In this emergency podcast, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert analyse the key speeches at this year’s Labour Party conference from Prime Minister Andy Burnham, and Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey. The official slogan of the conference was ‘Hope Again.’ Are we feeling it?

Along the way we ask: what is ‘hope’? Must a politics of the future of be free of all nostalgia? Why has Burnham set out the most radical programme for government since the 1960s, while not including anyone from the political left in his government? And how long can we spend discussing the politics of 1980s / 90s Liverpool ‘baggy’ band, The Farm?

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