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Politics Unpacked

When Conference Goes Wrong

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Labour is heading to Brighton this weekend, kicking off the first party conference season in two years, we take a look at what can go wrong with the people who really know.


PLUS columnists Melanie Reid and James Forsyth on the energy crisis and work outings gone wrong.



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Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Chauley. It's Fuffa for Friday, the Labor Party is packing

1:17.4

its swimming chunks and heading to the beach for the party conference this weekend. So on today's

1:23.2

episode of the podcast, we take a look at what can go wrong at party conferences. It's an absolute

1:28.0

cracker. So that's coming up in just a separate first. It's our columnist panel. It's Friday, so it

1:31.5

must be Melanie Reed and James Forsyth.

1:48.4

We'll talk about things that can go wrong at party conferences and when things have gone wrong

1:51.7

for you at a moment. But James, let's look ahead to the party conferences and what leads to politics

1:58.3

at all. And you've and there's been lots of talk about winter of discontent and you've sort of

2:03.3

you've tackled this in your column in the time today. Talking about the spectrum of the 70s

2:07.8

haunts the Tories and this combination of rising bills, rising inflation could could start to become

2:15.9

a political problem. Yeah, there are some eerie parallels for the 70s. What drove the inflation

2:22.9

in the 70s was the abandonment of a gold standard in 71 and the oil shop of 73, 74 oil price went

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