The void at the heart of Labour Conference
The News Agents
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🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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As protesters were wrangled off the conference floor, The Chancellor reminded her audience they were not a party of protest but a party of power. They’re now IN power. But Labour’s timetable has created a vacuum into which bad headlines have been allowed to dominate. Are these early teething problems or does it tell us something more structural about a lack of vision?
We talk to Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, and Tom Baldwin, Starmer's biographer. And we hear from Gary Neville on Arsenal boxes and freebies.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | They paid the price for their incompetence, their dishonesty and their rule breaking. |
| 0:17.2 | And we are still selling arms in Israel. |
| 0:20.7 | I've spoken for the most proposal for change, Rachel. |
| 0:23.6 | This is a change Labour Party, a Labour Party that represents working people, not a party of protest. |
| 0:43.3 | There are times when a heckler is a gift from heaven. And in a way today for Rachel Reeves making her speech as the first woman Chancellor ever, |
| 0:50.3 | it was just that. |
| 0:52.3 | Because Labour are no longer a party of protest. They are the party in power. |
| 1:00.0 | And today was the manifestation of that, the first full day of the Labour Party conference. |
| 1:06.0 | But there is a question which is lingering over the conference centre in Liverpool. And it's not actually about tickets and it's not actually about hospitality or what glasses, |
| 1:16.6 | Kirstama wears or clothes that Rachel Reeves has had bought for her. |
| 1:21.6 | It is a question which is far more fundamental and far more important. |
| 1:26.6 | Labour are now in power. They have all the power. What are they actually going to do with it? |
| 1:34.3 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:36.3 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. |
| 1:43.3 | And it's noisy because we are in the middle |
| 1:45.8 | of the Labour Conference floor, surrounded by lovely people who've come to Sioux and |
| 1:51.8 | sort of hear what we're talking about, really, as we try and record. We've just come out at the |
| 1:55.8 | chance of speech. Give everyone a wave. Hello, everyone. Hello. They're all gone. And obviously, |
| 2:00.0 | what they really want to hear about is how fast the tickets are going at the |
| 2:05.7 | Royal Albert Hall for the first of this. |
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