Sunak suffers a Tory backlash - but what will Labour do next?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Tory conference is over, but the next one - Labour - looms large.
What will Sir Keir Starmer do with the new look rail plans? Will they resurrect HS2 or get into line behind Sunak's plans? And whilst the mood of the country may demand change, how confident is Labour or bringing them on side?
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Planning Producer: Alex Barnett
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.9 | You know how on Twitter, sorry, I mean X, that there's always a comment to embarrass you from something you once said. |
| 0:19.1 | Oh, the politicians have had such fun over the past 24 |
| 0:22.3 | hours since Rishi Sunak abandoned HS2. Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, tweeted, how's it going |
| 0:28.9 | Jeremy to Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor? Because Jeremy Hunt in 2020 had tweeted, no HS2 equals, |
| 0:36.4 | no ambition for our country, just when the whole world is looking at us. |
| 0:41.2 | Now is a time to be, in capital, ambitious, hashtag great decision. |
| 0:47.2 | The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, we now know, was one of the big drivers behind that decision that Rishi Sunak made finally yesterday to cancel the next leg of HS2. |
| 0:58.6 | But don't think that Labour comes out of this completely clean-skinned either. |
| 1:04.4 | Rachel Reeves won't be retweeting what Kirstama said in 2015. |
| 1:08.5 | I oppose H2, HS2, on cost and on merit. |
| 1:12.6 | It will not achieve its stated objectives. |
| 1:16.6 | We have had plans, amended plans and further amended plans for use. |
| 1:21.6 | The only sensible plan is to abandon the project altogether. |
| 1:26.6 | I think on the football pools they call that a score draw. |
| 1:30.7 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:35.5 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:37.8 | Here's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:39.4 | And we've lost Lewis down the back of a couch, but we'll find it. |
| 1:41.8 | I think he's in real. Last scene outside the real sun centre. |
| 1:44.7 | Brill in real. |
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