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Electoral Dysfunction

Is Keir Starmer obsessed with Nigel Farage?

Electoral Dysfunction

Sky News

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.4764 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

When the Prime Minister said Reform’s migration policy was ‘racist’ - was that a mistake? It dominated the Labour Party conference in Liverpool this week, where Beth asked Keir Starmer about his comments... and pulled him up on Donald Trump’s remarks about Sadiq Khan. 
 
So with the May elections starting to loom in the minds of politicians, how worried are Labour that they are going to lose out to Reform? And did Andy Burnham have the impact everyone expected in Liverpool? 
 
Plus, Harriet and Ruth give their tales of conferences past. 
 
Remember, you can also watch Beth Rigby, Harriet Harman and Ruth Davidson on YouTube. 
 
Fill in our survey: https://forms.gle/G72yDkjs6EmoVLp39 

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0:00.0

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1:05.1

Hello and welcome to Electral Dysfunction from Sky News with me, Beth Rickby,

1:10.2

me Ruth Davidson and me Harriet Harmon.

1:12.7

And Harriet and I are now back in London, aren't we, Harriet?

1:15.7

Having spent a romantic few days together

1:18.7

off in Liverpool at Labour Party conference.

1:21.4

Said nobody ever.

1:34.4

I'm being very silly, but Harriet and I, we did bump into each other a couple of times, didn't we?

1:36.2

At Labour Party conference.

1:42.0

So my social battery is running quite low because it was very sociable.

1:43.5

It's just non-stop.

2:37.6

It's from dawn to dusk, noon to night. It's just chat, chat, chat, bump into people, go on the telly, off the telly, go to the speech, go to the event, come off the event, go back to the event, interview someone, have a lie down, get up, rinse and repeat. It's bloody exhausting anyway, so. Well, to say, I feel like well rested. I feel slightly under-employed because not only did you guys go to Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, but you also managed to get an extra pod in the back. So this is our regular Friday pod. But you just happened to knock off the health minister for a chat? I mean, I didn't knock him off. You know what I mean? He was on top form. He was on top form. I think he knocked me off. At one point, I said to him, I went, do you ever want to think you might want to be a legion? He literally told me to get lost, which I loved. He just went, oh, get lost, Beth. I saw the video of it. He had quite a large glass of red wine in front of him. He was quite loose-lipped, wasn't he?

2:35.8

Yeah, the cocktail. He just went, I'll get lost, Beth. I saw the video of it. He had quite a large glass of red wine in front of one minute.

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