Is Sunak tearing the Tories apart?
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
It's conference season and Ed and George aren't short of speeches to dissect. The Prime Minister has launched his new and improved radical Rishi persona this week - is it enough to save the Conservatives at the next election? And can it compete with the real talk of the conference - a certain Mr Farage spotted here there and everywhere?
Meanwhile, Labour are preparing to take to the stage for their own conference in Liverpool, with Rachel Reeves' hotly anticipated speech on Monday. Can the shadow chancellor walk the tightrope of offering optimism without over-promising? These two former shadows offer a few choice thoughts.
And elsewhere, the decision in the US to pause military support for Ukraine has shaken the EU - here's why it might have a long-lasting impact of Britain's approach to foreign policy too.
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| 1:47.4 | morning this week at 3.45 to present Good Morning Britain to try and make sense of the |
| 1:52.4 | Conservative Party conference and now a decent |
| 1:54.4 | hour I can ask you what is going on. Presumably you're in Manchester? |
| 1:58.3 | I was up actually at 3 30 this morning with my little baby but I was not in Manchester this week but I tell what did happen to |
| 2:04.6 | this week I was walking my dog on the Latimer Road in West London went past |
| 2:09.3 | this pub that was full looked through the window it was raining I thought might be able to go in, and there was |
| 2:13.7 | Ed Sheeron standing on a table playing to a pub crowd. |
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