Labour conference roundup – What we learned in Liverpool

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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• OGWN Live in Hove, Weds 9 Oct. Tickets here. This year’s Labour conference was the biggest in the party’s history – but what did we learn from the gathering in Liverpool? Jacob Jarvis and producer Chris Jones went up to Liverpool to speak with friends of the podcast new and old, to get their key takeaways and ask whether it went well, or badly, for Starmer and co. We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow • Get tickets for Levitation, the annual festival of electronic music and ideas presented by friends of the pod Castles In Space, at Bedford Esquires on Sat 5 Oct. And here’s a taster playlist of who’s on. • The people behind Make A Will Online are longtime fans of Oh God What Now and they’ve got a special offer for fellow listeners. Go to Makeawillonline.co.uk/whatnow and you’ll get a 20% discount. Don’t put off making a will, get peace of mind for you and your loved ones. Presented Jacob Jarvis. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Video production by: Chris Jones. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Jacob Jarvis and welcome to a bonus edition of Oh God What Now recorded on site at the
0:10.0	Labour Party Conference.
0:12.3	Producer Chris Jones and I headed up to Liverpool to chat to friends old and new about
0:15.4	what grabbed their attention at the big political meetup.
0:18.7	Listen on to hear a roundup of what they had to say and visit our YouTube channel to watch it on video.
0:23.2	They're the link in the show notes.
0:28.3	It's Kie what pressures there are and what will make a good or bad
0:44.4	conference for the Labour Party.
0:50.4	Labour governments of the past took on this same challenge at a time when Britain desperately needed change.
0:56.0	They deserved a better Britain when the odds were stacked against them.
1:01.0	And that is exactly what this Labour government must deliver once again.
1:06.4	It's a conference let's get on with it. Angela Rayna opened the conference to rapturous applause, but what will deem this event
1:18.3	an actual success?
1:20.1	Jim Murphy, former MP and minister and and now CEO of Arden Strategies, says it depends on the conversation that breaks out beyond it.
1:27.6	A conference works if it breaks out of the conference hall for a good reason.
1:33.4	It's easy to get a conference to break out from the conference hall for terrible reasons.
1:37.8	A controversy, a protest, a messed up speech or whatever. But a conference that... a or onto the social media feed. That's a success.
1:54.0	But for Times Radio journalist Hugo Rifkin,
1:56.2	Stama's goal will be to look like he's a natural
1:58.8	when it comes to wielding the power that he has.
2:02.1	I think there is this sort of wave of,
2:05.0	although labor seems to be struggling in the polls,
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