What REALLY Happens at Party Conferences?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Paddy is joined by Salma Shah, former Conservative adviser, and Marie Le Conte, political journalist, to discuss party conference season which begins today.
What happens at a conference? Who are party conferences for? And is this all about ‘electioneering’?
They also discuss the latest policy announcements from the government, the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats. And Newscasters send in their thoughts on political slogans.
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Today’s Newscast was presented by Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Miranda Slade. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
00:00 A Newscaster writes 01:57 Policy analysis 19:38 Slogans 21:29 Behind the scenes at party conferences
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hi there, it's Paddy here, laws off this weekend. |
| 0:07.4 | Glad that you're here because I'm now learning |
| 0:09.1 | that newscasters are exceptionally smart, engaged and blunt |
| 0:13.6 | because I've had a look at Jane's email |
| 0:15.9 | to newscast at BBC.co.uk. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm an avid newscast listener and wanted to ask you, |
| 0:21.6 | do you think political reporting from now |
| 0:23.3 | until the general election is going to be arguably |
| 0:25.6 | more pointless than usual? |
| 0:28.5 | This isn't an insult, she says. |
| 0:30.3 | A political journalist can only work |
| 0:32.2 | with the material politicians produced, |
| 0:33.8 | but it feels like Labour and Tory |
| 0:36.5 | are currently steering their bulky oil tanker parties |
| 0:40.4 | towards a general election. |
| 0:42.4 | As if running the country as a sideline, |
| 0:45.0 | I have never been so jaded, says Jane. |
| 0:48.2 | We can call her Jaded Jane. |
| 0:50.6 | Two questions, was this week all about election hearing then, |
| 0:54.2 | or was it about what's best for the UK |
| 0:57.0 | and is political reporting, |
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