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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Today, we look at Keir Starmer’s speech at the Labour Party conference. The prime minister promised light at the end of a tunnel, but of hard choices on the way. He also defended the cut to winter fuel payments for pensioners, and called for 'restraint and de-escalation' on the border between Lebanon and Israel.
Adam, Chris, Henry and Alex chat it through. 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 producer was Philip Bull. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Hello from Liverpool, where Kost Armou's just given his first speech to the Labour Party |
0:09.3 | conference as Prime Minister. |
0:11.4 | Oh, now they're having a disco. |
0:15.0 | I love me just realize at the very end |
0:18.0 | that I was sitting next to his team of speech writers |
0:20.0 | and they've all just been hugging each other |
0:22.0 | because they thought it went so well. |
0:24.0 | I think if you were going to do a Control-F of the speech, you'd get the word service about 100 times |
0:31.0 | and the word change another hundred times those are the big |
0:34.1 | themes now what all the professional political journalists do at this point is |
0:37.8 | dive into the crowd and find cabinet ministers to get their reviews I think we know know what they'll say, but I'll give it that go anyway. |
0:45.4 | Hello Mayor Tracy, how are you doing? |
0:48.2 | It's Tracy Brabin. |
0:49.4 | What do you think? |
0:50.4 | I thought it was fantastic. |
0:51.4 | Very measured at the beginning. A slow bill to actually an understanding of |
0:55.4 | what makes Kia Tic and what the task ahead and he's somebody that is going to deliver with integrity and commitments. |
1:04.3 | Really, it's just what we needed. |
1:06.1 | You're ready to tell people in Western Yorkshire that they might need a prison built where |
1:08.9 | they live, more houses and electricity pile on at the end of the garden? |
1:12.3 | Well look we've got to take some difficult choices, |
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