Why every day at Conservative conference is Johnson day
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week we analyse this year’s Conservative party conference. First, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s speech: how credible was it? Can low-skilled immigration be simply replaced without a big inflation risk? Political editor George Parker and chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley analyse.
And then, we look at the other main theme of this year’s conference: levelling up. Did we gain any extra insight from Johnson and Michael Gove on what it means, how it can be delivered and what success looks like? Two special guests will explore: Rachel Wolf of Public First and Paul Swinney from the Centre for Cities think-tank.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you hear that? |
| 0:05.3 | It might sound like nothing to you, but it's actually the sound of nuclear, wind and |
| 0:09.9 | solar energy. |
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| 0:16.7 | keep future energy costs down for everyone and help cut UK carbon emissions to nothing. |
| 0:22.4 | Sound good to you? |
| 0:24.0 | Find out more about our zero carbon generation at edfenergy.com slash help in Britain. |
| 0:30.3 | Boris Johnson roused the Tory faithful this week in his keynote conference speech |
| 0:38.1 | that pledged to tear up the UK's economic model. |
| 0:41.9 | We are embarking now on a change of direction that has been long overdue in the UK economy. |
| 0:48.4 | We're not going back to the same old broken model with low wages, low growth, low skills |
| 0:53.2 | and low productivity, all of it enabled and assisted by uncontrolled immigration. |
| 1:00.9 | Welcome to Payne's Politics. |
| 1:02.6 | You're a central insider guide to what's happening in British politics from the financial |
| 1:06.8 | times, with me Sebastian Payne. |
| 1:09.5 | In this episode, we'll be analysing the Conservative Party conference this week. |
| 1:14.5 | First, we'll be looking at that speech by the Prime Minister you heard at the top and ask |
| 1:18.8 | how credible is it, can no skilled immigration simply be replaced without a big inflation risk. |
| 1:25.0 | Political editor George Parker and Chief Petal commentator Robert Schimmsley will look into it. |
| 1:31.5 | And later, we'll be exiling the other main theme of this year's conference, levelling up. |
| 1:36.4 | Did we gain any extra insight from Johnson and Michael Goe on what it means, how it can be delivered |
| 1:42.0 | or what success even looks like? |
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