Is Labour the party of business?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Also on the podcast, the big news this week has been the Northern Ireland negotiations. What's happened in parliament today?
Natasha Feroze speaks to Katy Balls and James Heale.
Produced by Natasha Feroze and Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:23.0 | podcast I'm Josh Rose and I'm joined by James heel and Katie Balls. |
| 0:27.0 | Well Katie you were this morning reporting on |
| 0:30.0 | Labor's big business pledge do you think that Labor is a pro-business party? |
| 0:35.7 | That's what Labor says it is. I think what is more clear right now is that business seems |
| 0:40.5 | to be pro-labor. So attending this conference this morning in Oval, the cricket |
| 0:46.0 | grounds, much has been made and briefed out by various figures and labour of course that |
| 0:50.4 | it sold out very quickly, that they had a waiting list how if you look at you know the |
| 0:56.8 | number of people attending and just being there it was very busy you had figures |
| 1:02.3 | from lots of the you of the big businesses there and I think there was just a sense that people are very interested in the labor government. |
| 1:08.0 | Now I think that is more because the polls say Labour, very, very likely to win the next election |
| 1:15.0 | and have a decent size majority. |
| 1:17.0 | So of course, business needs to know what the future government would plan to do. |
| 1:21.0 | That explains that poll, but you've also had Rachel Reeves putting a lot... government would |
| 1:25.0 | the business community, |
| 1:30.0 | the business community, if you think back to Jeremy Corbyn when Richard Bergen was city minister. |
| 1:35.6 | I think he wants to quite a tricky interview where he almost confessed he had actually |
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