Oct 1, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
Labour conference is over and the opposition parties are already on the attack – despite a ringing endorsement from Oasis’ Liam Gallagher. As the Conservatives head to Birmingham, Kemi Badenoch has…
Anne McElvoyHost
Sam CoatesHost
And can I just say, Saturday Night Live last week called it all pretty much right.
They had the Gallagher brothers storming into Number 10 North to make Andy Burnham part of their band.
[laughs] For Andy Burnham, it doesn't get any better than that, does it? So no looking back in anger, uh, Labor in Liverpool.
Uh, but the Tories, uh, now take over the baton with the challenge of pitching their response, uh, to that barnstorming, uh, Burnham finale at Labor.
Uh, revving up the Audi Quattro of their own pre-conference sallies, and Kemi Badenoch as the, the lead singer saying Labor conference felt like a student union gathering of people who'd just got older.
It seems that Kemi Badenoch is going to absolutely lean into her bravesiffness, so we're gonna see whether she can take it as well as give it this week.
Ed Miliband, she says in an interview with Tim Shipman in The Spectator, is gormless.
Nigel Farage is grumpy grandpa 'cause he's always complaining, uh, about something.
And in a question about the former Tory MP Grant Shapps, who she blocked from returning to Parliament, she just doesn't engage on the subject of him directly, but just criticizes MPs who plot, and say, "I'm looking for improved standards of contact, uh, conduct."
Kemi Badenoch clearly looking for her own kind of authenticity after, uh, we, we got that from Andy Burnham in his way.
Now she's preempting accusations of harshness by frankly just going for it, Simon.
[laughs] She says, uh, in this interview, uh, with Tim Shipman that people who were going to say nasty party are always gonna say that.
Frankly, she says the mess we're, we're in is because we kept pandering to these people [laughs] and trying to make them, uh, like us.
And can I just say, Saturday Night Live last week called it all pretty much right.
They had the Gallagher brothers storming into Number 10 North to make Andy Burnham part of their band.
[laughs] For Andy Burnham, it doesn't get any better than that, does it? So no looking back in anger, uh, Labor in Liverpool.
Uh, but the Tories, uh, now take over the baton with the challenge of pitching their response, uh, to that barnstorming, uh, Burnham finale at Labor.
Uh, revving up the Audi Quattro of their own pre-conference sallies, and Kemi Badenoch as the, the lead singer saying Labor conference felt like a student union gathering of people who'd just got older.
It seems that Kemi Badenoch is going to absolutely lean into her bravesiffness, so we're gonna see whether she can take it as well as give it this week.
Ed Miliband, she says in an interview with Tim Shipman in The Spectator, is gormless.
Nigel Farage is grumpy grandpa 'cause he's always complaining, uh, about something.
And in a question about the former Tory MP Grant Shapps, who she blocked from returning to Parliament, she just doesn't engage on the subject of him directly, but just criticizes MPs who plot, and say, "I'm looking for improved standards of contact, uh, conduct."
Kemi Badenoch clearly looking for her own kind of authenticity after, uh, we, we got that from Andy Burnham in his way.
Now she's preempting accusations of harshness by frankly just going for it, Simon.
[laughs] She says, uh, in this interview, uh, with Tim Shipman that people who were going to say nasty party are always gonna say that.
Frankly, she says the mess we're, we're in is because we kept pandering to these people [laughs] and trying to make them, uh, like us.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.