Starmer’s ‘weird’ week: from Liverpool to New York
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Labour’s conference in Liverpool should have been a celebratory event after its landslide win in the July election. Political editor George Parker, standing in for Lucy Fisher, is joined by Miranda Green and Robert Shrimsley to discuss why the mood was anything but triumphant. Plus, economics editor Sam Fleming explains how the government might increase capital spending despite Labour’s repeated warnings that the state coffers are empty; and chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman steps into the studio to assess Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s debut on the world stage at the UN general assembly this week. Lucy Fisher is back next week.
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Presented by George Parker. Produced by Tamara Kormornick. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Audio mix and original music by Breen Turner. The broadcast engineers were Rod Fitzgerald and Andrew Georgiadis. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas, |
| 0:15.0 | we increased the proportion of our global annual investment |
| 0:18.0 | that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses |
| 0:21.0 | from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.5 | VP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:29.6 | Hello and welcome to political fix from the Financial Times with me George Parker. |
| 0:38.0 | Coming up, they won an election by a landslide, but that wasn't exactly obvious at the Labour Party conference. |
| 0:44.6 | So why wasn't the Labour Party in a more triumphant mood? |
| 0:48.1 | Plus, what to make of Labour's plans to ramp up capital spending after its repeated warnings that the state coffers are empty. |
| 0:55.8 | And as stama joins world leaders at the UN in New York, what does the new Labour government bring |
| 1:01.6 | to the Western Alliance? |
| 1:03.6 | Joining me in the studio are political fix regulars, |
| 1:06.2 | Robert Shrimsley, hi Robert, |
| 1:07.8 | hello there George and Miranda Green. |
| 1:09.6 | Hello George. |
| 1:10.8 | Right so we're all slightly bleary-eyed after a few days on the Albert dock in Liverpool. |
| 1:19.0 | One Labour veteran I bumped into in the Pullman Hotel bar, the main conference bar, heaving as usual, said there was one word to describe |
| 1:25.5 | the atmosphere at the conference and that was weird. Robert, how did it feel to you? |
| 1:30.2 | Well it was certainly more muted than you'd expect, as you said, for a party that has just got over 400 seats in a general election, an absolutely stonking landslide back in power after a very long time. |
| 1:42.2 | And that certainly wasn't the move this was not a |
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