27/09/2016 - Live Afternoon Session

:00:22. > :00:26.The OECD education division, the education policy institute,

:00:27. > :00:29.education data lab, the fair education alliance, the vice

:00:30. > :00:36.Chancellor of Oxford University and even Ofsted, sir Michael Wilshaw

:00:37. > :00:42.have slammed these divisive proposals? And why? Are they against

:00:43. > :00:45.success? They're opposed to selective schools because all the

:00:46. > :00:50.evidence show that is children educated at grammar schools do no

:00:51. > :00:54.better than they would have done had they gone to a comprehensive. But

:00:55. > :00:58.those children in selective areas who do not pass the test do much

:00:59. > :01:02.worse academically then they would have done in an inclusive

:01:03. > :01:07.comprehensive school. We started phasing out grammar schools in the

:01:08. > :01:12.1960s as parents became increasingly upset when their children failed the

:01:13. > :01:15.test. Leaving them scarred for life, feeling second class, and second

:01:16. > :01:21.rate. What parent wants that for their child? If we don't want it for

:01:22. > :01:27.our own children, why would we want it for other people's children?

:01:28. > :01:31.Conference, look at Kent, one of the country's few remaining grammar

:01:32. > :01:34.school areas where children from low income families get significantly

:01:35. > :01:38.worst examination results than in any other County in England. Grammar

:01:39. > :01:43.schools have on average 3% of children on free school meals,

:01:44. > :01:48.compared to 18% nationally. They are stuffed with the children of those

:01:49. > :01:52.who can afford the years of tutoring necessary to pass the test. They

:01:53. > :01:56.have very, very few, if any, children with special educational

:01:57. > :02:00.needs and disabilities, but disgracefully the Government's Green

:02:01. > :02:04.Paper has absolutely not one word, nothing at all to say about these

:02:05. > :02:09.children or the future they might expect from a selective education

:02:10. > :02:12.system. Kent and other selective areas let down thousands of children

:02:13. > :02:22.every year and they've done it now for 50 years. This has to stop.

:02:23. > :02:26.APPLAUSE Because conference, poor children

:02:27. > :02:31.don't need a grammar school place. What they need is to stop being

:02:32. > :02:36.poor. APPLAUSE

:02:37. > :02:42.Four million children are living in poverty, that's nine in every class

:02:43. > :02:47.of 30 children. And disgracefully two-thirds of those children are

:02:48. > :02:52.from working families. We need a Government committed to ending child

:02:53. > :02:57.poverty and the scourge of low pay. That means we need a Labour

:02:58. > :03:01.Government. APPLAUSE

:03:02. > :03:04.People have speculated as to why Theresa May has made this decision.

:03:05. > :03:09.Perhaps it's because it covers up the real crisis that is happening in

:03:10. > :03:13.our schools under the Tories. A crisis of teacher recruitment and

:03:14. > :03:17.retention, a crisis of funding with massive real term cuts to school

:03:18. > :03:22.budgets and not enough places. A crisis that sees free schools

:03:23. > :03:26.opening up in the wrong areas, a crisis where academy chains rip off

:03:27. > :03:30.taxpayers and children in their schools by turning backs on children

:03:31. > :03:36.in most in need because academy chains won't risk their brand with a

:03:37. > :03:41.poor set of results. Yet despite this crisis Theresa May is lavishing

:03:42. > :03:45.?50 million of our money on persuading existing grammar schools

:03:46. > :03:50.to expand. But by opening the flood gates to a new generation of grammar

:03:51. > :03:55.schools the Government is backing itself into yet another unnecessary

:03:56. > :03:59.and unwanted school reorganisation in England that will cost billions.

:04:00. > :04:02.While schools can't afford to keep teachers and teaching assistants or

:04:03. > :04:06.provide essential resources, it seems money is no object when it

:04:07. > :04:12.comes to carrying through a cynical policy to distract us and to appease

:04:13. > :04:17.the right-wing of her own party. Conference, let me end by saying

:04:18. > :04:22.this, had Ken Purchase would here today he would be urging you to

:04:23. > :04:26.support this motion and fight for the high quality comprehensive and

:04:27. > :04:29.inclusive education all our children deserve. Conference, I move.

:04:30. > :04:52.APPLAUSE Conference, chair, delighted to be

:04:53. > :04:58.seconding the motion 10 opposing the expansion of grammar schools and

:04:59. > :05:02.selection in education. I am a first time delegate and first time speaker

:05:03. > :05:06.to conference. Thank you. I would also like to say I attended a

:05:07. > :05:10.comprehensive school that set me up for life and I am proud to have been

:05:11. > :05:14.a teacher for over ten years in comprehensives in the East Midlands.

:05:15. > :05:18.APPLAUSE On that, I would like to begin by

:05:19. > :05:23.paying tribute to our teachers, all those who work in our schools but

:05:24. > :05:25.particularly our teachers, a group of dedicated professional and

:05:26. > :05:30.experts who are never consulted thanked or listened to by this

:05:31. > :05:34.Government. This motion... APPLAUSE

:05:35. > :05:38.This motion opposes grammar schools but it could easily be worded to

:05:39. > :05:41.oppose the imposition of secondary modern schools as Sarah just said on

:05:42. > :05:46.our children, on our teachers and our communities because this is what

:05:47. > :05:50.it is, it's a return to selection, segregation and division in both our

:05:51. > :05:55.schools and in our communities. It's a fantasy trip back to the past.

:05:56. > :05:59.Back to the 1950s. An era before the Fab Four even thought up Sergeant

:06:00. > :06:02.Pepper, before England had won a World Cup and before Anthony

:06:03. > :06:15.Crossland had become Secretary for education. We are governed by a

:06:16. > :06:19.party who favours is heing Gray -- - let's make it clear, conference, by

:06:20. > :06:22.every possible measure of pupil achievement comprehensive schools

:06:23. > :06:28.have been a success and they've served our children well. They're

:06:29. > :06:34.based on the ideas of inclusion, solidarity and social justice.

:06:35. > :06:38.APPLAUSE These are Labour values, these are

:06:39. > :06:41.our values. It's why I became a teacher and I hope it's why people

:06:42. > :06:44.are sat here. Conference, the myth of a golden age of education is

:06:45. > :06:48.that, it's a myth. It's never existed. As I have said, our

:06:49. > :06:52.comprehensives achieved far more than grammar schools ever did in the

:06:53. > :06:57.past. And the mantra that selection will improve life chances of

:06:58. > :07:00.disadvantaged children goes against all available statistical evidence

:07:01. > :07:04.and ignores many of our children. The recent education White Paper, I

:07:05. > :07:07.don't know if people have read it, it was absolutely silent about

:07:08. > :07:10.children on special needs. Because they don't fit in with the

:07:11. > :07:14.regressive, divisive vision of education this Government has. They

:07:15. > :07:18.don't appear to matter. Well, I can tell you they matter to me, they

:07:19. > :07:25.matter to teachers and should matter to you.

:07:26. > :07:30.APPLAUSE Our schools are facing significant

:07:31. > :07:35.challenges as we have just heard. Fewer teachers, far fewer resources.

:07:36. > :07:38.Importantly our cities and councillors need the ability to plan

:07:39. > :07:41.for education properly and we need to establish new schools that are

:07:42. > :07:45.accountable to the local community for the way they spend their money

:07:46. > :07:49.and the way they look after pupils. Conference, we as a party supported

:07:50. > :07:55.comprehensive education and the ideals behind it. We need to send a

:07:56. > :07:58.message today to reject the politics of segregation, social exclusion and

:07:59. > :08:03.division. We need a school system for the 21st century, not the 1950s.

:08:04. > :08:14.Conference, I second this motion. APPLAUSE

:08:15. > :08:19.Thank you, delegate. Let me say it first! We are now

:08:20. > :08:23.going to open the debate to the floor. If we can take notice of our

:08:24. > :08:29.two speakers who went on time and each of you say a little bit less we

:08:30. > :08:38.will get more people in. OK, let me have a look. The guy there waving,

:08:39. > :08:42.is it an um agree la? I can't see. -- an umbrella.

:08:43. > :08:46.Where am I going? Let me have a look. A woman, a woman. The woman

:08:47. > :09:05.with the black and orange scarf. The woman there in the red jacket.

:09:06. > :09:11.If it's red. I will take some more later.

:09:12. > :09:18.Good afternoon. I am proud to be a first time delegate from west

:09:19. > :09:23.Oxfordshire. APPLAUSE

:09:24. > :09:32.Thank you. I am also proud to be adopted as the Labour candidate to

:09:33. > :09:38.replace David Cameron in The by-election. Thank you. And make a

:09:39. > :09:44.date as 20th October and you are all invited. Through Cameron you may

:09:45. > :09:48.have a distorted view of Whitby as a home of prif lem. It isn't. We face

:09:49. > :09:53.the same inequality as the rest of the country, lack of investment,

:09:54. > :09:56.failing roads, cuts to buses, countryside and communities under

:09:57. > :10:02.threat from developers and landowners, cuts to the NHS, house

:10:03. > :10:05.prices out of control. And this is because of Tory councils, a Tory Lib

:10:06. > :10:10.Dem coalition and then a Tory Government, a toxic combination. But

:10:11. > :10:16.we are fighting back. Over the last five years Labour has won seat after

:10:17. > :10:18.seat on our councils and we now have amazing councillors across west

:10:19. > :10:23.Oxfordshire all working in their communities. Since May 2015, and

:10:24. > :10:27.particularly since Jeremy Corbyn became our leader, our membership

:10:28. > :10:32.has grown hugely and we now have many more members in Whitby than the

:10:33. > :10:38.Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and in fact more than all of the other

:10:39. > :10:42.parties put together -- Witney. So, we have never been in such a strong

:10:43. > :10:46.position to make a positive change to our towns and villages. Just as

:10:47. > :10:50.well, because these grammar school proposals are a disaster for us.

:10:51. > :10:53.Oxfordshire has no grammars. Instead we have a network of brilliant

:10:54. > :10:59.comprehensive schools like the comprehensive I am proud to have

:11:00. > :11:03.gone to. My own children go to a school in Witney where my wife

:11:04. > :11:07.teaches English and I am a governor. Cuts in funding have bitten deeply,

:11:08. > :11:11.particularly into school support and 6th form funding. But grammar

:11:12. > :11:18.schools is another thing still. It would set school against school and

:11:19. > :11:22.involve introducing the 11-Plus, a pointless and unfair segregation of

:11:23. > :11:27.friend from friend, and brother from sister. It would turn our high

:11:28. > :11:30.schools into secondary moderns and reduce choices in subjects and the

:11:31. > :11:34.put our 6th forms at risk and lead to certain closures. It will imperil

:11:35. > :11:39.some of our neighbourhood schools and damage community links. It will

:11:40. > :11:43.lead to more bussing of children across the district which is a

:11:44. > :11:47.diviceful and wasteful andingivity T will worsen teacher recruitment and

:11:48. > :11:50.retention crisis and overturn primary alliances and into school

:11:51. > :11:54.working to the detriment of our children and further stretch our

:11:55. > :12:03.worsening finances and it will lower levels of achievement.

:12:04. > :12:10.The evidence shows it will lower levels of achievement. That is why

:12:11. > :12:14.Oxfordshire County Council, supported by others from all

:12:15. > :12:21.parties, voted against segregation in our schools are just last week.

:12:22. > :12:26.So let's get every local authority in England to follow suit. Contact

:12:27. > :12:31.Oxfordshire Labour to find out how and get it through your councils

:12:32. > :12:35.now. We cannot allow this to happen so join me in the by-election and

:12:36. > :12:40.let's use our campaign to stop this crazy proposal to divide our

:12:41. > :13:17.education system. Conference, I am pleased to support

:13:18. > :13:20.this motion because it ends with the word professionals, a term which

:13:21. > :13:24.includes all staff that work in schools. It is teachers and

:13:25. > :13:28.assistants working with children every day who know the impact

:13:29. > :13:36.testing can have on a child's self-esteem. I've sat next to pupils

:13:37. > :13:41.crying over a test. They don't know where to begin because they either

:13:42. > :13:47.have special needs or England is not their first language. All children

:13:48. > :13:54.deserve a high-quality education which does not separate them into

:13:55. > :13:58.those that can and cannot do tests. The 11 plus is another test on

:13:59. > :14:11.children, who are already tested too much in this country. Education

:14:12. > :14:14.should be inclusive, where children from all backgrounds and abilities

:14:15. > :14:19.socialise and play together and learn from each other. A generation

:14:20. > :14:26.risks being let down and stops mobility dead in its tracks. People

:14:27. > :14:30.talk about claiming the social mobility ladder but when inequality

:14:31. > :14:36.is growing, the gaps between the rungs are getting wider. Research

:14:37. > :14:41.has shown that areas with grammar school disadvantage the brewer and

:14:42. > :14:45.help only the richest of children. I don't care that Theresa May went to

:14:46. > :14:49.grammar school, policies should be based on evidence. For too long

:14:50. > :14:57.we've seen too many Tory educational policy wins, from academies to free

:14:58. > :15:01.schools. We have a Prime Minister without a manifesto commitment

:15:02. > :15:09.bringing back grammar schools. It is no surprise they are showing their

:15:10. > :15:15.true colours and advocating this in schools. Theresa May like to use

:15:16. > :15:22.phrases like freedom of choice but there is no choice. Communities

:15:23. > :15:25.deserve properly funded comprehensive schooling for all

:15:26. > :15:29.children. If we want an inclusive and equal society then it must start

:15:30. > :15:39.with an inclusive and equal education system.

:15:40. > :15:57.I'm going to choose another three before the next speaker. The woman

:15:58. > :16:20.in the green there. The woman in the red there? This guy here. I'm coming

:16:21. > :16:32.back. First-time speaker at conference. Conference, there are 12

:16:33. > :16:37.secondary schools in Southend and a third of them are grammar schools.

:16:38. > :16:44.So popular and successful that the majority of children that attend

:16:45. > :16:52.them don't even live in Southend. Some children travel 30 miles to

:16:53. > :16:57.come to those schools. Grammar schools and wondering whether your

:16:58. > :17:03.kids are going to go to one dominates the education culture in

:17:04. > :17:07.Southend-on-Sea. I've been doing this for ten years and in those ten

:17:08. > :17:11.years I've seen absolutely no evidence that children do

:17:12. > :17:18.exceptionally well at our grammar schools. Only that are grammar

:17:19. > :17:24.schools will only accept children that they know will do exceptionally

:17:25. > :17:33.well. Conference, every child, regardless of their academic

:17:34. > :17:37.ability, their postcode or their parents's wealth deserves a good

:17:38. > :17:47.school but more grammar schools does not equate to this. All they deliver

:17:48. > :17:50.are more failing comprehensives. Theresa May thinks grammar schools

:17:51. > :17:56.deliver excellent exam results and on the surface they do. But when

:17:57. > :18:00.every comprehensive in town has all the academically exceptional

:18:01. > :18:05.children, they are siphoned off and sent elsewhere to school, you don't

:18:06. > :18:13.need and a star in maths to work out that is going to skew your exam

:18:14. > :18:14.results statistics. Excuse them for grammar as well as comprehensive

:18:15. > :18:29.schools. is not causality, it is nothing more

:18:30. > :18:39.than correlation. You would think a grammar school girl would know the

:18:40. > :18:46.difference. Tories have the audacity to suggest their support is about

:18:47. > :18:51.parent choice and ending the practice of the wealthy are moving

:18:52. > :18:56.specifically to get into an outstanding school. But, conference,

:18:57. > :19:02.no child in Southend chooses a grammar school. The grammar schools

:19:03. > :19:07.choose the children. Nobody in Southend moves because they need

:19:08. > :19:12.more grammar school places. They move because there was a shameful

:19:13. > :19:25.lack of outstanding comprehensive places. Grammar schools cherry pick

:19:26. > :19:33.academically... I'm sorry, you need to wind up. They believe they are

:19:34. > :19:37.exceptional but show me a school that welcomes all the students from

:19:38. > :19:43.its community and supports every single one of them to reach full

:19:44. > :20:05.potential. That is what I call an outstanding school.

:20:06. > :20:15.Nicole Brailsford from Unison. I'm here to tell you about a Labour

:20:16. > :20:22.council that has likened itself to Margaret Thatcher. That is Derby

:20:23. > :20:30.City Council. They are treating 2700 people this way. School support

:20:31. > :20:34.staff, admin workers, kitchen staff, caretakers, supervisors, and 200 of

:20:35. > :20:38.them travelled here today from Derby on their seventh week of action to

:20:39. > :20:51.appeal for your support and I think they deserve your support.

:20:52. > :21:02.These are low-paid workers, mostly women, hit with salary cuts of

:21:03. > :21:05.?6,000 per year. A quarter of their salary with no protection all

:21:06. > :21:13.because allegedly the system is being made fairer. What is happening

:21:14. > :21:17.is anything but. 2700 staff moved on to term time only contracts which

:21:18. > :21:25.means weeks and months without pay with rising debt unable to make ends

:21:26. > :21:30.meet. Support staff are among the lowest paid workers yet they are

:21:31. > :21:39.paid the price of continued government spending cuts. The

:21:40. > :21:48.squeeze on finance... Penalising the lowest paid workers in society is

:21:49. > :21:55.wrong. It is not just the teaching assistants. Teachers could not teach

:21:56. > :22:01.without assistance and parents are horrified at the way they are being

:22:02. > :22:09.treated, and the children who rely on the workers to care for them are

:22:10. > :22:14.bound to supper. They deserve better than this and so do we. It is not

:22:15. > :22:19.just happening in Derby but also Durham, also a Labour council,

:22:20. > :22:29.hitting low-paid woman with eye watering pay cuts. They need to

:22:30. > :22:42.think again on the strikes will continue. But they must also end the

:22:43. > :22:44.squeeze on school budgets and alone teaching assistants to negotiate

:22:45. > :22:49.their pay nationally like teacher pay. We need a national deal for

:22:50. > :22:57.school support staff with proper pain conditions. -- paying

:22:58. > :22:59.conditions. They do so much for us, it is the very least we can do for

:23:00. > :23:29.them. Judy Wilson, first-time speaker at

:23:30. > :23:36.conference. I'm delighted to speak in this debate as a motion was

:23:37. > :23:41.narrowly beaten in the selection meeting. Let there be no mistake,

:23:42. > :23:50.the government policy of forced a categorisation has failed to raise

:23:51. > :23:55.standards -- academies Haixun 01 -- Academy transformation. Arranging

:23:56. > :24:07.the classroom furniture does not have a difference. Free schools have

:24:08. > :24:11.not covered themselves in glory. The threat of going back to grammar

:24:12. > :24:21.schools smacks of desperation and many Tory backbenchers also share

:24:22. > :24:33.our views on this. We need to mobilise on all levels of our party.

:24:34. > :24:35.We need to provide them with a voice. Work with trade unions and

:24:36. > :24:50.schools. In Bristol, we start on Saturday in

:24:51. > :25:02.the city centre. I know that you will support this. Will you go back

:25:03. > :25:08.and organise in your communities? Let's mobilise our members. Show the

:25:09. > :25:20.government what a Labour Party with more than half a million members can

:25:21. > :25:29.do. I only have time for one more speaker. On the basis of my own

:25:30. > :25:31.health and safety going to pick the guy with the hard hat as long as he

:25:32. > :26:11.lets me have it after he speaks. Conference... Martin Bailey,

:26:12. > :26:16.Vauxhall CLP. I went to grammar school. Social mobility nurtured me.

:26:17. > :26:21.But we do not need grammar schools. It's taken me a long time to come to

:26:22. > :26:26.this conclusion. I am a product of grammar schools. On paper I should

:26:27. > :26:33.be a poster child for the movement, born in a statistically deprived

:26:34. > :26:36.neighbourhood yet here I am, a law graduate working in the City of

:26:37. > :26:48.London. Birmingham is full of grammar schools.

:26:49. > :26:54.I wondered how could anyone argue they're a bad thing. The I looked at

:26:55. > :26:59.my friends and we were all doing well. We all went to university and

:27:00. > :27:03.have careers anagramer school gave us choices. My mum said she didn't

:27:04. > :27:07.care whatever career I do as well as I choose to do it and that's what my

:27:08. > :27:11.grammar school gave me, choices, I loved my time there, I am not going

:27:12. > :27:15.to pretend I didn't. I realise as aget older I look at fren and family

:27:16. > :27:25.members who have struggled and didn't pass the 11-Plus and realise

:27:26. > :27:28.there is a problem here. Birmingham grammar schools, it's

:27:29. > :27:32.overrepresented by kids that aren't. Kids from household whose parents if

:27:33. > :27:35.they hadn't got into grammar school could have sent them to private

:27:36. > :27:39.school and probably would have and kids you know were coached to take

:27:40. > :27:43.that test. A local comprehensive in Birmingham, 90% of students don't

:27:44. > :27:50.have English as a first language. Compared to a national average of

:27:51. > :27:54.12%. 76% get free school meals but they're an outstanding rated school

:27:55. > :27:59.now. Their GCSE results were just 17% in 2004. I used to feel sorry

:28:00. > :28:01.for the kids that went there. Now they're storming ahead of the

:28:02. > :28:06.average and improve year on year. It's taken a lot of hard work by

:28:07. > :28:09.parents, teachers, support staff, Labour councillors and new grammar

:28:10. > :28:13.schools absolutely threaten that success. Diverting much needed

:28:14. > :28:16.resources in terms of money, teachers and well performing pupils

:28:17. > :28:21.who help support the rest of their pierce and this gives schools like

:28:22. > :28:26.Holt a real possibility of falling back to the bad days. For the few

:28:27. > :28:31.from yoors like mine grammar schools worked. For most in my neighbourhood

:28:32. > :28:33.they didn't and don't. They take away precious resource from

:28:34. > :28:36.comprehensive schools that need it and serve communities. In Lambeth

:28:37. > :28:41.where I now live and we don't have a single grammar school every one of

:28:42. > :28:44.our secondary schools are rated good or outstanding and that's taken hard

:28:45. > :28:48.work by our community, our Labour council to maintain that and could

:28:49. > :28:52.all be wiped away overnight. The fact the Tories have promised

:28:53. > :28:56.reserve free school meal places for qualifying kids know they know at

:28:57. > :28:59.heart it doesn't promote social mobility on this scale that it

:29:00. > :29:03.suggests. With Labour in Government we can promise a world class

:29:04. > :29:07.education to every child, not just those who can work out what shape

:29:08. > :29:12.comes next in a pattern on a cold November morning. Conference,

:29:13. > :29:44.support this motion. Thank you. Next speaker.

:29:45. > :29:55.Conference, I am a delegate from Coventry south and I would like to

:29:56. > :29:59.thank my colleagues over there for collecting me when I spectacularly

:30:00. > :30:05.disappeared from view. APPLAUSE It wasn't a deliberate

:30:06. > :30:15.attempt to try to get on this stage, honestly. OK. Breathe. Suicide is

:30:16. > :30:21.the biggest killer of men under the age of 45. That's a lot of children

:30:22. > :30:26.who are impacted by something happening to their fathers, to their

:30:27. > :30:31.uncles, to their step-fathers or a significant male carer in their

:30:32. > :30:34.family. A review by the Samaritans in 2012 emphasised middle aged

:30:35. > :30:40.working class men are a particularly high risk of suicide. Suicide

:30:41. > :30:44.happens because of unemployment, debt, breakdown in social and family

:30:45. > :30:48.relationships, and again how are the children going to cope with this

:30:49. > :30:55.particularly when we have the pressures of an education service

:30:56. > :30:58.decimated by the Tories? And historical culture of masculinity.

:30:59. > :31:03.These are things we all know too well. Across the West Midlands we

:31:04. > :31:09.have seen unemployment, debt and family breakdowns all rising as a

:31:10. > :31:13.direct consequence of this Tory Government's continued austerity.

:31:14. > :31:19.But conference in Coventry we are doing something about it. We have an

:31:20. > :31:24.initiative started bay mental health nurse. It's targeted at men

:31:25. > :31:28.primarily in sporting venues to raise awareness of mental health

:31:29. > :31:31.support and reduce male suicide by encouraging men to talk about their

:31:32. > :31:36.feelings. We are telling men that talking about it is not a sign of

:31:37. > :31:41.weakness. It takes balls to talk. And conference I am proud that my

:31:42. > :31:47.own trade union Unite are part of this campaign. With others including

:31:48. > :31:51.local NHS services, local sports teams and voluntary organisations,

:31:52. > :31:57.including Coventry and Warwickshire Mind. Our member of parliament in

:31:58. > :32:03.Coventry north-east has sponsored an early day motion in support of the

:32:04. > :32:07.male targeted mental health awareness and suicide prevention

:32:08. > :32:13.campaign thchlt has the support of all three Coventry MPs, including my

:32:14. > :32:19.own. What can you do? Conference, I am asking every person here to make

:32:20. > :32:25.sure that their MP has signed the early day motion supporting the

:32:26. > :32:29.campaign and say to any one out there, you are not alone. There is

:32:30. > :32:36.support and our movement is one of solidarity. It takes balls to talk.

:32:37. > :32:43.Thank you conference for allowing me to speak.

:32:44. > :32:57.APPLAUSE Delegates, I have a point of order.

:32:58. > :33:05.Hello. Point of order was that we had a former MP, we had me, a young

:33:06. > :33:10.person currently in education and even a man who had the experience of

:33:11. > :33:14.going to a grammar school. The chair looked in that direction but no

:33:15. > :33:24.speaker from that end of the room was chosen. Thank you very much.

:33:25. > :33:29.Just to tell you, we had seven speakers, two from trade unions,

:33:30. > :33:32.five from CLPs, it wouldn't be possible to take somebody from the

:33:33. > :33:36.two nations and the nine regions, that would have been 11 in the

:33:37. > :33:42.debate. We try and have a balance of that. Sometimes it doesn't work.

:33:43. > :33:46.Sometimes it does. But there isn't enough time. Listen, the debate has

:33:47. > :33:50.finished. You have raised your point of order. I have given you an

:33:51. > :33:56.explanation and I am going to move on.

:33:57. > :34:01.APPLAUSE The last thing I would say on that

:34:02. > :34:06.point, there is a seminar at 4.00 today you might want to feed the

:34:07. > :34:17.points in that you would have made in the speech. OK. Now, delegates, I

:34:18. > :34:23.am very pleased to welcome Angela Rayner, the Shadow Secretary of

:34:24. > :34:27.State for Education and Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities.

:34:28. > :34:37.Thank you, Angela. APPLAUSE

:34:38. > :34:43.Good afternoon conference. It's an honour for me to stand before you

:34:44. > :34:51.today as a Shadow Secretary of State for Education.

:34:52. > :34:56.APPLAUSE To some it is a surprise. Some

:34:57. > :35:02.Tories look down their noses at me because as you can hear, I wasn't

:35:03. > :35:08.born with a plum in my mouth. I get snobbery too from pun kits and

:35:09. > :35:14.commentators, from hate-filled trolls on social media. Some of the

:35:15. > :35:20.Tories say she left school at 16, she doesn't have a university

:35:21. > :35:25.degree. What does she know about education? Well, I say I might not

:35:26. > :35:27.have an academic degree, but I have a Masters in real life.

:35:28. > :35:44.APPLAUSE Conference, I understand that every

:35:45. > :35:51.parent wants the best for their child because I want the best for my

:35:52. > :35:57.children too. I tell you, as a northern working class mum I won't

:35:58. > :36:04.accept anything less for my children and for your children.

:36:05. > :36:10.APPLAUSE Conference, I left school at 16

:36:11. > :36:16.pregnant and with no qualifications. Some may argue I was not a great

:36:17. > :36:22.role model for today's young people. The direction of my life was already

:36:23. > :36:27.set. You know what, conference, something happened. Labour's Sure

:36:28. > :36:33.Start centres gave me and my friends and their children the help and

:36:34. > :36:35.support that we needed to grow and develop.

:36:36. > :36:52.APPLAUSE They changed the lives of three

:36:53. > :36:59.million children and their parents. The Tories have now closed more than

:37:00. > :37:07.800 Sure Start centres and there's more to come. Shutting the door in

:37:08. > :37:11.the faces of our children and their parents. Conference, unlike the

:37:12. > :37:18.Tories, Labour will never turn our backs on our children and their

:37:19. > :37:23.families. We'll never put political dogma before the ambition of every

:37:24. > :37:32.parent to do their best for their children.

:37:33. > :37:36.APPLAUSE Because excellent child care changes

:37:37. > :37:43.lives for the better. As it did for my eldest son Ryan and for my two

:37:44. > :37:50.youngest boys and for me. That's why I am proud to announce today

:37:51. > :37:56.Labour's new child care tax force to help us transformerlily years

:37:57. > :38:06.provision for every family in the 21st century. -- transform early.

:38:07. > :38:12.And I am absolutely delighted that the assistant General Secretary of

:38:13. > :38:17.Unison has agreed to chair that taskforce working with Labour's

:38:18. > :38:23.Shadow Educational team and child care experts. Our aim will be to

:38:24. > :38:27.provide the care and support for every child to fulfil their

:38:28. > :38:33.potential and to help parents back to work. Access to affordable high

:38:34. > :38:38.quality child care and early years learning is one of the most

:38:39. > :38:51.effective drivers for social mobility. Conference, getting it

:38:52. > :38:59.right will improve the life chances of countless children across the

:39:00. > :39:05.country. That must be our mission. APPLAUSE

:39:06. > :39:16.Conference, the new Prime Minister has talked a lot about a metitcracy.

:39:17. > :39:27.It's a pit She's A Character didn't appoint her Cabinet on merit. But

:39:28. > :39:38.conference, Theresa May is talking about mertocracy. Let me tell her

:39:39. > :39:44.that every single child has merit. That is why I will fight with every

:39:45. > :39:56.breath in my body against the new grammar schools. Conference, she's

:39:57. > :40:02.not produced a single scrap of evidence that grammar schools can

:40:03. > :40:08.help social mobility. Selection or segregation as it should be called,

:40:09. > :40:16.entrenches division and increases inequality. Conference, it's not

:40:17. > :40:22.just me who says this. The Institute of Fiscal Studies, the chief

:40:23. > :40:27.inspector of our schools for Ofsted, the National Association of Head

:40:28. > :40:35.Teachers and even those well-known socialists at the Times and The

:40:36. > :40:43.Spectator agree. APPLAUSE

:40:44. > :40:50.Even David Cameron called it completely delusional. So,

:40:51. > :40:55.conference, what about the children segregated after failing the

:40:56. > :41:01.11-Plus, what do they say? 19-year-old Eleanor is amongst the

:41:02. > :41:07.many who have written to me and she said the deeply damaging effect that

:41:08. > :41:12.the 11-Plus had on my self-esteem and my confidence has still not left

:41:13. > :41:19.me. I was marked with the stigma of going to a stupid school, a

:41:20. > :41:25.secondary modern. I was surrounded with bright and capable children.

:41:26. > :41:30.Children who could have excelled and yet believed ourselves to be

:41:31. > :41:34.failures. Conference, this Government is telling fairytales

:41:35. > :41:49.about social mobility and opportunity. Selection is toxic.

:41:50. > :42:00.It tells a clever child they are stupid. Strip the child of

:42:01. > :42:11.self-esteem and embedded inequality. Every child can succeed and no child

:42:12. > :42:16.should be left out or left behind. You've heard it before. Tony Blair

:42:17. > :42:21.spoke about education, education, education. Tulisa may want

:42:22. > :42:52.segregation, segregation, segregation.

:42:53. > :43:02.Conference, I'll Labour Party will fight for it, starting on Saturday

:43:03. > :43:17.when we launch the campaign against more grammar schools. We will take

:43:18. > :43:32.the fight to the Tories. I appeal to everyone, all my colleagues, because

:43:33. > :43:34.together we can defeat this. But, conference, we must deal with the

:43:35. > :43:43.feelings in our existing school system. -- failings. Every academy

:43:44. > :43:55.must be fully accountable to the local communities they serve.

:43:56. > :43:59.No more fat cat pay cheques to consultants and self appointed

:44:00. > :44:14.bureaucrats. Every single penny bureaucrats. Every single penny

:44:15. > :44:26.spent on providing the best education for all our children. The

:44:27. > :44:31.Prime Minister has said nothing about the half a million children in

:44:32. > :44:38.classes which are far too big or the crisis in teacher recruitment and

:44:39. > :44:46.retention or of the deep cuts in the school budget for the first time in

:44:47. > :44:55.nearly two decades. Tory dogma causing untold damage. As someone

:44:56. > :45:00.who relied on further education when I left school I know that it can

:45:01. > :45:06.develop people into active, engaged, achieving citizens. That's why I'm

:45:07. > :45:21.proud we've pledged to bring back educational maintenance allowance.

:45:22. > :45:33.Because, we know that Yemeni helps young people to stay in education

:45:34. > :45:34.and get better grades. Labour will bring back maintenance grants for

:45:35. > :45:51.low and middle income students. It's an absolute national scandal

:45:52. > :46:01.that students graduate today with 44,000 pounds in debt. The current

:46:02. > :46:17.system is in chaos and we need to sort it. Conference, our aim must be

:46:18. > :46:22.to make higher education affordable and accessible to all but we must

:46:23. > :46:29.also recognise University is not the right place for every teenager. I

:46:30. > :46:33.want to see a Labour government put as much effort into expanding

:46:34. > :46:45.vocational education as we did with higher education. With our country

:46:46. > :46:49.facing a skills gap we need to equip young people with the expertise and

:46:50. > :47:06.ability Britain needs so that snobbery about vocational education

:47:07. > :47:12.must end. No matter what people say Labour is the party of social

:47:13. > :47:20.mobility, helping everyone get on in the life, reaching their full

:47:21. > :47:23.potential. We are the party of comprehensives, of the open

:47:24. > :47:34.University, it was Labour which founded that.

:47:35. > :47:43.We are the party of access to the best education for all. Enabling

:47:44. > :47:53.every child to go as far as their talents and ambition can take them.

:47:54. > :48:11.These are the values we hold dear, one party united, one Labour.

:48:12. > :49:04.Angela, thank you for that wonderful contribution to conference. We move

:49:05. > :49:25.on to the energy debate and we have the contemporary... Could cities of

:49:26. > :49:34.London be to second. Gary Smith, GMB, moving on energy. Our country

:49:35. > :49:44.is facing a crisis in energy of leadership and ambition. If you're

:49:45. > :49:57.leaving the hall please do it quietly and show some respect to the

:49:58. > :50:01.delegates. For too long our leaders have dodged the complex questions

:50:02. > :50:06.about how we keep the lights on today and into the future. How we do

:50:07. > :50:12.that in an affordable way at the same time as tackling the critical

:50:13. > :50:15.threat of climate change. We've suffered because time and time again

:50:16. > :50:23.short-term political choices have won out over a long-term national

:50:24. > :50:28.interests. It happens before and it's happening again. Take a look at

:50:29. > :50:37.the Tories and their shambles about it. Building a nuclear power station

:50:38. > :50:42.has been on the cards for years. This will be a key component of the

:50:43. > :50:49.power we need for decades to come. Quite simply, without Hinkley point,

:50:50. > :50:54.someone's lights are going out. That could be you, your family, your

:50:55. > :51:03.local hospital... It is that crucial. But it seems the Prime

:51:04. > :51:10.Minister did not get the memo. What did we get? Dithering and delay. The

:51:11. > :51:21.future of thousands of workers up and down the country were put at

:51:22. > :51:26.risk. It was George Osborne who called it when he said it is a

:51:27. > :51:32.wobble. If you are a Prime Minister you don't get the luxury of wobble.

:51:33. > :51:41.You must know what you're doing for our country and get on with it. That

:51:42. > :51:45.is what is called leadership. Conference, Britain needs investment

:51:46. > :51:56.and energy and a strategic plan for the sector. What we have is a shabby

:51:57. > :52:04.mess. How can it be right that our own government has allowed power

:52:05. > :52:10.stations and electricity cables to be flogged off to foreign investors?

:52:11. > :52:20.That is a betrayal of our national interests. It's the same mess in

:52:21. > :52:27.renewables. They have such a vital part to play with the potential to

:52:28. > :52:33.provide new jobs and training in working-class areas. But the void of

:52:34. > :52:38.an industrial strategy the renewable sector is a story of missed

:52:39. > :52:46.opportunities and job losses. We see German and Danish manufactured wind

:52:47. > :52:50.turbines being brought over in Dutch barges and connected with Chinese

:52:51. > :52:58.cables. You tell me how that helps the workers in Scotland I represent.

:52:59. > :53:05.I do have to tell you that we as a movement do need to tackle the issue

:53:06. > :53:14.of how we fund the renewables sector. At the moment, renewable

:53:15. > :53:31.subsidies are a flat tax on our bills. Subsidising big energy, that

:53:32. > :53:37.is against everything we stand for. I'm a proud member of our union, a

:53:38. > :53:46.union formed by gas workers. I started as an apprentice. Gas will

:53:47. > :53:55.remain a central part of the energy we use in this country for decades

:53:56. > :54:01.to come. Our phones are heated by gas because it is four times cheaper

:54:02. > :54:08.than electricity. The people of our country depend on gas. Our chemicals

:54:09. > :54:12.industries cannot operate without it. We must confront difficult

:54:13. > :54:25.questions about where we get our gas from. There is gas arriving from

:54:26. > :54:33.America to Scotland. That is not good for the environment. Buying it

:54:34. > :54:45.from regimes with an appalling human rights record cannot be ethical.

:54:46. > :54:51.Instead of posturing, we need a proper grown-up national

:54:52. > :55:06.conversation about energy. This means using all options. You know,

:55:07. > :55:12.conference, other countries are getting it wrong. Germany's decision

:55:13. > :55:18.to move away from nuclear may have delighted some but the truth is, CO2

:55:19. > :55:23.emissions are going up because renewables cannot replace all the

:55:24. > :55:33.power that was lost. We've been burning the dirtiest call. Can you

:55:34. > :55:36.wind up? Plu-mac Labour has an historic opportunity to show the

:55:37. > :55:39.British people that we are the ones that can develop the leadership and

:55:40. > :56:08.ambition. Support the motion. I am a first time del dpat speaker

:56:09. > :56:12.from Westminster. It's at delight to put the environment on the agenda. I

:56:13. > :56:17.want to put it on the agenda for three reasons. First of all, because

:56:18. > :56:21.climate change impacts the most vulnerable people all across the

:56:22. > :56:24.world. I think it's crucial that we start to lead the conversation in

:56:25. > :56:27.Britain on changes that really impact people who are the most

:56:28. > :56:33.vulnerable in the most difficult situations both abroad and here in

:56:34. > :56:38.Britain. We need to make it so the srier suspect a Labour issue and

:56:39. > :56:41.that it's a key Labour policy. -- environment is a Labour issue. The

:56:42. > :56:45.energy policy can also be a positive thing. If we develop an energy

:56:46. > :56:50.policy which has lots of renewable components that can lead to building

:56:51. > :56:57.more jobs and good jobs. Which will be better for the economy. This is a

:56:58. > :57:02.contemporary motion. When we first drafted the motion at the City of

:57:03. > :57:06.London and Labour branch we were aware that although the USA and

:57:07. > :57:09.China had ratified the motion, Theresa May still hadn't. So

:57:10. > :57:15.although she's since said she's going to ratify it, this motion

:57:16. > :57:18.calls on her to ratify it immediately. We need an

:57:19. > :57:22.international serious approach to tackling this and after Brexit we

:57:23. > :57:26.can't just sink into an island mentality. We need to believe in

:57:27. > :57:31.co-operating to solve the environmental crisis. The third

:57:32. > :57:35.reason I think this is really important motion and the environment

:57:36. > :57:38.and a reasonable energy policy should be on the agenda is people

:57:39. > :57:42.care about the environment, people talk about this important issue, I

:57:43. > :57:46.am glad this motion brings that to the conversation. Last of all, with

:57:47. > :57:52.my City of London Labour branch hat on I have to mention the local

:57:53. > :57:56.elections we are facing next March. The only local elections happening

:57:57. > :57:59.in London and we had the first ever City of London councillor in 2013.

:58:00. > :58:03.We are going to take the fight to the Tories in the City of London and

:58:04. > :58:06.of course that is also going to have responsible energy politics. Thank

:58:07. > :58:13.you. APPLAUSE

:58:14. > :58:18.Conference, I now only have time for two speakers in this debate. I am

:58:19. > :58:21.going to go over there, so I don't get myself into trouble. The lady

:58:22. > :58:23.there. And the lady there.

:58:24. > :59:06.Thank you. Thank you, chair, thank you

:59:07. > :59:11.conference. Unite speaking in support, this motion rightly

:59:12. > :59:16.condemns the Government for its failure to build a cohesive energy

:59:17. > :59:22.policy. It also calls for a plan, a plan that balances environmental

:59:23. > :59:27.concerns with the need to tackle fuel poverty as well as job security

:59:28. > :59:32.and creation. Conference, Unite supports investment in renewable

:59:33. > :59:38.energy and condemns Government cuts in support to the renewable sector.

:59:39. > :59:43.Unite with many others supports a balanced energy policy that provides

:59:44. > :59:52.security of our energy supply and this includes investment in carbon

:59:53. > :59:55.capture and storage and nuclear. Conference, Unite produced a

:59:56. > :00:03.campaigning document, meeting the climate challenge. It sets out what

:00:04. > :00:08.we want, a just transition, not just words, but an implementation that

:00:09. > :00:13.recognises our role as a trade union is to protect and support our

:00:14. > :00:17.members, their families and communities linked to the industries

:00:18. > :00:23.affected. Conference, after the Government's dithering, the decision

:00:24. > :00:28.to approve the go ahead for Hinklen Point has been made and it's ended a

:00:29. > :00:33.period of agonising uncertainty. Unite members are keen to start work

:00:34. > :00:37.in the country's first nuclear power station for a generation and it will

:00:38. > :00:43.herald an economic boost for the West Country, creating thousands of

:00:44. > :00:49.skilled jobs, including 500 much needed apprenticeships in the

:00:50. > :00:55.construction phase alone. Young men and conference, yes, young women

:00:56. > :00:58.apprentices promised good quality apprenticeships and the opportunity

:00:59. > :01:03.to earn while they learn. Let's not forget the role that this project

:01:04. > :01:07.and others can play in respect of much needed infrastructure and

:01:08. > :01:11.investment in the UK to support other parts of our economy. We and

:01:12. > :01:16.Labour will press the Government, EDF and the contractors to make

:01:17. > :01:21.maximum use of British-made materials such as British steel so

:01:22. > :01:30.that the benefits flow into the wider UK economy. Unite and other

:01:31. > :01:34.trade unions involved secured a ground-breaking and binding

:01:35. > :01:39.agreement for decent working conditions and employment practices

:01:40. > :01:42.and importantly, including transparent employment, so that any

:01:43. > :01:47.suspicion of blacklisting can be nipped in the bud. Conference, just

:01:48. > :01:53.to depart from my speech for a moment, just this morning I received

:01:54. > :01:58.a letter from a Croatian brother in an energy related construction site,

:01:59. > :02:03.forced to hand over half of his pay and he wrote, I was not the member

:02:04. > :02:08.of your trade union because my employers did not allow that. It was

:02:09. > :02:12.forbidden for us. The employer told us if we became members of trade

:02:13. > :02:19.union we're going to lose our job and we're going to be fired. He

:02:20. > :02:25.apologised for his English. But he didn't have to apologise because you

:02:26. > :02:31.know what in this hall we speak his language and it's called solidarity.

:02:32. > :02:37.APPLAUSE It was that solidarity that won for

:02:38. > :02:47.our Bulgarian and Portuguese workers equal pay when our Unite members at

:02:48. > :02:52.oil refineries got them ?48 from - finishing now, to ?125 back--

:02:53. > :03:02.backdated. That's solidarity. We want a fair deal for all. Thank you,

:03:03. > :03:05.conference. Thank you, Gail. Thank you, conference. I am going to

:03:06. > :03:12.be controversial here. I cannot support this. I am sorry. We have

:03:13. > :03:16.pledged to secure our environment by using our national investment bank

:03:17. > :03:20.to invest in public and community owned energy schemes. We can not go

:03:21. > :03:27.down the nuclear route if we are to back this up and this is where the

:03:28. > :03:31.jobs of the future will be created. APPLAUSE

:03:32. > :03:42.We will deliver clean energy and curb energy rises for households.

:03:43. > :03:45.The Government has dithered about Hinkley point, we know what happens

:03:46. > :03:49.in the nuclear industry. When there is any nuclear project ever kept

:03:50. > :03:52.within a projected budget or projected time scale? Also, it will

:03:53. > :04:01.take so long that by the time it does come on it will be out of date.

:04:02. > :04:07.August 2016, Sellafield nuclear plant, decommission cleanup costs

:04:08. > :04:11.are estimated to be ?70 billion. That's now and they're escalating

:04:12. > :04:14.every year. There's still no definitive plan on how we are going

:04:15. > :04:20.to get rid of the waste or store the waste for hundreds of years which it

:04:21. > :04:27.will need. Renewable energy around the planet now in several countries

:04:28. > :04:37.is at 100%. Denmark 40% all the time. 140% regularly. Lower Austria

:04:38. > :04:43.100%. Orkney Islands 100%. Germany, most days 78%, from renewable

:04:44. > :04:47.energy. What are we thinking of? While we invest in renewables, also

:04:48. > :04:53.North Sea gas say they is still 30 years left of North Sea gas, it just

:04:54. > :05:00.needs investment. That can run alongside our renewable programme.

:05:01. > :05:04.We have pledged to ban fracking and proposals to. It is not used in

:05:05. > :05:10.other countries because it's so expensive. It is so expensive. Our

:05:11. > :05:16.long-term energy needs are tidal power. Tide goes in, tide goes out.

:05:17. > :05:21.Solar power. Air source power. Ground source power. Wind power. How

:05:22. > :05:26.much water have we got in this country? It will create tens of

:05:27. > :05:29.thousands of those jobs, those transitional jobs, they'll be spread

:05:30. > :05:33.across the country, in every community with community energy

:05:34. > :05:36.schemes. We can go 100% renewable. We can do it. Thank you.

:05:37. > :05:54.APPLAUSE Thank you, delegates. Conference, I

:05:55. > :06:00.am now delighted to introduce the man who beat an incumbent against

:06:01. > :06:04.the odds in May to become mayor of Bristol. Conference, please welcome

:06:05. > :06:22.Marvin Rees. APPLAUSE

:06:23. > :06:30.Thank you very much for a really warm welcome. Conference, Bristol

:06:31. > :06:35.has consistently been voted one of the best places to live. It's a city

:06:36. > :06:41.full of green space, a vibrant culture, known for its colourful

:06:42. > :06:45.houses, bridges, hot air balloons and Ba Banksy and it's a great city,

:06:46. > :06:48.it's a wealthy city. All this is true. But that's not the whole

:06:49. > :06:54.truth. There is another Bristol, one that tourists and even some of our

:06:55. > :06:59.citizens never see, the city of poverty and inequality. 42 areas

:07:00. > :07:08.listed among the most 10% most deprived in England. 16% our

:07:09. > :07:12.regulars dents living in deprivation and -- residents. Bristol west has

:07:13. > :07:17.among the highest number of PLDs per head and Bristol south has one of

:07:18. > :07:23.the lowest rates of people going on to higher education. Bristol is not

:07:24. > :07:26.unique in these challenges. But this is the injustice, and liability that

:07:27. > :07:33.a Labour leadership in a city can take on. I will lead the city for

:07:34. > :07:42.every citizen and build a city where nobody is left behind.

:07:43. > :07:48.APPLAUSE A city of opportunity built on

:07:49. > :07:53.fairness and inclusion. A resilient city, both environmentally and

:07:54. > :07:58.socially. Where social mobility, rather than social immobility is the

:07:59. > :08:01.norm. Educational outcomes and employment opportunities are not

:08:02. > :08:06.determined by parental background. At the core of my delivery will be

:08:07. > :08:13.housing. I have promised to build 2,000 homes a year by 2020 with at

:08:14. > :08:19.least 800 of these affordable. I have also committed to investing...

:08:20. > :08:23.That's all right! I have committed to investing in the mental health of

:08:24. > :08:27.all primary age children to build resilience and tackle race and

:08:28. > :08:36.gender pay gap. APPLAUSE

:08:37. > :08:41.But here is the challenge. That the dominant political narrative in the

:08:42. > :08:46.UK has been centrally focussed on Westminster and London. But that is

:08:47. > :08:50.shifting. People are increasingly realising that cities are real. It

:08:51. > :08:54.is cities who are often the immediate power shaping people's

:08:55. > :08:58.lives. The impact of city Government is too easily misunderstood and

:08:59. > :09:05.undervalued in our country, even by us. But if you look closely you can

:09:06. > :09:09.see Labour in power. There are ten core cities outside of London and

:09:10. > :09:16.Labour leads all of them. Bristol, obviously. Glasgow, Birmingham,

:09:17. > :09:20.Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle, Cardiff, Manchester and

:09:21. > :09:26.of course obviously here in Liverpool. 19 million people live in

:09:27. > :09:30.these city regions and together we deliver a quarter of the national

:09:31. > :09:34.economy. For 2020 or when the election is, our party will be

:09:35. > :09:39.judged, not only on what the National Party does in opposition,

:09:40. > :09:39.but on what Labour cities do in power.

:09:40. > :09:53.APPLAUSE So this makes devolution a key

:09:54. > :09:59.challenge and an opportunity for Labour. Devolution is crucial to

:10:00. > :10:05.giving city leaders the space, the resources and the powers they need

:10:06. > :10:09.to get things done. And it's a pathway to investment in the city

:10:10. > :10:14.infrastructure and to bring politics closer to people. In recent months I

:10:15. > :10:19.visited Washington DC with operation black vote, I spoke to the gathering

:10:20. > :10:23.of the US black mayors, I visited New York City and met with the

:10:24. > :10:28.mayor. I attended the global parliament of mayors. One thing is

:10:29. > :10:32.clear, that the City leaders around the world, including mayors, are

:10:33. > :10:37.saying that cities are not merely a topic to be discussed. We are a

:10:38. > :10:40.layer of governance and we need our place at the decision-making tables,

:10:41. > :10:45.the space to forge partnerships with cities and other bodies around the

:10:46. > :10:50.world, to operate effectively in a post-national world. We are doing

:10:51. > :10:56.things differently in Bristol. We know the council cannot deliver

:10:57. > :11:01.working alone. The complex issues that matter from congestion, to

:11:02. > :11:05.sustainable development, to how we do economic development without gent

:11:06. > :11:10.triification can only be tackled all by organisations working together

:11:11. > :11:15.towards shared priorities. We have connected with the other powers in

:11:16. > :11:18.my city, with business, with our unions, with the NHS, with our

:11:19. > :11:21.emergency services, with the education secretary are to, with

:11:22. > :11:26.sports organisations and voluntary sector. Our ultimate aim is to work

:11:27. > :11:33.together to right a Bristol -- write a Bristol plan, a plan for the city

:11:34. > :11:37.that all partners invest in and deliver collectively. To take a

:11:38. > :11:41.strategic approach to the priorities and identify both what you can do

:11:42. > :11:56.for your city, and importantly, what the city can do for you.

:11:57. > :12:02.Organisations want to be involved and have a place in city leadership.

:12:03. > :12:11.Our city has for too long seen itself as a provider of services

:12:12. > :12:14.rather than what we need to become, are forced to bring the city

:12:15. > :12:17.together. Leave here today knowing that Labour is in power and working

:12:18. > :12:52.with you, we will deliver. Thank you, conference, and thank you

:12:53. > :13:03.for that speech. Jonathan Ashworth will now address us. Welcome.

:13:04. > :13:16.It's a pleasure to speak from the same podium as which we've just had

:13:17. > :13:22.inspirational speeches. I will not be able to match their eloquence. I

:13:23. > :13:30.first came to the Labour Party conference in 1996. I was 17, a

:13:31. > :13:36.working-class son of Salford Casino croupier who was active in the GMP

:13:37. > :13:46.section of the branch. I was a steward on the door checking the

:13:47. > :13:53.passes. Today, I'm honoured, privileged, proud that 20 years

:13:54. > :14:12.later, I'm here as a member of your Shadow Cabinet. It's a great

:14:13. > :14:23.responsibility. I will do all I can to secure our party victory at the

:14:24. > :14:26.next general election. Last year, our leader asked that I work with

:14:27. > :14:35.all you on our campaigns against the Tory Government. Back then, David

:14:36. > :14:42.Cameron was Prime Minister, George Osborne was Chancellor, Iain Duncan

:14:43. > :14:51.Smith, remember him? He was the pension secretary. They wanted to

:14:52. > :14:56.cut benefits for disabled people, slash tax credits for millions of

:14:57. > :15:05.families. We fought back and we defeated them. Doesn't that show you

:15:06. > :15:11.what we achieve when fully effective in Parliament, United, working

:15:12. > :15:25.together, taking on the Tories and in touch with our constituents? Now

:15:26. > :15:28.we have a new Prime Minister and cabinet and they tell us they are

:15:29. > :15:38.the friends of ordinary working-class people. Fine words but

:15:39. > :15:45.it's by their deeds they be known. A Prime Minister and Cabinet who have

:15:46. > :15:49.an economic policy to slash public services, cut support for those on

:15:50. > :15:58.lower and middle incomes to fund tax cuts for the rich, a Prime Minister

:15:59. > :16:03.who appoints David Davis as Brexit Minister, a man who brandished the

:16:04. > :16:09.social chapter as job destroying. A man who brings back Liam Fox and

:16:10. > :16:16.called the minimum wage and mistake. A Prime Minister who appoints Doctor

:16:17. > :16:29.Fox and Mr Davis is no friend of ordinary working-class people. Not

:16:30. > :16:35.all the ministers have changed. Jeremy Hunt is still there. A man

:16:36. > :16:42.who's not met a junior doctor he won't pick a fight with. Conference,

:16:43. > :16:51.a Prime Minister who keeps in place Jeremy Hunt is no friend of the

:16:52. > :16:59.National Health Service. By the way, Doctor Fox, David Davis, and Boris

:17:00. > :17:07.Johnson, don't think we've forgotten. You promised us this

:17:08. > :17:19.money, have the grace to admit you lied to the British people. Deliver

:17:20. > :17:30.it. The Prime Minister also likes to talk of compassionate conservatism.

:17:31. > :17:38.It is not compassionate or fair. It is not on the side of the many. He

:17:39. > :17:45.is dividing children at 11. Parents want the very best every child, not

:17:46. > :17:56.the return to the plus. We will not yield or equivocate. We will fight

:17:57. > :18:02.these plans every step of the way. Whatever the rhetoric, the reality

:18:03. > :18:10.of the Tories in government is clear. No plans for Brexit, and NHS

:18:11. > :18:14.in crisis, the climate change Department scrapped, rising poverty,

:18:15. > :18:21.the return of the 11 plus, fixing constituency boundaries. They can

:18:22. > :18:25.change the person at the top and appoint a new cabinet but it is

:18:26. > :18:38.clear it is still the same nasty Tory party and we will take them on

:18:39. > :18:42.at every turn. We've got a job to do. We speak for those with no

:18:43. > :18:58.voice. We remember those too often forgotten. We challenge the

:18:59. > :19:07.fundamental unfairness. We seek a society built around human needs and

:19:08. > :19:13.wants. We tackle Savage inequalities that scar society. We don't meekly

:19:14. > :19:23.accept that our fellow citizens should rely on zero hours contract

:19:24. > :19:29.or tolerate an economy where men and women still need to pick up a food

:19:30. > :19:35.parcel to feed their family. This week as John McDonnell said

:19:36. > :19:39.yesterday, reaffirm a very simple principle that this movement has

:19:40. > :19:40.long stood for. When men and women work for a living they should be

:19:41. > :19:56.paid a genuine living wage. When confronted with abuses like

:19:57. > :20:00.we've seen at Sports Direct or the abuses we've seen unless Leicester

:20:01. > :20:04.where I've been working with the Baker's union, we don't shrug our

:20:05. > :20:13.shoulders like the Tories do. We don't abdicate responsibility. We

:20:14. > :20:16.see that there is a far-away -- fairer way and we will ensure

:20:17. > :20:26.everyone has the dignity they deserve. Because we all know that

:20:27. > :20:33.housing deprivation drives so much of the grotesque inequality we see

:20:34. > :20:37.around us, the Tories spend ?9 billion per year lining the pockets

:20:38. > :20:42.of private landlords. It does not work. Isn't it time, as we have

:20:43. > :20:50.committed, to start building Council houses to provide decent homes for

:20:51. > :20:57.everybody who needs one? Our crusade for social justice does not stop at

:20:58. > :21:06.our borders. We align ourselves with the poorest of the world. So we have

:21:07. > :21:10.a warning for treason may. We will not acquiesce in any attempts to cut

:21:11. > :21:22.development spending and betray the poorest people of the world. We

:21:23. > :21:27.speak firmly against large-scale tax avoidance because when governments

:21:28. > :21:38.tolerated it is ordinary people and the brewer of the world who pay the

:21:39. > :21:45.price. So rather than closing sure start, let's start closing tax

:21:46. > :22:00.loopholes. Crackdown and deliver tax Justice. We are in the Labour Party

:22:01. > :22:06.because we dream of a better world and, crucially, we know that a

:22:07. > :22:11.better world is possible. In dreams begins responsibilities. When this

:22:12. > :22:14.conference ends our responsibility is to scatter across our

:22:15. > :22:19.communities, speak to people, listen to people and ensure this party is

:22:20. > :22:25.elected for the people. Our responsibility also is to unite,

:22:26. > :22:36.conference, and that means remembering all opponents don't Wear

:22:37. > :22:50.red Labour rosettes, the Wear red, green, purple rosettes. That is

:22:51. > :22:52.where we need to focus. Every progressive reform ever put on the

:22:53. > :22:58.statute books was because of this party winning elections. That is why

:22:59. > :23:00.I've travelled 5000 miles, campaigning with you on the

:23:01. > :23:07.doorstep. Listening to people in your communities. People do not just

:23:08. > :23:14.want sympathy, they want us in government to change their lives. I

:23:15. > :23:21.met a man Southampton who fears he will lose his family home where he

:23:22. > :23:26.grew up with his children. I've met students shackled by huge debt.

:23:27. > :23:29.Pensioners I met in Nottinghamshire struggling to pay the Electric,

:23:30. > :23:37.worried for their grandchildren who cannot afford or find decent secure

:23:38. > :23:42.jobs. The man in my Leicester constituency who have serious health

:23:43. > :23:47.problems. He was disallowed yesterday, he was sanctioned on GSA,

:23:48. > :23:56.lost his home and slept rough in the local park. In their names and

:23:57. > :24:00.thousands like them, let's pledge ourselves to a united effort, to

:24:01. > :24:07.rebuild and seek that brighter and better day. Keep the faith with our

:24:08. > :24:13.Labour values, leave the sneers and slurs to our opponents. Optimism

:24:14. > :24:17.always defeat the spear and for the country and the people we serve, I

:24:18. > :24:19.will never give up. We will never give up, Labour never gives up.

:24:20. > :24:58.Thank you. Jonathan you started by saying you

:24:59. > :25:06.were not as inspirational, but I think you did it for us here.

:25:07. > :25:12.Absolutely wonderful. Thank you. Conference, we now move on to our

:25:13. > :25:13.final speaker of the day. I'm pleased to welcome the deputy leader

:25:14. > :25:52.of the Labour Party, Tom Watson. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for

:25:53. > :25:56.being here in this great city at this historic gathering of the

:25:57. > :26:03.greatest movement for social change our country has ever known. It's a

:26:04. > :26:09.privilege to address you. Thank you. I'd better get the difficult stuff

:26:10. > :26:18.out the way. Saturday's results. Whatever you think of that man,

:26:19. > :26:31.whatever he has done, how can Ed Bowlby bottom of the leaderboard on

:26:32. > :26:38.Strictly Come Dancing? -- Ed balls. It is a hotbed of media obsessed

:26:39. > :26:43.pre-madonnas and harsh criticism. You would think after a decade in

:26:44. > :26:52.Parliament, he would have done better than that. Disappointed, to

:26:53. > :27:00.be honest. Whereas, I have always aimed to be outstanding in my field.

:27:01. > :27:10.Except when at quite a critical point I was just out, standing in a

:27:11. > :27:18.field. Meanwhile, the Lib Dems are trying to get back on the field,

:27:19. > :27:21.pitching to our supporters. Tim Farron has been telling people that

:27:22. > :27:29.only the Lib Dems can provide strong opposition. Well, I do admire your

:27:30. > :27:35.ambition. But you've only got eight MPs! You could not be the strong

:27:36. > :27:45.opposition in a BAFTA and twirling contest. Theresa May, well, on some

:27:46. > :27:52.issues I've got time for her. This is not a joke. It is a serious bit.

:27:53. > :27:56.As Home Secretary, during my campaign for the truth on child

:27:57. > :28:00.sexual abuse she tried to do the right thing. If she really does

:28:01. > :28:05.force an enquiry into the conduct of South Yorkshire Police at Orgreave

:28:06. > :28:17.she will not just have my support but the hall Labour movement behind

:28:18. > :28:20.her. On that one issue. She deserves recognition for becoming Britain's

:28:21. > :28:24.second woman Prime Minister. We cannot afford for that to be

:28:25. > :28:36.something the Tories keep doing but we don't. A Labour woman as Prime

:28:37. > :28:39.Minister is long overdue. So I'd be had no ill will. To be honest. I

:28:40. > :29:13.feel sorry for her. Poor Theresa May is left wondering

:29:14. > :29:18.where everybody went. I would like to be able to tell that you Britain

:29:19. > :29:22.is safe in her hands. That the savage cuts and falling wages and

:29:23. > :29:29.exploitive work practices are behind us. That now, as others have said,

:29:30. > :29:32.we have a grown-up in charge. But I am afraid I can't. I have seen up

:29:33. > :29:40.close what it takes to be a Prime Minister. And I have seen what it

:29:41. > :29:48.takes out of you. And Theresa May hasn't got what it takes. Hinkley

:29:49. > :29:54.Point, as Gary Smith said, it was on, it was off,en then it was on

:29:55. > :29:58.again. This is an enormous national infrastructure project involving a

:29:59. > :30:05.French company firm and ?6 billion of Chinese investment. It's not a

:30:06. > :30:11.game. Grammar schools. First they were an ambitious, then a cast iron

:30:12. > :30:15.guarantee, then a consultation. At PMQs when Jeremy asked her to set

:30:16. > :30:20.out her principles behind a plan, she dodged him. When he challenged

:30:21. > :30:26.her to provide evidence it would boost social mobility she ducked it.

:30:27. > :30:31.When he demanded to know which experts backed her, she weaved away.

:30:32. > :30:37.Ducking and diving, it's not what you want from a Prime Minister. On

:30:38. > :30:41.the northern powerhouse, Heathrow, the single market, the best system

:30:42. > :30:51.of fair but firm immigration, time and time again we have seen the same

:30:52. > :30:59.shambolic prevarication. Theresa May or Theresa May not. Who knows. But

:31:00. > :31:04.everyone knows But everyone knows you can't run a country like that.

:31:05. > :31:11.Conference, it will take time. Those press barons will be on her side,

:31:12. > :31:15.for now. But if we stay focussed and disciplined and determined then

:31:16. > :31:19.gradually the country will see what we can already see, that she just

:31:20. > :31:25.isn't up to the job. Think about this. Theresa May has no mandate

:31:26. > :31:28.from the voters. She has no mandate from the members of the Conservative

:31:29. > :31:34.Party. She doesn't even have a mandate from a majority of her own

:31:35. > :31:39.MPs. Nobody has voted for Theresa May to be Prime Minister. That's a

:31:40. > :31:46.pretty flimsy basis on which to try and hold the Tories together, never

:31:47. > :31:54.mind the country. And yet the global issues we face are so huge and

:31:55. > :32:00.complex, Syria, the refugee crisis, Brexit, Isis, challenges to test the

:32:01. > :32:06.most experienced leader. But ask yourselves this question, who would

:32:07. > :32:11.look into the bloody labyrin tt of Syria and the plight of Europe's

:32:12. > :32:18.huddled masses and conclude this time of crisis calls for just one

:32:19. > :32:21.man, get me Boris Johnson. LAUGHTER

:32:22. > :32:24.Boris Johnson. Hillary Clinton's famous test was who do you want

:32:25. > :32:30.answering that red emergency phone at 3.00 am? I dread to think what

:32:31. > :32:41.Boris Johnson is up to at 3.00am. APPLAUSE

:32:42. > :32:45.The Tories tell us we are not serious about national security. He

:32:46. > :32:51.is a bounder and a joker but these are serious issues. So let me be

:32:52. > :32:55.clear, we are an internationalist party. Our collective principles

:32:56. > :33:00.extend across national boundaries. The Labour family is a global

:33:01. > :33:05.family. On Brexit, we will respect the views of the British people. But

:33:06. > :33:10.we will not let Theresa May and her colleagues hide behind the British

:33:11. > :33:15.people. MrsMay, you're the Prime Minister. You say Brexit means

:33:16. > :33:21.Brexit. But nobody knows what that means. It's a clever soundbite. But

:33:22. > :33:26.a cowardly one. You can - you can't duck this responsibility. People

:33:27. > :33:29.want to know their jobs and livelihoods are safe, that their pay

:33:30. > :33:33.and conditions won't be worn away, they want to know what's happening

:33:34. > :33:37.with immigration. Don't play words games with our future, MrsMay. It

:33:38. > :33:42.seems every day brings new things we weren't told in the referendum.

:33:43. > :33:47.Visas to visit Europe now. Imported inflation. Fear and uncertainty for

:33:48. > :33:52.EU citizen who is made their lives here. And a new European army that

:33:53. > :33:56.we are not part of. Something the UK's always previously blocked. But

:33:57. > :34:01.which we can't block any more. Donald Trump wants the USA to look

:34:02. > :34:06.at pulling out of NATO. So, MrsMay, where does that leave the defensive

:34:07. > :34:14.alliance that has kept Europe safe for 70 years? Well, it leaves Labour

:34:15. > :34:18.reaffirming our commitment to NATO. A socialist construct as our defence

:34:19. > :34:24.spokesman Clive Lewis reminded us yesterday, and trying to persuade

:34:25. > :34:28.our EU colleagues to do the same. And having the same conversation

:34:29. > :34:35.with the Americans. And what's the PM's answer to these intricate new

:34:36. > :34:40.uncertainties? Brexit means Brexit. Well, thanks!

:34:41. > :34:45.LAUGHTER On Monday, John McDonnell and Emily

:34:46. > :34:51.Thorneberry announced in Government Labour would replace EU regional

:34:52. > :34:55.funding beyond 2020. Bringing vital certainty to so many voluntary

:34:56. > :35:01.sector and academic institutions worried about their survival. Labour

:35:02. > :35:05.clarity compared to Philip Hammond's hedges and half-promises, effective

:35:06. > :35:12.opposition, showing the Tories up for the charlatans they are. If I am

:35:13. > :35:17.honest, it hasn't always felt like that this summer. These haven't been

:35:18. > :35:20.the best few months of my 30 years in the Labour Party. We can't afford

:35:21. > :35:31.to keep doing this. More importantly...

:35:32. > :35:37.APPLAUSE And, more importantly, the country,

:35:38. > :35:40.the people we stand for, the millions the Tories leave behind

:35:41. > :35:44.every day, they can't afford us to keep doing this. I am sure there's

:35:45. > :35:49.going to be an early general election. The more often Theresa May

:35:50. > :35:54.says it won't happen, the more certain I am that it will. Comrades,

:35:55. > :35:59.we need to be ready, we need to stand together as one Labour

:36:00. > :36:03.movement, millions strong and utterly united. Let's get behind

:36:04. > :36:07.John Tricket as he masterminds our election campaign. Let's put our

:36:08. > :36:12.differences aside, link arms with our brothers and sisters in Labour,

:36:13. > :36:17.turn and face the Tories and fight. It's time for Labour to get back to

:36:18. > :36:22.business. Time to get the band back together. We have got to get back on

:36:23. > :36:26.the phones. Out on the doorstep, using our excellent new canvassing

:36:27. > :36:36.app by the way. APPLAUSE Vp We have to start

:36:37. > :36:39.listening to voters again. We owe the British people, our people, an

:36:40. > :36:44.alternative to a Government that doesn't care and a Prime Minister

:36:45. > :36:48.they didn't vote for. You keep hearing that Labour can't win, well,

:36:49. > :36:51.we can and we will and I will tell you how we're going to win. We're

:36:52. > :36:58.going to win through local Government. Because that's how we

:36:59. > :37:05.always win. APPLAUSE

:37:06. > :37:08.Our councillors are the engine of Labour's electoral machine. It's

:37:09. > :37:13.Labour councillors all over the country who are our leaders and

:37:14. > :37:17.ambassadors in local communities. Our councillors and our trade

:37:18. > :37:23.unions, these are the rocks our movement is built on, always have

:37:24. > :37:28.been, always will be. And only next May we're going to fight tooth and

:37:29. > :37:31.nail to win councillors across our Shire Counties and we're going to

:37:32. > :37:39.win mayoral elections in Greater Manchester, the West Midlands, and

:37:40. > :37:46.Liverpool city region, to match that spectacular victory won in London by

:37:47. > :37:51.Sadiq Khan. What a champion he is. What an outstanding representative

:37:52. > :38:00.of our great national capital and our historic Socialist Party.

:38:01. > :38:12.Winning elections in one of the most dynamic cities on earth. In Bristol,

:38:13. > :38:20.marvellous Marvin who you just heard from, what a hero. And Andy Burnham

:38:21. > :38:25.and others are going to follow the example and car win in Wales.

:38:26. > :38:31.Reminding people what Labour governments look like. How

:38:32. > :38:34.innovative and radical can we be? How growth and prosperity, social

:38:35. > :38:40.justice and fairness all go hand in hand under Labour. And not just

:38:41. > :38:44.doing the right thing, not just compassion, but doing the thing

:38:45. > :38:47.right, competence, when we are in Government we got things done. We

:38:48. > :38:52.built hospitals and schools, recruited teachers and doctors and

:38:53. > :38:56.nurses. We fixed the economy and made it for a decade, but the shape

:38:57. > :39:02.of the challenges never stops changing so the shape of our

:39:03. > :39:06.solutions must change too. If you think the world's changed a lot in

:39:07. > :39:11.the last 25 years, it's nothing to what will happen in the next 25. New

:39:12. > :39:15.automated technologies are fusing the internet, creating models of

:39:16. > :39:21.work and jobs we haven't seen before. Daily we hear about machines

:39:22. > :39:26.doing things thought only humans could do, driving cars, drafting

:39:27. > :39:31.contracts, even writing music. It's been called the fourth industrial

:39:32. > :39:35.revolution. A new era of fast technology driven change, which will

:39:36. > :39:41.transform the world we pass to our children. The potential is enormous.

:39:42. > :39:45.It's deep human progress, huge swathes of things we can get done

:39:46. > :39:50.without doing them ourselves, it's a good thing. But it certainly won't

:39:51. > :39:56.feel like that if you are the one whose job is shrinking and your pay

:39:57. > :40:01.with it. People whose grandparents were time served trade unionists are

:40:02. > :40:08.now working 60 hour weeks below the minimum wage without support from a

:40:09. > :40:14.union. It's the dark side. If you think of the UK as a pie chart since

:40:15. > :40:19.2009, the slice that goes to workers as wages has fallen relative to the

:40:20. > :40:28.slice that goes to the capital owners as profit. Labour seems to be

:40:29. > :40:31.diminishing relative to capital. It's there in that blockbuster book,

:40:32. > :40:44.in the next Labour Government we must judge ourselves on our ability

:40:45. > :40:49.to redraw that pie chart. The problems of inequality aren't new,

:40:50. > :40:54.but the solutions will need to be. I put together an Independent

:40:55. > :40:55.Commission on the future of work to start influencing policy right now

:40:56. > :41:15.from opposition. It will be chaired by Helen MountfordQC and a

:41:16. > :41:18.team. We will feed into John Tricket's work on building a

:41:19. > :41:23.targeted industrial strategy and will report back to you next year.

:41:24. > :41:33.By definition, Labour is the party of work. And we are also the party

:41:34. > :41:36.of growth. We have to be. As John McDonnell so deftally set out in his

:41:37. > :41:40.speech Labour is market Socialist Party, we understand and work with

:41:41. > :41:44.the market but don't worship it. The idea logical blinkered belief that

:41:45. > :41:51.markets are the answer to everything is the Tories' big blind spot. We

:41:52. > :41:56.know that. But of itself the market is not the problem either. Something

:41:57. > :42:03.markets are good at, others not. But they always need enlightened

:42:04. > :42:08.intervention to make them work. Unfetterred markets ogi. That's why

:42:09. > :42:12.there is competition law. The lower end paid of the labour market never

:42:13. > :42:16.produces by itself outcomes acceptable in a decent society.

:42:17. > :42:20.Without regulation, the Labour market just squeezes the price of

:42:21. > :42:25.work down and down until the people at the bottom are crushed. That's

:42:26. > :42:28.why we have a minimum wage. It's why John McDonnell was so right

:42:29. > :42:33.yesterday that we need a real living wage, that real people can afford to

:42:34. > :42:37.live on. It's why we had an agricultural Wages Board for 65

:42:38. > :42:42.years until the Tories scrapped it. Why zero hours contracts are such a

:42:43. > :42:48.rapidly growing instrument of exploitation. Because they're

:42:49. > :42:52.allowed. So come on Theresa May, if you actually care about a decent

:42:53. > :43:06.society, let's have zero hours contracts sorted now.

:43:07. > :43:16.Workers should have rights in a decent society, a proper contract,

:43:17. > :43:20.property, and the right to organise. As John told the BBC yesterday,

:43:21. > :43:23.Labour will create an entrepreneurial state that works

:43:24. > :43:28.with the wealth creators, the workers and the entrepreneurs. He

:43:29. > :43:34.understands as the Tories don't that you need both good government and a

:43:35. > :43:41.strong private sector to make a successful society. It's just a

:43:42. > :43:48.fact. Look what happens when you get it right. The 11 years of Labour

:43:49. > :43:55.government between 1997 and 2008 were completely unbroken period of

:43:56. > :44:02.economic growth. We made the economy work like never before or since and

:44:03. > :44:06.we lifted 500,000 children out of poverty and 500,000 pensioners out

:44:07. > :44:10.of poverty and gave millions of workers the decency of a national

:44:11. > :44:18.Minimum Wage, and introduced a radically redistributive system of

:44:19. > :44:24.tax credits. Free TV licences, free bus credits, more than 100 new

:44:25. > :44:28.hospitals, 200,000 new doctors, teachers, police officers,

:44:29. > :44:33.firefighters, bringing waiting lists down, crime down, more than doubling

:44:34. > :44:52.our overseas aid budget. I could go on. I could go on all afternoon

:44:53. > :45:04.about what we achieved. We have the space to do good things. Not just

:45:05. > :45:12.economically but imaginatively. Social Democratic governance started

:45:13. > :45:18.to feel normal to the people of Britain. I don't know why we've been

:45:19. > :45:26.focusing on what was wrong with the player and Brown governments but

:45:27. > :45:36.trashing our record... We want to win elections like that. -- we will

:45:37. > :46:06.not win elections like that and we need to win elections.

:46:07. > :46:12.The Prime Minister could call one next week. Now is the time to be

:46:13. > :46:19.proud of our party. We've got to believe we can win and remember how

:46:20. > :46:24.much we can achieve when we do. In the past. Jeremy, I don't think she

:46:25. > :46:50.got the unity memo. In the past, big business is work to

:46:51. > :47:00.easily cast as predators. We meant to say that we will never stand up

:47:01. > :47:04.to the abuse of corporate power more than now, but we ended up sending

:47:05. > :47:08.anti-business. We are not and never have been. Capitalism is not the

:47:09. > :47:14.enemy, money is not the problem, business is not bad. The real world

:47:15. > :47:18.is more complicated than that, as any practical trade unionist will

:47:19. > :47:22.tell you, businesses are where people work, the private sector is

:47:23. > :47:29.what generates the money to pay for our schools and hospitals. We cannot

:47:30. > :47:35.afford the best health service in the world because of prosperity.

:47:36. > :47:39.That is a fact and we forget it at our peril. I don't say this because

:47:40. > :47:44.it's what wins elections, I see it because it true. People will know it

:47:45. > :47:56.is true. That is why it wins elections. The British people need

:47:57. > :48:00.that from us. We are in the seventh year of a Tory government and the

:48:01. > :48:08.last time that happened I looked around and it was 17 years. I was 30

:48:09. > :48:13.when I finally got back into power and I've been seven years old when

:48:14. > :48:17.Labour previously won a general election. I never got over growing

:48:18. > :48:22.up under Thatcher and that is not what I want for my children or

:48:23. > :48:30.anyone's children. We cannot let that happen again, we cannot let

:48:31. > :48:40.down today's seven-year-olds. We cannot let them work all hours. We

:48:41. > :48:46.must be a game. That is what we are at our corner. The party of Britain,

:48:47. > :48:55.of the real British values. Compassion. Alongside enterprise and

:48:56. > :49:01.independence. This is no nation of ideologues. That is our advantage

:49:02. > :49:09.over the Tories. They are blinded by money and power. The old lady next

:49:10. > :49:13.door, your neighbour's children, that migrant family working 60 hours

:49:14. > :49:18.a week, they can go hang to the Tories, other people don't matter to

:49:19. > :49:26.them. That's not the British way. British people want a fair chance,

:49:27. > :49:33.they want their hard work rewarded, but they also care what happens to

:49:34. > :49:36.the other children in the class, the other people at the bus stop, the

:49:37. > :49:43.others waiting for a life-saving operations. That is who the British

:49:44. > :49:47.people. They look like us and it is our job to show them that we other

:49:48. > :49:57.natural party for them. We need to do that again. Get out on the

:49:58. > :50:01.streets and start telling the story of Labour. A great party of ordinary

:50:02. > :50:08.men and women. You can make the world better if they give us the

:50:09. > :51:33.chance. Thank you, delegates. What a

:51:34. > :51:37.wonderful afternoon we've had and some inspirational speakers as well.

:51:38. > :51:46.That's why we are in the Labour Party and so proud of what we do. We

:51:47. > :51:56.will move to the votes today. Can you settle down? The first vote is

:51:57. > :52:08.on grammar schools. Can I see all those in favour... That is clearly

:52:09. > :52:19.carried. Sorry, I have to take those against but I would not expect it.

:52:20. > :52:27.Any against that? Thank you. Next is on energy moved by the GMB. Can I

:52:28. > :52:36.see those in favour? Thank you. And any against? That is clearly

:52:37. > :52:45.carried. Next, the children and education annual report. Can I see

:52:46. > :52:51.those in favour? Thank you. Anyone against? That is overwhelmingly

:52:52. > :52:57.carried. Finally, the children and education priorities issue document,

:52:58. > :53:06.can I see those in favour? Thank you. Anyone against? That is clearly

:53:07. > :53:11.carried. Tomorrow, for the leader's speech tomorrow afternoon, please

:53:12. > :53:16.note that you can leave your suitcases, please do not bring them

:53:17. > :53:36.to the centre. Thank you. Can we settle down, I am about to announce

:53:37. > :53:59.the results of the card votes. The results are as follows. Resolution

:54:00. > :54:03.one was carried. Resolution two was submitted by Ashfield and was also

:54:04. > :54:46.carried. Resolution for submitted by... Was

:54:47. > :54:50.not carried. Resolution five on the right to refer back part of a policy

:54:51. > :54:59.document submitted by Sheffield was carried. Full details of the results

:55:00. > :55:08.including the breakdown between constituencies and affiliates will

:55:09. > :55:13.be available tomorrow. Thank you for your patience today. We run over a

:55:14. > :55:24.slightly. Conference reconvenes at 1030 in the morning.