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The New Statesman

Hi, I'm Anouche. I'm Rachel. And I'm Zoe. And this is the New Statesman's politics podcast.

In this episode, we'll be discussing some key moments from the second half of the conservative

party conference, which took place in Manchester this week. To hear our coverage from the first half

of the conference, take a listen to Monday's episode.

Hello, I'm Anouche Shekelyan, Britain editor of the New Statesman and host of this podcast.

And joining me down the line, I have Rachel Wimouth, our deputy political editor,

and Zoe Grunovald, our politics and policy correspondent. Now neither of you could be in the studio

today because of very conference-y issues. Rachel, there are train strikes, so you're stuck in

Manchester. And Zoe, I hear that you have already succumbed to the notorious conference flu,

which makes us sound terrible, because we're making you work this morning. How are you both?

I'm extremely grateful that my friend is in stockpile. Those put me up.

I'm just trying to rest up so I can hit Labour Party conference next week.

It never starts.

All right, well, thank you so much for doing all of this work.

So the rest of us didn't have to. Let's talk about Rishi Suiak's speech first.

That was the sort of grand finale of conference. And there are a few announcements in there,

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