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,
at the most astonishing number of both political and economic events of recent years, the past has not been the guide to the future that it always has been, but that, but nonetheless, she has an astonishing mountain to climb when, you know, when you have a debut as chaotic as that, you know, when you fall behind in the polls to that extent, when millions of british people are currently both angry at what they thought was an unnecessary and unfair £2 billion giveaway to the wealthy that you ve had to reverse, when they are holding her personally responsible for mortgage rates soaring and a possible housing market crash, i mean, these are pretty big negatives to overcome. let s be absolutely clear, and i m sure beth would take the same view, of course, i m not saying it s impossible for her to win in these
earlier than the bank- of england was anticipating. well, i think. there is a slim chance, . you know, so, you know, and i have long stopped trying to predict what will happen. i i suppose it s the point you made earlier, beth, but if you look where borisjohnson was in 2019, when people were going, this guy s got an 80 seat majority, and you think we re now what kind of three years down the line? and things have changed so dramatically. so if i said to you a year ago, borisjohnson is going to be i ousted by the conservative . party, you would have said. actually, bizarrely, my christmas prediction that year, a year ago, he would be ousted and i was wrong by about three months, unfortunately. we have the visionary in the room?! that s notjust the moment when things were all right. but anyway, let s put us to one side. but the point you re making is is nonetheless completely correct that on the night, you know, i remember in the itv
the chief, excuse me, the permanent secretary of the treasury, tom scholar, again, because he thought he d probably give him advice that he didn t want to hear. they were just so determined to get these tax cuts through. but i would say and this is a sort of sort of slight counterpoint to what beth was saying, that over many years, her opponents have underestimated her. and, you know, i mean, you know, let s be absolutely clear. she did really badly in the first round, for example, of the parliamentary vote. she may have only ended up with about a third of mps supporting her, but she got through to the final round and she basically humiliated rishi sunak within a couple of weeks. but. ijust but all the way along her career, basically, particularly men, have underestimated her and mostly she s seen them all off. so i m not saying, however, that she isn t now in the deepest hole any prime minister has ever been in, because i do think she s basically in the deepest hole any prime minist