SpIrIt, a polItIcal correspondent for the tImes and Andrew FIsher who wrItes for the I. Thank you both for beIng wIth us. Tell me lara what do you thInk KeIr Starmer has do today . When you speak to people In labour about what they want to achIeve, they want KeIr Starmer to put a stamp on thIs conference and say what he belIeves In and what the government Is for, we have had ale dIffIcult couple of weeks for the government, we have had storIes about donor gate, freebIes and dIffIcult storIes about the salary of chIef of staff. Some are sayIng that Is because there a voId that starmer has left and Into that voId he needs to state what It Is he needs. So we need to see from hIm today there Is a real sense he needs to stamp hIs authorIty on thIs conference. Another thIn andrew was the sense we got from the government about tough decIsIon, the WInter Fuel Payment whIch was a contentIous decIsIon about that for mIllIons and we have heard from some sayIng you need to Inject more optImIsm whI
If It Cooper made her speech which seem to go down very well. If you pull back a bit and look at them in a new, Yvette Cooper was trying to establish the Party And Government as the Party And Government as the party of law and or daft. She focused on bringing down knife crime, reducing violence against women and girls which got a rousing standing ovation. Tackling street crime and making Town Centres and communities safe for people. They want to introduce a new Respect Order meaning prolific and persistent people undertaking Anti Social Behaviour would be subject to these orders. There was the mention of small boat crossings. Again a commitment to tackle the gangs behind the trade. Yvette cooper has a difficult and wide ranging brief as Home Secretary. If youre in the hole and wanted an overall takeaway, it is they are getting tough on crime and want to be seen as a party who can manage do that. Let us listen to the Home Secretary. In let us listen to the Home Secretary let us listen t
Sir Keir Starmer has stoked the fury of Lancastrians after he tweeted there would be zero-tolerance in hotpot areas - leading to a surge of comedy memes.
Yesterday Sir Keir Starmer unveiled a plan to tackle the epidemic of knife crime - promising to end apology letters that allow youths carrying blades to dodge charges.