Burnham’s first conference - is there really hope again?
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How did Andy Burnham’s “Hope Again” message revive Labour conference?
This is a global production. It's day one of the Labor Party conference. The Chancellor has just spoken and the mood has been transformed. Nothing has changed in the country, but at the top of the Labor Party, there is a new Prime Minister, and the slogan is Hope Again. Hope again, and yet in many ways the speech that the new Chancellor just gave was anything but hopeful. You could feel the clouds gathering over the political and economic horizon. Is this Labor Party really ready for what's to come? And how much has really changed? Welcome to the NewsAgency.
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It's John. It's Lewis. And it really does feel a different place from a year ago. Uh it's just extraordinary. Uh Kierhu, what was his name? That bloke. He used to be here. He used to be the Prime Minister. Honestly. A man with a nice hairdo. The extent to which He seems to be totally, totally forgotten about and just kind of no absolutely if there had been a coup there would be those people who were the big supporters of him who would be kind of making noise and still very unhappy and unreconciled to the new leadership. There doesn't seem to be any of it. It just seems to be he's gone, yeah. Uh yeah, he was Prime Minister briefly, but that's it. I think what there is this conference, Sean, my impression talking to people, even to some extent from those who weren't necessarily Andy Vernon's biggest fans or biggest cheerleaders, is as a sort of palpable sense of relief.
Yeah.
And I think the relief is there because you only have to consider What the counterfacture would have been like. You know, if if if the Makerfield by election scheme wheeze hadn't come off, if Burnham had lost, if, you know, because it was so contingent, if just something had gone wrong along the way, totally possible, totally credible. And Starmer presumably would still be Prime Minister and Labour leader now. You know, we'll be talking probably about a conference with the blood on the walls, you know, one of those classic Labour conferences where, you know, factionalism was everywhere. The question is, how long can he, should he? Survive. You know, the Labour Party was seriously considering whether whether it had a future.
I mean, as a as a political force, as a viable, live political force. That's not how it feels now. They know it's tough, they know that the Burnham bounce is still relatively modest, but what there is an assurance of, I think, is that Burnham has hurt has guaranteed them a, at least for now, a second hearing, if not a second coming. Yeah, and that is going to be really important when you've got the budget coming up in October, the ten year plan that Andy Burnham is going to unveil in November, where presumably we're going to get more, you know, detail about the kind of policies that he wants to see to transform Britain as he s says it will be. Um I mean it was only a year ago that Starmer was hailing a victory over Burnham when Andy Burnham skulked away from Liverpool.
Oh yeah. During Keir Starmer's speech and was catching the train back to Manchester. The Prince Across the Water had come and he'd been sent away with a flea in his ear. And now he is the Prime Minister. And listening to him, he was on the the radio on LBC with our colleague Sheila Fogerty. He does a half an hour phoning. In content terms, did he say anything that was that different from something that Kirstam would say? Probably not. But the way he said it, the way he engaged with people, I think it's given uh the party a renewed sense of confidence that has been absent. And I think that that is important. But you know, we had the Chancellor's speech today and John Healy again tried to sound full of hope, and hope again is the kind of slogan of the conference.
Um, but you kind of thought actually the picture is pretty bleak and he talked about comparing The pe position we are in now, Britain we are in now, to the nineteen nineties and New Labour and says it's a very different place.
The nineties is having a bit of a revival. To And his excitement, Oasis are going back on tour.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Andy Burnham’s “Hope Again” message revive Labour conference?
0:02–5:30
2
Why did John Healey warn that Britain is not in the 1990s?
5:30–8:34
3
Can Burnham overcome Labour’s fiscal constraints and rebuild public trust?
8:34–10:03
4
How did Ed Miliband’s Gaza speech signal a shift in Labour’s stance?
10:03–15:00
5
What does Labour’s reindustrialisation plan mean for UK jobs and growth?
15:00–17:39
6
Why is Labour hesitant to commit to a third runway at Heathrow?
17:39–25:00
7
Could a US diesel export ban raise UK fuel prices or cause shortages?
25:00–31:58
8
Why is the government facing criticism over Heathrow expansion and infrastructure delays?
31:58–35:56
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