Stand By Your Plan, Rachel Reeves?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at Rachel Reeves’s first conference speech as chancellor, in which she stood by her winter fuel allowance cut, was heckled by a protestor, and said “Britain’s best days lie ahead”. Adam, Chris and Alex are there in Liverpool to go through what she said.

Plus we hear from the woman herself. She spoke to Adam after addressing the audience. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren and Chris Flynn with Anna Harris. The technical producers were Jonny Hall and Philip Bull. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.8	This episode of newscast is coming to you.
0:06.8	I was going to say live, but it's not live,
0:08.4	because podcasts can't be live,
0:09.6	because the medium wouldn't allow it.
0:11.5	From Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, have you guys seen any
0:14.1	celebrities Alex and Chris? Do you count MPs of celebrities if they're quite well
0:18.2	known? Yeah. Then yeah, most of the cabinet. That's the good thing about these events because they are just sort of wandering around.
0:24.8	At one point Kie Starmer came into our office for about 20 minutes.
0:28.0	He did. I was away he was coming. I was hiding not because he was coming, but I was hiding in any negative stories that he might have.
0:35.0	I was in the car park in a kind of shed thing which is where we do our TV editing and so I didn't get to see him but I was aware he was
0:44.0	And I rather rudely as he came in rushed past him and went oh sorry I've got to get a
0:48.2	buy to go and do it like I'm all that's out the way I'm busy don't you know
0:52.4	In terms of actual celebrities lots of people I'm busy don't you know.
0:53.0	In terms of actual celebrities lots of people have seen Gary Neville.
0:56.0	Yes.
0:57.0	Oh.
0:58.0	Apparently David James, the former England goalkeeper was here as well.
1:01.0	I spotted him.
1:02.0	It was him. Because of my
1:03.0	completely inadequate sporting knowledge I didn't dare say it was him in case I just
1:06.8	it like in India. I think he's been at party conferences before come to think
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