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Hello and welcome to Coffee House shops

the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Oscar Robinson and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and James Heel

and we're in Liverpool on the first day of Labour Party Conference.

That's almost customary to start these conference-based podcasts off with the same question

but Katie, how is the mood and Labour Party Conference this year?

I think it'd be shocking to hear that when all the polls suggest the party is on

for a land-side majority and the closest you have to a scare is a rogue

poll suggesting a ten-point lead which is quickly then overtaken by polls

saying 15 to 25. The mood is pretty good at Labour Conference.

I think on a serious note the backdrop of what's happened in Israel

so the attack from Hamas, obviously the retaliation, what's happening in Palestine means

that it probably is not quite as jubilant as it would be otherwise

because you do have something much bigger going on

and therefore you're just seeing it slightly and some people coming late

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