome to Coffey House shots, the Spectators Daily Politics

Podcast.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and today I'm joined by Katie Balls and James Hill.

Party conference season continues as Reform UK's kicks off today.

Katie, you're in Birmingham for the conference and I believe you've just heard from

the leader Nigel Farage. How was his speech? So it was definitely what you might call a barnstorming

speech. I think it's been interesting walking around the center today all feels quite American.

So there are these big signs in advancing warning latex balloons later,

warning pyrotechnics and the sesame lever of I don't know glam is the

right word but you know trying to be pretty big you had a you know pyrotechnics

lots of lights coming on as I think has become quite custom, you had Nijofuraj walking on to M&M, as the tune, the arena was pretty packed.

I would say, you know, most seats were filled probably if you really

searched on the side you'll find a few empty seats but you would very much say it was full if you

wanted a seat you had to go searching for one and all through the afternoon partly because obviously there aren't

many reform MPs we've now heard from every single reform MP starting with James

Mac Murdoch who wrote about in the magazine this week but then you know a slow drum

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