NS#237: The Labour Conference Debrief
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🗓️ 28 September 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Helen and Stephen are back from the Labour Party conference in Brighton, and they reflect on the party's mood. Then they analyse how successful Jeremy Corbyn's speech was. Finally, they answer a listener question: was Labour right to wargame a run on the pound?
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Further reading:
Stephen's column with details about Corbyn merch mania.
Helen on how Momentum won the internet.
The seven things Stephen learned at the conference.
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| 0:25.9 | It tells the extraordinary story of the double revolution that engulfed the Labour Party after 2015, |
| 0:31.6 | from centre left to hard left and back again, the battles and |
| 0:35.7 | disasters that accompanied them and the two men who led those revolutions, |
| 0:39.7 | Jeremy Corbyn and Kiea. |
| 1:04.8 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and on this week's news station podcast we report back from Labour Party conference what was the mood like what was |
| 1:08.5 | discussed what policies are in the offering we discussed whether or not we thought |
| 1:11.6 | Jeremy Corbyn's speech was a flop or fantastic. |
| 1:15.0 | I think that those are the two options basically. And finally you ask us, is Labour right to |
| 1:18.9 | war game a run on the pound? So Stephen you're back slightly later than me from Brighton. I made it until Monday |
| 1:32.4 | evening in the palace of... I think it's quite |
| 1:36.4 | good seaside. I'm just going to put this out there. I know you said last week it wasn't, |
| 1:39.1 | but I... One of the things that's nice about having Labour Conference in Brighton is that weirdly September is a month is often a lot warmer and nicer than you think so I arrived in the afternoon |
| 1:47.2 | Well actually I arrived first thing on Sunday morning to do the Sunday politics and that was it was a really beautiful day and I felt my heart was lifted |
| 1:54.7 | So Brighton is lovely and the weather was lovely and the sea is lovely but to my mind and I know that my it's not a proper seaside directly. |
| 2:03.2 | Shingle is bullshit, that's what you're saying. |
| 2:05.2 | Well, yeah, I just basically like for it to be a seaside, there's got to be, you know, a beach, |
| 2:10.5 | whereas really there's buildings, you know, nice buildings and some nice |
| 2:14.5 | c cafes and then there's sea. Right, there's you know this the essential ingredient to |
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