Labour Conference: Did Starmer Do Enough?

Newscast

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today, Keir Starmer has used his conference speech to attack Nigel Farage saying he “doesn’t like Britain”.

The Prime Minister warned against “the politics of grievance” and said that the UK is at a “fork in the road”. In response Nigel Farage has accused Starmer of being an unfit PM.

Adam, Chris and Alex discuss this, as well as two policy announcements from the speech surrounding further education and the creation of NHS Online.

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0:24.5	Chris, a few things to catch up on from yesterday's episode of Newscast from Labour Party
0:28.7	Conference in Liverpool. The stick of rock that you got mysteriously gifted at midnight the
0:32.9	day before. A nice man from the coastal parliamentary Labour Party came up to me and said,
0:38.1	I was the rock giver and he's giving me a stick of rock.
0:41.1	Wow.
0:41.4	Well, this is of a considerably more impressive girth
0:44.1	than the one I was handed.
0:47.1	Oh, so you've got a little mini one.
0:48.5	The other night.
0:49.2	Mine was something of a chippelata compared with this.
0:52.7	What does it say through the middle?
0:53.6	So basically the idea is it's the, all the MPs in Labour who represent coastal seats have clubbed together to create a, wow, that's brave. Oh, oh. This is like an ASMR video. Oh, what, crunchy, crunchy. And it's now gone over. Ask me out of the conversation. Exactly. It's like a cop-stop. Over to you. It's good. Yeah, so, yeah, Alex. Without a mouth for a rock. Coastal constituencies getting more representation within the Labour Party. And it's set up by Polly Billington, who used to be Ed Miliband's Chief of Staff and it's now a Labour MP for the second time. And then another thing to follow up on, that picture of the bucolic English countryside is on all the Labour press releases. Shropshire? Yes, BBC Verify have tracked it down to Rattling Hope in Shrewsbury. So not Bulgaria, as you suggested. No, it's not Bulgaria, because that would have been a great news story. Yeah.
1:44.2	And reveal them to not be as patriotic as they make out to be, but it is from Shropshire.
1:47.6	I'm just about to say to me, but I'll leave it. I can't blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, whoa, blah. If your dentist is listening to this, you're going to be in big trouble. It's really good though. Two sticks of rock in one week.
1:58.8	Yeah, and I looked it up on Google Maps, and the place next to it is called The Bog.
2:04.4	Oh. and one week. Yeah, and I looked it up on Google Maps,
2:01.8	and the place next to it is called The Bog.
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