Welcome to this news episode of the Just Williams podcast, which falls in the middle of the Party Conference seasons and was indeed recorded on the day the Prime Minister took to the stage in Liverpool.

Duncan Williams is on hand to guide you through some of the likely implications of that speech as well as some of the policy initiatives already announced, and he is joined by David Scott and James Newsome who are on hand to offer analysis and opinion.

Of course none of this operates in a vacuum, and much of it links back to many of the themes that we have been discussing for a while; the record levels of government date across most of the western democracies, failure to keep a lid on inflation, the shock to the global oil supply caused by the conflict in the Middle East and the uncertainty around the Tech and AI bubble.