Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host, Alan Tollis, and this week we're turning our focus to Labour,

looking at the party's path to power as they sit around 20 points clear in the opinion polls

as we begin the countdown to the next general election.

Joining me to look at Kirstama's reshaping of Labor,

post the Jeremy Corbyn era,

the squeezing of the left and the party's policy direction,

as it tries to win back seats from conservatives,

is Neil Lawson, director of the centre-left campaign organisation,

Compass, Abdi Duale, a member of Labour's ruling national executive committee,

as well as Morgan Jones, a reporter of the website Labor list. So starting with you,

Morgan, so we're kind of post the conference period. We had the King's speech this week with the

government setting out their agenda. What's kind of state of labor at the moment is kind of all

rosy in Starmers Garden, as I pointed out there, well clear in the opinion polls have been for,

you know, months, if not another year now so i mean i think

the party came out of conference feeling extremely confident and feeling very happy with how it went

it was a very very smooth conference they got the policy they were out they wanted there was no

sort of major membership fights there was no you know shadow cabinet members or shadow ministers

saying something awful at a fringe.

It was all very smooth.

And then we came off that and straight into two by-elections where Labor frankly smashed it.

So they feel, yeah, extremely happy and quite bullish, I would say.

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