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Today in Focus

Hope, finally? Keir Starmer’s first conference in power

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

From anger over the winter fuel allowance to a row over freebies, Labour’s first conference in power for 15 years started under a cloud. Did the prime minister’s speech lift the gloom? With Jessica Elgot. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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I'm in Liverpool where the Labour Party have been holding the biggest

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conference in their history with 21,000 people crowding into the Royal Albert docks.

1:56.0

It started with torrential rain and with Kiestarma facing his own storm over his donated suits, infighting among two of his

2:05.3

closest aides, and anger over cuts to the winter fuel payment. The party should be

2:10.8

punching the air back in power after so long in the cold.

2:15.0

But how can the new government fix the country with rouse raging over pay and perks?

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11 weeks after moving into Downing Street, his approval ratings are plummeting.

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And even some of his biggest fans fear he's turning a historic high into a massive low,

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