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🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Matt Chorley looks back through history at the maiden conference speeches made by past Labour leaders.
PLUS: Labour List's Sienna Rogers and The Spectator's Isabel Hardman discuss the day's top stories.
AND: Times Red Box Editor Patrick Maguire joins Matt to analyse the 5 key takeaways from Starmer's speech
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| 1:36.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Jorley, still in Brighton, clearing up after the big speech by Keir Starmer. |
| 1:48.0 | Patrick McGuire will be here to give you everything you need to know about the speech in just a moment. |
| 1:53.0 | We'll also, and our big thing, we've taken a look back at the debut speeches of previous Labour leaders, so that's coming up. |
| 1:59.0 | But first we kick off with today's columnist panel here in Brighton, joined by the spectators, Isabelle Hardman and from Labour list, it's Sienna Rogers. |
| 2:10.0 | So I suppose we should start by talking about Keir Starmer's speech, and in the context of how the conference is gone, how important is it Sienna? |
| 2:18.0 | Is it is make or break? Is lots of people a suggestion? |
| 2:21.0 | Well, his team wouldn't like you to describe it as make or break, as they pointed out yesterday, you know, every single leader speech has described that way. |
| 2:28.0 | But obviously it is, it is more important than other ones, because he has been imposed for quite a long time now, 18 months. |
| 2:34.0 | And yet we haven't heard him actually address a real life audience properly. |
| 2:38.0 | So he's got this chance to speak unfiltered to the public. It is really key. The kind of, I mean, the theme of it is sort of, I'm not Corbin. |
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