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Exactly how painful?
Sir Keir prepared his party for the worst.
“Look, I understand that many of the decisions we have to make will be unpopular. If they were popular, they would be easy,” he told the packed delegates in the conference hall in Liverpool.
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If there was a theme in the hour-long address, it was exactly that, keeping the faith, but pthere are no easy answers here.
There are easy answers, he tells us, for Tories and populism.
There will be “practical solutions that work,” but compromises will be necessary.
It will not be “false hope” but a “long-term plan.”
“It will be difficult,” said the Prime Minister. “That’s not rhetoric – it’s reality.”
To be fair, he told delegates that there was “light at the end of this tunnel” but getting there would mean “a joint battle.”
It has been an amazing conference. It should be a big celebration. Labor has returned to power after 14 years in opposition.
They have 411 MPs, a majority of 174 and yet, although I don’t think it could be described as a downbeat, the mood is a bit subdued.
When I came to the last Labor conference in 2022, there was a real sense of excitement and excitement among the delegates.
But the 80-odd days of government that have gone and the days to come — not to mention the row about free goods — have taken their toll.
I guess that’s the thing about faith. It has to be proven.
One of the big questions for which there is no easy answer — and one I’ve been asking all week — is what all this means for Scottish Labor and their bid to replace the SNP as Scottish Government in 2026?
The warning from Dr Patrick English, YouGov’s Director of Political Analysis, was stark.
“When we talk to voters about the new Labor government they tell us they are quite disappointed,” the expert told the crowd at a fringe event organized by the Scottish Fabians.
“Before the election, they wanted change, Labor campaigned to ensure change. One of the key pieces of qualitative information that we now get from voters is that they say, ‘well, it looks about the same.’
“That’s quite a difficult thing. If that really takes hold, that’s going to be a very difficult thing for Labor in Scotland and across the UK, the idea that after all that change, it’s the same thing. A very difficult position.”
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