Starmer's speech: has he done enough to win a majority?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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The News Agents at the Labour Party Conference: Day 2
If Sir Keir Starmer was looking for a bit of sparkle today in his Leader's speech he shouldn’t have worried: it came to find him in the shape of a glitter-throwing protestor before he’d had the chance to say a word.
Undeterred, he took to shirt sleeves and spelled out a working class mantra of aspiration and renewal for a country on its knees. Was it enough?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | So we were all in the hall for Kier Stalmers' conference speech, and these were the first words we heard. |
| 0:21.1 | True democracy is citizen-led. |
| 0:23.8 | Politics needs an update. |
| 0:25.9 | We demand a people's house. |
| 0:28.4 | We are in crisis. |
| 0:32.4 | We are in crisis. |
| 0:33.6 | The whole future is Japanese. |
| 0:36.8 | If he thinks that bothers me, he doesn't know me. |
| 0:42.7 | Not Kirstama, but a protester protesting about democracy. |
| 0:48.1 | And the person he was trying to interrupt, Kirstama, came out on top. |
| 0:53.1 | Jack it off, sleeves rolled up, ready for business, saying, |
| 0:57.4 | if you think this is going to put me off, you don't know me. There was quite a lot of glitter |
| 1:02.4 | and there was quite a lot of confusion as we saw the protester hauled off the stage and out of the |
| 1:09.4 | room. But in some ways it couldn't have been a better beginning for the Labour leader. |
| 1:16.8 | Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 1:21.6 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:23.7 | It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. |
| 1:26.4 | And we are still on the stand at the Labour Party conference where Kirstama has just finished his speech in the last half hour. |
| 1:34.5 | There is a buzz around the hall. |
| 1:37.3 | And, okay, disclosure, I thought that this speech would be really Blairite. |
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