Starmer delivers 'the speech of his life'
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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We have just heard the Prime Minister’s headline speech at Labour Party Conference and – whisper it quietly – that might have been Keir Starmer’s best yet. As briefed out beforehand it was a patriotic address, with lots of flag waving in the room as he presented his version of patriotism in contrast to a Nigel Farage who is guilty of talking Britain down.
It was miles better than the dreariness of last year and instead struck a chord of hope against the broken Britain narrative. Even though there was little of actual substance on the economy and more platitudes about ‘smashing the gangs’, this did seem like a landmark moment for Keir Starmer where he communicated an actual plan for the Britain he wants to build. He also managed to trumpet some of Labour’s successes, mimicking Gordon Brown as he listed off their first year wins. At times this Labour party has felt like an ocean liner, but is he finally turning things around and bringing the fight to Reform? Is this ‘Starmerism’?
Oscar Edmondson speaks to Tim Shipman and James Heale.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:45.9 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Oscar |
| 0:50.6 | Edmondson. I'm joined today by Tim Shipman and James Heel. Now, Kirstama has just given his speech to close Labour Conference 2025. It was quite a long one, about an hour, so lots to pick over. But whisper it quietly, that was perhaps his best speech yet. What do you think, Tim? Yeah, I mean, everyone says leaders need to make the speech of their life. Well, Kirstama just did, bluntly. |
| 1:11.4 | Did it answer everything that has been asked of Kirstama in the last year? No. |
| 1:16.5 | Did it make exactly clear what direction he's planning to take the economy? No, but there were some hints. |
| 1:21.9 | But I think for the first time, what a lot of ministers, MPs, activists and bluntly we journalists have been asking for for a long |
| 1:30.3 | time is a sense of what is Kirstama's vision, where does he plan to take this country, |
| 1:35.4 | given that we're going through a lot of economic and societal pain at the moment, what is the |
| 1:40.6 | destination? And I think finally we have a sense of clarity about that um you know he's |
| 1:45.8 | talking about a britain built for all brackets unless you're one of those nasty racist extremist types |
| 1:50.6 | who uh is dividing britain i just ran into a former cabinet minister who called it one nation |
| 1:55.8 | labour and i think that captures the essence of what he's saying he was basically making an |
| 2:00.6 | argument that |
| 2:01.4 | Britain is a diverse, tolerant, interesting place, but that has a lot of problems. And the way to |
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