Rachel Reeves: 7 standing ovations but no big new policies
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Darren Jones, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, joins the podcast to take us behind the scenes of the Shadow Cabinet's announcements at this year's Labour Party conference, including Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves ' speech which received 7 standing ovations and an endorsement from Mark Carney - the former Bank of England Governor.
Joining our host Anoosh Chakelian from the conference in Liverpool we hear from Rachel Wearmouth, deputy political editor, and Rachel Cunliffe, associate political editor.
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| 0:36.1 | Hi, I'm Anouche. I'm Rachel. I'm also Rachel. And this is the New |
| 0:40.1 | Statements Politics Podcast, which we're bringing to you from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. |
| 0:45.5 | In this episode, we're joined by Darren Jones, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, |
| 0:49.6 | and we're going to be discussing the Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves' pledge |
| 0:52.4 | to rebuild Britain. Hello, I'm Anouche Shekelly, and Britain editor of the New |
| 1:00.0 | Statement and host of this podcast. And joining me in this strange booth that we found |
| 1:04.4 | in the Liverpool Conference Centre, I have deputy political editor Rachel Weermouth |
| 1:08.2 | and our associate political editor Rachel Cunliffe. And we'll soon be joined by the Shadow Chief |
| 1:13.0 | Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Bristol North, Darren Jones. Before our MP comes, |
| 1:18.6 | let's bitch about conference bitch. So the idea of this conference is supposed to be |
| 1:24.8 | why Labour. So, okay, we've heard the problems with the country, we've heard Keir Starmer's |
| 1:29.9 | backstory. It's now like, what will a Labour Britain look like? And I have not got that impression |
| 1:35.1 | from the speeches that we've been watching, even though Shadow Cabinet members have been told |
| 1:39.2 | to frame their speeches around that question. Yeah, there's not. Because there was so little new |
| 1:44.7 | policy in Rachel Reeves' speech, and I haven't heard anything that's majorly moving on the narrative |
| 1:50.5 | for Labour this conference yet. But I guess a lot of that would come potentially tomorrow in |
| 1:56.0 | Keir Starmer's speech, where you would hope that you would get a bit more of a vision of what |
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