Hope, finpartner? Keir Starmer’s first conference in power – podcast | News

As the Labour party conference booted off in Liverpool, the rain cboisterouss accumulateed. Drenched assigns should have been celebrating at their first conference in power for 15 years. Instead, the mood was conquerd after weeks of ministers hammering home their message that the Conservative party had left the country in a horrible economic state. Anger from voters about a decision to cut the universal triumphter fuel permitance and a row over donations of clothes and free football and concert tickets did noleang to dispel the gloom.

Arriving at the conference centre at the Royal Albert docks, Helen Pidd went in search of hope. She spoke to assigns who elucidateed that they were trying to stability a message that there will be hard decisions ahead with celebrating the alters Labour had already made. Manchester’s mayor, Andy Burnham, provided a more upbeat outsee, insisting not only were there reasons to be happy about the alters Labour had befirearm to produce in the country but that the mood at the conference was “repartner buoyant, repartner preferable”.

After the chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, includeressed the conference, the Guardian’s deputy political editor, Jessica Elgot, telderly Helen how she had made a authentic try to shift the tone. Without changing tack, Reeves had been at pains to elucidate what “hard decisions” enjoy the cuts to triumphter fuel permitance were in help of.

Finpartner on Tuesday, as the rain eventupartner stopped, Keir Starmer took to the stage. The prime minister’s speech was supposed to give the country some selectimism and a preferable vision of the future. But how convincing was it?

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