The winners and losers of this year’s conference season
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Oscar Edmondson speaks to James Heale and Isabel Hardman.
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| 0:26.2 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, |
| 0:28.0 | this week takes his daily politics podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Oscar Edmonton and I'm joined today by James Hill and Isabelle Hartman. |
| 0:35.2 | Now conference season has come to a close after Labour's yearly conference |
| 0:38.5 | in Liverpool ended on Wednesday and we thought we'd do a little run through |
| 0:42.7 | of the winners and losers from this conference season. |
| 0:45.5 | But maybe just to start with James, there's been some polling out today |
| 0:48.9 | in the times on Rishi Sunak's post-conference approval ratings |
| 0:53.7 | and they make for pretty grim reading for the Prime Minister when you say. |
| 0:57.2 | Yeah, I mean this is the first poll that's been out, |
| 0:59.2 | snap polling since the two conferences for both leaders |
| 1:02.8 | and Rishi Sunak's popularity has now fallen to a record low. |
| 1:06.5 | You've got to put that only 20% of voters think that he would now be the best Prime Minister |
| 1:11.2 | down five points in a week and that's the lowest approval rating he's had since |
| 1:14.8 | entering number 10 a year ago this month. |
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