Pre party conference fever
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
As the Conservative Party conference fever grows, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appears to be changing his tune with some big amendments in the Party's manifestos. But will it change the state of play in the polls?
Staring down the barrel of a potential election whitewash Allison is questioning after thirteen years of rule what the Conservative Party have actually done for the country. Whilst Liam makes a case for the Party’s very representative and multicultural front bench, in light of Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s latest speech in Washington DC.
And both co-pilots pick their movers and shakers ahead of potentially the last Party conference and the next General Election.
Joining your co-pilots this week to weigh in on the HS2 debate is Jonathan Tyler, who tells our co-pilots why the expansion isn’t the carbon effective alternative it’s been portrayed as and might just be more of a ‘scar on the landscape’.
And Allison shares some entertaining stories from her recent trip back to her Welsh homeland…
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | I think after 13 years of this lot, |
| 0:13.0 | you do have to ask what are the conservatives ever done for Britain? |
| 0:18.0 | For... |
| 0:19.0 | It's dishonest to claim that it's a carbon-effective project, |
| 0:24.0 | although it's just to us sticking to this public relations. |
| 0:29.0 | 20 miles an hour, I've seen pit ponies trotter 20 miles an hour. |
| 0:35.0 | The wishy slight tweak of the net zero timetable |
| 0:39.0 | does seem to have paid a few potential political dividends. |
| 0:49.0 | And welcome once again to Planet Normal, |
| 0:51.0 | the Telegraph Podcast of Alison Pearson. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello. |
| 0:54.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:56.0 | She soon acts doubling down his retreat from net zero. |
| 0:59.0 | As the Tory faithful gather in Manchester this weekend for their party conference, |
| 1:03.0 | the Prime Minister is throwing the pro-growth wing of his party some red, |
| 1:07.0 | or should that be true blue meat? |
| 1:09.0 | Having wrote back some of the government's net zero policies last week, |
| 1:12.0 | pushing back the ban on new petrol and diesel cars five years to 2035, |
| 1:17.0 | soon acts now given the green light to the development of the UK's largest known, |
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