Welcome to F.T. Politics, the Financial Times podcast on all things British politics.

I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode we'll be discussing

Labour's annual comments in Brighton, the bombastic speeches from Jeremy

Corbyn and John McDonnell, plus looking forward to the Tory's annual

gathering in Manchester. I'm delighted to be joined by Jim Picard

our chief political correspondent political head to George Parker and political commentator

Miranda Green. Thank you all for joining. The Westminster Village

troop down to England's south coast

this week for Labour's annual Jamboree, but this party conference was quite unlike

the past gatherings and like the last two years there were no tensions about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership

replaced with an admiration veering into hero worship for the man himself.

The radical policies were wheeled out two swaths of taxation, nationalization, promises of rent controls, getting

rid of PFI and capping credit card debt.

Having done well in June snap election, Labour clearly feels it's on the cusp of power but is this in anyway

superficial? So let's begin with the view from inside conference Jim Picard. We've

spent four lovely days together in the Brighton, the Dark Brighton Convention Centre.

By the seaside.

By the seaside.

What was your overview of Labour conference compared to past years?

So I'm going to take you to task Sebel on your claim that there were no tensions because there are still tensions and I went to a gathering of a group called Labor First who were the kind of survivors of the labor right or center or whatever you want to call it.

And there were people there like Wed Streeting who's a Blair R. MP and John Mann and this guy

called Luke Aikhurst who's very much on the right of the Labour Party, and they were criticizing the Johnny

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