The spectre of Farage looms over Labour conference
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The chancellor used her speech to define the Labour party in opposition to Reform and the Conservatives, and Shabana Mahmood the home secretary aimed to redefine patriotism in her speech, in hopes of clawing back voters lost to Farage's party.
Meanwhile, Andy Burnham has been making headlines on the fringes.
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| 1:38.8 | Will Dunn outside the conference centre in Liverpool where you can probably hear some of the delegates |
| 1:43.5 | behind us relaxing |
| 1:44.6 | after a very packed day of speeches which we've all been covering so between us we've been watching |
| 1:49.7 | the big hitters on today's agenda the chancellor rachel reeves home secretary shabana mamood |
| 1:54.7 | and on the fringe of the conference andy burnham so let's start with rachel reeves's speech |
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