Do fightbacks always begin at Liverpool? An unexpectedly feisty speech by Starmer leads to a lot of pearl-clutching by Reform. But will our media cover it?

Also, the former Welsh leader of Reform admits to taking Russian bribes. But will our media cover it?

And with the election in Moldova sends an unequivocal F-U to Moscow. But will our media cover it?

Alex Andreou, Kenny Campbell and special guest, Annette Dittert, discuss. PLUS dispatches by Naomi Smith, from inside the Labour Conference.

Including 'Grin And Share It' and the triumphant, if extremely confusing, return of 'Wokey Dokey'.

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“I have spent a lot of time in the Northeast recently and was shocked by the amount of anger from lifelong Labour voters who feel betrayed… The sentence I heard most often was: they take it out on us, they take it out on the poor, because it’s easier.”

“It was really important that Starmer called those policies out for what they are - they are racist. Farage stokes this up, cynically and cleverly. Labour have tried to tiptoe around it all summer and it hasn’t worked.” 

“We saw it during Brexit and we see it with the AfD in Germany. Pandering to the far right never works. And yet conservative parties seem to have this - in German we call it ‘angstlust’ - this desire to go somewhere dangerous.”

“Racism is a little like political pornography. Its practitioners enjoy it privately or with groups of likeminded people. But if one were to start enjoying it in public, awkward questions will arise.”

“From Russian bribes to Musk beaming onto big screens advocating violence, we can’t go on pretending this isn’t happening. That there are not powerful interests from both East and West pouring money into destabilising our democratic processes.” 

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