Sunak's speech: Has he cost himself the next election?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak was on his feet in a speech that was frankly too long.
It ripped up HS2 and replaced it with a nebulous Northern Network pledge. It promised to rethink A levels and ban young people from smoking.
There was nothing on housing, energy, social care , the environment - it felt, indeed, like the end of the road.
Has he convinced anyone he is the future ? And what will Labour do with the cancelled project now?
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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. |
| 0:12.0 | We will be bold. We will be radical. We will face resistance and we will meet it. We will give the country what it so sorely needs and yet too often has been |
| 0:23.6 | denied, a government prepared to make long-term decisions so that we can build a brighter future |
| 0:30.4 | for everyone. Be in no doubt, it is time for a change and we are it. Thank you. |
| 0:39.8 | There is no more potent, time-honoured slogan in politics than it is time for a change. |
| 0:47.5 | The problem is it would be fine if Rishi Sunak had just won the general election |
| 0:52.5 | and this was his first party conference with the Tories in power after 13 years of labour, but it isn't. |
| 1:00.2 | It is proper mirror world stuff. We are being asked to believe that Rishi Sunak is the brand |
| 1:06.5 | new novelty candidate for this insurgent conservative party. |
| 1:11.1 | It's as if he's been taken aside, given a bit of hard advice. |
| 1:14.9 | If you want to win this, you have to differentiate yourself, |
| 1:17.9 | even piss off the people who came before you and make yourself sound different. |
| 1:22.6 | That was what just happened in the hall, or so he thinks. |
| 1:26.7 | Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:31.3 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:33.1 | It is John. |
| 1:34.3 | It's Emily. |
| 1:35.0 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:35.7 | And we are in the press area about 20 feet away from a huddle that is taking place |
| 1:41.3 | where Downing Street are trying to explain what Rishi Sunak has announced, |
| 1:46.4 | and there's one topic, one topic only, that people are asking questions about, |
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