Sep 29, 2026 · 21 min · 13 segments
It’s the new prime minister’s big day in Liverpool – but will he explain what Labour conference slogan “hope again” actually means? After a series of major speeches with little substance so far from…
Anne McElvoyHost
Sam CoatesHost
One of these is a charismatic figure, beloved online, who travels the country attracting selfie seekers, and the other is a Japanese ambassador.
Anyway, on with Andy Burnham's speech day, uh, for this is a conference, of course, about one man and, uh, one man making his debut before conference as prime minister.
Uh, we might have cabinet government, but for days, aides to the PM have been saying that everything just comes down to this one moment, two o'clock this afternoon, shortly afterwards, when he walks on to give his speech on the main stage.
And it is intended to put some muscle behind that slogan of hope again hanging all over, uh, this conference on those huge placards.
What is the meat of the Burnham feast? And, and the speech, uh, creates a publicly owned grid company, uh, inside Great British energy.
There's strikingly little detail about what that means, except it does underline how far this prime minister, this government, is going to go on foregrounding public, uh, ownership as one of its major aims.
One of these is a charismatic figure, beloved online, who travels the country attracting selfie seekers, and the other is a Japanese ambassador.
Anyway, on with Andy Burnham's speech day, uh, for this is a conference, of course, about one man and, uh, one man making his debut before conference as prime minister.
Uh, we might have cabinet government, but for days, aides to the PM have been saying that everything just comes down to this one moment, two o'clock this afternoon, shortly afterwards, when he walks on to give his speech on the main stage.
And it is intended to put some muscle behind that slogan of hope again hanging all over, uh, this conference on those huge placards.
What is the meat of the Burnham feast? And, and the speech, uh, creates a publicly owned grid company, uh, inside Great British energy.
There's strikingly little detail about what that means, except it does underline how far this prime minister, this government, is going to go on foregrounding public, uh, ownership as one of its major aims.
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