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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

I'm Cindy you and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth.

So Isabel, the Royal Unions have announced more strikes and this time they've timed them

with the Labour Party conference, which is happening at the end of September.

Is there a message here they're trying to send?

I think there's a challenge that they're setting out for Keir Starmer, which doesn't sort

of take a strategic genius working within the lead of the opposition's office to work

out what they're up to, which is how many front benches are you going to get joining

the picket lines?

How is that going to be enforced when Keir Starmer is trying to have his big moments, presenting

himself to the country, to the party as Britain's next Prime Minister, also he hopes.

And last year's Labour conference, obviously we're still recovering from the resignation

of Andy McDonald at that conference last autumn, Keir Starmer hoped that last year's conference

where Andy McDonald resigned and he had people heckling him from the floor.

All of those things were sort of what he'd hoped for.

He hoped for somebody from the left to kick up a fuss.

He'd hoped to have a sort of Neil Kinnock moment where he could face down some of the hard

left within his party during his speech.

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