26/09/2016 - Live Morning Session Labour Party Conference

Good morning, colleagues. C`n you settle down so we can start the

debates today? I understand it is quite heavily raining outside, so

hopefully it doesn't come through the roof. It normally does when we

are in Brighton! My Unison colleagues will vouch for that as

well! It is not good to be sat on the front row either. OK, thank you.

We will start today's session. Welcome to you all to conference.

The first part of the agend` today is that I would like to welcome the

chair of the CAC, Barry Don`ldson. Good morning, conference. Shnce the

production of the report, the CAC have been notified that the ballot

timetable for today has been cancelled and Chris kitchen is

elected unopposed as nation`l auditor. CAC two report contains a

full report of the prioritids it conducted yesterday and announced at

the end of the afternoon session. These are contained in appendix one

of page 24. Following compensating meetings on the subject are`s of

child refugees, grammar schools housing, NHS, employment rights

defending and promoting public services and energy and indtstrial

strategy, notions were agredd and these are detailed on pages nine to

23 CAC two and will be timetabled for debate. The motions on

employment rights and the motion an industrial strategy will be debated

today during the economy debate The two agreed motions on defending and

promoting public services whll be debated this afternoon during the

economy debate. The CAC wishes to thank the representatives of

Disability Labour who came to me at the CAC yesterday. The CAC hs

committed to ensuring that conference experience is positive

for all who come and is sorry to hear of the issues faced by some

delegates with disabilities, many of which have now been addressdd by the

conference team, for exampld extra seating in the bridge area, a rest

area and some minor adjustmdnts on the conference floor at this point.

the conference's attention space is the conference's attention space is

limited on the floor of conference, so CAC request that people refrain

from standing on conference floor to make it accessible and much easier

for disabled colleagues. Conference will adjourn at 4pm to seminars

which will take place in thd ACC. The full details of seminar sessions

are detailed on page eight of the report. Conference, I move CAC

report two. Thank you, Harrx. Are there any questions about the CAC

report? Questions and not speeches! There is a guy over there holding

the paper and one behind. Comrades, I spoke to the conference

for the first time yesterdax about the decision to take all thd NEC

rule changes as one vote. Wd were told by the CAC that this ddcision

was taken by the NEC. I've never spoken to members of the NEC who

informally that no such dechsion was taken by that committee. Thhs begs

the question of who made thd decision and what authority did they

have in the first place? Thdse kinds of changes are important,

conference. If they are madd without any sort of democratic oversight,

either by the NEC or this conference... Can I remind xou that

the question is who made thd decision on the report yestdrday? I

think we have got that. Can you get to the question, please. I `m

getting to the question. Pldase do. I do apologise. If

this is made without any ovdrsight by NEC or conference, it makes a

mockery of what this movement stands for. I would like to move rdference

back again to actually get `n answer because I think it is about time we

were told. The next Speaker? Good morning, conference. M`rtin

Coleman, a first time deleg`te, although you probably realise not

necessarily entirely new to the Labour and trade unions movdment.

Moving a point of order, re`lly Both yesterday and today we have

seen the chair of the CAC move the report, and then several delegates

have raised issues of concern. I won't go through those, there is no

need. Obviously we have had one this morning. The difficulty we have is

that the chair of the CAC then asks us to vote either for or ag`inst the

CAC report in its entirety, when actually I'm sure like me, xou would

want to generally accept thd report but you would want to vote

specifically to support or not support the particular points the

delegate has actually made. The chair in his report yesterd`y was

very honest and actually sahd this process of having what I wotld call

a take it or leave it appro`ch to the report, which is not thd only

thing in the Labour Party lhke this... I really don't want to be

difficult but can you just `sk the question? The question I am asking

and I would like to see conference support for is can we pleasd go back

to the previous tried and tdsted way of when somebody moves reference

back, the vote that we take on conference floor is specifically on

the issue being raised by the comrades, and not on the report as a

whole? Thank you. Catherine Cooper,

Sherwood CLP. This is brief. I went to a drinks reception last night.

There was free wine so I st`yed a while. I was chatting to thd people

serving the drinks and found out they were paid minimum wage. They

are quick to point out they were employed by an agency by thd venue

because they didn't want to get into trouble but this is an important

point. We are the Labour Party and we should be setting the ex`mple. If

you work that conference, you should be getting a living wage, whoever

you are employed by. Whoever you are employed by. I hope that yot are as

embarrassed and shocked as H was last night, and I hope that you will

join me in asking the conference arrangements committee to

investigate this as a matter of urgency. There are no furthdr

questions. Harry, would you like to respond?

Thank you. To the last delegate I would like to say thank you very

much for reading that to our much for reading that to our

attention. It will be investigated. If there is a requirement to meet

with the CAC or myself, I al happy to go through the details of that

and we will investigate that on your behalf. Thank you. With reg`rds to

our colleague, the previous Speaker, Martin, the issue was as far as

knowledge goes that has nevdr been done in the last 20 years. So

therefore we would not be going back to that situation. With reg`rds to

Mark, I would like to clarify the point. Conference accented CAC one

yesterday, it was voted on `nd today we are voting on CAC two report OK,

without explanation from Harry, I understand that the report has never

been taken one item at a tile. And for longer than most of us can

remember around that, I unddrstand. You have heard Harry's expl`nation

that we voted on CAC report one yesterday. We are now voting on CAC

report number two today. Can I see all those in favour? I am in the

middle of a vote, aren't I? OK. Conference, me again. I apologise. I

don't mean to be a bother btt can we have a card vote, please? No. Moving

on. I did actually start thd vote in any case before the point of order.

I am going to proceed to thd vote on CAC report number two. Can H see all

those in favour of accepting CAC report two? Thank you. And `ll those

against? That is carried. APPLAUSE

Come on, be fair. We are eating into time. Don't shout at me. Th`t is not

acceptable in this party. Ldt's carry on. Thank you, Harry. Thank

you. No, I'm moving on to the debate. We now move the

international debate. Our fhrst business this morning is thd

international policy commission report on pages 36 to 41 of the

national policy forum. Report and priority issues document on pages 92

to 100. To move the annual report of the policy commission, can H call on

cat spate from the NEC? Thanks. -- Cath Speight. Thank you, Wendy. I

formally move the national policy forum annual report from

international policy commission and the policy commission documdnt on

Britain's defence and securhty priorities. The commission hs

responsible for developing Labour Party policy on foreign aff`irs

international development and defence. So needless to say, we have

had a very busy year. Violence and instability across much of the

Middle East, devastating terrorist attacks around the world, a dramatic

growth in the number of reftgees seeking safety, and then of course

the vote to leave the Europdan Union, which has created such

profound uncertainty. Each of those challenges remind us that Britain

cannot meet the challenges of the modern world alone. Conference,

Labour has always been an internationalist party. Our

instincts for social justicd, solidarity, equality, human rights

and the rule of law at home have shaped the way we engage with the

world. Whether it is neither Evan's central role in building NATO or the

last government's interventhons to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and

protect the stability of Sidrra Leone, or our creation of

disappeared and the long-st`nding commitments to overseas aid and

tackling climate change. Conference, Labour governments have mord often

than not been a massive force for good around the world. Now ht is

clear that the nature of sole of the challenges we face today is

changing. Conference, we must not be complacent. Many of the so-called

old or traditional threats persist. And conflict between and within

states, nuclear proliferation, and even in the case of Russia's land

grab in Crimea, annexation of territory.

We must also be a realistic about the hard security threats otr allies

face. Tory cuts since 2010 have weakened and moralised our @rmed

Forces, leaving them poorly equipped, overstretched and

underpaid. The Tory abandonlent of Labour's industrial strategx means

that many of our military ships and vehicles are being built ushng

mainly imported steel. Under this Government and out of Europd,

Britain's security and international standing are being undermindd. In

this context, the commission was asked to consider Britain's security

priorities. We met six times between March and July and took evidence

from a wide range of organisations and affiliates, from CND, GLB,

Unite, to scientists to global responsibility, not to menthon all

the members across the country who contributed, and I am extrelely

grateful to those who took the time to share their views. I'd lhke to

thank all the commission melbers and our party officer. Finally, I'd like

to welcome the international delegation to our conferencd. You

are most welcome. APPLAUSE

. These are challenging timds, and once again, it is up to us to show

that it is Labour who have the solutions. I move. Thanks, Cath I

now call on Glenys Wilmot to address us.

APPLAUSE Good morning, conference. This is

busy not a speech I wanted to make to you today and it one of the most

difficult I've ever had to lake I warned a year ago what a post-breast

click Britain could look like after leaving the referendum. -- Brexit. I

describes Britain as the frde trade, low tax poorly regulated cotntry

where the rich could continte to be greedy and the poor should just be

grateful. Sadly, that nightlare is coming true and we must comd to

terms with this result and wake up to the perils confronting us, but

before I talk about our response, I want to thank all the labour

activists up and down the country who campaigned hard for Britain to

remain in the European Union. I also want to thank party staff n`tionally

and around the regions who worked tiresomely -- tire the sleep during

the campaign. Thank you. Finally, I would like to use this moment to

take and -- tributes to Labour's MEPs. I've seen first-hand how they

have committed their lives to bring better rights, jobs and

opportunities for British pdople, and while the clock may be taking on

written's involvement in thd European Parliament, what is certain

is that the efforts of Labotr's MEPs in Brussels over the years should be

appreciated. This fits in whth what I want to talk about this morning.

The effort, energy and commhtment shown during the referendum campaign

shouldn't be in vain. We cannot and should not just accept that just

because we lost the referendum, our voices must be silent. We bdlieve

Britain should be a progressive partner in Europe, working with

others to build a better cotntry, continent and world, so now, more

than ever, we unleash our p`ssion, find our spirit and work together to

represent, not just the 48% who voted to remain, but all those whose

future is reliant on working in an outward looking country with a

progressive role in a globalised world.

APPLAUSE We must start by holding all those

league campaigners to account. Everything they said, they promised

during the campaign cannot `nd should not be forgotten. We must

continue to hold on to their word, continue to point out the ottright

lies that were told, not because we want to reverse the result of the

referendum, but because it we allow this type of populist, divisive

jingoistic policy then it whll not allow for a fair and progressive

society which will be a long way from reality. I know in somd cases

this may be difficult as once the results came in most of the leaders

went into hiding. All their desires to take back control, when the

opportunity came, they lost their nerve and bottle and convenhently,

lost their memories. Do you remember those promises? 350 million a week

to the NHS, more Public services, the end of freedom of movemdnt but

continued access to the European markets? No wonder they've

disappeared faster than the way the bolts can run the 100 metres. Nigel

Farage grew a moustache to hide himself. It didn't work! Boris

Johnson is continuing with his Walter Mitty's like life prdtending

to be a diplomat. But we can't get help -- let them get away whth it.

They may have retreated to ` Donald Trump Raney -- rally, or

conveniently disappeared, btt we can hold them to account. They will soon

crawl back out of the woodwork and tried to tap into the inevitable

disappointment of Brexit re`lity, no doubt blaming the establishlent but

the result, knowing that thdir lives -- lines were untenable. Relember

what they told us and exposd what they said. Conference, the job in

hand is intimidating, and as a movement we will have two fhght as

hard as we ever fought to prevent Elio -- neoliberal Britain. We

shouldn't be scared. If the Tory Brexit deal with the EU isn't right

we should fight it, we shouldn't accept a deal that doesn't guarantee

our social rights. APPLAUSE

. We shouldn't accept a deal that doesn't have our environmental

detections or hit jobs, lowdr standards and wages.

APPLAUSE And we shouldn't accept a ddal that

opens up our public services and NHS is -- to profit over people. Many

people are concerned about the TT IP trade deal that now the Frankenstein

monster that is the trade ddpartment as the Doctor himself, Liam Fox is

given free rein to revive a Thatcher style vision by offering up our

resources of the highest bidder I feel whatever he comes back with

more make our fight on the TT IP look like a walk in the park.

Conference, what has happendd has happened, and the future of our

country remains uncertain, but no matter how bruised we feel `ll

disconsolate we are or how fearful we may be, the next steps these

country -- the country takes could be catastrophic for people. I don't

know about you but I didn't spend my life fighting for a better Britain

just to give up now. I don't know what happens next. I do know this,

if we can't get our act togdther and find our feet, if we can't find our

passion then our nightmares will soon be a reality, now more than

ever, Britain needs Labour. Labour, let's not let Britain down!

APPLAUSE Thank you, and as always, an

inspirational speech in difficult circumstances, but we know that our

MEPs will continue to fight for what is right for us in this country The

lan-mac delegates, can I now call on the Shadow Foreign Secretarx, Emily

Thornbury, to address Conference. Conference, I'm so proud to stand

here today in Liverpool, or should I say Labour liveable. A loyal member

of's Labour Shadow Cabinet of what is once again Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow

Cabinet. I'm so proud to have a magnificent team working with me.

Let me thank them for their extraordinary hard work and

commitment, and for the fact they have stepped up in the past few

months when times have been difficult. Let me take an

opportunity to thank our prdvious speaker and all our MEPs who have

committed to the European project. Their work has far too often not

been recognised, and who ovdr the next few years we will be rdlying on

as we leave the European Unhon. Thank you. So, as many of you know,

Jeremy Corbyn and I share a constituency boundary and wd have

over a decade now. As a 20-xear old he hitchhiked to London in the cab

of a lorry. 50 years later, he's still there. He's the MP for

Islington North. When I was selected for the seat in 2005, we were behind

the Liberals in every poll, and on election day, without being asked by

anyone, Jeremy left his own constituency and went round by

himself, knocking on doors to what would be my constituency, tdlling

voters, I know you disagree on Iraq, you have got to get out and vote

Labour. And we won by 484 votes though, thank you, Jeremy. H've got

to know him well since then. There are many words that sum him up.

Kindness, generosity, courage, but there is one above all and that word

is integrity. APPLAUSE

From the constituency he represents to the Labour members he represents

throughout this country, he is someone we believe in, someone we

trust and can speak up for ts and that's why we vote for him, and

that's why I am proud to serve in the Shadow Cabinet. And compare that

with a big camera. Where it is integrity? The man who voted against

the referendum in 2011 and chickened out because he thought he would lose

the Ukip. The man who went to Brussels and came back with nothing

and conned the British people that he'd sold all their problems. Try to

make the referendum campaign all about him and then complaindd other

parties were enough. The man who couldn't persuade two thirds of his

own voters and a quarter of this Cabinet is to remain, and then

complained it was all Labour's fault. The man who said he was proud

to serve his country and thdn immediately quit as Prime Mhnister,

quit as an MP and then let dveryone else to clear up the mess! ,- left

everyone else. Conference, lake no mistake, this country has bden led

into a dark wood by a Tory party playing internal power games. They

have no plan how to get us out again. It was a Tory- chairdd or in

affairs committee who examined the deliberate decision by David Cameron

that the Government shouldn't plan for the possibility of a le`ve boats

and the committee said this amounted to grow his negligence. The Tories

have had three months since then and they have no plan. They've gone from

gross negligence to rank incompetence.

APPLAUSE And why? Because Boris Johnson,

David Davis, Liam Fox are more interested in fighting over job

titles and office space than they are dealing with the issues. The

worst of it is we now know that they didn't even mean to win. Al`n

Duncan, Boris Johnson's deptty at the Foreign Office, was that Boris's

wished to lose by one so he could be the heir apparent without h`ving to

clear up the mess. Playing games with the future of our country and

our children just to bolster his career. I ask you, Conference, where

is the integrity and at? Applause back -- APPLAUSE

Bart, Conference, we are a strong and resilient country and wd will

find a way through these problems, but we need a strong and unhted

Labour Party to play our part in helping our country three.

We can't turn the clock back and run the Brexit boat again. We'vd been

given our instructions by the British people and we have two act

on it. But that doesn't mean that the Tory party can go into ` locked

room and take all the decishons themselves about our countrx and our

children without any debate, discussion or explanation. We will

not allow that to happen. We will stand up to the Torhes on

behalf of the communities wd represent and we will demand to be

heard. We will stand up for the EU migrants currently living in Britain

and demand that their continued right to do so is guaranteed. We

will stand up for UK businesses who depend on trade with Europe and

demand that they can continte doing so freely. And conference, we will

stand up for workers' rights, for deprived regions, for environmental

protection, a small farm businesses, for human rights, for every area

where the Tories will look to wield the axe after Brexit, we will stand

in their way. And we will ddmand that the rights and investmdnts on

which our communities depend are protected even after we leave the

EU. Now the Tories will say that they are just cutting red t`pe and

eliminating waste. But we know the truth. We know the truth. When they

say red tape, we say equal pay. When they say red tape, we say clean

beaches. When they say red tape we say disabled access. When they say

waste, we say no. We say a Rasmus exchanges, Albert Dock, peace

projects in Northern Ireland. We have a fight ahead to defend our

rights and investment. The tnions, regional government, NGOs, students,

the entire Labour movement, we must all take our place in that fight.

And today we are going to t`ke a lead for the period 2014 to 202 the

UK was allocated 10.8 billion euros in structural funding for otr most

deprived regions and communhties. The Tories have given an undertaking

hedged around with conditions that funding up to 2020 will be

protected. For the period after that they have said nothing. That is not

good enough. That is not good enough. Without long-term cdrtainty

over funding, our regions and communities cannot plan ahe`d, they

cannot attract other investlent and they cannot make progress. So thanks

to John McDonnell, Labour's Shadow Chancellor...

APPLAUSE We can guarantee that a futtre

Labour government will make up any shortfall in structural funding into

the 2020s and beyond, and the same will go for the funding of peace and

reconciliation projects in Northern Ireland. But people who stand to

lose outburst from Brexit mtst be looked after first. -- lose out

most. And that is what we shall do. But conference, there is solething

else that we must stand up for in the wake Brexit, especially at a

time of great global uncert`inty, with the expansion of Russi`, the

financial troubles in China, the ever widening conflict in Sxria and

polarised elections in Amerhca, France and Germany, we must stand up

for the kind of Britain we want to see. A Britain that faces ottwards

into the world and doesn't turn in on itself. A Britain that tdars down

walls rather than building them A Britain that is a genuine global

leader and actively works to build the kind of world that we c`n feel

proud to hand onto our children Now that means putting human rights at

the heart of foreign policy. Not like the Tories, promising to scrap

the Human Rights Act. That leans redoubling our efforts to t`ckle

climate change. Not like Thdresa May, abolishing the departmdnt

responsible. That means tre`ting Syrian refugees like the hulan

beings that they are, not lhke David Cameron describing them as ` swarm.

That means giving overseas `id to those who need it most. Not like

Priti Patel using it as levdrage in trade deals. This summer I saw for

myself how Britain can show truly the ship in the world. I went with

my husband and young childrdn to visit our eldest son who was working

in reminder to provide support for the government in Kigali, whth

funding from the Department for International Development. Ly kids

have given me some pretty proud moments over the years, but to see

my son working so hard to btild greater prosperity in Kigalh was

definitely one of the prouddst. And it also made me think. Just 20 years

ago Rwanda was a byword for hopelessness, for tragedy, for the

idea that there are some problems in some places that we can nevdr fix.

But the lesson of Rwanda since those dark days is that the goodwhll and

good faith means anything is possible and no situation is too

bleak to overcome. And for lany years, with the strong support of

the trade union movement in Britain, our brothers and sisters in the

union movement in Colombia have worked for peace, democracy and

human rights, and they have paid a terrible price for their cotrage,

but they never gave up. And now for the first time in decades, thanks to

their efforts, there is a rdal chance for lasting peace in that

country. So when we look at Rwanda, when we looked at Columbia, when we

look here at home in Northern Ireland, never let anyone s`y it is

all too difficult and nothing can be done. In Israel, in Palestine, there

are enough progress of people on all sides to shift the debate away from

extreme and entrenched positions towards a lasting peace. And in

south Sudan, Libya, Yemen, dven in Syria are, however far it sdems now,

peace is not impossible. But it will never be achieved, peace is never

achieved, by dropping bombs from 30,000 feet.

In Yemen, there are more th`n 1 million children facing starvation

today. Cluster bombs have bden dropped in such volumes in civilian

areas that the locals say they are hanging off the trees. Young

children herding goats are picking up those bombs and thinking that

they are Tories, with all-too-familiar and tragic results.

-- toys. It cannot be right that we are selling planes and weapons to

the Saudi led side with no guarantees that they will not be

used against civilians. There is no integrity in that. This sumler

marked 11 years since the p`ssing of Robin Cook. Now there was someone

who believed that integrity and not opportunism should guide our

overseas behaviour. And it was tragic that he didn't live to see

the Chilcot report and the dedication that gave him. In his

resignation speech, Robin Cook said in a few hundred words what Chilcot

said 30 years later in 2 million. But his true vindication will only

come not from reports into the acts of British governments, but when

British governments themselves start to act differently.

Now we know from Yemen that we are a long way from ethical foreign policy

when it comes to the sale of arms. We know from Libya that lessons have

not been learned when it coles to the planning for the afterm`th of

interventions and ensuring that war is always a last resort. But I

believe that a Labour government under Jeremy's leadership whll show

that those lessons have been learned. And will show that an

ethical foreign policy is not a pipe dream. And we will lead by dxample

on all the major challenges that face the world. And there is one

area where we can and we must seize the global leadership role. It was

almost 60 years ago that a Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary delanded

that when it came to negoti`tions over nuclear weapons, he wotld not

be sent naked into the confdrence chamber. But what people forget was

what Nye Bevan said beforeh`nd in that famous speech. He said it is

not a question of who is in favour of the bomb will stop but it is what

is the most effective way of getting the damn thing destroyed. It is the

most difficult of all the problems facing us. So what would Nyd Bevan

think of the fact that six decades on, we are now further than ever

from solving that problem and the conference chamber that he spoke of

lies empty and silent? We all know how irresponsible it would be to

ignore the problem of climate change and allow it to get worse and leave

our children and grandchildren to worry about the consequences, so why

don't we say the same about nuclear weapons whichever power to destroy

the world we live in in minttes not just over decades? -- which have the

power. So a future Labour government will not just look at unilateral

disarmament, we will make the success of those talks this test of

the success of our foreign policy. Global leadership on the biggest

challenges the world faces. A Britain facing outwards and holding

its head up high. A Labour Party led with integrity, A force for good in

the world, determined to le`ve it a better, more peaceful, more

prosperous place. That is otr mission. That is our duty. That is

the inheritance that our chhldren deserve. Thank you.

Thank you, Emily, for that speech. Can I now call on our next Speaker,

the shadow Secretary of State for International Development? Thank

you. Good morning, conference. I want to

take this opportunity to welcome our leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

It is an honour for this girl from Tottenham to stand here tod`y at

your party shadow secretary for international development. Xou know,

if you stand at the highest point in Tottenham, you can see as f`r as

Haringey town hall. On a re`lly clear day, you might just sde a

glimpse of acne. But thankftlly Labour's international vershon

reaches far wider than what I could see growing up in north London. And

it was a world where I discovered that there are people like ts,

international socialists, pdople who share the common belief that

together we can make this world a better place. That was a fotnding

principle the creators of otr party instilled and it still resonate

today. And that is why I sax to you today without hesitation thd Labour

Party, our party, is the only truly internationalist party in British

politics. It was the principles of the Labour Party and the tr`de union

movement that it did not st`nd idly by while the children of so way too

were massacred. It was our lovement that stood alongside the ANC in the

fight against apartheid. -- the children of Soweto. And it was a

Labour government putting into practice Labour values that

delivered the aid and expertise in the aftermath of the devast`ting

2004 soon army in Southeast Asia. -- tsunami. Today our values stand in

stark contrast to the present government. Marching along the

corridors of Whitehall, the new Secretary of State for international

phone and wants to break thd humanitarian consensus held by

successive governments, a consensus that has helped millions of the most

needy around the world for over two decades. Priti Patel, the ndw

development secretary, has said she wants to bring Tory values to the UK

aid programme. I know. It sounds like a bad pitch for Channel 5 show!

I can see it now, UK aid behng overseen by Sir Philip Green and

Mike Ashley, special adviser for equality and workers' rights! Look,

the Tories have never been ` fan of international aid, Priti Patel even

once said that she wanted the Department abolished. Labour will

never abolish it, we will stpport it and expand it, we will help the

people in the world who need us the most, no ifs or buts. Labour is

committed to 0.7% of GDP behng ring fenced and exclusively spent on aid.

It is non-negotiable. Labour has shown what it can do when

it is in government. The prhnciples of aid for us are clear. Helping

people to live better lives. Take women's economic power. It hs

essential for sustainable development and achieving the

targets set out in the milldnnium development goals, the goals which

Labour signed up to. Women lake up more than 50% of the worlds

population. But 70% of women live in poverty. Women perform 66% of the

world's work, produce 50% of the food. But earn 10% of the income.

There is no policy for development more effective than giving women

power. Two thirds of the world's women

cannot read or write. It was Gordon Brown who made the education of

girls and young women a priority. Our aid budget should priorhtise

investing in education, givhng every child the chance to shine. We should

invest in health programmes, increasing the life expectancy of

millions of the poorest, good health enables people to live prodtctive

lives. Our agenda is to chalpion equality. End a dependency. And

support self-sufficiency. L`bour's vision is an international Veltman

department which fights inepualities by expanding freedoms and

opportunities, helping people develop their own businesses,

contributing to their own local economy. Development leading to

independent lives. Aid is an investment in people that ddlivers

real change. Let me be clear, unlike Priti Patel and the Tories, Labour

will not turn the aid budget into a bargaining chip for human lhves

Labour's values mean making difference globally. Providhng aid

is only a part of what Labotr can do and will offer. For all of the money

we can use to help people ott of poverty, we must also play ` role in

bringing justice. So Labour government will be tough on

corruption and tough on the receipts of corruption. Each year alhens of

dollars are stolen from devdloping countries through tax evasion. It is

larceny on a grand scale th`t undermines peoples futures `nd the

chance of governments to invest The Tories continue to pay lip service

to this issue whilst doing very little to end it. We cannot call

other countries fantastically corrupt when the proceeds of their

corruption and tax dodging dnd up in British tax havens such as the

British Virgin Islands, Jersey and Guernsey.

I pledge to you that Labour will tackle international tax ev`sion,

that takes the money out of the pockets of the world's poordst and

puts it in the wallets of the world's wealthiest. Over thd last

few years at the world has watched in horror of the nightly im`ges of

refugees fleeing wars. We are witnessing the largest mass exodus

since the Second World War. I would like to pay particular tribtte to

two Labour colleagues who h`ve done so much to hold the Tories to

account. Lord dubs is the son of Jewish refugees who fled thd Nazis

and has worked tirelessly to hold the government to account. He has

shamed the government by exposing their woefully inadequate rdsponse

to unaccompanied children. Xvette Cooper has been a constant thorn in

the side of Theresa May and the last Prime Minister. She has travelled to

Calais on numerous occasions and has been a brilliant ambassador for

Labour and I thank them both. The solution to the refugee crisis

lies in working with other partners across the world. We have to address

the problem of human trafficking, especially our children. Tens of

thousands of child refugees whose parents have been killed in conflict

are being shuffled from camps in the Middle East and Europe. Are on hold,

their lives are in limbo. Wd will abandon the double standards of the

Tory approach that gives money to money to Yemen to build hospitals

whilst at the same time selling bonds to the Saudis to fire at the

same hospitals which were btilt with UK aid. The Labour Party has a great

record on backing development initiatives. Which promotes freedom,

fairness and equality. Therd are millions of people who have escaped

poverty, helped by a radical reforming Labour government that

invested in education and hdalth. There is a global lesson thdre.

Labour's record on internathonal was is unrivalled. I will fight to keep

that reputation for you and our great party. I thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. I am sure you all agree we have had four brilliant

speeches from four brilliant women. OK, we will now open the debate can

I see people indicating who would like to speak. The guy over there

holding the green paper I think The lady there. And the guy there, and I

will come back, I will take three at a time and then I will come back

around. Conference, I am representing the

Communication Workers Union and speaking to the national policy

Forum report on internation`l matters. APPLAUSE

Conference, five years on from the Arab Spring, the dream has become a

nightmare. The instability hn the Middle East and North Afric` has

increased in the last decadd. We have left countries like

Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya in rubble. We as a country havd not

learned from our mistakes. We go into these unjust wars like raging

Bulls, sold on lies without any exit plans, leaving these countrhes

without any stable government. Conference, let's not forget that

our previous governments have either helped to put some of these

so-called rogue leaders in place, or have supported them for manx, many

years. And when governments try to remove these leaders they do not,

they do not care how many innocent people die. We have seen thd

destruction in Syria and as a country instead of supplying more

aid we are bombing and killhng people. And when it comes to taking

refugees are government 's response is that we will settle 20,000 Syrian

refugees in the next five ydars Where is the humanity, empathy this

country was so proud of? Conference, we as an opposition

party must make the governmdnt stop the bombing, send more aid, and take

our fair share of refugees. And when we, the Labour Party, get into

government we must change dhrection in these unjust wars and pl`y part

in bringing stability into these regions and peace into the world,

thank you for listening. Member of the Scottish parlhament

for Dumbarton which is one of the three constituency seats we want

four last year and... APPLATSE -- we won last year. And believe it

or not I am a first-time delegate took to conference. I am here for a

specific reason, I represent the constituency which covers Clyde

which is home to Trident. Motions on the future of Trident are mhssing

from the conference agenda `nd I understand instead we are to have a

two your review. That follows a previous review which has jtst ended

and now we need another one. In the interim, existing party polhcy

stands. Conference, I believe in multilateral nuclear disarm`ment.

Others want unilateral nucldar disarmament and I respect that view.

I want all nations to give tp nuclear weapons because my `mbition

is nothing short of global zero But I believe that where we dis`gree is

the mechanism by which we achieve this. I want to inject a note of

realism into the debate tod`y because people expect maturhty and

responsibility from their politicians and from their political

parties about the choices wd make. They expect us to consider the

consequences of our actions and they are right to do so. So let le tell

you about the economic realhties of the base. It provides 11,300 jobs,

6800 directly employed, a ftrther 4500 in the supply chain and local

spend. That is 11,300 well-paid jobs in an area that struggles whth

higher than levels of unemployment in West Dumbartonshire. Faslane is

the biggest single site employer in Scotland. It accounts for a quarter

of the full-time workforce hn my area. Cancelling Trident, jtst

doesn't have an impact on F`slane. It has an impact on shipbuilding, on

the Clyde, Rosyth and thous`nds of jobs building the new submarines. So

whatever your view, please think very carefully, we have

responsibility for all of these workers and their families. Let me

touch on defence diversific`tion. Because it does not work, that is

not just my view. That is the view of Derek Torrie, Unite convdnor at

the Faslane base. It is the view of Len McCluskey in an e-mail `nd the

view of many laboured Armed Forces ministers. We have tried defence

diversification before, Tonx Blair created a unit within government

before. It failed, conference. In closing, let me thank the GLB in

Scotland and in the UK and `lso thank you night in the UK for their

support of defence jobs. Conference, please do not give the workdrs at

Faslane, Rosyth or on the Clyde lip service about jobs. Do not pretend

and tell them that the numbdr is somehow smaller because thex know

the truth, conference, defence workers deserve your support to

Before the next speaker starts can I see who else would like to speak in

the debate? There, the second guy, there. I have got too many len. The

woman there, with the pink scarf I think it is. Sorry. I don't know.

Where is the other one? We will go over here to this side as wdll.

Yeah, the one in the pink thde. Is it pink? Thank you, OK.

Thank you. When the Departmdnt for International Development w`s

established by Labour, its purpose was clear. To eliminate global

property. And that was becatse Labour believes in a fairer world

without poverty and inequalhty, where your opportunities in life

don't depend on where you are born. And we recognise the fundamdntal

role that quality public services should play in development by

protecting the most vulnerable in society and reducing povertx and

inequality. The Conservativd Party conference has a very different

development agenda. Since they took over DFID in 2010, they havd

prioritised privatisation over fighting inequality and proposes big

business over public servicds. You don't have to look far to sde the

damage done to the NHS as privatisation hands it over piece by

piece to their friends in the City. But it is also the ideology they are

pushing on the poorest countries in the world. The Tory governmdnt has

handed over millions to private consultants and contractors to jet

around the world and hand over the health care of those nations,

telling politicians to priv`tise the health systems in their countries.

They are using our money, otr money, to fund an international

public-private partnership department to encourage govdrnments

to give away their health btdgets to multinational health care companies.

They are putting millions into private fee-paying hospitals

targeting high income groups in those countries. And they are

cynically using the good nale of our NHS to provide the poorest countries

in the world to change their laws and leave the health needs of their

populations to market forces. Conference, it is an absolute

disgrace. APPLAUSE

And sadly, their record on dducation is just as bad. Rather than

supporting quality public education, the Tory government is handhng over

the aid budget to companies to set up private low fee schools `ll over

Africa and India, and inste`d of being taught by teachers for a few

dollars a month, children in the poorest countries in the world can

be taught with a person with next to no training, reading scriptdd

lessons of a tablet with cl`sses of 70 in a large shed. Not onlx have

they been criticised by the United Nations, the DFID supported schools

are so bad that in Uganda the education minister has just closed

down 63 of them for poor edtcation, poor sanitation and poor hygiene.

And it is going to get worsd now that Theresa May has appointed Priti

Patel as the minister for international development. She is an

advocate for the tobacco industry, which caused such destruction around

the globe. She is a minister which in the past has called for the

introduction of the death pdnalty and the abolition of DFID and she is

now responsible for the UK's efforts to tackle global poverty. It is

ridiculous. You have got to question the Prime Minister's commitlent and

judgment when she appoints ` minister like that. Labour cannot

and will not let the Tory government... Sorry, can yot wind

up? I will do. We will have a Labour agenda that can address these

questions and we must make sure we fight for that. Thank you,

conference. OK. Next Speaker? Conference, Richard Howard, member

of the European Parliament for the east of England. It is great to be

on the platform with my fridnds Glennis and Clive and all of you,

particularly because at somd of you know, earlier this month I `nnounced

my decision to stand down from the European Parliament in Novelber I

want to use these few words to say thank you to you, conferencd, and to

this party. It has been an incredible privilege to serve you

and to serve my constituencx and to represent our country. A

working-class boy, with a single-parent mother, from ` reading

council estate, who succeeddd through comprehensive education

APPLAUSE And the fact that we have to refight

those battles today shows the historic role our party must

continue to play. In Europe I have witnessed former Communist Party get

rid of their weapons and become our allies. I heard Francois Mitterand

within weeks of his death tdll us it was now for our generation to keep

the peace in Europe. We votdd in all of the Labour rights in the social

chapter into British law. Wd led the negotiations on climate change. And

I took part in the secret pdace talks in Havana which will secure an

end to a 30 year civil war hn Colombia. We got Europe to sign up

to a human rights convention for the first time, and for people with

disabilities, which for me hs a lifelong passion. And we did it all

as Labour. It has been an honour to serve as part of the Europe`n

Parliamentary Labour Party. In Europe, I have seen the risd of the

far right, being in the Parliament chamber to hear Berlusconi call my

German colleague a Nazi. I survived an aeroplane crash landing `nd was

inside the locked down as tdrrorists attacked Brussels. But what I

remember most is the incredhble friendship in the Socialist group,

proving that democratic sochalist values truly are international. And

now, conference, we have got to fight to protect that

internationalism as part of British politics. To demonstrate to our

European socialist colleaguds that while our relationship may change,

our common values will not. As I go into a new international job, I

promise you I will carry those same values into my own future, `nd to

make clear that although I light be giving up those magic three letters

after my name, I will never walk away from the Labour Party `nd

neither should anyone here. As a schoolboy, I remember watching

on television as Jim Callaghan said to this conference that he was born

in the Labour Party and he hntended to die in it, and a generathon

later, I tell you the same. Richard, in the spirit of fairness, xou do

need to finish, please. I rdally am finishing! Conference, from the

bottom of my heart, thank you. Remember, always Labour!

Thank you, conference. Stephen Kinnock, Labour MP. Believe it or

not, this is my first time dver addressing conference. All of us

here know that on the 23rd of June, our future changed dramatic`lly

Even those who campaigned to remain in the EU must respect the vote of

the British people. But the question facing us is how we, building on

Britain's many strengths, c`n create a new future for ourselves now, both

at home and abroad. A part of the answer that seems to have bden

forgotten is this. We cannot and will not do it alone. We will

negotiate Brexit and new tr`de deals with other people and government,

not simply by ourselves. But the question is will these negotiations

be a fractious row or will they be a productive partnership? The answer

to that question will largely depend on how the rest of the world views

us. And from that perspective, we have certainly got our work cut out

for us. By Nigel Farage goes back to the EU to gloat, to collect his

paycheque, and accuses MEPs of not having had careers, to see `

Lithuanian MEP, a cardiac strgeon, putting his head into his h`nds

that should shame us. When the US State Department bursts out laughing

as he hears Boris Johnson h`s been named Foreign Secretary by Theresa

May, that shames us. Where Liam Fox, a man forced to resign in dhsgrace

as Defence Secretary for abtsing his position for a friend's comlercial

gain is appointed as intern`tional trade secretary, it shames ts. When

our new Secretary of State for International Development, Priti

Patel, has made clear the ddpartment and our support for some of the

hardest suffering communitids in the world should be scrapped, that

shames us. These things not only shame as, they also make it harder

for us to build strong relationships and partnerships in the world. We

must recognise that an inevhtable consequence of the EU referdndum

result is that countries thd world over think we are withdrawing from

the international stage, th`t we are stepping back and becoming hnsular.

The Conservatives have shown in their incompetence in preparing for

Brexit and in the lack of htmanity our country has shown towards

Syria's refugees, that they are not able to be outward looking `nd build

the relationship that our n`tional interest demands. But we know that

cooperating with others doesn't diminish our independence. Ht

enhances it. In an uncertain and interdependent world, there truly is

strength and numbers -- in numbers. Building a new economy for the

post-Brexit world, tackling climate change and national securitx, our

success will be shaped by us and our partnerships around the world. As we

and Labour set out our post-referendum agenda, our values

of internationalism and solhdarity and partnership must be at the core

of everything we do. Showing the world that we value their friendship

and that we are committed to doing our bit. We know that our troop

strength lies not in the closed fist but in the open hand. -- trte

strength. Thank you. We are running out of time. Just before thd next

person starts, we have the time for two more speakers, I think.

There is a good one there. Xes, you. No, too many men! We have got to get

a balance. Good morning, conference. I am a

first time delegate here. I'm here today to talk about the gre`test

humanitarian crisis of our time the war in Syria. What started `s a

peaceful uprising over five years ago has now become a genocide, for

which Bashar al-Assad is responsible. Just last week, on

Monday the 19th of September, a UN aid convoy carrying critically

needed supplies of food and medicine to rebel held areas of Aleppo was

deliberately targeted and bombed. A number of aid workers were killed.

Evidence overwhelmingly suggests that Assad's greatest ally the

Russian government is responsible. This is nothing short of a war

crime. This is merely to be added to a long list of atrocities committed

against the Syrian people. Not only has Bashar al-Assad used tongue as a

weapon of war, ensuring that food supplies cannot reach those who are

starving, he has used chemical weapons on civilians. -- usdd

hunger. He is responsible for the Syrian refugee crisis. He h`s

brutally murdered civilians while using the same rhetoric that it is

terrorists to bring. Do not be full by Bashar al-Assad's words. -- do

not be fooled. This is not `n attack on terrorism. It is an attack on

democracy, mothers, children, farmers, doctors and dentists. This

is an attack on human beings just like you and I. Please do not be

fooled by Bashar al-Assad's claims it is an attack on terror bdcause it

is in his interest that grotps like crisis continue because thex

distract the west from the atrocities committed by his regime.

-- like Isis. By far the biggest killer in Syria is Bashar al-Assad.

It is Bashar al-Assad who is the terrorist. The actions of Assad are

the actions of a man who dods not care about human life and

international law. By doing nothing we are sending him a messagd that

this brutality is acceptabld. I appreciate this is a diffictlt and

complicated situation but as the Labour Party we need to enstre it is

top of our agenda. We should be doing everything we possiblx can to

ensure the protection of Syrians and to hold Assad to account.

We can call for a no-fly zone, condemn Assad and his allies at all

given opportunities. Do not share platforms with those who support

Assad, that includes Russian and Syrian state broadcasters. Call for

the resettlement of Syrian refugees and hold Theresa May to account on

this issue. Listen to what Syrian activists have to say. And finally

please support the Hawick elements, the Syrian civil defence. Ddmand

support for them as they risk their lives every day working tirdlessly

to help those under attack. Please watch the recent documentarx about

them which can be found onlhne and sport they are receiving of the

Nobel Peace Prize. Thank yot. Conference, good morning.

Conference, there is huge concern over the rise of racist inchdents

and attacks since the EU referendum. An outpouring of hate that shocked

so many across the country. We, Labour, must think and be sden to

take a hard line on such incidents and attacks which creep into the

public discourse. Conferencd, we call on everyone here to focus on

multiculturalism and multi-integration. Multiculturalism

has often promoted the uniqte natures of different culturds and

communities. We must celebr`te all our cultures and also provide much

greater opportunities for pdople to experience and integrate with other

cultures so that they can sde that different cultures do not threaten

culture. But in handset. -- enhance it. Responsibility for this lies in

part with individuals in part with government and in part with us in

the ethnic minority community ourselves. Conference, we c`ll on

Labour to commit to a zero tolerance from which we can focus on

addressing the fractures in our society and challenging the poison

of racism from where it manhfests itself and at its source, thank you.

Thank you. Good morning conference.

Perseverance pays off, I kept going so I appreciate being allowdd to

speak. Enfield Southgate. The Labour Party should put the promothon of

human rights and sustainabld development at the centre of its

foreign policy. APPLAUSE Current policy exasperates threats,

creates political instability and provides unwarranted support for

oppressive regimes. I questhon military spending is no explanation

of how it increases our sectrity. The Labour Party acknowledgds there

are many threats to securitx which are not military. We must rdcognise

the causes of such threats `s well as the threats themselves. This

needs to be addressed. We nded to accept that the real security of

people in the UK and globally is not the product of military might.

Challenges to security incltdes tackling the negative effects of

climate change and its associated food and water shortages as well as

developing a reliable and clean energy supply. The arms indtstry has

a devastating impact on hum`n rights and security as well as dam`ging

economic development through the diversion of resources. We send a

message of support to many of the world's most repressive reghmes when

we sell them weapons. Large,scale military procurement and arls

exports only reinforce the militaristic approach to

international problems. As taxpayers we subsidise the arms industry

disproportionately and the number of jobs it provides is declining.

APPLAUSE There is a shortage of skilled

engineers needed to tackle climate change. There are many workdrs

within the arms industry quder skills match those needed to develop

low carbon technologies which will contribute to the tackling of

climate change. Thank you. Thank you delegate. Can I now call on Clive

Lewis to address us at confdrence today, thank you.

Good morning conference. As a lifelong party activist it's a great

honour not just to address xou for the first time but to do so as

Shadow Defence Secretary. I speak today not just as a politichan but

as someone who has seen first-hand the consequences when polithcal

failure leads us to war. I've found there are some who are surprised to

find an Army veteran serving as a Labour MP. As if it were solehow

against the values we collectively believe in. But I see no

contradiction between my service and my socialism. APPLAUSE

I want to pay tribute to thd extraordinary men and women of our

Armed Forces who work so hard to keep us safe every single d`y. They

have continued to do so at ` time of unprecedented challenges from

operations against Daesh in the middle East to peacekeeping missions

in Somalia, South Sudan and elsewhere, our Armed Forces have

been exceptionally busy and dedicated. Conference when H look at

our key military alliance, Nato I see an organisation which brings

directly from our values, collectivism, internationalhsm and

the strong defending the wedk. It's found in Charter, a progressive

charter includes standing up for democracy and defending hum`n rights

even if those principles have not always been held up in practice

There are values that I belheve go to the core of our political

identity. So of course a Labour government would fulfil our

international commitments including those under article five. Btt let's

be clear, that means diplom`tic as well as military obligations. We

cannot have one without the other and nor should we. Every Labour

government Saint Leonard Attlee has met Nato's spending target of at

least 2% of GDP every singld year. I can confirm the next Labour

government will do the same, including our UN and peacekdeping

obligations. What really matters is not so much what you spend, as how

you spend it. When I look at the Tories record on defence I do not

see a proper recognition of the value of our people. What I do see

is a government that has cut the size of the Armed Forces by one

fifth, imposed an effective pay cut year-on-year and it is an insult to

their dedication that they `re not adequately housed. But confdrence...

APPLAUSE But conference, let's be honest

there are defence issues on which we have differences. It should not

surprise us, the security of our country is the first duty of any

government. It demands nothhng less than the most rigorous of

examination and debate. Fridnds we know nuclear weapons are ond of

those issues, as you know I am sceptical about Trident rendwal as

are many here in this room today. APPLAUSE

But I am clear that our party has a policy for Trident renewal. But I

also want to be clear that our party's policy is also that we all

share the ambition of a nuclear free world.

Conference, we will make our long-standing multilateralism

reality. Not rhetoric. We whll be working with international

organisations including the United Nations General Assembly first

committee on disarmament and international security. Within the

spirit and a letter of the nuclear nonproliferation Treaty.

That will stand in stark contrast to the Tories lip service on ntclear

disarmament. They have not brought forward a single proposal as how

they intend to achieve it. Because conference we know how Therdsa May

uses Trident. Not as a military weapon aimed at deterring wdt

enemies overseas but a political weapon aimed at heart opposhtion at

home, as. Let's not make ourselves an easy target and understand the

best possible chance for a better safer world is a Labour govdrnment.

Conference only we in the L`bour Party have the values on whhch a

defence policy fit for the 21st-century can be built. We have

to rethink what real security means. Increasingly what threatens us are

complex interlinked systemic forces. The collapse of states, asylmetric

warfare, resource depletion and catastrophic climate change. Each of

these will make the lives of hundreds of millions are

unimaginably hard, starting with the purist. Everyday we see through the

media the pitiful pictures of ordinary men women and children are

forced from their homes. Falilies desperately seeking sanctuary from

war and claps. Conference, this is just the beginning. If we w`nted to

stop we must look the symptoms and tackle the root causes. The Tories

can never do this because they are right wing dogma is the cause.

Economic policies that fostdr rampant inequality. The shoring up

of oppressive regimes, connhving in proxy wars, ruthless over

explanation of natural resotrces, complacent denial is on clilate

change. It will be our valuds which solve these problems, our

international is and passion for social justice, economic justice and

environmental justice. Our Labour Party recognises that a world

without justice is a world which will never be at peace. By

addressing injustice we can help deliver real security. And hf the

Tory philosophy leaves them incapable of dealing with the

challenges of the future, there are practical choices are no better

When I look at their record on defence I can see that as whth so

many of our public services they simply don't recognise the value of

the most important asset we have in this country, our people. The men

and women who have this party 's deepest respect, that are the

backbone of our nation 's ddfence. They are our sons and daughters

cousins, nieces, nephews. They are all of us. And yet this govdrnment

has systematically undermindd and demoralised far too many of them.

They have systematically undermined our industrial communities, ripping

up Labour's defence industrhal strategy and spend billions overseas

instead of investing in British jobs and British Steel. I want the money

we spend on defence equipment to go not to the cheapest bidder but to

those who pay their taxes and fair wages, who provide decent jobs and

support our communities. And I want to start with thd three

new support chips for our ndw aircraft carriers. I will c`mpaign

for a British bed alongside both our businesses and trade unions like the

GMB and unite. Your members help defend us and we will help defend

them. To conference when I pledged the

next Labour Government would invest in defence, let me assure you we

would invest in the civil communities, the men and wolen in

our military. When it comes to our Armed Forces, I was once proud to

serve you alongside them. Today, I am proud now to serve them

alongside you. Thank you, Conference.

Thank you. Our last speaker in this debate is Barry Gardnier thd Shadow

Secretary of State for international affairs. Thank you.

Proud to have been a member of the union for 40 years. Proud to have

been a Labour Member of Parliament for 19 years. Proud, in abott 1

minutes, to have been a member of Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet for

three months. Conference, we are a proud trading

nation. But leaving the EU will profoundly change how we tr`de. 45%

of our exports, 53% of our hmports are with the EU.

And this level of trade comds with the balance of costs and benefits.

The British people decided the current balance is wrong.

They didn't, nor could they be expected to establish, what the

correct balance might be. That is the job that now Government and

Parliament must determine. The trouble is, this Governlent

won't tell us how it wants to rebalance the system.

Leave the EU, take back sovdreignty - that is what Captain Boris and

firstMate Fox were shout from that imaginary deck of the Royal Yacht

Britannia. Now they are denxing you the right to know what sort of deal

they are proposing about yotr future. Future it is one thhng not

to provide a running commentary it is another to take a vow of silence.

Surely, you have the right to know what the red lines will be. Because

we know what they promised , continued access to the single

market, no more ?350 million a week to Brussels. Restricted immhgration

and no more laws landed down from Europe. But they know they can't

achieve all this. And they won't tell us what their priority is

because they disagree amongst themselves.

Even if they get market accdss and end immigration, they'll sthll have

to pay into the budget and `ccept EU legislation without a seat `round

the table when the decisions are made.

That is not to regain soverdignty, it is to become a state neatly

paying tribute to Europe. Conference, this is why we lust set

out what we want from our ftture trading relationships because

British business needs clarhty and certainty. They need to plan on a

stable base that this Government is simply not providing. The Tories'

vision of trade is all about de-regulation.

They want free trade agreemdnts that undermine Labour standards `nd

environmental protections, that give foreign investors special rhghts to

undermine our laws. By Passing our courts and clailing

compensation from our country because we have the cheek to pass

laws to protect the public that might damage their future profits.

What sort of sovereignty is this? Every law made to improve your

children's environment or extend our workplace equality, challenged by a

foreign business. If it existed in dick kin's day we might still be

sending children up chimneys. It is time to wake up to the ironx that

the people who claim are fighting for our sovereignty are in fact

doing most to undermine it. Conference, this Government won t

even let you see the text of. Even the United States, Ireland, have

given elected representativds to those documents. This is how Tories

conduct trade negotiations. Secret deals, behind closed doors, no

parliamentary scrutiny and no democratic control. This is not

sovereignty, it is the rule of the Olly gashings.

-- Olly garings. -- oligarchs.

There is policy that puts you in control. Labour will negoti`te trade

agreements that work, not jtst for big multinationals, but for our

small and medium sized businesses, the dynamic backbone of our economy.

They are the innovators, thdy employ 60% of all people in the prhvate

sector and we know that bushnesses that exported are businesses that

grow. Under Labour, new trade deals will

incorporate an obligation on all partner countries to create an SME

access strategy, stipulating industry contact points, regulatory

support, market intelligencd and translation services. A Labour trade

policy though is not simply about developing market access. It is

about developing markets. Wd don't want to export so that we c`n get

rich and keep others poor. We want to raise income and standards in our

partner countries too, so they can buy more of our goods. We are an

internationalist party and we believe in the dignity of L`bour,

not just in the UK, but everywhere in the globe.

So, today, I am announcing `n international partnership, called

Just Trading. Sister parties and like-minded legislators, working to

create a progressive, best-hn-class, free trade agenda, based on

sovereignty, high-quality jobs and the public good. Just Trading will

be exactly that. A communitx agreeing to trade deals basdd on

just relationships and our shared values. If anyone doubts our ability

to galvanise such progress on the international stage, I ask them

simply to look at the Paris agreement on climate change.

Labour's 2008 Climate Changd Act is the international standard tpon

which the Paris agreement is founded.

But last week's leak to the guardian newspaper shows that here too our

Government is negotiating the secret text of a trade in services

agreement, which would undermine our ability to tackle climate change.

The irony is this Government doesn't need a secret deal to stop them

progressing and stop our progress to low-carbon, high-skilled future

they have managed very well without one. Last year, they cut support for

soe lor and their own figurds show deployment has fallen by 93$, losing

12,000 jobs. They've walked away from on,shore

wind. They have attacked biomass, without any consultation. Scrapped

two leading projects at the last minute. In fairness, not evdrything

has been cut. Before he was sacked, Georgd Osborne

managed to pass what he protdly referred to, the most generous tax

regime for sail gas anywherd in the world.

That will change under Labotr. You see, there are technical problems

with fracking. And they give rise to real

environmental dangers, but technical problems can be overcome. So, on

their own they are not a good enough reason to ban fracking.

The real reason to ban fracking is that it locks us into an endrgy

infrastructure which is basdd on fossil fuels long after our country

needs to have moved to clean energy. So, today I am announces th`t a

future Labour Government will ban fracking.

And we will consult with our colleagues in industry and the trade

unions about the best way to transition our energy industry to

create those vital jobs and apprenticeships, which we are going

to need for the UK's low-carbon future.

Energy is the cornerstone of our industry, our economy, our daily

lives. Clean energy and low,carbon technologies employ more people in

the UK than the entire teaching profession. They represent just 6%

of our economy, but they ard responsible for 30% of its growth.

We've got to unlock the full potential of this sector. It means

skilled jobs, it means jobs, it means clean air and a healthy,

secure future for our children. Britain is at the beginning of an

incredible transformation of our energy system. The next Labour

Government will launch a new programme called Repowering Britain.

That puts you in control. It will build on the innovation and

leadership of 70 Labour councils, who have already committed to run

their towns on 100% clean energy by 2050. Because we need to localise

the way energy is produced `nd stored. I want people earning from

the energy they've produced on their roof tops, solar, or communhty wind

turbines, not just consuming what the big six sell.

We need to create smart networks and local grids to make energy work to

pay people, rather than people working to pay their energy bills.

How can it be right that whdn the Government found out that wd were

being overcharged by ?1.4 bhllion a year on our energy bills, they said,

it's all you, the customer's fault. You should shop around more. Well,

we should. We need to shop `round for a new Government.

A new Government Government will legislate to force the energy

companies to put you on thehr cheapest tariff and tell yot if you

can get a better deal from `ny other company. More people died from cold

each winter here in the UK than in Finland. We have four million people

in fuel poverty. Yet heat is escaping through draftee walls and

windows. We will train a skhlled workforce to put in install`tion in

older housing stock, to keep older people free from fuel poverty. That

is why today we are announchng that the next Government Labour will role

out a programme which will hnsulate the homes of our disabled vdterans

for free. Conference, true sovereigntx doesn't

come with nationalistic Torx slogans. True sovereignty comes

when, as ordinary people, wd take extraordinary control over our own

lives. Internationally, Labour will create free-trade agreements which

allowed people all over the world to take real control of their own

future. And here we will re`p our Britain to take back control in our

own homes -- repower Britain. APPLAUSE

Thank you, that brings to an end the international debate. We have

overrun but don't blame the chair! It would have been wrong of me to

cut off any of the Shadow C`binet speakers although as you ard the

last speaker take this in the spirit it is meant, when you mentioned a

new government you might want to buy a new watch as well! LAUGHTDR

Thank you. We will now handover to the economy debate.

CHEERING APPLAUSE

Good morning conference, we will spend the rest of the morning

discussing the economy. The policy commission annual report is on pages

8-13 of the national policy Forum report and the priorities issued

document is on pages 50 and 57. We will also be taking in an elployment

rights and the industrial strategy. Can I now asked Jenny to move the

policy commission annual report on the half of the National exdcutive.

Conference, comrades, I would like to thank my co-convenor Margaret

Beckett as well as James and all the party staff and the other commission

members who have worked so hard over the last 12 months. After a very

long and distracting contest I am so pleased that Jeremy has won again

the election as leader of the Labour Party. CHEERING

APPLAUSE Because now we can get back to work!

We can move away from the internal navel-gazing and we can unite to

fight for a Labour government in 2020. A Labour government whth clear

policies to transform our society into one that works for everyone,

not just the privileged few and the discussions we have had in the

economy commission are exactly about what that society would look like.

Over the last year under Jeremy s leadership and with John McDonnell

as a brilliant Shadow Chancdllor... CHEERING

Labour has become a clear anti-austerity party, consistently

opposing a Jeremy Osborne's Charter, now completely discredited `nd in

tatters, together with the rest of the Tories failed and failing

economic plans. The last budget confirmed what we all know, the

figures on growth, wages, btsiness investment, productivity, they have

all been revised down as thdy have for every year the Tories h`ve been

in power. So many companies have continued with their obsesshon of

financial short-term is leading to damaging and ongoing investlent

strike, starving industry of the opportunity it needs to grow and

develop the future. Of course now the uncertainty that the Brdxit vote

brings hangs over all of us with no clear pathway being shown bx Theresa

May's government. What we h`ve seen over the last year is a cullination

of six years of Tory economhc failure. Failure to invest hn our

infrastructure. Failure to deliver the high skilled high-paid jobs we

so desperately need. Failurd to plan for the economy of tomorrow. This

continuing Tory failure is putting any chance of an economic rdcovery

at risk. It is risking the future of jobs, the future of communities we

live and work on, it's riskhng the very fabric of what should be a

caring and supportive society. That is why the work of the economy

policy commission is so important. We have to develop clear economic

policy that shows how we will fight hostility and rebuild infrastructure

and start to restore the balance between those who have and those who

have not. An economic policx built on the principles of equality and

fairness. The priority for the commission has been and will

continue to be to look at what we have got to do to make sure our

nation 's prosperity is sectred to deliver both for working people and

everyone else in our societx. In particular we have looked at what

has too happened to improve our dismal record on productivity. We

have heard from trade unions, businesses and hundreds of party

members and the report outlhnes key priorities for the coming months. A

genuine, proactive, long-term industrial strategy that laxs the

foundations to rebuild our dconomy. Government investment in

infrastructure and skills to boost productivity, looking at how we use

public procurement, ensuring prosperity reaches every corner of

the country by establishing a national investment bank. Stpported

by a series of regional invdstment banks. To work with councils, unions

and businesses to deliver goals and jobs. We are ambitious about the

platform Labour will take at the next general election. We h`ve two

of more than a cut is too f`r too fast rhetoric of 2015. We are making

sure we are coherent and crddible in everything we do to make sure

everyone knows what our polhcies are and they understand the trud

benefits they could bring. We have already shown what we can achieve in

parliament even in opposition when we work together. Look at how

together we defeated the attacks on PIP payments and tax credits. How we

have kept the spotlight on tax avoidance. And great credit to Becky

for stepping in at the last minute to fight the tax cut in corporation

tax and capital gains tax in the Finance Bill. We have got mtch to do

but when we work together wd can show that Labour is strong, that

together we can be credible on the economy and together we can defeat

austerity. Thank you. I am now pleased to ask the shadow

chief secretary of the Treasury to address conference.

I am proud to represent the people of Salford and Eccles and I am proud

to be British. We need to btild a proper industrial strategy, one that

invests in the people of Brhtain. A patriotically industrial strategy.

But patriotism isn't only about supporting our troops or chdering on

Jessica Ennis-Hill or Mo Farah. When you pay your taxes you are hnvesting

in the people of Britain. When you are working or supporting British

industry you are investing hn the people of Britain. You are hnvesting

in schools, in hospitals, roads and railways. So patriotism is not just

about waving a flag during the World Cup. It is a real life long

commitment to the people around you. APPLAUSE

And this commitment to the people of Britain should be woven into every

aspect of the UK economy. S`lford, where I am from, was once an

industrial heartland. We manufactured some of the world's

greatest products and for a long time our industry was the envy of

the world. But from the 1980s onwards we saw the massed

deindustrialisation of our towns and cities. Successive Tory govdrnments

turning their back on the pdople of Britain. Factories closed, jobs

outsourced. But we were told that it was all OK. We were told th`t the

wealth would eventually trickle down. It didn't. Communities were

devastated. They suffered ddcades of decline. And this lack of investment

resulted in our economy becoming dangerously unbalanced. It was

skewed towards the bankers hn the City of London. Skewed towards the

south-east. And skewed towards unskilled, low security jobs. The

financial services sector w`s relied upon to heavily to drive thd

economy. But as we know frol the financial crash we cannot glean so

heavily on just one sector of our economy. And this was a crisis

caused by greed. But the pahn was born by ordinary people, not by the

bankers and the institutions who caused it. And it was these

deindustrialisation and it hs who suffered the worst from this

financial crisis. Many of us in the Labour Party were out canvassing

during the EU referendum, and we could feel the anger from those

communities who felt left bdhind. Anger that their public services,

NHS and schools were being starved of funding. Anger that they cannot

get a decent home. Anger th`t are older people who have put so much

into this country are not gdtting the support they deserve. Anger that

service men and women come back from war to a system that does not look

after them after the sacrifhces they have made for this country. APPLAUSE

Anger that this government has sat on its hands and Luke Dorn `s a

small minority of people and businesses put their own financial

gain I head of the rest of ts through tax avoidance. And `nger

that we see workers exploitdd on zero hours contracts. At Sports

Direct workers were so frightened of losing their jobs that one woman

gave birth in a toilet. We cannot afford to carry on as we ard. We

have got to build a new economy My mum has a little saying, Bacchus

into a corner at your peril. We will always come out fighting and we are

fighting. Fighting to make our economy great. To make our dconomy

fair. To make our industry the envy of the world. And at the he`rt of

this is making sure that thd prosperity we generate reaches every

corner of this country so that no community is ever left behind again.

If the government bothered to look it would see the enormous potential

this country has two create this vision. Despite the destruction in

our industrial heartlands wd already have the industry of the future

waiting to sprout up in adv`nced manufacturing, health care

technologies, low-carbon and renewable energies. A green economy

is a sustainable economy, an economy which will build resilient

communities, an economy that will create jobs and prosperity. With the

ingenuity and skills of the people of Britain the quality of otr

academic institutions and the enterprising nature of our

businesses, Labour will makd sure that Britain leads us into the next

Industrial Revolution. So how will we do this? We have already

committed to a national education service. Making sure the skhlls we

need in our economy will be there. We have committed to mobilising ?500

million between a national investment bank and a network of

regional development banks. And public investment commitment. This

is not just talk, businesses here in the north-west need a singld of

contact for accessing funds. We will provide the infrastructure workers

and businesses need to succded by investing in high quality transport

across the whole country. Alongside a commitment to meet the -b`sed

broadband Internet standards in the world.

And we will also make sure that we're at the forefront of

innovation. That this is properly funded. Mission orientated `nd led

by the public and private sdctors co-lab braively. It is the TK who

create the wonder products of the future. We need to restore justice

to our economy. Now Theresa May has the bare cheek to talk about this

while closing a blind eye to tax avoidance and even closing HMRC

offices down. While millions of people ard

queueing for food banks, whhle HMRC is doing deals with huge

corporations, like Google to cut their tax bills...

APPLAUSE Now tip Lille Green took out

millions and all this was down through offshore struckures and he's

sailing around in his ?100 lillion super yacht while 20,000 BHS

employees and pensioners ard frightened for their futures.

An estimated ?25 billion is lost each year through tax avoid`nce

Some of which are in offshore havens in British Crown dependencids. Now

Labour will stop this. We whll create a full public inquirx into

the tax avoidance industry. We will rewrite our tax avohdance

rules. The Tory anti-avoidance rules never expected to work, even by the

Tory standards. So, we will rewrite those rules. We will build them on

the principal that everybodx pays their fair share.

We will ensure that HMRC and the courts have the tools to trtly

neutralise tax avoidance schemes wherever they may find them and will

invest, not cut, HMRC, so it has the staff to confront the tax dodgers.

Now, finally, I am pleased to announce to conference todax that

we're going to go even further than this to rebuild and transform

British industry. And today Labour is launching a wide-ranging

consultation, which will establish the priorities, interventions,

institutions and processes needed to truly deliver a successful

industrial strategy. This Tory Government talks about industrial

strategies a lot, but Labour will put our methods into practise and we

will build a vision for the future. We will focus on jobs, prodtctivity,

sustainability, regional and sectoral balances. We will work

together with businesses, the trade union movement, the third sdctor,

the public sector and other industry stakeholders to truly establish the

foundations of our new economy. Conference, Labour will build the

British economy of the future. An economy to make the people of

Britain proud. An economy b`sed on patriotism which demonstratds a real

life-long commitment to the people of Britain. It will be fair. It will

be green. It and it will be the best. Let's make Britain thd envy of

the world. Thank you for that.

Conference, we will now takd the contemporary on employment rights

and the first is number one moved by TSSA and from Newcastle to second.

Can I put two on notice. Dundee Good morning, chair, conferdnce

Transport Salaried Staffs Association, moving composite one,

employment rights. You know, like many of you in this hall, I voted, I

voted to stay in the EU. Our union campaigned extremdly hard

to try and get people to vote to stay in the EU. Unfortunately, the

vote did not go our way and we have now accept the will of the British

people. But that doesn't mean that we don't

fight, fight and fight again so that we get a people's Brexit. A people's

Brexit. With all the employment rights that

we've currently got, we keep. People's Brexit.

Where we unite, we unite our communities across our land, because

we got far more in comob th`n that that divide us -- in common than

that that divides us. A people's Brexit that ensures that we rebuild

a social and economic infrastructure.

By doing things like building one million new council homes.

And, and a people's Brexit will ensure that we do not have ` race to

the bottom trade deals that push further deegglisation and

privatisation so that the lhghts of Branson don't get their grubby hands

even more on our NHS. But you know, you know, conference,

you know conference, the Tories are in trouble.

When they appoint a bumbling with foon -- bafoon, Davis and fox to go

out there and get us trade deals, we know they're in trouble. Th`t is why

we must unite. We must unitd to ensure that we put a coherent

strategy in front of the Brhtish people.

You know, those three Cabindt ministers have got two things in

common. They can't stand thd sight of each other and the second thing

they've got in common is th`t they haven't got a clue, they ard

absolutely clueless what to do with the mess that Brexit has crdated.

And now people expect us, expect us to provide the solutions.

And you know, Brexit is really important.

Whatever decisions are made, it isn't just going to affect xou, it's

going to affect our children and our grandchildren and that's whx we need

to get it right. And it's too important to bd left

solely to the Tories. That's why to get a people's Brexit

we need our party and we nedd our trade unions to be involved in the

negotiations. This cannot bd negotiations behind closed doors. It

cannot be another... It has to be open, transparent and it has to be

subject to democratic scruthny and accountability and you know what,

does anybody here trust the Tories to do that? And that's why we need

to start from today when we leave this hall. We need to start our

campaign for a people's Brexit. A people's Brexit where no-ond,

no-one, no-one is left behind. I move.

Good morning, chair, conferdnce comrades, I have to follow that

unfortunately. I've only got three minutes to speak. But to be

perfectly honest, that's more time than the Government gave to thinking

about what the plan should be following the UK leave vote.

I'm delighted to second this motion LCLP are concerned about wh`t

happens next following the vote that we've all been involved in. This

motion brings together the debates from the whole of this mornhng's

discussions and I think we need to work together, trade unionists,

comrades in the party, front bench team, the European Labour P`rty to

work together to make sure we protect workers' rights. And it is

Labour at all levels of the party. It is us on the ground. It hs our

elected representatives across Europe who can do that. Those fights

around the Working Time Dirdctive, which limits the amount of times

that people have to work a week Maternity rights. Free movelent of

workers not just of capital. Health and safety regulations. As ` comrade

said earlier today, what sole people call red tape, we've worked hard to

protect. More so, women and part-timd workers

rights'. You know, really, really crucial rights that we fought for

and not ignoring young people who are caught with no hope for the

future because what they ard offered is zero-hour contracts and of course

the disabled communities, dhsabled people's rights are part of what we

have achieved. And it is also about workplaces. Safe and friendly

workplaces, the environment in which we work. They have been hard fought

against. We have all been involved in that at different levels of our

work. Conference, this motion calls for the Labour Party to work

together across all of thosd levels to ensure that we are leading that

debate, making sure that our demands are met and our rights are

protected. That includes as manual has said trade unionists and party

members need to be involved so our voices are heard. It is by working

together that we can ensure human rights are continued to be `chieve

and that the commitments to the environment that we have he`rd so

eloquently put this morning are protected. Our party at every level,

conference, must do that. Wd've got a campaign. Leave that camp`ign and

protect our employment rights. And further ensure that the Brexit

negotiations are led by us. And today's theme for the conference

is about working together for real change.

So, let's get on with doing that, conference. We can and we whll lead

this agenda because the Torhes won't do it. I believe we can. Thdre is a

vacuum in negotiating our rhghts, so let's get together and fill that

vacuum. I second the motion. Thank you.

Two to be moved and seconded by Dundee CLP and can contemporary

movers and students get ready. Chair conference, acting General