your day? fix. are still standing. what was your day? your day? a little smidgen optimistic your day? a little smidgen optimistic decompression | optimistic decompression between two of the conferences, labour and conservative, and then the s&p tomorrow and there is still the treasury union congress rearranged in the morning a little after that. they were both extraordinary. labour was extraordinary and newsworthy. it was kinda quite serene. it was a party that was upbeat. they weren t buyers breaking out in the corners or political fights that. frankly for labour they have been frequently in the past. for the opposite reason, the conservatives, there were political scraps breaking out very visibly in public. then, that kind of briefing that was going on and private from seniorfigures down was going on and private from senior figures down was also volcanic as well. you have a conservative party to put it at its gentlest is not at ease with itself with a new prime minister
the school district in uvalde has suspended its entire police force responsible for campus security. at ten o clock, reeta chakrabarti will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello. it s chris in the streets in south london. james cook, scotland editor, here in the studio. and it s alex forsyth, also in the studio. so, chris, you are currently in a street, but you ve just come back from the labour and conservative conferences. i m amazed you re still standing, albeit in a street. i mean, how were they? what was your take on the whole thing? it s a little smidgeon, alex, of domestic kind of decompression between two of the conferences, labour and conservative, and then the snp, which i m heading to tomorrow. and then there s still the tuc, the trades union congress, rearranged after the mourning period to come, a little after that. how were they? they were both extraordinary and for completely opposite reasons. so,
do you have any behind the scenes chat? what was the prime minister like and, indeed, the labour leader like? what how would you describe their mood when you saw them behind the scenes? i was really struck listening to the conversation about liz truss and her demeanour and her capacity to keep going. because you do see leaders in the immediate moments before you do an interview and the cameras aren t rolling and you get other opportunities at conference to see them not in a private setting really, because they know that we re journalists and we know that they re the prime minister or the leader of the labour party. but in moments that aren t as formal as an interview and the prime minister s capacity to just keep going and actually to keep smiling and be chipper when the overall mood of her conference was one of being winded because of the about turn over the tax rates, the higher tax rate for the best paid in england, wales and northern ireland. and then the row about benefits was