Because we serve your interests. Why labor . Because we will grow every corner of our country. Why labor . Because we have a plan to take back our streets, switch on Great British energy, get the nhs back on its feet, tear down the barriers to opportunity and Get Britain Building again. A plan for a britain built to last. A plan to heal the wounds. A plan to turn the page and say in a cry of defiance to all those who now write our country off. Britain must, britain can, britain will get its future back. Thank you. Conference. Lucy fisher is Whitehall Editor of the financial times. Thank you forjoining ours. Were about a year out for that expected uk General Election. What was the manifesto over all that keir starmer was presenting from labour . Interesting leave the speech today wasnt jam packed interesting leave the speech today wasntjam packed with interesting leave the speech today wasnt jam packed with flashy policies and the rain rabbit out of the hat was about house building, a pledge to build 1. 5 million homes in the first five Year Parliament of a labour government. He tried very much to frame labour as the party of the builders. That was kind of the new policy front. I was up to eight more interested that his party was more interested that his party was more of reassurance, trying to re impress that message that labour has changed as a corbin era. No longer enthralled to gesture politics, as he put it. He appealed to tories, previous supporters who said they now find themselves in despair at the governing party for them and suggested they can out trust labour, labour is no longer a risk to vote for. I thought it was an entry speech, given that were a year out, he doesnt want to give away too much of his policy manifesto this far out. You mentioned manifesto this far out. You mentioned he manifesto this far out. You mentioned he is manifesto this far out. You mentioned he is trying manifesto this far out. You mentioned he is trying to l manifesto this far out. You mentioned he is trying to win back voters that the labour party has lost in recent elections. Do you think this Building Policy Amp Large is the way he hopes to do that . I think it speaks to other themes, the class aspiration, he talked about his Working Class Roots and tied that closely to the dream of home ownership, which he said was now outside the grasp of many people from backgrounds such as his because of such a shortage of supply in the Housing Market. Ithink of such a shortage of supply in the Housing Market. I think if you delve into the numbers it is not a hugely ambitious target in terms of the fact that its not that much beyond what the current government is plunging in terms of new homes. We know the conservative pledging. We know the conservatives have failed repeatedly. Ithink we know the conservatives have failed repeatedly. I think it is a winning pitch and it speaks to multiple generations, younger people concerned about getting on the Housing Ladder as well as older grandparents, parents who have generations beneath them worried about high rents they are facing in the rental market. It seemed to me is an obvious tactic to go down. An obvious area to try and tackle, even though there is such concerned about the Housing Market in britain. I think it was over all trying to combine that with that idea of certainty and stability with labour, they have a plan for economic growth. I think again after all the chopping and changing as keir starmer reported under the Conservative Government, most recently Rishi Sunak You turning deciding to scrape scrap the northern plague of hs2. Again trying to present this idea that labour has a Long Term Plan and would be a stable government that would restore the confidence for investors and businesses at large. The confidence for investors and businesses at large. Lucy fisher, sta with businesses at large. Lucy fisher, stay with us lets bring in our panel. Jim, you are at the labour party conference. Was that speech from keir starmer at the speech of a future Prime Minister . I keir starmer at the speech of a future Prime Minister . Keir starmer at the speech of a future Prime Minister . I think it was. I future Prime Minister . I think it was i think future Prime Minister . I think it was. I think he future Prime Minister . I think it was. I think he was future Prime Minister . I think it was. I think he was at future Prime Minister . I think it was. I think he was at the was. I think he was at the conference and it increasingly looks as though conference and it increasingly looks as though it may be in the Opinion Polls as though it may be in the Opinion Polls t0~ as though it may be in the Opinion Polls w i as though it may be in the Opinion Polls to. I know its late in the evening polls to. I know its late in the evening and it doesnt look energetic behind me but at the conference the labour party has finally conference the labour party has finally fallen out of love with losing finally fallen out of love with losing. Its determining to win this election losing. Its determining to win this election. You saw this in the confidence in which keir starmer carried confidence in which keir starmer carried himself and the repeated standing carried himself and the repeated Standing Ovation sees received. A real energy, real determination. I think real energy, real determination. I think politics at the next election will narrow down to one question which will narrow down to one question which is, will narrow down to one question which is, after 14 years of Conservative Government is anything in britain Conservative Government is anything in britain genuinely working better now that in britain genuinely working better now that it was 14 years ago . If you think now that it was 14 years ago . If you think so now that it was 14 years ago . If you think so many things are better than a decade think so many things are better than a decade and a half ago that you possibly a decade and a half ago that you possibly might vote conservative. Increasingly there are people who say britain deserves better than this and say britain deserves better than this and its time to get our future hack this and its time to get our future back i this and its time to get our future hack ithink this and its time to get our future back. I think it was a very important Stepping Stone to watch that Election Victory that labour is determined to generate and probably next october. Jim, determined to generate and probably next october next october. Jim, about the olitics next october. Jim, about the politics in next october. Jim, about the politics in scotland, next october. Jim, about the politics in scotland, of next october. Jim, about the | politics in scotland, of course next october. Jim, about the i politics in scotland, of course it was a good week for labour last week but that by election in scotland. How key do you think scottish constituencies will be if sir keir starmer ends up winning the General Election . I common find a way in which we have more in common that find a way in which we have more in common that divides us on these islands common that divides us on these islands. ,. ,. , islands. Jennifer, one of the themes of sir keir starmer islands. Jennifer, one of the themes of sir keir starmer speech islands. Jennifer, one of the themes of sir keir starmer speech of of sir keir starmer speech of conference was all about class. Susie mentioned, he talked about breaking the Class Ceiling and his own Working Class background. That was something that even though donald trump wasnt necessarily Working Class it certainly resonated with voters that he was able to tap into the idea that he was an anti establishing politician. How much do you think that still is a vote winner . It much do you think that still is a vote winner . Much do you think that still is a vote winner . It is a vote winner because the vote winner . It is a vote winner because the middle vote winner . It is a vote winner because the middle class vote winner . It is a vote winner because the middle class is vote winner . 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