At the moment the uk spends about 2. 3 on defence so it will be interesting to see if John Healy the defence actually makes any mention of that at all, particularly given the wide economic context. We had from the Chancellor Rachel reeves this morning about public finances and the central labour we had in the Run Up to the election about them wanting to sustain fiscal discipline. There is escalating tension in the Middle East. Give us an idea of where the government is on this and what messages they are trying to put a cross on both lebanon and israel. We heard from both lebanon and israel. Heard from the foreign Secretary Yesterday in a pretty wide ranging speech when again he touched upon ukraine and continued support for ukraine. He said the escalating tension was worrying and i had to be an immediate ceasefire and the information the government released to citizens in lebanon telling them to leave now. I think we can go no to the Conference Stage. I have a feed in front of me. It i
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From many labour mps. The Prime Minister and the chancellor visiting a Research Facility in liverpool have repeatedly stressed what they say is their dire inheritance, now, there is a shift in tone. Keir starmer was in the mood for celebration, at a scottish reception last night. Thank you so much, enjoy conference, enjoy the evening, and thank you again. Thank you. In her Conference Speech Today, Rachel Reeves will say there is a prize on offer, if, she say, they make the right choices now. What the chancellor will want to get across is good times we want to bring, look, sometimes you have to make difficult decision to give the stability, you dont want to repeat the disaster of Liz Truss in order do that, so where there has to be a tough decision it is for a purpose and it is that better future, yes, we want people to be better off, hope to return to britain. Be better off, hope to return to britain to britain. But one of those difficult decisions to britain. But one of those difficul
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Good afternoon. In the last hour, Rachel Reeves has used her fIrst Labour Conference Speech as chancellor to promIse that therell be no return to austerIty. After weeks of warnIngs about the dIre state of the publIc fInances, she trIed to convey a brIghter message, sayIng she Is optImIstIc about the uks economIc future. She was brIefly heckled by one protestor at the start of her speech. Our polItIcal correspondent Helen Catt reports. As you can see behInd me, people are stIll fIlIng out from the Conference Hall where Rachel Reeves gave her speech In the last hour or so. A much traIled speech, very antIcIpated because, as we know, there has been crItIcIsm about the gloomy outlook that the chancellor and the PrIme MInIster have been talkIng about. So durIng her speech today, we had the Chancellor Attempt today, we had the Chancellor Attempt to Inject some optImIsm, talkIng about the brItaIn that she hoped to buIld for the future. There were some focus on what labour had already done In