27/09/2016 - Live Morning Session

:00:35. > :00:39.Good morning conference and welcome to this session. We'll start by

:00:40. > :00:43.receiving a report of the conference arrangement committee so please

:00:44. > :00:47.welcome the chair of the committee, Harry Donaldson.

:00:48. > :00:59.APPLAUSE. Thanks, chair. Conference formally

:01:00. > :01:03.moving CSA 3. CSA are pleased to timetable today two NEC statements,

:01:04. > :01:08.the first is a statement on the leader's policy plan and is shown on

:01:09. > :01:16.pages 9-11 of the report. The second is an NEC statement on international

:01:17. > :01:22.trade shown on page 11. The number of composite motions are timetabled

:01:23. > :01:26.this morning. There'll be a debate on the NHS composite as part of the

:01:27. > :01:31.health and care debate. We'll then hear speeches from the

:01:32. > :01:36.Shadow leader of the House, Paul Flynn, TUC President, Liz Snape,

:01:37. > :01:38.cooperative party speaker Gareth Thomas and Mayor of London, Sadiq

:01:39. > :01:49.Khan. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

:01:50. > :01:53.Votes will then be taken on the NEC statements, contemporary composite

:01:54. > :01:59.9, the health and care policy commission, contemporary composite 7

:02:00. > :02:05.and the NEC and CLP rule changes. NEC and CLP rule changes are

:02:06. > :02:10.detailed in appendix 1 2 on pages 19-32. The NE Cancer Research

:02:11. > :02:14.recommendations are shown on page 12 and will be shown on the screen

:02:15. > :02:17.during the votes. This afternoon the composite on

:02:18. > :02:22.grammar schools will be debated as part of the education and children

:02:23. > :02:27.policy commission. The composite on energy will also be debated this

:02:28. > :02:33.afternoon. Composite motions can be found on pages 13-17 of the report.

:02:34. > :02:37.This afternoon, we'll hear speeches from Deputy Leader Tom Watson and

:02:38. > :02:45.Mayor of Bristol, Martin Rhys. APPLAUSE.

:02:46. > :02:48.Conference will adjourn at 4pm for policy seminars. The details of

:02:49. > :02:54.which can be found on page 8 of the report.

:02:55. > :02:58.The CSE has considered 14 emergency motions detailed on page 18. The CSC

:02:59. > :03:04.has a further one emergency motion to consider today.

:03:05. > :03:07.Today's ballot is for a national constitutional committee, CLP

:03:08. > :03:12.section and voting takes place between 9 and 4 and is is for the

:03:13. > :03:18.CLP delegates only. Conference, I move CSE 3.

:03:19. > :03:24.APPLAUSE. Thank you, Harry. Does anyone wish

:03:25. > :03:25.to ask any questions about any points on the conference's

:03:26. > :03:57.arrangements committee report? Well, there's an elephant in the

:03:58. > :04:03.room, it seems to me. I was expecting that if we are going to be

:04:04. > :04:08.talking about constitutional amendments, that somewhere would

:04:09. > :04:09.appear Tom Watson's proposals on the Shadow Cabinet, but it doesn't

:04:10. > :04:16.appear at all. APPLAUSE.

:04:17. > :04:19.I thought, as a party, we'd move to be putting everything before

:04:20. > :04:23.conference again. This is a major, major change being proposed by Tom

:04:24. > :04:25.Watson and it's known about, it's a constitutional amendment, we should

:04:26. > :04:29.be talking about it. We'll have different views about it, I accept

:04:30. > :04:34.that, but it should be discussed and it isn't being discussed today.

:04:35. > :04:38.I have my own take on it, I won't elaborate at length but if we

:04:39. > :04:42.compare the general election to a boat race, or THE boat race and we

:04:43. > :04:47.have Theresa May as Cox of one boat and Jeremy Corbyn as Cox of

:04:48. > :04:53.another... Please just make the point. If Jeremy Corbyn's boat is

:04:54. > :04:59.rowing in the opposite direction, it could sink. That's my point.

:05:00. > :05:00.APPLAUSE. Colleagues, please, make your points

:05:01. > :05:25.brief. Newbury Plc. Is it the case that if

:05:26. > :05:27.delegates wish to street against one of the NEC's constitutional

:05:28. > :05:32.amendments, we need to vote against all of them -- wish to vote against.

:05:33. > :05:35.I ask for clarification was a I don't want to be forced to throw the

:05:36. > :05:46.baby out with the bath water. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

:05:47. > :06:02.Good morning, conference. I hope you had a good night. I had a great one.

:06:03. > :06:07.Chair, conference, you know, Manuel core Tess salary association, my

:06:08. > :06:10.union put forward a very simple but very clear emergency motion, an

:06:11. > :06:18.emergency motion that would have allowed you to t decision-makers, to

:06:19. > :06:21.consider each and every constitutional amendment on its

:06:22. > :06:26.merits, rather than have them all put together.

:06:27. > :06:30.APPLAUSE. You know, no doubt, to doubt, no

:06:31. > :06:34.doubt they are going to come and tell you that we've always done it

:06:35. > :06:41.like this, but doing it like this has landed us in hot water. We were

:06:42. > :06:45.at the High Court not that long ago trying to get a judge to interpret

:06:46. > :06:48.the rules. The reasons for that is because probably they were passed in

:06:49. > :06:57.haste in this place in a block. We need to learn. We need to learn from

:06:58. > :07:01.our mistakes. And that's why with a heavy heart,

:07:02. > :07:04.because I don't want to disrupt conference, everybody's enjoying

:07:05. > :07:08.this week, I think the Labour Party is coming back together behind our

:07:09. > :07:14.leader and that's great news, but with a heavy heart I am moving a

:07:15. > :07:17.reference back and it should be on a card vote.

:07:18. > :07:33.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. First time delegate.

:07:34. > :07:38.APPLAUSE. . Conference, as a first time

:07:39. > :07:41.delegate, I'm dismayed by the amount of time we are going to spend

:07:42. > :07:45.talking about procedure. APPLAUSE.

:07:46. > :07:48.I'd quite like to spend the time debating the policies of the day

:07:49. > :07:52.that are going to make a difference for the people in this country and

:07:53. > :07:52.not talk about internal policy. Thank you.

:07:53. > :08:22.APPLAUSE. Good morning, everybody. Mike Payne,

:08:23. > :08:27.GMB and also the voice chair of the Welsh executive. Conference, we've

:08:28. > :08:32.got a lot of things to get on with today. I just wanted to give

:08:33. > :08:36.conference some information. For two years, we have been talking to

:08:37. > :08:41.national offices, the Welsh Labour Party, about the amendments you have

:08:42. > :08:48.in front of you today. We were given assurances by both the leader and

:08:49. > :08:52.the Deputy Leader, that we would see these amendments supported. Those

:08:53. > :08:58.discussions were led by the regional secretary of Unite in Wales, and

:08:59. > :09:03.those assurances were given to him. We have had two NEC votes on these

:09:04. > :09:07.amendments. We have had a CAC report on Monday. It's about time we

:09:08. > :09:08.stopped the provarietication, comrades, and got on with it.

:09:09. > :09:21.APPLAUSE. Colleagues, can I ask those coming

:09:22. > :09:26.up to speak to be brief and to the point. There's quite a few wanting

:09:27. > :09:31.to come in. Good morning conference. CLP, first

:09:32. > :09:34.time delegate, first National Conference.

:09:35. > :09:38.I would like to start by saying what a shame this is that some colleagues

:09:39. > :09:44.here today are trying to block and stop this voting. We are going to

:09:45. > :09:49.spend far too long debating whether we can vote on single motions

:09:50. > :09:53.instead of voting as a block vote. We need to be debating policies to

:09:54. > :09:57.put them into place to take them forward and make us look like a

:09:58. > :10:02.Labour Government. APPLAUSE.

:10:03. > :10:06.This is our one opportunity, conference, to make policy for us

:10:07. > :10:10.grass roots Labour members to make policy for the year ahead. We need

:10:11. > :10:13.to start making changes, we have got Jeremy Corbyn as leader, whether we

:10:14. > :10:19.like it or not, and we need to start...

:10:20. > :10:23.JEERS We need to go forward, conference,

:10:24. > :10:27.we need to make some policies and stop debating endless rule changes

:10:28. > :10:29.which are completely pointless. We need to make policy and go forward

:10:30. > :10:42.for the year ahead. Colleagues, some individuals are

:10:43. > :10:47.booing there. Be respectful to the speakers, you may not agree but be

:10:48. > :10:52.respectful. APPLAUSE.

:10:53. > :11:01.Martin Phillips new Forest West. Like others, I'm confused about

:11:02. > :11:06.this. I thought conference's decisions were sovereign. We voted

:11:07. > :11:10.on this, the NEC voted on this, why the hell are we wasting time going

:11:11. > :11:13.over and over this again and again just because some people don't like

:11:14. > :11:25.the result? APPLAUSE.

:11:26. > :11:35.Conference, George McManus, CLP rep for Beverley. I'm nearly 20 years

:11:36. > :11:40.representing Yorkshire and Humber Plcs. Conference, the rule book is

:11:41. > :11:46.what keeps the Labour Party's foundation strong. The rule book

:11:47. > :11:49.protects us from the anarchy that would attack us and sometimes from

:11:50. > :11:53.the courts. That's why we've got to get it

:11:54. > :12:01.right. I'm afraid we have been here before. The method of trying to pass

:12:02. > :12:07.rule changes on block is something that is not an established protocol

:12:08. > :12:11.here. Martin's right. Conference is the sovereign body. That's why we

:12:12. > :12:16.have to get these rule changes spot on.

:12:17. > :12:23.Presenting them on a take it or leave it basis when the NEC voted 15

:12:24. > :12:33.for and 15 against, is not a clear decision.

:12:34. > :12:37.APPLAUSE. Unfortunately the NEC dent put out

:12:38. > :12:43.minutes of the report that I've had. Accepting this approach will get us

:12:44. > :12:47.into more trouble. Let conference debate each decision line by line.

:12:48. > :13:11.APPLAUSE. Colleague, before you start, look,

:13:12. > :13:17.there's quite a number getting up to speak and I don't want to stifle any

:13:18. > :13:21.debate, but if your point's been made, please don't repeat it. You're

:13:22. > :13:30.biting into the conference time. Delegate?

:13:31. > :13:33.Good morning, conference. I'm Christabell from Hammersmith, a

:13:34. > :13:37.first time delegate and speaker and I will be brief.

:13:38. > :13:40.I've been so disappointed that every morning of the conference so far we

:13:41. > :13:45.have been presented with this motion to reference back which, if it were

:13:46. > :13:46.passed, would throw the entire business of this conference into

:13:47. > :13:50.chaos. APPLAUSE.

:13:51. > :13:55.We have the eyes of the country on us here. A country that is

:13:56. > :14:01.desperately looking for solutions to its many, many problems. It seems it

:14:02. > :14:05.makes Labour look pretty self-indulgent and dysfunctional if

:14:06. > :14:12.all we are doing is having a debate about even whether we have a debate.

:14:13. > :14:16.APPLAUSE. Please can we just get on with

:14:17. > :14:20.talking about how we make this country better, rather than just

:14:21. > :14:38.talking about ourselves? APPLAUSE.

:14:39. > :14:48.Thank you, Chair, conference. As I'm Aslef. A first-time delegate and

:14:49. > :14:55.speak. Proposed NEC rule changes are too important and far too dissimilar

:14:56. > :14:56.to be treated as a single item. APPLAUSE

:14:57. > :15:01.It's inferred that of they have been presented to us as a take it or

:15:02. > :15:06.leave it package, given that the proposals range so much. At this

:15:07. > :15:10.time more than ever, we need to remove the topdown democracy and

:15:11. > :15:14.avoid more damaging publicity. Do we really need to end up in court

:15:15. > :15:16.again, given that the rule changes are not that clear?

:15:17. > :15:37.APPLAUSE Hello conference. Kate Lewis, from

:15:38. > :15:44.Salford and Eccles CLP. First time delegate and first time speaker.

:15:45. > :15:52.We should not have to vote for the rule changes as a whole package.

:15:53. > :15:57.APPLAUSE Some of these rule changes clearly

:15:58. > :16:02.need debate. Others have come about as a result of debate and

:16:03. > :16:05.consultations already. Such as the sensible proposal to give women's

:16:06. > :16:11.conference policy-making powers. APPLAUSE

:16:12. > :16:16.It is unfair to put delegates here in an untenable position of being

:16:17. > :16:19.fully supportive of some changes but desires debate for others while

:16:20. > :16:21.being given no option but to vote for the changes together in their

:16:22. > :16:26.entirety. APPLAUSE

:16:27. > :16:30.The only way to solve this conundrum is to have a special conference to

:16:31. > :16:34.discuss the changes, so any resulting changes would be the

:16:35. > :16:40.result of fair and democratic process. Respecting the voices and

:16:41. > :16:44.views of those in our party. As a new delegate, I had hoped my

:16:45. > :16:48.first time standing here in front of my comrades would be to say

:16:49. > :16:51.something positive about a way we might improve policy. I'm

:16:52. > :16:56.disappointed that NICE appearance is to make representation in favour of

:16:57. > :17:08.democracy, which I would expect to be a given. Thank you.

:17:09. > :17:10.Smo - that my first appearance is to make representation in favour of

:17:11. > :17:24.democracy. Morning, comings I'm Samantha bell

:17:25. > :17:30.mix I'm a first-time delegate I'm from Worsley and he canles CLP. As a

:17:31. > :17:33.party member and delegate, I feel disenfranchised by my conference

:17:34. > :17:35.grouping together the rule chavenlingts we are a Democratic

:17:36. > :17:39.Party. I personally feel you are taking away from us, as members, by

:17:40. > :17:40.not letting us vote for the changes individually. Thank you.

:17:41. > :17:58.APPLAUSE. Conference, I urge you to support

:17:59. > :18:04.the CAC motion. This is democracy in our party. We must fight a united

:18:05. > :18:09.message. We are a up ieted party. Vote for these, don't delay,

:18:10. > :18:23.conference, let's get on with policy debate and support the CAC motion.

:18:24. > :18:32.Hello conference I'm Lee, a first time delegate, fist time speaker.

:18:33. > :18:36.Also Chair of North West Young Labour and North West Representative

:18:37. > :18:41.on the national Labour committee. Conference, putting through rule

:18:42. > :18:46.changes, it's very important to us. We shouldn't have to take the bad

:18:47. > :18:49.with the good. We should support the transport and salaries staff

:18:50. > :18:54.association motion to go forward. Devolution is a good thing. I'm from

:18:55. > :19:02.the North West. We have our own history. Our own dialect. We are our

:19:03. > :19:11.own people as W but, I shouldn't have to support what is essentially

:19:12. > :19:17.a stitch-up of the NEC. Conference, if the NEC - it

:19:18. > :19:22.disenfranchises the members in Wales and Scotland because we'll have the

:19:23. > :19:25.leader apoint themselves to T we should have member representing -

:19:26. > :19:33.all members should be able to put themselves forward to represent

:19:34. > :19:39.their nation. It's common sense. Conference, I move that we put this

:19:40. > :19:43.to a card vote. Let's put it to bed. It is clearly a contentious issue.

:19:44. > :19:48.We've had a damaging leadership election. Let's put it to a card

:19:49. > :19:51.vote, put it to bed and seal the deal. Thank you very much,

:19:52. > :20:07.conference. APPLAUSE

:20:08. > :20:12.First time here since 1997. Appalled at the lack of democracy and the

:20:13. > :20:19.gerrymandering going on in our party. Comrades, I am a militant.

:20:20. > :20:28.I'm a militant democrat. I believe every one of you should have a vote

:20:29. > :20:32.on every one of these rule changes. Not be boom boozeled into slipping

:20:33. > :20:41.through a few things that outgoing members of the NEC would like to put

:20:42. > :20:46.in place it make a difference to outgrowing democracy. This party is

:20:47. > :20:50.a Democratic Party. This party should make its rules, at its

:20:51. > :20:58.conference, one by one, and vote on each one of them. Anything less is

:20:59. > :21:01.not democratic. It's not right and I urge you to support reference back.

:21:02. > :21:21.APPLAUSE The The question we all need to ask

:21:22. > :21:27.ourselves is do we want to Unite this party? Yes. How do we do that?

:21:28. > :21:31.When people walk out from this room this morning, they need to feel

:21:32. > :21:37.confident that they have been able to debate and express their views on

:21:38. > :21:42.a range of different issues and that we come to a democratic decision on

:21:43. > :21:51.each of those. I said yesterday, very brief li, I think it it applies

:21:52. > :21:55.to policy well. Rules and policy go hand-in-hand and what this party can

:21:56. > :21:58.no longer afford to have is a take it or leave it approach, where

:21:59. > :22:05.people don't feel they have been able to be properly listened to. I

:22:06. > :22:06.certainly support this reference back.

:22:07. > :22:25.APPLAUSE Morning conference. Jennifer James,

:22:26. > :22:31.first time delegate, first time speaker. Thank you.

:22:32. > :22:38.I support the reference back and the card vote for one simple reason and

:22:39. > :22:45.this is - yesterday we voted with a show of hands. The Chair thought

:22:46. > :22:52.that the motion was carried. Some of us thought it was 50-50. Maybe the

:22:53. > :22:57.other way. But we have speeches, we have awards, we pat ourselves on the

:22:58. > :23:01.back and that's all marvellous but if there is one thing that it is

:23:02. > :23:05.worth taking time over, it is democracy. Have a card vote.

:23:06. > :23:36.APPLAUSE I'm from Streatham London, first

:23:37. > :23:41.time delegate, first time speaker. Eyed relike to express my support

:23:42. > :23:47.for the CAC committee and the support Will report they put

:23:48. > :23:52.together. We elect them. We ask them to prepare and they have. They

:23:53. > :23:55.ensure the smooth-running of conference. Having set out the

:23:56. > :24:04.report, I believe that we should now let the debate begin. We go over and

:24:05. > :24:13.over the report, and this prevents us actually doing what we are here

:24:14. > :24:19.to do, which about deciding the real business of how we take the fight to

:24:20. > :24:25.the Tories. Let's not constantly look inwards whilst the Tories are

:24:26. > :24:31.getting on, in power, making bad decision after bad decision.

:24:32. > :24:35.APPLAUSE Yes, we have had a summer of

:24:36. > :24:39.in-fighting but the public are now looking. They are watching us. They

:24:40. > :24:43.are watching to see if we are serious. They are watching to see if

:24:44. > :24:50.we can come together. Most importantly. They are watching to

:24:51. > :24:56.see if we care about the issues as much as our issues. Let's show the

:24:57. > :25:01.country we are united, we are professional and, yes, we have had

:25:02. > :25:14.our agreements, but let's go forward and show that more unites us than

:25:15. > :25:18.divides us. We have the CAC, an elected organisation, to help us

:25:19. > :25:20.organise and be ready to be the party of government. Thank you.

:25:21. > :25:48.APPLAUSE Steve Walker, first time delegate.

:25:49. > :25:54.Dell Don't clap too loud. You might not be clapping in a minute I have

:25:55. > :26:01.heard a few people shouting - which party of this are people thinking

:26:02. > :26:05.its undemocraty, page 28. It adds non-elected members to elected

:26:06. > :26:08.members to the NEC, is an anti-democratic attempt by an NEC

:26:09. > :26:12.that's composed of a number of people, a significant number of

:26:13. > :26:16.people who have been voted out, and believing at the end of this week to

:26:17. > :26:19.try to rig it afterwards there. Have been things carried on a show of

:26:20. > :26:23.hands and people shouted - this has already been voted on, the first

:26:24. > :26:27.vote, second vote, clearly car yi.d I have been watching the floor, I

:26:28. > :26:31.don't think they were. I think it was evenly split. And it deserves -

:26:32. > :26:35.this is a matter - people say - we need it talk about how we take the

:26:36. > :26:39.fight to the Turkeys I tell you what, if this gets through, this

:26:40. > :26:42.will decide, in a negative way, how we take the fight to the Tories,

:26:43. > :26:52.because it'll be against the democratic will of the vast majority

:26:53. > :26:59.of the members of this party. APPLAUSE

:27:00. > :27:05.Councillor Matthew Brown Claire of Cleethorpes CLP. Ladies and

:27:06. > :27:10.gentlemen, we face an unprecedented challenge in taking the fight to the

:27:11. > :27:13.Conservative Party, due to the tremendous amount of cuts and the

:27:14. > :27:21.damage that they are doing to our local community. By taking time up

:27:22. > :27:25.going by this line by line, it is damaging our be ability to put

:27:26. > :27:31.forward policies that are grossive to our community. We elect members

:27:32. > :27:37.to the NEC, to the CLC, to represent up a our views. We have a duty to

:27:38. > :27:41.support them, because if we undermine them, that is

:27:42. > :27:43.anti-democratic. So I will be supporting recommendations, as laid

:27:44. > :28:04.out. APPLAUSE

:28:05. > :28:10.Chair: This is the last speaker. ! Applause before I have said a

:28:11. > :28:16.word. I will be bereavement every morning I have sat here and we have

:28:17. > :28:20.gone through internal constitutional debates that are about internal

:28:21. > :28:23.politics, not about our view of the world. Conference we have a full

:28:24. > :28:28.agenda on approximatelicy. Let me say this to you and I hope to speak

:28:29. > :28:32.on the debate. Let's move away from process on to the politics of this,

:28:33. > :28:35.but I tell you this - if we put internal politics ahead of the

:28:36. > :28:41.interests of the people of Scotland and Wales, we will pay a price for

:28:42. > :28:47.it. APPLAUSE

:28:48. > :28:52.CHAIR: Conference, I will ask Harry Donaldson to reply to the points

:28:53. > :29:11.raised. Harry. Good luck. Thanks Paddy. Conference, we have

:29:12. > :29:14.listened very tintly to the comments that have been made by every

:29:15. > :29:19.delegate that came to the rostrum. We know these are important issues.

:29:20. > :29:23.Single voting NEC rules changes, this issue of rule changes has been

:29:24. > :29:28.dealt with both on Sunday and yesterday. With CAC 1s, which was

:29:29. > :29:34.agreed on Sunday. The NEC provides recommendations for rule changes and

:29:35. > :29:39.these are detailed in page 12. There is an opportunity to debate the rule

:29:40. > :29:44.changes, the NEC rule changes result from broadening the consultation by

:29:45. > :29:49.the NEC and as such can be debated. In terms of the specific issues that

:29:50. > :29:53.were raised, with regards to first speaker in terms of the elephant in

:29:54. > :29:58.the room, and in terms, this hasn't been put to the CAC, therefore it is

:29:59. > :30:03.not contained within the report, in terms of clarification on the NEC

:30:04. > :30:07.rule amendment, these are a single packable of rule changes, as

:30:08. > :30:10.detailed in CAC 1 and will be taken by one single vote as agreed by

:30:11. > :30:20.conference on With regards to the TSSA motion, the

:30:21. > :30:24.issue there in terms of emergency, was emergency motion closed at 12 on

:30:25. > :30:31.Friday. The TSSA motion was received yesterday. However, that being said,

:30:32. > :30:35.it was considered by the CAC and as such the detail of that is thought

:30:36. > :30:39.to be organisational on the basis of that was referred to the NE Cancer

:30:40. > :30:40.Research who I'm sure will deal with these issues going forward. Thank

:30:41. > :30:51.you. APPLAUSE.

:30:52. > :30:56.Please, colleagues, we are trying to get through the conference business

:30:57. > :30:59.in a respectful way. People's got difference of opinions, that's fine,

:31:00. > :30:59.but let's not disrupt the conference.

:31:00. > :31:11.APPLAUSE. Harry, thank you for that.

:31:12. > :31:19.Colleagues, can I see all those in favour of accepting the report?

:31:20. > :31:25.Colleagues, in terms... Quiet, please.

:31:26. > :31:33.If you want reference back, you can vote against. All those in favour,

:31:34. > :31:47.all those in favour... Thank you.

:31:48. > :32:01.Christine. Several people said, including the mover that they wanted

:32:02. > :32:06.a card vote on the reference back. Christine, please, just... If

:32:07. > :32:09.delegates ask for card votes, then there'll be a card vote and I move

:32:10. > :32:18.that we immediately move to the card vote now.

:32:19. > :32:23.APPLAUSE. Colleagues, take a show of hands to

:32:24. > :32:28.see... Please behave yourselves. We are

:32:29. > :32:32.taking a show of hands to see. If we were to go to cards, it would take

:32:33. > :32:37.over an hour. If we get a majority on a show of hands, we don't need to

:32:38. > :32:40.go to the card vote. Listen, listen, we are going to go to a show of

:32:41. > :32:43.hands. All those in fave of accepting the report?

:32:44. > :32:50.Thank you. All those against.

:32:51. > :33:03.That's overwhelmingly carried. APPLAUSE.

:33:04. > :33:13.Conference, there are two statements from the National Executive

:33:14. > :33:17.Committee which are contained in CAC. Take your point of order.

:33:18. > :33:37.Order, please. Look, I very clearly called for a

:33:38. > :33:42.card vote. The rules of a party says that when you move a reference back

:33:43. > :33:47.and you call for a card vote, a card vote will be taken. That's what the

:33:48. > :33:53.rules say. APPLAUSE.

:33:54. > :34:04.Thank you, Manuel. Look, let me be clear. The reason for taking a card

:34:05. > :34:09.vote is if there's a close vote, it wasn't close.

:34:10. > :34:14.Moving on, next business. Conference, there are two statements

:34:15. > :34:22.by the National Executive Committee contained in CAC report; one is what

:34:23. > :34:26.Labour stands for, the other is on international trade. The NEC

:34:27. > :34:30.recommends conference adopts the statements. I'll now formally move

:34:31. > :34:36.end of the session. Is that agreed? end of the session. Is that agreed?

:34:37. > :34:41.Thank you. Conference, moving now to the other

:34:42. > :34:47.things. We want to consider the reports contained on pages 48-78 of

:34:48. > :34:52.the National Executive Committee annual report and I invite the party

:34:53. > :35:06.treasurer Diane Holland to present the report. Diane.

:35:07. > :35:13.Good morning conference. I'm very pleased to present this treasurer's

:35:14. > :35:17.report. What a build-up with that debate. It's been a great honour to

:35:18. > :35:21.serve as your treasurer for the past six years and I want to begin by

:35:22. > :35:27.thanking you most sincerely for the confidence you have placed in me and

:35:28. > :35:29.for re-electing me this year with support from constituencies,

:35:30. > :35:37.socialist societies and Trade Unions across the party. Thank you.

:35:38. > :35:42.A number of years ago, I began my report by adapting the Monty Python

:35:43. > :35:46.accountants sketch. I am the Labour Party treasurer and consequently too

:35:47. > :35:51.boring to be of interest. It's still true and it's a good thing. A

:35:52. > :35:56.treasurer's report is one of those things that you just don't want to

:35:57. > :36:01.be too exciting. However, this year I hope you are sitting comfortably

:36:02. > :36:05.because the report is, I'm very pleased to say, interesting and

:36:06. > :36:11.exciting. It's something we have worked so

:36:12. > :36:19.hard for in recent years. Nine years ago, we had a debt of almost ?25

:36:20. > :36:21.million. This year, I am able to report the party is totally debt

:36:22. > :36:29.free. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

:36:30. > :36:35.Now, our task is hard. It's to continue rebuilding the finances of

:36:36. > :36:40.our party. And this year, I'm sure you will be

:36:41. > :36:46.pleased to know that we've achieved a surplus of ?5 million.

:36:47. > :36:51.APPLAUSE. I want to thank everyone who's

:36:52. > :36:57.played a part, and that is, everyone. But particularly including

:36:58. > :37:02.the General Secretary Ian McNicholl and the finance director Simon Mills

:37:03. > :37:08.and the whole finance team. This just hasn't happened by

:37:09. > :37:13.accident. The finance strategy agreed by the NEC approved by

:37:14. > :37:15.conference stuck to ridgedly by the business board, implemented

:37:16. > :37:21.throughout the party over the last nine years, has worked.

:37:22. > :37:27.Every year, we've repaid part of the legacy debt. We have funded running

:37:28. > :37:31.the party and we've reassured anyone who donated to campaign funds that

:37:32. > :37:35.it would be used for just that - campaigning.

:37:36. > :37:40.There's been no expenditure until the funds are there. Sounds obvious,

:37:41. > :37:44.but you can't take it for granted. And no expenditure until it's been

:37:45. > :37:49.assessed to assure it meets our priorities. Maximising our income,

:37:50. > :37:53.managing our costs, delivering our priorities. We have stuck to that

:37:54. > :37:58.finance strategy, including during the 2015 general election.

:37:59. > :38:02.So now we are debt free, what will change? The answer is one word -

:38:03. > :38:07.nothing. Everything we do will continue to be

:38:08. > :38:12.measured against the key tests we have learnt from our history. So to

:38:13. > :38:17.continue the Monty Python theme, as a person, I always look on the

:38:18. > :38:22.bright side of life. But as your party treasurer, I have to plan for

:38:23. > :38:30.the worst. And this past year, we were threatened with worse than the

:38:31. > :38:34.worst. The vindictive antiunion, anti-Labour Party, andy democracy,

:38:35. > :38:40.anti-civil rights Trade Union Bill, a shameful piece of Tory legislation

:38:41. > :38:44.which included clauses directly attacking the very existence of the

:38:45. > :38:49.Labour Party's finances for good. Also backed up by a threatened huge

:38:50. > :38:53.cut to the money which supports opposition parties in Parliament,

:38:54. > :38:58.the so-called short money. However, we saw off some of the

:38:59. > :39:03.worst excesses of these attacks, thanks to wonderful campaigning. We

:39:04. > :39:08.did what we do best. All parts of our party uniting together with the

:39:09. > :39:12.Trade Union movement and with a huge alliance of organisations and

:39:13. > :39:16.individuals. But let me single out for particular praise in Parliament

:39:17. > :39:20.and in the House of Lords. Angela Smith and Labour's team in the House

:39:21. > :39:26.of Lords and Chris Bryant and Rosie Winterton in the House of Commons

:39:27. > :39:29.for all they achieved. Thank you. APPLAUSE.

:39:30. > :39:35.But I have to tell you, there remains a long-term threat to party

:39:36. > :39:38.finances in the clauses left in the Trade Union Act and I can assure

:39:39. > :39:41.you, we know we'll need to continue to be vigilant.

:39:42. > :39:45.But conference, there is good news too.

:39:46. > :39:50.With many donations coming into our party, I want to thank all who've

:39:51. > :39:54.given funds, large and small to the work of our party. Thank you to the

:39:55. > :39:57.Trade Unions for your magnificent support.

:39:58. > :40:02.Thank you to members of the thousand club and high value donors for your

:40:03. > :40:08.support too. And there's more. When I first stood for election as your

:40:09. > :40:10.treasurer, I said I wanted to learn from Barack Obama's presidential

:40:11. > :40:16.campaign. Raising small amounts of money from lots of people.

:40:17. > :40:20.This year, we can report success on that front too.

:40:21. > :40:28.More people than ever before donating to our party.

:40:29. > :40:33.During the general election, digital fund-raising in particular generated

:40:34. > :40:38.major election campaign funds from thousands of members and supporters.

:40:39. > :40:44.Thank you to every single one of you. And the increased party funds I

:40:45. > :40:49.reported earlier have come from the huge surge in the number of people

:40:50. > :40:55.joining our party. APPLAUSE.

:40:56. > :40:59.Following last year's general election result, more following the

:41:00. > :41:04.election of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader and there's continued growth

:41:05. > :41:09.too. Labour Party membership at the end

:41:10. > :41:13.of 2015 was twice the number at the start. We are now the biggest party

:41:14. > :41:19.in the European Union and we are still growing.

:41:20. > :41:24.APPLAUSE. That is why we are cautiously

:41:25. > :41:27.beginning to be able to spend on investment and building a stronger

:41:28. > :41:32.party. Digital communication is vital to

:41:33. > :41:36.our future, so we are investing, as you have heard earlier in digital

:41:37. > :41:40.developments to engage more with our growing membership. We'll be

:41:41. > :41:43.offering bursaries to support black and ethnic minority, working class

:41:44. > :41:49.and disabled candidates. APPLAUSE.

:41:50. > :41:56.And in honour of Jo Cox MP whose life was so tragically cut short, we

:41:57. > :41:59.are setting up the Jo Cox MP Memorial Fund for women in

:42:00. > :42:04.leadership. APPLAUSE.

:42:05. > :42:08.And for the first time in generations, we can build up what in

:42:09. > :42:12.the old days was called a war chest, today let's call it a Labour

:42:13. > :42:18.campaign trust fund for the general election.

:42:19. > :42:22.Conference, the finances of our party are secure and growing. So is

:42:23. > :42:27.our membership. We don't just want to raise money

:42:28. > :42:31.for its own sake, we do it to build membership, to run campaigns, to win

:42:32. > :42:34.power in elections so that we can change people's lives for the

:42:35. > :42:37.better. And the truth is, we can't do any of

:42:38. > :42:48.these things without the resources to back it up. So I want to assure

:42:49. > :42:53.you, I will continue as your treasure... ...

:42:54. > :42:56.LAUGHTER. Treasurer, to protect and build the

:42:57. > :43:01.finances of our country, so that we can deliver a better life for our

:43:02. > :43:10.people and for our country too. Thank you.

:43:11. > :43:17.A huge thank you to you, seen, Simon and the whole team for what is a

:43:18. > :43:20.fantastic position that the party currently finds itself in. Would

:43:21. > :43:24.anyone like to ask any question or make any points or raise them from

:43:25. > :43:28.Diana's report? We are looking for brief remarks, rather than speeches?

:43:29. > :43:38.Two colleagues there. And a colleague there.

:43:39. > :43:49.Thank you, chair. Point of order conference. In the CAC report on

:43:50. > :43:53.page 7, it says "in addition to the above ballots, votes at conference

:43:54. > :43:58.are taken as a show of hands unless a card vote is requested by

:43:59. > :44:02.delegates or at the decision of the chair". Chair, we should have had a

:44:03. > :44:03.card vote and I move we go to a card vote still.

:44:04. > :44:22.APPLAUSE. Morning, conference.

:44:23. > :44:26.Important bit out the way first, I've got to wave to my children and

:44:27. > :44:29.great grandchildren and grandchildren. I'm trying to get

:44:30. > :44:34.them involved in politics while they are on their way to nursery!

:44:35. > :44:38.Conference, unfortunately, I'm nowhere near a first time delegate

:44:39. > :44:45.to conference. Not even a first-time speaker. I say

:44:46. > :44:50.that because over the years, many a time I've come into this as a

:44:51. > :44:54.treasurer's report many a time. It's pleasing because there's more in the

:44:55. > :44:59.hall today than probably the last ones put together. It's usually one

:45:00. > :45:02.of the quietest times of the day when the treasurer gets up. I

:45:03. > :45:06.remember nine years ago listening and walking out this hall saying, we

:45:07. > :45:10.haven't got a penny to fight the next general election. Christ, have

:45:11. > :45:16.we got enough for the next council elections. We were really in a

:45:17. > :45:21.desperately bad way and I owe Diana a big apology because six years ago,

:45:22. > :45:28.I was in the hall when she was elected treasurer. I remember

:45:29. > :45:30.clearly her first speech and it was just me thinking, no way she can

:45:31. > :45:35.deliver that, certainly not in the time scale. I wasn't expecting a

:45:36. > :45:38.debt free Labour Party in my lifetime because of the way we'd

:45:39. > :45:47.spent in previous years. I really have to tell you colleagues

:45:48. > :45:52.and members out there, this is a phenomenal piece of work that has

:45:53. > :45:56.been done. I owe her an apology and a big vote of thanks to Diane and

:45:57. > :46:06.our General Secretary. The whole thing, to be be standing here,

:46:07. > :46:10.talking about a surplus it is mind boggling, and the fact you have all

:46:11. > :46:17.gone out of her way just to hear Diane speak is a big boost. I

:46:18. > :46:25.encourage you to keep out the policies. And the tremendous piece

:46:26. > :46:31.of work before the surge in membership. So while we are in

:46:32. > :46:34.surplus, keep this policy up. Can we buy our own headquarters, as an

:46:35. > :46:40.investment in the future? If you want to keep this policy up even

:46:41. > :46:45.more, buy it in a real good place with cheap council tax, cheap land,

:46:46. > :46:48.somewhere like Sunderland, you know, maybe?

:46:49. > :46:55.You know, Sunderland in Tyne Wear. We'd gladly welcome you. I'm sure, I

:46:56. > :46:59.dare not speak for the leader of the council, I'm one of his councillors,

:47:00. > :47:03.he might have us in the office to. I'm sure he would look forward to

:47:04. > :47:06.working with you and find you a piece of line. But really just more,

:47:07. > :47:09.more of what you are doing. On behalf of the membership - I'm

:47:10. > :47:12.taking a liberty here colleagues, but on behalf of the membership of

:47:13. > :47:13.the Labour Party, well done and thank you.

:47:14. > :47:40.APPLAUSE Conference, on-McMahon must, Beverly

:47:41. > :47:47.science holdness and rule book nerd. I really just want to give the Chair

:47:48. > :47:56.some information. And please bear with us, just for 30 seconds. Clause

:47:57. > :48:02.3 of our rule book agreed over the last 100 years outlines procedural

:48:03. > :48:08.rules for party conference. Part 3, clause A makes it clear "Voting at

:48:09. > :48:11.party conference and resolution supports I amendments, proposals and

:48:12. > :48:20.roacheses back, shall be by show of hands or if the conditions laid down

:48:21. > :48:23.by the CAC require t by card and "- require it, by card." And,

:48:24. > :48:34.therefore, we should have a card vote.

:48:35. > :48:46.CHAIR: Colleagues, we are dealing with a financial statement.

:48:47. > :48:53.Steve Beckett, Crewe and Nantwich CAC. 40 years membership but first

:48:54. > :48:58.time delegate. I am speaking on finance and and I'm asking a

:48:59. > :49:04.question. Congratulating Diana and the team on a ?5 million surplus. My

:49:05. > :49:10.question is, I don't don't expect it to be answered now but it is a

:49:11. > :49:12.request to be sent to all CACs and affiliated organisations through a

:49:13. > :49:17.newsletter. My question is - how much of that ?5 billion has been

:49:18. > :49:22.donated by those people joining as registered supporters? Supporters?

:49:23. > :49:29.And, can we have the information of those registered supporters that

:49:30. > :49:37.were either suspended or that got "lost"?

:49:38. > :49:44.APPLAUSE I've not got much time, comrades. Or

:49:45. > :49:48.got lost in the electroll roll? Can we have that information about how

:49:49. > :49:55.much and how many those were, thank you?

:49:56. > :50:00.APPLAUSE CHAIR: One more speaker.

:50:01. > :50:32.Final speaker, please. Carol Wilcox, Christchurch CLP. I'm

:50:33. > :50:41.really happy to hear Diane's report, it is very encouraging but I do

:50:42. > :50:47.worry how much we are going to be paying out in court fees because

:50:48. > :50:49.there's so much discontent of people being business enfranchised and

:50:50. > :50:53.being taken - you know their money being taken, that is aeted problem.

:50:54. > :50:59.I think we are going to be involved in a lot of legislation. - that's

:51:00. > :51:13.the problem. CHAIR: That was the final speaker.

:51:14. > :51:19.Diana, do you want to reply to the points?

:51:20. > :51:22.Thanks very much for the support. It's really much-appreciated and

:51:23. > :51:26.some very positive comments. I think just on the first contribution, one

:51:27. > :51:30.small point that Simon mentioned to me, you may not be aware but

:51:31. > :51:40.currently the finance team is in fact based in Newcastle. And they

:51:41. > :51:44.may not want to move to Sunderland. The second question, obviously, more

:51:45. > :51:52.serious response was just to say that in fact the report is on 2015

:51:53. > :52:01.expenditure. So, in responding to the question - obviously that will

:52:02. > :52:04.come in 2016 report. But in terms of ensuring this information gets out

:52:05. > :52:07.there, we have got that message and we will pass it on. The question you

:52:08. > :52:10.have raised will be considered at the business board during this year

:52:11. > :52:16.and we'll make sure that it is included. On the third point - yes,

:52:17. > :52:21.of course we are always, as a party, having to ensure that we have

:52:22. > :52:29.sufficient funds to cover some of the legal challenges that we face or

:52:30. > :52:33.that we want it take to protect ourselves. It is something we have

:52:34. > :52:38.to have an element of our budget for. Of course, as a business board

:52:39. > :52:42.and as an NEC member, we try to do all we can to avoid legal costs but

:52:43. > :52:47.sometimes they are unavoidable. We also have an audit risk committee

:52:48. > :52:49.and legal challenges is one of the issues that they are constantly

:52:50. > :52:52.keeping under review. If they are concerned they bring it to the

:52:53. > :52:56.business board's attention but it is a really serious concern. It is the

:52:57. > :53:00.nature of politics at the moment that we have these challenges. Thank

:53:01. > :53:06.you. CHAIR: Thank you, Diane.

:53:07. > :53:10.Conference, we now need to formally adopt the financial statements. Can

:53:11. > :53:14.I see all those in favour of doing so? Thank you. And all those

:53:15. > :53:31.against? Unanimous. OK. Conference, we must now consider the

:53:32. > :53:35.rule amendments which have been put forward by the National Executive

:53:36. > :53:42.committee. We also have six proposed rule changes which have been made by

:53:43. > :53:48.CLPs. The proposals are listed in conference arrangements committee

:53:49. > :53:52.report 3. I will now ask Andy Kerr to to move the rule changes on about

:53:53. > :53:59.behalf of the National Executive committee. Andy.

:54:00. > :54:04.Conference, Andy Kerr on behalf of the National Executive committee, to

:54:05. > :54:09.move the rule changes. Conference, there are a number of rule changes

:54:10. > :54:17.proposed by CLPs and the NEC, which will be subject to card votes later

:54:18. > :54:24.today. He I thought that might get a laugh!

:54:25. > :54:27.Although proposed amendments are detailed in report 3 and ordered

:54:28. > :54:32.according to their position in the card votes. I thought they were

:54:33. > :54:37.going to be displayed beside me. Obviously they are not. I will go

:54:38. > :54:42.through them. Are they there? Oh, they are, good Just follow, that you

:54:43. > :54:47.will do OK. Card vote 1 is proposed by the NEC

:54:48. > :54:51.and it is recommended that you vote for these changes. But let me just

:54:52. > :55:00.put the record straight on the basis of some of the comments earlier.

:55:01. > :55:03.This package of changes are the result of party reform discussion

:55:04. > :55:08.and consultations that have taken place, throughout this year, with a

:55:09. > :55:15.number of people, wide-ranging discussions. So they haven't and

:55:16. > :55:17.weren't just drawn-up by the NEC. They were the result of

:55:18. > :55:22.consultations and discussions that have taken place. At the NEC meeting

:55:23. > :55:27.a week past on Tuesday, all apart from one of these packages in the

:55:28. > :55:33.packages of rule changes were carried unanimously.

:55:34. > :55:37.APPLAUSE, all apart from one. The one where there was controversy, was

:55:38. > :55:42.the one that affected the make-up of the NEC. Obviously Obviously there

:55:43. > :55:48.was some discussion, as you would expect there to be, on that. But

:55:49. > :55:52.they are a pack dge A this card vote is a package of amendmentsing

:55:53. > :56:00.brought forward by the NEC including a an annual women's conference, with

:56:01. > :56:04.a role in policy-making process. APPLAUSE

:56:05. > :56:06.New support for councils, and police and crime commissioners and greater

:56:07. > :56:13.accountability for our new Metro mayors. We also give more rights and

:56:14. > :56:16.greater responsibility to Scotland and Wales, strengthening our party,

:56:17. > :56:21.by strengthening the bonds between us.

:56:22. > :56:25.Conference, as a party and as a country we are truly bettering

:56:26. > :56:29.together. Over the last year, the NEC has been consulting on these

:56:30. > :56:32.changes, to reflect the concerns of our local communities and to ensure

:56:33. > :56:39.that our party is totally focussed on taking the fight to the Tories,

:56:40. > :56:43.the SNP and all of our opponents. Our councils and local government

:56:44. > :56:47.representatives are the back bone of Labour in the administration across

:56:48. > :56:53.the country and we thank them all for their hard work. So, conference,

:56:54. > :56:59.we will increase support for our councils, and do more to ensure that

:57:00. > :57:01.MPs, councillors, police and crime commissioners and mayors, reflect

:57:02. > :57:06.the diversity and the communities they represent.

:57:07. > :57:09.But, colleagues, it is clear, we need to do more to increase

:57:10. > :57:15.diversity in local governments, including inceasing the number of

:57:16. > :57:19.working class and underrepresented people, selecting slightly more

:57:20. > :57:23.female candidates and promoting women in leadership roles across

:57:24. > :57:30.local government. APPLAUSE

:57:31. > :57:35.Conference, we need to do much more to encourage more women, BME, work

:57:36. > :57:42.class, LGBT and disabled people, to stand for elected office.

:57:43. > :57:45.There aresome areas of the reform work, which require further thought

:57:46. > :57:50.and reflection and there are many more issues to consider in the

:57:51. > :57:53.coming months but there are so many important areas where there is

:57:54. > :57:58.consensus and we must, we must take action now.

:57:59. > :58:02.NEC will discuss, in the next few weeks, further discuss these issues

:58:03. > :58:07.in the next few weeks. I'm not going to preevident the outcome of those

:58:08. > :58:12.discussions but one thing I will say to you now if as a result of those

:58:13. > :58:16.discussions, there is a need for a special conference, we will have a

:58:17. > :58:21.special conference. In the spirit of unity, and I really

:58:22. > :58:25.mean this, brothers and sisters, in the spirit of unity, I ask you,

:58:26. > :58:25.please support this package of rule changes.

:58:26. > :58:43.APPLAUSE Conference, on the other rule

:58:44. > :58:48.amendments, a vote seeks to give retired members or subsections of

:58:49. > :58:53.associated trade unions the rights to affiliate to CLPs at the

:58:54. > :58:57.discretion of the regional director. The NEC support thighs mendment and

:58:58. > :59:03.recommends, conference, overwhelmingly, to carry this rule

:59:04. > :59:09.change and vote for. It Card votes, 3-7 are have been committed by CLPs

:59:10. > :59:16.and the NEC ask the CLPs to remit those rule changes and if those CLPs

:59:17. > :59:21.decide not to remit them, these will be card votes, 3-7. The

:59:22. > :59:25.recommendation of the NEC would be to vote against the amendments card

:59:26. > :59:30.vote 3 concerns the priorities ballot N 2015 and in this year,

:59:31. > :59:39.using the existing system for the priorities ballot, the CEC have

:59:40. > :59:52.tabled 8 subjects for debate. . Jo overlap between top - topics.

:59:53. > :59:56.It requires two balance olingts on the first Dave conference. If there

:59:57. > :00:04.is not remitted, it is recommended that conference votes against this

:00:05. > :00:09.change. Card vote 4, would permit CLPs and affiliates to submit both a

:00:10. > :00:12.constitutional amendment and contemporary vote each year F passed

:00:13. > :00:17.conference would need to devote much more time to rule change debates,

:00:18. > :00:22.cutting down the available time for debates on policy matters and

:00:23. > :00:30.compostites. It could also lead to an unstable rule book.

:00:31. > :00:42.The NEC reck voting against vote 4 if the CLP does not wish to remit.

:00:43. > :00:45.Votes 5 6 cut across the ongoing review of policy commissions by

:00:46. > :00:51.Jeremy Corbyn and being Jeffers seen by the NEC. This review looks at all

:00:52. > :00:55.aspects of policy-making, including the role of Annual Conference. It

:00:56. > :01:05.would be wrong to pre-empt its conclusions. These rule changes,

:01:06. > :01:09.they fundamentally confuse the process for the NPF. The NEC

:01:10. > :01:16.recommend voting against the rule changes, once again. The final card

:01:17. > :01:19.vote 7 relates to the coordinators to take on a particular area of

:01:20. > :01:24.responsibility. There is no need for this rule change as the current

:01:25. > :01:30.rules prevent CLPs to already appoint a small business liaison

:01:31. > :01:33.coordinator if they so wish. The NEC position for this rule change also

:01:34. > :01:35.recommends against if it's not remitted. Thank you, conference.

:01:36. > :01:51.APPLAUSE. CHAIR: A number of rule changes.

:01:52. > :01:56.Each will be moved by a delegate of the CLP concerned who's five minutes

:01:57. > :02:01.to speak. I'll then ask for it to be seconded. If no delegates move to

:02:02. > :02:33.the rule change, it will fall. Is she ashfield delegate here? OK.

:02:34. > :02:36.-- the Ashfield delegate. CHAIR: The second be ready to move

:02:37. > :03:05.as well on the priorities ballot. Melanie Darrington. Not that long

:03:06. > :03:09.ago, half a million men worked in the coal mines. Most of the men in

:03:10. > :03:14.my family and on my street in Mansfield were coal miners. As a

:03:15. > :03:20.child, I would look out of my window and just look at the colliery. That

:03:21. > :03:29.pit defined my community. On my street we didn't have a lot but we

:03:30. > :03:32.had each other and we had our pride. Something happened, conference, and

:03:33. > :03:37.that something was Maggie. The pits were closed down.

:03:38. > :03:43.Communities were broken. But we still had our pride. We knew, as we

:03:44. > :03:51.miners were never the enemy within. miners were never the enemy within.

:03:52. > :03:57.But it wasn't really Maggie. We know it doesn't matter who the Tory

:03:58. > :04:01.leader is, be it Maggie, Cameron or Theresa May, the Tories are always

:04:02. > :04:07.bad news for me, bad news for you and bad news for our communities.

:04:08. > :04:12.And we must make sure we don't let our voters forget this. We need a

:04:13. > :04:13.Labour Government in that next general election.

:04:14. > :04:26.APPLAUSE. The truth, is comrades, there's

:04:27. > :04:31.nothing physically left. There's no mines left, there's no evidence that

:04:32. > :04:36.pits once stood where country parks and fancy apartments now stand. Our

:04:37. > :04:40.history has been eroded. Children can't empathise with our past. It's

:04:41. > :04:47.almost like the heavy industries has been written out of history. But the

:04:48. > :04:51.ex-miners of Ashfield want to keep the memories alive. Many have joined

:04:52. > :04:57.retired sections or associations to continue being part of a movement

:04:58. > :05:00.that cares about its fellow man. These retired association members do

:05:01. > :05:06.not want to lose their ties with the Labour Party.

:05:07. > :05:11.They want to be actively involved as afilliated branches.

:05:12. > :05:15.They've worked tirelessly in Ashfield knocking on doors and

:05:16. > :05:20.delivering letters to form ermining communities. These ex-miners have a

:05:21. > :05:25.story to tell. Through them, afilliated to the

:05:26. > :05:30.Labour Party, in their own right, their history, our history, and the

:05:31. > :05:33.Labour Party's history will live on. Conference, I urge you to support

:05:34. > :05:33.this rule change. APPLAUSE.

:05:34. > :05:41.. APPLAUSE.

:05:42. > :05:48.CHAIR: Is that formally seconded? Formally seconded. Move to the next

:05:49. > :06:13.rule change on the priorities ballot to be moved by the CLP.

:06:14. > :06:25.Sarah, Bury North CLP. Excuse me on this bit, moving rule change to

:06:26. > :06:28.chapter 3, clause 3, 2 C set on page 4 addendum to the report and page 26

:06:29. > :06:35.of the CAC report you received today.

:06:36. > :06:40.APPLAUSE. It has been recommended that we

:06:41. > :06:42.remit this. However, it was submitted 18 months ago and I think

:06:43. > :06:47.we should have a decision on it today.

:06:48. > :06:50.Each conference CLPs and afilliated delegates vote on the priorities

:06:51. > :06:54.ballot. This year and last, eight items were

:06:55. > :06:59.selected for the agenda, but this has not always been the case.

:07:00. > :07:04.When union and CLP priorities overlapped, it has led in the past

:07:05. > :07:10.to six, seven, even five being listed. We want to ensure that four

:07:11. > :07:15.plus four equals eight. This is in the spirit of the original rule

:07:16. > :07:19.change. Conference is a time for delegates to have our say. And while

:07:20. > :07:22.we applaud the decision that has been made to move to the next on the

:07:23. > :07:27.list when priorities do overlap, it's not guaranteed this will always

:07:28. > :07:35.be the case. It's currently open to the interpretation of the CAC.

:07:36. > :07:38.As was said earlier, the CAC intends, intentions are great but

:07:39. > :07:45.we'd like a guarantee. You may be concerned that time is a

:07:46. > :07:49.factor and I can appreciate that. Affiliates vote on block and this

:07:50. > :07:52.can be carried out in a relatively short time, leaving ample

:07:53. > :07:57.opportunity for delegates to vote on the amended ballot. The important

:07:58. > :08:02.thing for me is by knowing what has already been listed, we can use our

:08:03. > :08:07.votes in a more informed way. We won't be voting forrite ems already

:08:08. > :08:10.listed to be discussed. Our vote, which we can target more, we can

:08:11. > :08:14.focus more, they'll have more weight.

:08:15. > :08:20.As delegates, conference is a time to be heard, to listen, to make a

:08:21. > :08:24.different sort of contribution to the party we all love and work for

:08:25. > :08:29.all year round. Please support this rule change and ensure that four

:08:30. > :08:33.plus four keeps equalling eight. Thank you.

:08:34. > :08:43.Chair hair thank you, colleague. Is that seconded? Do any of the other

:08:44. > :08:47.two PLPs want... It's formally seconded, thank you.

:08:48. > :08:50.The next rule change is on admission to conference and it's to be moved

:08:51. > :09:19.by a CLP, there's quite a number. Thank you, conference. That's the

:09:20. > :09:27.only slip-up today hopefully. Thank you, conference. Harry Clark

:09:28. > :09:30.mid Norfolk CLP and a proud GMB member and unison member.

:09:31. > :09:37.APPLAUSE. Conference, I've been a member of

:09:38. > :09:41.our party for over 40 years. But I haven't been waiting that long to

:09:42. > :09:50.move this motion. Despite my haste to move up to the platform.

:09:51. > :09:55.Conference, our rule change would allow CLPs and affiliates to submit

:09:56. > :10:03.both the rule change and a contemporary motion. Why are

:10:04. > :10:10.constituencies, union and socialist societies required to choose whether

:10:11. > :10:19.they want to make proposals to conference about how our party works

:10:20. > :10:25.or have a say in policy-making. I don't think my CLP is unusual in

:10:26. > :10:31.wanting a view on the rule book and support rule changes to improve the

:10:32. > :10:36.democratic process and also take a view, for example, on grammar

:10:37. > :10:41.schools, housing, the NHS, protecting Public Services to give a

:10:42. > :10:46.few examples. Why are these counterposed?

:10:47. > :10:52.Conference, it would be, in my view, ridiculous to suggest that this

:10:53. > :10:58.would open the floodgates because not everyone loves to read the rule

:10:59. > :11:03.book as much as I do. And not even every CLP and afilliate

:11:04. > :11:08.will take advantage of both opportunities.

:11:09. > :11:14.If they do, that's what a priorities ballot is for.

:11:15. > :11:23.We have had a fantastic increase in our membership. Let's not make our

:11:24. > :11:28.reinvigorated CLPs choose how they engage with conference.

:11:29. > :11:33.Should there be a rule change or contemporary motion? Let's be really

:11:34. > :11:40.radical and allow them to do both. Thank you, conference, I move.

:11:41. > :11:57.APPLAUSE. CHAIR: Can we have it seconded?

:11:58. > :12:04.Rachel Garner mid Bedfordshire CLP. Labour Party membership's doubled in

:12:05. > :12:07.the last year or so, CLPs like mine having reinvigorated. Members want

:12:08. > :12:11.to get out on the doorstep locally but also want to put forward their

:12:12. > :12:15.views on policy and make constructive suggestions on how our

:12:16. > :12:18.party could work better. My CLP would have liked to have put forward

:12:19. > :12:23.a contemporary motion. I had to explain to our new members and

:12:24. > :12:27.offices that unforts Natalie we couldn't because they had already

:12:28. > :12:36.submitted a rule change -- unfortunately. They were baffled.

:12:37. > :12:42.Currently there is an unnecessary and arbitrary... It makes no sense

:12:43. > :12:47.we can't do both. It's ludicrous to suggest that hundreds of affiliates

:12:48. > :12:49.and CLPs would be overcome by constitutional fervour and the

:12:50. > :12:53.conference would be overrun by hueth rule changes. We have the ballot for

:12:54. > :12:57.contemporary issues. Something similar could, if really necessary

:12:58. > :13:01.and we get really excited about the rule book, be instituted for rule

:13:02. > :13:06.changes. Andy said this could make the rule book unstable. It seems to

:13:07. > :13:11.me that what makes the rule book unstable is being asked to vote to

:13:12. > :13:15.choose between a policy-making women's conference and an extra two

:13:16. > :13:27.unelected people on the NEC. APPLAUSE.

:13:28. > :13:31.If we are having... I don't think that having a few more rule changes

:13:32. > :13:36.from constituencies is going to have quite the same impact.

:13:37. > :13:45.Conference, this is a minor change that would make a great difference

:13:46. > :13:50.and allow CLPs, affiliates, Trade Unionists, socialists to have more

:13:51. > :13:50.say. Support democracy, and vote for card vote 4.

:13:51. > :14:00.Thank you. CHAIR: Conference the next rule

:14:01. > :14:09.change is on the rights to refer back parts of the policy document

:14:10. > :14:12.and is moved by CLP member. Can we ask Wimbledon CLP to be ready for

:14:13. > :14:28.the next one. Jack Dunn, Sheffield HealeyCLP,

:14:29. > :14:32.second time to conference. The first time was in 1981 and I can tell you

:14:33. > :14:41.there's been a few changes since then.

:14:42. > :14:46.Comrades, brothers and sisters, the all-or-nothing approach to national

:14:47. > :14:50.policy is a noon sense. For -- nonsense. For too many years this

:14:51. > :14:55.has been used to limit debate and has led to the adoption of otherwise

:14:56. > :15:01.unpopular policies. This in turn results in bad policy-making.

:15:02. > :15:06.Currently, at the national policy forum, produces an economy paper,

:15:07. > :15:10.for example, it might include many proposals which delegates support.

:15:11. > :15:14.Others on which they have great concerns. Our only option is to

:15:15. > :15:26.accept or reject the whole paper. For example in 2000, conference

:15:27. > :15:30.voted the for a doudget which included excel ented proposals but

:15:31. > :15:35.also included PFI. So the whole document went through. In 2004, we

:15:36. > :15:41.were represented with an excellent educationk do um, but it also

:15:42. > :15:51.included tuition fees. We weren't able to reject tuition fees, for the

:15:52. > :15:57.fear that we would lose student grants and local education allowance

:15:58. > :15:59.and investment in Sure Start. So we passed the whole document, including

:16:00. > :16:08.tuition fees. Conference, this must change.

:16:09. > :16:16.APPLAUSE We wouldn't accept this in our Labour Party branches, or in our

:16:17. > :16:20.CLPs or union brafrnls or any other organisations we are involved with.

:16:21. > :16:30.So why accept it at national policy level? For too long the debate at

:16:31. > :16:35.conference has been stifled by this rule. The result has been bad

:16:36. > :16:45.policy. Our rules should encourage deba. Our decisions should generate

:16:46. > :16:47.good policy. Please reject this insidious and debilitating rule

:16:48. > :16:52.change, conference, I move, thank you.

:16:53. > :17:04.Plus APPLAUSE - APPLAUSE CHAIR: Conference, can that

:17:05. > :17:09.be formally seconded? The next will be moved by Wimbledon

:17:10. > :17:16.CLP. Wimbledon CLP in the room?

:17:17. > :17:24.OK, we will move to the next one to give them the chance to turn up.

:17:25. > :17:29.The next rule change is rules on CLPs, additional officer and is to

:17:30. > :17:35.be moved by Airwash CLP, are they in the room?

:17:36. > :17:35.Is there an indication that the CLP is here?

:17:36. > :17:53.# OK, colleagues, if either of the two

:17:54. > :18:00.CLPs don't turn up by the end of the debate, then both will fall.

:18:01. > :18:05.OK, colleagues, we'll now move to speakers on these rule changes, so

:18:06. > :18:11.could you indicate those who want to speak?

:18:12. > :18:19.OK. Just give me a time. I'll take the one with the red folder.

:18:20. > :18:22.The lady with the white shawl. And the lady in the green. I'll come

:18:23. > :19:03.back around again. Conference, Mike Catt, Jewish Labour

:19:04. > :19:08.movement, speaking actually on the rule change and the rule changes in

:19:09. > :19:13.appendix 1 that was circulated earlier. The rule change about

:19:14. > :19:20.rooting out racism and aepted semitism from our party.

:19:21. > :19:30.APPLAUSE Conference, I don't want to be here

:19:31. > :19:34.because I wish there hadn't been an upsurge in anti-Semitic, Islam

:19:35. > :19:38.phobic, misogynistic, and homophobic, vile hate speech in our

:19:39. > :19:42.party. Even, conference, here, in our

:19:43. > :19:48.exhibitions and on our fringe, I'm sad to report. Jeremy has said it,

:19:49. > :19:53.Tom has said it. We have all said it, there is no place for this in

:19:54. > :19:57.our party. We must root it out. Against this is backdrop, is s it

:19:58. > :20:01.any wonder, conference, any wonder, that support for Labour amongst

:20:02. > :20:12.British Jews is said to be as low as # %. Conference - asp %. The party

:20:13. > :20:16.that has done more than any other to o promote tolerance and equality,

:20:17. > :20:19.the party to wish the Jewish movement has been affiliated since

:20:20. > :20:23.1920, is not seen as a welcoming home for Jews.

:20:24. > :20:28.The leadership has acted. We welcome that. They have set up the Royal

:20:29. > :20:32.Report and the Chakrabarti Report, which had a number of good rule

:20:33. > :20:35.changes which would help our party deal with the problem. So I have to

:20:36. > :20:39.say, conference, we are beyond disappointed, we are dismayed that

:20:40. > :20:45.the NEC didn't put this forward in their package of rule changes, so we

:20:46. > :20:49.could sort this now. And in moving it, he said we had to take the rules

:20:50. > :20:54.because they require urge ented action. Conference, I have no

:20:55. > :20:59.problem with that, whatsoever. But leaving it for a debate next year,

:21:00. > :21:04.means waiting another year so we can actually put this rule change on our

:21:05. > :21:09.books. It means another year to change our rules, to make racists

:21:10. > :21:12.and anti-Semitic and other abuse as grave an offence as supporting

:21:13. > :21:16.another political party. Another year to send the signal to our

:21:17. > :21:20.members, to our minority communities, to the whole country,

:21:21. > :21:25.that we are serious about dealing with this problem. Conference, we

:21:26. > :21:29.shouldn't have to wait a year. We shouldn't have to wait a further

:21:30. > :21:34.minute. We should have been able to do it now. They had our words, they

:21:35. > :21:37.had Chakrabarti's words and they could have put them into effect

:21:38. > :21:44.immediately. So, conference, I have to sane I say this with no little

:21:45. > :21:47.regret - the JLM does feel let down but we are going noimplt we are

:21:48. > :21:53.going to be working with our members...

:21:54. > :22:00.APPLAUSE - but we are going nowhere.

:22:01. > :22:06.We are going to be working with our members, with our afill yad members,

:22:07. > :22:11.our supporters, MPs, councillors, NCLPs, and affiliates to show like

:22:12. > :22:12.in every minority community, Jews are welcome in the Labour Party.

:22:13. > :22:43.APPLAUSE And, conference, thank you for that.

:22:44. > :22:52.That means a lot. Not to us, but to the whole Jewish community. And I

:22:53. > :22:57.will say, one more thing before we I go - if we have to wait a year,

:22:58. > :23:01.sadly so be it but the next best thing we must do is renew our

:23:02. > :23:06.commitment to dealing with this. Show we are serious dealing with

:23:07. > :23:13.anti-Semitism, racism, misogyny, homophobia and it is up to all of

:23:14. > :23:17.us, from the top of this party downwards, taking be responsibility

:23:18. > :23:22.for calling out hate speech in our party, whenever we see T thank you,

:23:23. > :23:33.conference. APPLAUSE - whenever we see it.

:23:34. > :23:41.CHAIR: Can we have the next speaker, please.

:23:42. > :23:48.Thank you, Mike for me having to follow that on a similar subject.

:23:49. > :23:54.Kath McGurk, Finchley and goldier's green, a councillor in the London

:23:55. > :23:56.borough of Barnet for 22 years Finchley and #2k3w08ders green has

:23:57. > :24:01.the largest Jewish constituency base in the country. It is an issue not

:24:02. > :24:10.just for the party but the people out there. - finch Mullin and

:24:11. > :24:19.golders Green. Ers - Finchley and Goldiers Green. Although the report

:24:20. > :24:26.was said to be a white wash, there was also reports. This is not about

:24:27. > :24:31.be anti-Semitism. At the women's conference, I heard stories of

:24:32. > :24:35.discrime na, be it on sexuality, race or faith and bullying because

:24:36. > :24:39.of your gender. We do need to make it clear that discrimination of any

:24:40. > :24:44.kind is unacceptable in our party. In our country, and in the world at

:24:45. > :24:47.large. We need to show the way as our party and we need to do it now,

:24:48. > :24:57.not next year. APPLAUSE

:24:58. > :25:04.This is why my constituency of Finchley and Goldiers Green, as long

:25:05. > :25:05.with the Jewish Labour Movement and 8 constituencies, committed

:25:06. > :25:11.constitutional amendments on this be subjected. We were extremely pleased

:25:12. > :25:13.when Jeremy Corbyn, atending a hustings in north London, publicly

:25:14. > :25:19.agreed this would be taken at conference this year. Sadly, this

:25:20. > :25:25.does not seem to be the case. Comrades, I am sure you agree with

:25:26. > :25:33.me, that to show everyone that we in the Labour movement totally oppose

:25:34. > :25:37.any discrimination, bullying, homophobia, and misogyny,

:25:38. > :25:44.anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, this year we saw for the first time, a

:25:45. > :25:54.Muslim elected as mayor in a major city 234 Europe. - in Europe.

:25:55. > :25:58.He faced attacks from the Tories and the Tory press, something even me,

:25:59. > :26:04.who has been a member for 34 years, and a councillor for 22 years, have

:26:05. > :26:10.never seen the like of. We as a party joined forces and fought that,

:26:11. > :26:15.electing him with a huge mandate, the biggest mandate in Europe. We

:26:16. > :26:21.absolutely must oppose the bigotry and discrimination. We need to act

:26:22. > :26:26.without delay. The rhetoric is fine. I urge a rethink now. Actions speak

:26:27. > :26:29.louder than words. We must move now, thank you, comrades.

:26:30. > :26:36.APPLAUSE APPLAUSE

:26:37. > :26:41.CHAIR: Before the next speaker, I can get three more n because we are

:26:42. > :26:47.way behind. I will try this side of the room this time.

:26:48. > :26:52.Lad there in the red. Lady there with the pink folder.

:26:53. > :26:57.And the lady there with the red. Sorry, there's three. Yes, you.

:26:58. > :27:01.OK, colleagues. Conference Jackie Bailey member of

:27:02. > :27:08.the Scottish Parliament from Dunbar tonne.

:27:09. > :27:13.Here today to take a risk and invite you all to come to Scottish

:27:14. > :27:18.conference in February, but I do so as a thank you for what I hope you

:27:19. > :27:24.are about to do. Because today you have an opportunity to help us. To

:27:25. > :27:28.bring to an end a decade-long debate over Scotland's place in the Labour

:27:29. > :27:33.Party. An opportunity to close the door on our opponents, who make the

:27:34. > :27:37.accusation that Scottish Labour cannot be for Scotland. An

:27:38. > :27:42.opportunity to help us write a new chapter, as we build our party to be

:27:43. > :27:46.an electoral force in the future. You know, it is that important. So,

:27:47. > :27:51.please don't squander that opportunity. Because the reforms we

:27:52. > :27:55.are voting on today aren't just technical changes, they are

:27:56. > :27:59.fundamental to the future of the party in Scotland. And you know

:28:00. > :28:04.whilst Labour was the party of devolution, radically reforming the

:28:05. > :28:08.way the country was run, we didn't match that with devolution in the

:28:09. > :28:11.party itself and today we need to change that. Because our politics is

:28:12. > :28:24.not the politics of the Westminster bubble. We have been proud, as a

:28:25. > :28:28.Labour Government, to devolve power and it is time to do that for the

:28:29. > :28:31.party, too. The proposals before you today haven't just arrived

:28:32. > :28:36.yesterday. They have come about after discussion between Kez and

:28:37. > :28:39.injury mi. A year-long conversation between the SEC and NEC and

:28:40. > :28:43.extensive conversation with members and trade unions, too. This is what

:28:44. > :28:49.our members and affiliates want. It's been our aspiration for more

:28:50. > :28:56.than a decade. So, let me turn foint of contention - representation on

:28:57. > :29:02.the NEC - let me turn to the point. Our UK leader was elected with 61% -

:29:03. > :29:07.I'm getting this wrong. Our UK leader was elected with 61% of the

:29:08. > :29:14.vote. Our Scottish leader was elected with 72% of the vote.

:29:15. > :29:17.APPLAUSE Nobody is questioning Jeremy

:29:18. > :29:21.Corbyn's absolute right to be on the NEC. We are a devolved party. The

:29:22. > :29:28.Scottish leader should be there, too, as should the Welsh leader.

:29:29. > :29:34.APPLAUSE And finally, conference, let me just

:29:35. > :29:38.tell you - I have got a postcard on my wall in the Scottish Parliament

:29:39. > :29:44.and it says "Labour women make policy, not tea." That postcard's

:29:45. > :29:48.quite old. Today, you have an opportunity to make sure that Labour

:29:49. > :29:57.Women's Conference absolutely makes poll sane not tea. Today I ask you

:29:58. > :30:00.to for women, for bursaries for working class candidates, for ethnic

:30:01. > :30:07.minorities and disabled and do you know what, vote for Scotland and

:30:08. > :30:22.Wales, too. APPLAUSE

:30:23. > :30:31.Hi, conference. Tom Honeywell from Wirral West. I'm speaking in favour

:30:32. > :30:34.of the NEC's proposed rule changes because Labour voters and the

:30:35. > :30:39.country need a Labour Government and to get a Labour Government we need

:30:40. > :30:46.Labour in Scotland and in Wales. If we don't start showing that we care

:30:47. > :30:51.about Scotland and Wales, we will never win in Scotland again and we

:30:52. > :30:55.will soon lose Wales. So conference, I'll keep this short and sweet, if

:30:56. > :30:57.we turn our back on them, they will turn their backs on us for ever.

:30:58. > :31:23.Thank you. APPLAUSE.

:31:24. > :31:32.East Kilbride CLP. I see a theme developing here. You know, This is

:31:33. > :31:35.my first time at conference and the first time delegate and speaker,

:31:36. > :31:41.obviously. But I am passionate about Scottish

:31:42. > :31:44.Labour, aim speaking today to support the NEC rule changes

:31:45. > :31:50.package. Scottish Labour's been through so very much in the last few

:31:51. > :31:56.years. We have a leader who set out her agenda and a positive future in

:31:57. > :32:01.the debate yesterday. You, the conference gave her a resounding

:32:02. > :32:05.endorsement. Now give her the tools to deliver. I and many others have

:32:06. > :32:09.come pained tirelessly for the Labour Party and we have been

:32:10. > :32:14.battered and we have been down, but we are certainly not out. We are

:32:15. > :32:19.fighters. Scotland cannot be seen as a branch office. We deserve

:32:20. > :32:25.autonomy. We need the take the fight to the Tories and the SNP in

:32:26. > :32:28.Scotland. We must do this as Scottish Labour autonomous and

:32:29. > :32:36.united with the Labour Party. The Labour Party that I'm proud to be a

:32:37. > :32:43.member of. If the we are ever to see a Labour Government, we need to win

:32:44. > :32:47.back our support in Scotland if this proposal is not backed just because

:32:48. > :32:55.of some people playing political games, then we are just going to be

:32:56. > :33:00.handing a major prize to the Tories, that's what we'll be doing. Please

:33:01. > :33:04.do not let this be on your conscience. We in Scotland, we are

:33:05. > :33:09.Scottish Labour and we are part of the Labour Party. Unity through

:33:10. > :33:10.autonomy, conference. Please vote for this rule change.

:33:11. > :33:32.APPLAUSE. Camberwell and Peckham. First time

:33:33. > :33:36.delegate and first time speaker. APPLAUSE.

:33:37. > :33:40.Conference, I'm going to keep it short. We have spent the summer

:33:41. > :33:44.looking inward and arguing amongst ourselves.

:33:45. > :33:48.The NEC and our hard-working Labour staff have been under huge pressure

:33:49. > :33:52.all summer, including sitting through some challenging and

:33:53. > :33:57.extremely long meetings. Some of their decisions have split

:33:58. > :33:59.the NEC on a knife edge vote. But there's been an overwhelming

:34:00. > :34:05.majority to put this complete package to conference.

:34:06. > :34:08.In the hall yesterday, I listened to John McDonnell's call to arms. We

:34:09. > :34:14.need to be prepared for a general election as soon as possible.

:34:15. > :34:19.Jeremy's collar-on call and the theme of this conference has been to

:34:20. > :34:24.find unity so we can move forward. Let's get started on this journey by

:34:25. > :34:28.voting for this unified package Taggarth together, then we can put

:34:29. > :34:34.the division behind us and better spend our time taking the fight to

:34:35. > :34:41.the Tories. Thank you. -- package together. CHAIR: Conference, can I

:34:42. > :34:48.just come back to the two CLPs that weren't here earlier. Is Wimbledon

:34:49. > :34:59.in the room to move? Just shout if it's Wimbledon. No. OK, that falls.

:35:00. > :35:02.And the other CLP in the room? No that falls. Can I now ask Andy Kerr

:35:03. > :35:22.to reply to the debate. Andy. CHAIR: Sorry, conference, we are so

:35:23. > :35:32.far behind because of the debate earlier today. Andy?

:35:33. > :35:42.Thank you, we hear you. Andy Kerr replying to the debate. I

:35:43. > :35:46.make a few fairly quick points. CHAIR: Have your point of order.

:35:47. > :35:57.APPLAUSE. Apologies to Andy because I know you

:35:58. > :36:01.were just doing your job and I didn't mean to disrupt you. But this

:36:02. > :36:06.party needs to have a debate and the platform of attempting to rig the

:36:07. > :36:11.discussion by not allowing those who oppose the rule changes to come up

:36:12. > :36:17.here and make the argument because they know that they don't have

:36:18. > :36:22.responses to our arguments and the package going forth will gerrymander

:36:23. > :36:30.the NEC and allow for the decision made at the weekend to be vetoed by

:36:31. > :36:35.Parliamentarians who're non-accountable to this movement!

:36:36. > :36:42.CHAIR: Conference, I think we have just had a speech to thank you for

:36:43. > :36:49.that, colleague. Andy Kerr? Thanks, Paddy. Just make a few quick

:36:50. > :36:54.remarks hopefully. Goodness. Colleagues, we are just trying to

:36:55. > :36:58.make progress. We have a lot of business, policy. Housing is the

:36:59. > :37:04.next debate. We are trying to get people in to talk about the main

:37:05. > :37:14.substance of the policies. Andy? Point of order...

:37:15. > :37:21.Conference, in the spirit of unity, APPLAUSE.

:37:22. > :37:28.I know people are getting heated in this debate but please conference,

:37:29. > :37:34.let's go through. Ashfield, not much to reply on Ashfield, you heard what

:37:35. > :37:39.the comrade said about that, I overwhelmingly support that motion.

:37:40. > :37:45.The afilliation is still in this party at local and national level.

:37:46. > :37:50.There's nothing between us on the policies. We are agreed. The issue

:37:51. > :37:57.is, we'd have to have two ballots in the one day. It's been in place now

:37:58. > :38:00.that we have eight debates, contemporary motions debated in the

:38:01. > :38:06.conference. That will continue. There's a process in place, it works

:38:07. > :38:11.well and it will work well for a long while to come and there's no

:38:12. > :38:18.need to move this motion. I ask you to vote against. Harry from Mid

:38:19. > :38:21.Norfolk. The issue with Harry, I'll reiterate what I said before - I

:38:22. > :38:24.accept that not every constituency will put in the rule change and put

:38:25. > :38:29.in a motion for debate, I accept that. Of course that's the case. But

:38:30. > :38:33.whatever happens, there'll be more rules being debated and we have to

:38:34. > :38:36.stop this looking inward and start looking outwards. It's a matter of

:38:37. > :38:43.more time for rules or more time for policy? I support the policy.

:38:44. > :38:48.We will review it in the processes going forward. Jack from Sheffield

:38:49. > :38:52.Healey - we have had this debate many times before. There is an

:38:53. > :38:55.ongoing review on policy-making. I did say it's been commissioned by

:38:56. > :39:00.our leader Jeremy Corbyn and the NEC. There is an ongoing review

:39:01. > :39:04.about how policies are formed. I would ask you not to support this

:39:05. > :39:07.rule change at this time but we'll take everything into consideration

:39:08. > :39:13.during the review. On the issue Mike raised, on the

:39:14. > :39:17.Chakrabarti report, we'll implement the recommendations. We have adopted

:39:18. > :39:21.the code of conduct, signed it off last week, we will be working on it.

:39:22. > :39:26.There is more discussion needs to take place on rule changes, but I

:39:27. > :39:30.want to make it clear on behalf of the NEC. Discrimination of any kind

:39:31. > :39:31.is not acceptable in this party. Not acceptable.

:39:32. > :39:44.APPLAUSE. I will make one more point. Not only

:39:45. > :39:48.is it not acceptable, we need to challenge ourselves. If it happens

:39:49. > :39:55.and we see it, we challenge it. APPLAUSE.

:39:56. > :39:59.Jackie, Tom, Fiona, Sarah, certainly Tom, Jackie are saying the same

:40:00. > :40:05.thing about members and affiliates in Scotland. We consulted in Wales

:40:06. > :40:10.and in Scotland, both myself, Cath who's dealing with Wales, Joanna

:40:11. > :40:13.Baxter was involved too, we did talk to affiliates in both Wales and

:40:14. > :40:18.Scotland, we did talk to members in both Wales and Scotland, we did talk

:40:19. > :40:22.to the Welsh executives, the Scottish Executives. This was a

:40:23. > :40:27.matter for long debate. It's in place. I ask you for this and for no

:40:28. > :40:31.other reason, we cannot go back on this one. We have given a commitment

:40:32. > :40:33.to both Scotland and Wales on this. We must support this one.

:40:34. > :40:39.APPLAUSE. .

:40:40. > :40:46.The other issues that are causing the make-up of the NEC, I can assure

:40:47. > :40:52.you, Court of Appeal deal with it in the next few months. Conference, I

:40:53. > :40:57.would ask you to support the NEC recommendations and I really mean

:40:58. > :41:02.this, in the spirit of unity, let's work together on this I ask you to

:41:03. > :41:05.support the NEC recommendations, thank you.

:41:06. > :41:09.APPLAUSE. CHAIR: Thank you, Andy. The votes

:41:10. > :41:16.will be taken at the end of this session. I now hand over the Chair

:41:17. > :41:28.to Shabana Mahmood. Thank you very much, Paddy.

:41:29. > :41:34.Conference, we'll now take the contemporary composite on housing to

:41:35. > :41:39.be moved by Gravesham CLP and, could I also ask that South East Cornwall

:41:40. > :42:04.PLP be ready to come up here and second. Thank you.

:42:05. > :42:15.Good morning, conference. Gravesham CLP in Kent. I'm proud to be moving

:42:16. > :42:21.the composite motion on housing. I'm a first-time speaker.

:42:22. > :42:26.APPLAUSE. And thankfully because our motion

:42:27. > :42:59.was chosen, I didn't jump around this year to play attention.

:43:00. > :43:08.... But to build even more council housing And with the much-talked

:43:09. > :43:14.about Ebbsfleet garden city on our doorstep, we want our residents to

:43:15. > :43:18.benefit, while shielding those most in need of decent and affordable

:43:19. > :43:22.housing from the harshness of the Tories housing and planning act. But

:43:23. > :43:31.it's an issue that doesn't just affect us in Gravesham. It would be

:43:32. > :43:37.remiss of me now, Chair to say that many colleagues worked late in the

:43:38. > :43:43.night to agree this motion. Namely from South East Cornwall,

:43:44. > :43:52.Kensington, Isle of Wight, Islington North, Epsom, fors of Dean,

:43:53. > :43:56.Guildford, hofrn ham and Rochford and South Thanet and. I am indebted

:43:57. > :44:01.to you will a of them. I think this long list shows how passionately

:44:02. > :44:04.many of us feel from different parts of our country because we realised

:44:05. > :44:10.the devastating impact it is going to have on our communities.

:44:11. > :44:17.Especially those that most need the stablted of secure social housing.

:44:18. > :44:23.People need and deserve decent affordable housing. Actually,

:44:24. > :44:26.conference, there is a huge difference between the Tories

:44:27. > :44:32.so-called affordable house, costing hundreds of thousands of pounds, and

:44:33. > :44:42.council housing. We as Labour need to build council housing.

:44:43. > :44:48.And in this regard I want to congratulate my South East

:44:49. > :44:51.colleagues, Labour-run Milton Keynes council, which is embarking upon the

:44:52. > :44:59.biggest council-house building programme outside of London.

:45:00. > :45:03.APPLAUSE They are showing what Labour in

:45:04. > :45:07.power can deliver. Indeed in the run-up to the important May council

:45:08. > :45:13.elections, the message that we need to take out to our communities, is

:45:14. > :45:17.that even under a mean Tory Government, if you have a Labour

:45:18. > :45:21.council and elect Labour councillors, then they will fight

:45:22. > :45:29.for your interests, for rights for you and your children to provide the

:45:30. > :45:32.services you must need. The previous Tory-led Government brought in the

:45:33. > :45:40.deplorable bedroom tax, which didn't even spare the most vulnerable in

:45:41. > :45:44.our society. I had people coming up to me as a parliamentary candidate,

:45:45. > :45:51.in tears, because they were trying to explain the rushing impact it was

:45:52. > :45:55.having on their lives. And now the Tories are trying to bring in, and

:45:56. > :46:04.force upon us a tenant tax. We as Labour need to fight against that.

:46:05. > :46:07.That is why, conference, I-upably ushling you to support this motion,

:46:08. > :46:43.I move. Hello, South East Cornwall, speaking

:46:44. > :46:50.first time at the conference and I'm here to second the composite 9 on

:46:51. > :46:59.housing. Delegates there are over 29,000 people on the housing

:47:00. > :47:05.register in Cornwall. That's not 29,000 single people, that's 29,000

:47:06. > :47:11.applicants for families, many of whom are disabled or have a disabled

:47:12. > :47:16.member in their family. Because you don't get on the list unless you do

:47:17. > :47:25.these days. In my own town oflies guard, there

:47:26. > :47:30.are 350 families on the urgent housing need - Lisgard.

:47:31. > :47:34.The Conservatives have completely failed to do anything for these

:47:35. > :47:38.people on the urgent need register. In fact their policies have done the

:47:39. > :47:43.exact opposite. They have made the situation a million times worse.

:47:44. > :47:50.APPLAUSE The reasons for this is that they

:47:51. > :47:59.are not - their housing policy is not about housing people, it's about

:48:00. > :48:06.creating mortgages. And their housing policies shows this with the

:48:07. > :48:10.right-to-buy and the tax breaks for landlords and for second

:48:11. > :48:16.home-owners. In Cornwall, second home-owners have

:48:17. > :48:23.pushed up the prices of houses to an extent where local people can no

:48:24. > :48:34.longer afford to buy in the areas in which they were born. Someone on an

:48:35. > :48:38.average ?22,000 a year, in Cornwall, will need ?11 to 13 times' their

:48:39. > :48:42.salary in order to buy a house, especially if they lived in one of

:48:43. > :48:50.the pretty villages, where people like to go for their holidays, which

:48:51. > :48:56.die over the winter time because they are 45% holiday lets, second

:48:57. > :49:03.homes, holiday homes. The Conservatives policies are

:49:04. > :49:07.destroying those communities and forcing local families inland, into

:49:08. > :49:12.what's left of the council houses, which are unsaleable.

:49:13. > :49:18.Unmortgageable, and in a lot of cases, uninhabitable. Although

:49:19. > :49:27.throwing them on the mercy of private landlords who are in receipt

:49:28. > :49:30.of housing benefits, in large figures, on three months'-long

:49:31. > :49:35.leases. So you could be in somewhere for three months with your children

:49:36. > :49:41.at school, and then you could be somewhere else ten miles away, in a

:49:42. > :49:45.village on the edge of Bodmin Moor, ten miles away from the nearest

:49:46. > :49:55.doctor, the nearest schools, the nearest libraries.

:49:56. > :49:59.Delegate, can I ask you to wind-up? Delegates, access to good-quality

:50:00. > :50:05.homes at an affordable price is a businessic human need and the Labour

:50:06. > :50:09.Party should have a joined-up policy to help people be housed adequately.

:50:10. > :50:10.Delegates I ask you to support this motion.

:50:11. > :50:22.APPLAUSE Thank you very much, we can now take

:50:23. > :50:27.some speakers on this movements can I just get an indication of all

:50:28. > :50:34.those who wish to speak? Lady in the stripy top. Gentlemen in

:50:35. > :50:39.the red shirt. We'll take those two to start with. No pressure or

:50:40. > :50:43.anything but if you are both quick, I might be able to squeeze somebody

:50:44. > :51:03.else in, we are running very short on time.

:51:04. > :51:10.CHAIR, CONFERENCE, CAROL FROM UNISON. IT IS CLEAR ACROSS the UK

:51:11. > :51:14.that there is a housing crisis that is worsening day biday, adults of

:51:15. > :51:17.all ages and families of all sizes across the country are have youling

:51:18. > :51:24.to find a decent and affordable home to live in. Conference, rates are

:51:25. > :51:28.rising, house prices are rising. Sadly, house ownership levels are

:51:29. > :51:32.falling. Yet, fewer social and affordable homes are being built at

:51:33. > :51:45.a time when this is desperately needed. More and more Unison

:51:46. > :51:48.members, providing public services are forced to commute long distances

:51:49. > :51:53.because of the high costs of living. Many more are suffering high rent in

:51:54. > :51:56.substandard private renting, young adults are staying at home longer

:51:57. > :52:00.with their parents, because they are not afford to live independently

:52:01. > :52:05.and, when young adults do find housing, this is likely to be in the

:52:06. > :52:09.substandard private rented sector, due to the lack of social housing

:52:10. > :52:21.and financial home ownership. Those who are lucky enough to find a

:52:22. > :52:26.decent home are often find high rent swallows up their income withlittle

:52:27. > :52:29.left over for living costs. It is rising day by day and blighting the

:52:30. > :52:32.experience of many, especially low-paid and you will have nefrnlt a

:52:33. > :52:38.key solution to the housing crisis is to build more social and

:52:39. > :52:46.affordable homes at prices ordinary citizens can afford. Unison is in

:52:47. > :52:50.favour of this, housing campaigners are in favour of this, the Labour

:52:51. > :52:54.Party is in favour of this, politicians across the political

:52:55. > :52:59.spectrum are in favour of this and even some ministers in favour of

:53:00. > :53:05.this. That is why Unison will continue to campaign for more

:53:06. > :53:09.housing that is affordable for our members and the wider society.

:53:10. > :53:13.Housing policy has always been central to the Labour Party and

:53:14. > :53:17.twhen gets it right, it wins popular support. Labour needs to grasp the

:53:18. > :53:20.opportunity and get on the front foot of housing, developing credible

:53:21. > :53:27.policies that appeal across the country. Let's see the Labour Party

:53:28. > :53:31.focus completely on winning power. It's no good being in opposition.

:53:32. > :53:36.Unison members need a Labour Party, let's make it happen.

:53:37. > :54:00.David, GMB representative. I have long maintained that politics is

:54:01. > :54:04.about the food in your mouth and the roof over your head. If there isn't,

:54:05. > :54:07.that our politics must resolve the issue. The selling off of council

:54:08. > :54:11.houses, the uncertainty of work, low pay and more have all contributed to

:54:12. > :54:14.a rise in those without homes and those in precarious accommodation.

:54:15. > :54:19.The fact of the matter is that there is no way of dealing with the

:54:20. > :54:24.problem of rented houses in modern society, except by public ownership.

:54:25. > :54:27.So spoke Nye Bevan. We in the Labour Party recognise that collective

:54:28. > :54:32.issues require collective resolutions and cannot be left

:54:33. > :54:39.solely to the private sector. As chair of the GMB Young Members

:54:40. > :54:42.Network it would be remisof me not to highlight the debilitating

:54:43. > :54:46.destruction this wreaks. All too tauven provides on local authorities

:54:47. > :54:52.to provide support, they are themselves under the cosh of

:54:53. > :54:57.austerity may not have the capacity to xi.s I took the liberty of voting

:54:58. > :55:02.Nye Bevan at the start of the speech. It is not indulgence, first

:55:03. > :55:07.Seine, although I do live in Cardiff roe. He is lauded for establishing

:55:08. > :55:12.the NHS but housing fell within his remit T doesn't seem to have dawned

:55:13. > :55:17.on some people in this country vast majority of us can't afford to buy a

:55:18. > :55:20.us who, over half a century on, we find ourselves in the same position,

:55:21. > :55:23.unless we adopt this motion a and make sure it is a central piece of

:55:24. > :55:27.the Labour Party policy, we will find ourselves in the same situation

:55:28. > :55:32.in another 50 years, where hundreds and thousands of people are not able

:55:33. > :55:37.to have homes. We are called adealists when we highlight the

:55:38. > :55:42.plight of holelessness and are accused of idealists when standing

:55:43. > :55:49.up to woe, and for having the at thor it of having socialist poll

:55:50. > :55:55.circumstances. Yeshts the Labour Party was found on such idealism. I

:55:56. > :55:59.was proud to stand at this rostrum in 2015 where I professed an article

:56:00. > :56:03.of faith. Socialism is the curious distaste of the suffering of others

:56:04. > :56:06.and the resolve to change T my brothers and sisters, the Labour

:56:07. > :56:09.Party must be that resolve made manifest. The Labour Party will

:56:10. > :56:13.build houses. The Labour Party will create jo, the Labour Party will

:56:14. > :56:17.create unionised jobs. The Labour Party will fashion a better society

:56:18. > :56:21.and the hopes with which people can dwell within T afterall, conference,

:56:22. > :56:24.we are the builders and like the great Nye Bevan before us, we seek

:56:25. > :56:26.to build a society worthy of the name. Solidarity and please support

:56:27. > :56:38.this motion. APPLAUSE

:56:39. > :56:41.Thank you very much and because both delegates didn't take their full

:56:42. > :56:44.time, we can squeeze in one more speaker. The gentlemen with the red

:56:45. > :57:17.thing in his lapel there. Conference, Frank, leader of radio

:57:18. > :57:18.Glasgow Labour council, Scotland's largest stain the biggest Labour

:57:19. > :57:40.group in Scotland. From pioneers like Mary Barber who

:57:41. > :57:44.fought the rent against the landlords 100 years ago to join

:57:45. > :57:51.probably the best Housing Minister this country's ever seen.

:57:52. > :57:57.We have an ambition in Glasgow to make sure we continue the progress

:57:58. > :58:00.because in 1997, we had the highest rents, the largest debt and the

:58:01. > :58:05.least satisfaction with their housing.

:58:06. > :58:09.It required a Labour Government, a Labour Government, to spend the

:58:10. > :58:14.issue of a billion debt being relieved in the people of Glasgow to

:58:15. > :58:20.invest in our housing. And next year, when the SNP claim to take the

:58:21. > :58:24.mantle of Scottish Labour, next year when they'll try and take a number

:58:25. > :58:29.of Labour authorities in Scotland, we must remind people the difference

:58:30. > :58:35.a Labour council can make the everyone's life. Even this very

:58:36. > :58:40.moment, we are always concluding a deal to make sure that 2,000 workers

:58:41. > :58:45.in our city building will be guaranteed employment for the next

:58:46. > :58:50.30 years in a unionised work place making sure they've got chances for

:58:51. > :58:58.themselves and their families. This's what Labour does in action.

:58:59. > :59:01.The SNP will talk about tackling inequality, reducing the inner

:59:02. > :59:06.quality gap. We are fundamentally committed to working with the people

:59:07. > :59:09.of Glasgow to transform our city. We are investing in housing, we are

:59:10. > :59:14.investing in education, we are investing in jobs, we are creating

:59:15. > :59:18.the opportunity to make sure people are looked after. We were the first

:59:19. > :59:23.Council of Scotland to introduce the living wage. We were the first

:59:24. > :59:26.council in Scotland to say the Trade Union Bill was unacceptable and we

:59:27. > :59:30.are the first council in Scotland to say, when it came to the refugee

:59:31. > :59:35.crisis, not how many can we take, it was how many can you give us, to

:59:36. > :59:40.make sure we can look after many of the most vulnerable.

:59:41. > :59:44.APPLAUSE. So we have a challenge and I say to

:59:45. > :59:49.every delegate here today we are passionate very off none the Labour

:59:50. > :59:54.Party about rule books. Let's be passionate about changing people,

:59:55. > :00:01.giving them the chance. So next the test is, can we hold the largest

:00:02. > :00:05.city in Scotland, can we roll back the nationalist advance? Can we make

:00:06. > :00:10.sure that the people of Glasgow are people who put them first and not

:00:11. > :00:14.the constitution? If we can do that, we can make a difference. I ask each

:00:15. > :00:17.and every one of you to commit to that over the next period. I would

:00:18. > :00:21.love to see you in Glasgow to make sure we can hold a Labour Council

:00:22. > :00:23.for The people of Glasgow to make a difference in the future. Thank you.

:00:24. > :00:37.APPLAUSE. CHAIR: Thank you. We'll now start

:00:38. > :00:41.the debate on health and care. The policy commission annual report is

:00:42. > :00:46.on pages 24-28 of the national policy forum report and the

:00:47. > :00:51.priorities issues document is on pages 74-80. We'll also take the

:00:52. > :00:55.temporary composite on the NHS. Joanna Baxter, move the policy

:00:56. > :01:09.commission annual report on behalf of the National Executive Committee.

:01:10. > :01:17.Chair, conference, a publicly owned health care system free at the point

:01:18. > :01:21.of need. That's Labour's creation and our greatest achievement. And

:01:22. > :01:24.after breaking my ankle in several places earlier this year, it's one I

:01:25. > :01:29.literally wouldn't be standing here without.

:01:30. > :01:34.The Tories are taking our NHS backwards and failing to protect our

:01:35. > :01:40.most precious institution. And their record is a shameful one.

:01:41. > :01:46.Record levels of deficits in hospital Trusts, patients waiting

:01:47. > :01:48.for hours and hours to be seen, key targets being missed

:01:49. > :01:52.across-the-board, cuts to older people's care, delayed discharges

:01:53. > :01:58.from hospitals at record high. Patients trapped on hospital wards

:01:59. > :02:03.with nowhere to go and the worst A performance in a decade and it's not

:02:04. > :02:14.even winter yet. So shame on you Jeremy Hunt.

:02:15. > :02:17.APPLAUSE. Our mental Health Services have

:02:18. > :02:22.traditionally been seen as the Cinderella of the NHS. This

:02:23. > :02:29.Government is failing to provide mental Health Services. Since 2010,

:02:30. > :02:33.we have lost nearly 5,000 mental health nurses. It's feared the

:02:34. > :02:37.Government's unfair decision to scrap NHS bursaries for nurses and

:02:38. > :02:42.allied health workers will have a negative impact on the numbers of

:02:43. > :02:50.mental health nurses compromising the future supply of our men tall

:02:51. > :02:55.health nursing workforce. In 2011-2012 investment in mental

:02:56. > :03:00.health fell by ?150 million, the first fall in investment in a

:03:01. > :03:05.decade. Analysis shows that over the last Parliament, funding for mental

:03:06. > :03:10.health fell by 8% in real terms. That's why this year, conference,

:03:11. > :03:18.our Health Commission's priority document focussed on the issues of

:03:19. > :03:26.mental health. I want to pay tribute to the work done from our Shadow

:03:27. > :03:29.minister on mental health. APPLAUSE.

:03:30. > :03:35.Our policy commission looked at some key issues. Parity of esteem between

:03:36. > :03:38.mental and physical health. Importance of early intervention and

:03:39. > :03:42.prevention to help our mental health system move away from being one that

:03:43. > :03:46.only deals with issues once they have reached crisis point.

:03:47. > :03:50.And ensuring that mental health policies work for everybody in a

:03:51. > :03:54.society, recognising that mental health affects people of all ages

:03:55. > :03:58.and from all backgrounds and walks of life.

:03:59. > :04:02.The government should be doing much more on that vital issue and in so

:04:03. > :04:10.many other areas of our Health Service.

:04:11. > :04:16.And when leading Tories promised us ?350 million a week more investment

:04:17. > :04:21.for the NHS just a few short months ago, their record is even more

:04:22. > :04:29.shameful than that. So I have to say, Boris Johnson, where is the

:04:30. > :04:31.investment for the NHS? Where is our ?350 million a week investment for

:04:32. > :04:44.our Health Service? Shame on you. And the Tories have also made cuts

:04:45. > :04:49.to public Health Services, putting at risk preventative schemes such as

:04:50. > :04:54.screening sexual health and smoking cessation. The Government's delayed

:04:55. > :04:58.childhood obesity strategy which was finally published this summer is a

:04:59. > :05:01.missed opportunity and highlights the Government's complete lack of

:05:02. > :05:06.commitment to solving the obesity crisis.

:05:07. > :05:10.Let's be very clear, conference, patients are being let down by this

:05:11. > :05:15.Tory Government. And so are NHS workers.

:05:16. > :05:20.The Tories are putting our future supply of nurses and health workers

:05:21. > :05:25.at risk by scrapping nurse bursaries. Jeremy Hunt has failed to

:05:26. > :05:30.resolve the junior doctors contract which has led to join Yorkshirior

:05:31. > :05:35.doctors being forced to take industrial action just to have their

:05:36. > :05:39.voices heard -- junior doctors. The Tories need to build retrust that

:05:40. > :05:44.they have lost with junior doctors and get back around the negotiating

:05:45. > :05:55.table to find a solution which puts in place a fair and safe contract.

:05:56. > :05:58.APPLAUSE. The simple fact is the Tories have

:05:59. > :06:04.no answers to the challenges we face, other than taking our country

:06:05. > :06:09.backwards. There's no plan to tackle the financial crisis facing the NHS

:06:10. > :06:13.and social care. Imposing a new contract on junior doctors and

:06:14. > :06:19.cutting NHS bursaries will risk making staff shortages in the NHS

:06:20. > :06:24.even worse. Staff shouldn't be punished for this Government's

:06:25. > :06:30.financial mismanagement of the NHS. And cuts to public health will end

:06:31. > :06:35.up putting more pressure on the NHS as vital preventative services get

:06:36. > :06:40.slashed. So conference, it's our

:06:41. > :06:44.responsibility to protect the NHS. We can only do that if we get back

:06:45. > :06:50.into Government. So let this be the one thing that

:06:51. > :06:52.unites every single person in this hall and beyond.

:06:53. > :07:14.I move the report. CHAIR: Thank you Johanna.

:07:15. > :07:19.Contemporary composite 7 to be moved by Sutton CLP. Westminster North CLP

:07:20. > :07:50.to be ready and in place to go second.

:07:51. > :07:54.Hi, I'm Bonnie Craven, long-term activist, but this is my first

:07:55. > :08:08.conference. 31 submissions were made on this

:08:09. > :08:12.motion and I'm really honoured to be moving this incredibly important

:08:13. > :08:16.motion. Our NHS is probably the finest

:08:17. > :08:22.achievement of our movement and yet it's in real danger of real

:08:23. > :08:28.immediate danger of being destroyed. Former Tory Prime Minister, John

:08:29. > :08:32.Major, was born in our local NHS hospital, St Helier, and under his

:08:33. > :08:37.Government, we saw the introduction of private finance to our hospitals

:08:38. > :08:41.via the public private partnerships. These and PFI leaked money from our

:08:42. > :08:46.NHS and are partly responsible for bringing it to its knees. In

:08:47. > :08:52.association with chronic and persistent underfunding. St Hellever

:08:53. > :08:55.hospital, the one he was born in may now face closure -- St Helier, along

:08:56. > :09:01.with Queen Mary's Hospital on the same site. This Tory Government is

:09:02. > :09:09.taking PFI even further. Conference, this motion commits us to ending

:09:10. > :09:18.PFI. APPLAUSE.

:09:19. > :09:22.In 1988 Oliver Letwin wrote a book called privatising the world, widely

:09:23. > :09:26.regarded as the blueprint for the privatisation of our Public Services

:09:27. > :09:29.including the NHS. The health and social care Act 2012 removed the Lea

:09:30. > :09:35.duty of the Secretary of State for Health to provide a comprehensive

:09:36. > :09:37.National Health Service. It also demanded contracting out in the NHS

:09:38. > :09:43.in the development of a market place. Has seen the administration

:09:44. > :09:48.costs rise from around 6% to about 15% of total NHS spend.

:09:49. > :09:55.Destruction of the NHS has continued to pace under the Tory and Tory-led

:09:56. > :09:59.Government since 2010. The unwanted, unhelpful top-down re-Organisation

:10:00. > :10:03.of Our NHS, along with the further 22 billion worth of cuts by 2020

:10:04. > :10:08.sees our National Health Service facing a real crisis.

:10:09. > :10:14.Right across the nation, our hospitals are under threat of

:10:15. > :10:17.closure. The so-called sustainability and transformation

:10:18. > :10:23.plans, STPs, will be announced next month. These could see the number of

:10:24. > :10:29.England's hospitals slashed by more than half from 140 hospitals across

:10:30. > :10:32.England, to between 70 and just 44. In my own part of South West London,

:10:33. > :10:37.we are facing the possible closure of the three nearest hospitals,

:10:38. > :10:40.placing intolerable pressure on the already overstretched St George's

:10:41. > :10:43.Hospital. This is not unique to my area. These threats run right across

:10:44. > :10:47.the country from Cornwall to right here in Liverpool.

:10:48. > :10:51.In Britain, we already have fewer beds per 1,000 people than most

:10:52. > :10:56.other countries, even including Latvia and Greece.

:10:57. > :11:00.The awarding of NHS contracts to private providers such as Virgin

:11:01. > :11:07.Care must be stopped and reversed. Money spent on the NHS...

:11:08. > :11:12.APPLAUSE. Money spent on the NHS should be

:11:13. > :11:20.used to invest in it, not to line the pockets of the shareholders.

:11:21. > :11:24.APPLAUSE. For the first time ever our junior

:11:25. > :11:29.doctors have been forced into strike action. Nurses have had their

:11:30. > :11:35.training bursaries removed. It's disgraceful. We need a rolling

:11:36. > :11:39.programme of increased ownership of ancillary and back office services.

:11:40. > :11:42.We need our NHS and social care to be publicly funded, publicly owned,

:11:43. > :11:43.publicly provided and publicly accountable.

:11:44. > :11:55.APPLAUSE. It must be a service that is

:11:56. > :12:02.comprehensive, universal and free at the point of need. We all rely on

:12:03. > :12:07.our NHS. Without our health, we have nothing. Our Labour Party must say

:12:08. > :12:12.no to the privatisation of the NHS, no to the cuts and closures in the

:12:13. > :12:21.NHS and no to the market in the NHS. APPLAUSE.

:12:22. > :12:25.We do not have to accept the destruction of our National Health

:12:26. > :12:28.Service. The under-funding and by now bare-faced privatisation in the

:12:29. > :12:31.NHS is a political choice, not a necessity.

:12:32. > :12:50.We must protect our National Health Service. I move.

:12:51. > :13:04.Westminster North. Chair and conference, the Tories pretend that

:13:05. > :13:09.cuts in our NHS are inevitable. They refuse to admit that other

:13:10. > :13:14.comparable economies spend more on health care than we do. Their cuts

:13:15. > :13:18.are not an economic necessity whatever they say, it's their own

:13:19. > :13:26.deliberate political choice. APPLAUSE.

:13:27. > :13:32.They also pretend that NHS cuts can somehow be justified by empty

:13:33. > :13:36.promises of increased social care even though they're imposing yet

:13:37. > :13:38.further cuts on the local authorities who'd have to provide

:13:39. > :13:45.that care. APPLAUSE.

:13:46. > :13:49.Their 44 secretive SDPs are demanding billions more pounds of

:13:50. > :13:54.what they like to call efficiency savings which can only mean more

:13:55. > :14:02.closures, mow reconfigurations and a double squeeze on staff. Even fewer

:14:03. > :14:08.hands and pay frozen once again. The SDPs are also designed to

:14:09. > :14:11.devolve the blame for these cuts on to local Labour councillors and

:14:12. > :14:15.doctors, so congratulations to Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham and

:14:16. > :14:17.other Labour councils who've refused to sign up to this latest Tory

:14:18. > :14:24.assault. APPLAUSE.

:14:25. > :14:29.The junior doctors and others who've bravely blown the whistle on what's

:14:30. > :14:36.happening deserve our full support and not just because we need their

:14:37. > :14:40.skills to look after us. Conference, there are growing outbreaks of

:14:41. > :14:43.resistance all around the country, including this weekend in Liverpool,

:14:44. > :14:46.the march of a thousand people concerned about the future of

:14:47. > :14:53.Liverpool Women's Hospital. APPLAUSE.

:14:54. > :14:58.Campaigners everywhere have found a deep love for our NHS, including

:14:59. > :15:06.among many people who've previously voted Tory.

:15:07. > :15:11.This NHS composite 7 calls "on all sections of the Labour to campaign

:15:12. > :15:15.together in its defence". That will need urgent initiatives and

:15:16. > :15:17.sustained attention both from the Labour movement outside Parliament

:15:18. > :15:21.and also from our representatives within it.

:15:22. > :15:25.APPLAUSE. Wherever we live, the extent of our

:15:26. > :15:31.NHS campaigning must now be multiplied. If we wait until 2020,

:15:32. > :15:36.we'll be too late. So please comrades, vote today for

:15:37. > :15:38.our NHS's future and then think what you can do to step things up from

:15:39. > :15:55.tomorrow. Thank you. Thank you, conference, we'll new

:15:56. > :16:02.take speakers for this debate. Can I see a show of hands? The lady in the

:16:03. > :16:06.red jacket here at the front. The lady waving at me with the white

:16:07. > :16:14.piece of paper over there toward the back. And the young lad with the

:16:15. > :16:46.blue piece of paper he is shaking at me. Thank you.

:16:47. > :16:55.Chair, conference. Speaking on behalf of Unison, the country's

:16:56. > :16:59.largest health union. Conference, the state of the NHS finance could

:17:00. > :17:02.hardly be worse, with the NHS Trust across the country reporting that

:17:03. > :17:11.they would be in deficit in the year ahead. The NHS providers trade body,

:17:12. > :17:16.which represents NHS Trusts, said recently "Access to various services

:17:17. > :17:22.could now be seriously cutback." We are already seeing increasing open

:17:23. > :17:25.ration or things like IVF, dermatology and rheumatology.

:17:26. > :17:31.Headline funding figures that will suggest the NHS is getting a decent

:17:32. > :17:36.increase marks the reality as money for crucial areas, such as whaelt

:17:37. > :17:41.education, the Care Quality Commission, ape the public health is

:17:42. > :17:46.ruthlessly slashed. I guess none of us here were surprised to he soot

:17:47. > :17:56.Brexit camp abandon their ridiculous claim that the NHS would get ?350

:17:57. > :18:03.million extra per week. , if we left the EU. We always knew it was a lane

:18:04. > :18:08.so it has proved to be. Latest plans from NHS England to get around some

:18:09. > :18:13.problems is the use of the so-called sustainability and transformation

:18:14. > :18:18.plans, across 44 areas of England. In theory, these should lead to some

:18:19. > :18:22.positive changes, as they encourage providers of care, to work with

:18:23. > :18:25.commissioners, and locals authorities but the big problem is

:18:26. > :18:29.the lack of money. We know from painful past experience in the NHS,

:18:30. > :18:34.and particularly social care, that when reform is attempted on the

:18:35. > :18:37.cheap t means cuts t means patients lose out and it means that staff

:18:38. > :18:42.suffer, too. As always, if the answer to those

:18:43. > :18:48.problems is outsourcing, then you are asking the wrong question. The

:18:49. > :18:52.fear is that the plans become be a vehicle for cuts and a means of the

:18:53. > :18:56.Government shielding itself from the wrath of the public, over its

:18:57. > :19:01.failure to fund the NHS adequately. I'm proud to say that my union,

:19:02. > :19:07.continues to exist NHS privatisation in all its form. Unison has written

:19:08. > :19:11.to all the NHS chief execs, so let them know that such options must not

:19:12. > :19:16.be considered. Also, let us not forget the mental

:19:17. > :19:21.hale service, where the recent report from the independent health

:19:22. > :19:23.passport highlighted the chronic underfunding of mental health

:19:24. > :19:28.services. Conference, it is vital that we

:19:29. > :19:30.continue to value our health care staff, regardless of which

:19:31. > :19:35.particular parts of the sector they are working in. Let's keep up the

:19:36. > :19:41.fight of our health service. Let's demand a proper funding settlement.

:19:42. > :19:46.Let's make sure we maintain the NHS fit for the 21st century. Let's see

:19:47. > :19:53.the Labour Party focus completely on winning power. It's no good being in

:19:54. > :19:55.opposition. Unison members need Labour government. It needs it to

:19:56. > :20:25.make it happen. Thank you. Conference I'm Karen Lee, a

:20:26. > :20:30.councillor from the East Midlands a branch chair, a Unison activist and

:20:31. > :20:33.an NHS nurse. APPLAUSE

:20:34. > :20:38.Thank you. I'm also part of Lincoln CLP's

:20:39. > :20:43.delegation who are all proud to support Jeremy Corbyn and actually

:20:44. > :20:45.I've just got to say first, I feel sad about the direction party

:20:46. > :20:58.democracy has taken this morning. But onward ape upward. Komplts, we

:20:59. > :21:09.have a crisis in our NHS and I'm not sure the general public realise how

:21:10. > :21:12.bad things are. Staff shortages mean means nurses are working flat out

:21:13. > :21:16.and cannot give the care they want to. Nurses go home weary, defeated

:21:17. > :21:21.and demote vated and that's not what we trained for. The use of agency

:21:22. > :21:26.nurses costs trusts huge amount of money they can ill-afford. Regular

:21:27. > :21:30.nurses also end up doing large amounts of agency nurses work which

:21:31. > :21:33.they are unable or not allowed to do which places more pressure on the

:21:34. > :21:39.regular staff. Conference, stopping nursing bursaries will make it even

:21:40. > :21:41.more difficult to attract those men and women our profession desperately

:21:42. > :21:45.desperately needs. I was proud to support the junior

:21:46. > :21:48.doctors on the picket line at Lincoln county hospital and I'm

:21:49. > :22:01.going to continue with that support. APPLAUSE

:22:02. > :22:04.And make no mistake, conference, should the doctors be defeated, the

:22:05. > :22:10.nurses next and the health care support workers and I think you know

:22:11. > :22:15.where I'm going with that. We must oppose the closure of overnight A

:22:16. > :22:21.departments such as Grantham, especially given the regularity with

:22:22. > :22:26.which waiting times are missed. Trusts are in debt year on year. The

:22:27. > :22:30.Tories view this as an environment in which their friends can make a

:22:31. > :22:33.huge profit. Staff shortages don't appear to

:22:34. > :22:38.matter to Jeremy Hunt and his colleagues. Nigh batch created an

:22:39. > :22:51.NHS which was free at the point of deliver toy to Paul. Nye Bevan,

:22:52. > :22:54.created this, but sadly current austerity measures means that the

:22:55. > :22:58.poverty which persists in my home town of Lincoln means that has not

:22:59. > :23:02.become the case. Ko.s, we must, first of all, reverse the current

:23:03. > :23:06.level of private vagus, repeal the health and social care act, support

:23:07. > :23:12.the junior doctors in their fight for fairness. Reverse the withdrawal

:23:13. > :23:14.of bursaries and make sure we deliver a joined-up, seamless

:23:15. > :23:22.service for everyone, thank you. APPLAUSE

:23:23. > :23:29.Thank you. Conference before we hear from the next speaker, can I choose

:23:30. > :23:33.the next three. If you can independent ka. These will probably

:23:34. > :23:43.be the last three we will be able to take. The lady with the black and

:23:44. > :23:49.orange scarf and the orange dress. The gentlemen with the colourful

:23:50. > :23:54.multi-coloured scarf over there. And I'll take someone from over there.

:23:55. > :24:07.The lady jumping up and down to my left over there.

:24:08. > :24:16.Anthony Tucker, first time delegate to conference.

:24:17. > :24:20.Comrades, I have the pleasure to represent my CLP. Sadly it is a

:24:21. > :24:26.constituency represented in Parliament my one Oliver Letwin.

:24:27. > :24:33.BOOS Exactly. In our constituency we see

:24:34. > :24:36.for ourselves the NHS cash crisis, infrastructure hospitals in our

:24:37. > :24:40.local area to the king Fish children's ward which is threatened

:24:41. > :24:44.with closure. I make a special plea today on behalf of mental health

:24:45. > :24:49.services ie. ' 20. But alongside family and friends I have seen

:24:50. > :24:53.enough of the devastation wreaked my mental illness to serve for an

:24:54. > :24:57.entire lifetime. At the moment, too often we cemental health services

:24:58. > :25:01.lost as a safe and easy option because we prefer to ignore

:25:02. > :25:08.illnesses, we core to be invisible. This is a a false economy. - we

:25:09. > :25:12.consider to be invisible. I was proud to hear Joanna Baxter speak so

:25:13. > :25:16.strongly in a proper investment in our mental health services. Only

:25:17. > :25:20.with a properly-funded NHS can we deliver the health care for all of

:25:21. > :25:24.our ill people, whether they have an illness we care to see or one we

:25:25. > :25:27.would rather ignore this. Can only happen in a properly funded NHS.

:25:28. > :25:32.This could only happen with a Labour Government in power. This can can

:25:33. > :25:38.only happen when we win power back and achieve the government this

:25:39. > :25:47.country so desperately needs. APPLAUSE

:25:48. > :25:57.And equally, I also make this plea as a young LGBT person. It is

:25:58. > :25:59.disproportionately lesbian, gay, trans-Jeder individuals who use

:26:00. > :26:07.mental health services. We cannot sit back and do nothing in the face

:26:08. > :26:11.of a mental health crisis when the majority of transgender young people

:26:12. > :26:15.face either attempts or think about suicide. We have to win power, we

:26:16. > :26:18.have to help everybody in this country, whether their illness is

:26:19. > :26:29.visible, invisible, whether we care to deal with it or not.

:26:30. > :26:34.APPLAUSE Comrades, I don't need to till the Government's pry ors on

:26:35. > :26:40.this issue are entirely wrovenlingt -- priorities. They think of

:26:41. > :26:45.privatisation, we think of care. We must, and protect the NHS and invest

:26:46. > :26:49.in all young people, regardless of what their illness may be.

:26:50. > :27:08.Conference, I support this motion. APPLAUSE

:27:09. > :27:15.Chair, conference, Sharon Holder from the GMB GMB represents

:27:16. > :27:19.thousands of cares and workers in the health and care sectors.

:27:20. > :27:23.Thousands of hard-working men and women who really care about what

:27:24. > :27:29.they do. And what they do is important.

:27:30. > :27:34.We don't always realise how important those workers are until a

:27:35. > :27:39.loved-one is in need of our support and we are not in the position to

:27:40. > :27:43.look after them. I myself was put in that exact

:27:44. > :27:48.position when my father was diagnosed with dementia.

:27:49. > :27:55.When a loved one is sick, who is it that you want to look after them? Do

:27:56. > :28:01.you want them to be someone who is on the lowest-possible pay, terms

:28:02. > :28:06.and conditions? Someone who feels undervalued, unappreciated, but is

:28:07. > :28:12.still expected to consistently provide emotional and physical

:28:13. > :28:17.support? Of course not. You want a well-trained career, with

:28:18. > :28:30.secure employment rights, who has the time to do their job.

:28:31. > :28:34.APPLAUSE Careers are front line, vital

:28:35. > :28:41.skilled, public servants who need to be treated as such. Conference, we

:28:42. > :28:47.want to see a proper living wage, so careers who work tireless lip don't

:28:48. > :28:54.have to go home and worry about paying their own bills.

:28:55. > :28:58.We need to see an increased ratio of staff to residents, so they they are

:28:59. > :29:03.not overstretched and struggling and we want to see meaningful, effective

:29:04. > :29:10.face-to-face training. That means funding our health and

:29:11. > :29:15.care sectors. Cuts for funding have meant local

:29:16. > :29:19.government is forced to use council tax to pay private contractors who

:29:20. > :29:26.then don't pay careers a living wage. Another example of working

:29:27. > :29:30.people shouldering the burden of the Tory government, refusing to take

:29:31. > :29:39.responsibility for their actions. APPLAUSE Public sector workers

:29:40. > :29:46.continue to be mercilessly punished for the economic crisis, caused by

:29:47. > :29:49.tax avoiders and City boys, that our Government care more about than

:29:50. > :29:57.their public servants who have kept the UK running. GMB supports this

:29:58. > :30:00.motion for more funding for local government, more funding for our

:30:01. > :30:05.care services, proper recognition for our public sector workers and an

:30:06. > :30:34.end to public sector pay cuts. APPLAUSE

:30:35. > :30:42.Thank you. Conference, I want to start by thanking the NHS workers up

:30:43. > :30:47.and down this country for the service they do for us every single

:30:48. > :30:49.day, in and out, without complaint, without modem. I want to thank them

:30:50. > :30:56.for putting up with Jeremy Hunt for the last six years and not walking

:30:57. > :31:00.out on us. But, conference, I want to say this to you. If you look

:31:01. > :31:04.carefully through the composite motion in front of us it talks about

:31:05. > :31:09.the need to tackle the causes of health problems in this country.

:31:10. > :31:16.Causes like austerity, inequality, poverty will stop my fellow

:31:17. > :31:21.delegates, if you look at a chart of countries across Europe, Britain has

:31:22. > :31:29.some of the worst health problems will stop when it comes to obesity,

:31:30. > :31:33.mental health and life expectancy we are consistently poor performer. And

:31:34. > :31:37.do you know where else we appear? We appear very high on the list of

:31:38. > :31:45.inequality in Europe, delegates. There is a direct and causal link

:31:46. > :31:50.between the two. Now, the NHS is important. But it is only one part

:31:51. > :31:56.of the solution to the health crisis in this country. If we want to

:31:57. > :32:03.create a healthier population, with a better quality of life, with

:32:04. > :32:07.dignity in old age, then we need to tackle the structural problems, not

:32:08. > :32:14.just in our health service but also in our economy. Delegates...

:32:15. > :32:25.APPLAUSE I move this motion, thank you very

:32:26. > :32:36.much. Conference, before we have our next Speaker, we can squeeze in one

:32:37. > :32:37.more person. I'm sorry, I will go with the lady with the brolly.

:32:38. > :33:03.CHEERING Conference. This won't be long. I'm

:33:04. > :33:10.the first-time delegate and first-time Speaker here. APPLAUSE

:33:11. > :33:16.Firstly I would really like to thank Jeremy Corbyn for his commitment to

:33:17. > :33:25.converge of esteem between mental and physical health care. I remind

:33:26. > :33:30.self live with bipolar disorder, mostly very healthily but earlier

:33:31. > :33:34.this year due to personal life circumstances I had to have my

:33:35. > :33:40.first-ever treatment from community psychiatric nurses and ultimately

:33:41. > :33:46.inpatient psychiatric nurses. And I can't tell you how invaluable their

:33:47. > :33:49.work was. Without them I don't think I would be standing here today

:33:50. > :34:09.before you. And so I would like to ask this of

:34:10. > :34:14.Jeremy Hunt, do you value nurses so little that you are willing to scrap

:34:15. > :34:18.their funding? And do you value the lives of people like me so little

:34:19. > :34:30.that you are willing to put our lives at risk? Thank you. APPLAUSE

:34:31. > :34:46.CHEERING APPLAUSE

:34:47. > :34:59.Conference, Joyce still, Unite the union. Conference, as a health

:35:00. > :35:02.visitor I welcome the NPF has highlighted the serious falls in

:35:03. > :35:08.perinatal care and specialist units for women who have just given birth

:35:09. > :35:13.and the impact of these cuts. This week my union have organised a week

:35:14. > :35:16.of online events to celebrate the health visiting profession and

:35:17. > :35:24.highlight the important work of health visitors. A profession that

:35:25. > :35:29.is over 150 years. Health visitors like myself make the holistic

:35:30. > :35:35.assessment of health needs and endeavour to deliver a first class

:35:36. > :35:40.service. But despite providing a much-needed preventative service,

:35:41. > :35:45.this government has made a ?200 million in code year and further

:35:46. > :35:50.deep cuts are planned in the years ahead. It puts the future of our

:35:51. > :35:56.health visiting service under enormous shadow. We can all see what

:35:57. > :35:59.has happened to social care. The service that has always been

:36:00. > :36:06.underfunded and a workforce that has always been undervalued. Social care

:36:07. > :36:13.has experienced service cuts with devastating consequences.

:36:14. > :36:15.Conference, the story of a friend's elderly relative highlights this.

:36:16. > :36:22.Despite their advanced age, chronic health problems and dementia, the

:36:23. > :36:27.assessment she has just had has led to a reduction in her care package.

:36:28. > :36:33.Conference, this lady is 99 years old. It has meant an end to her

:36:34. > :36:38.independence and she will no longer be able to stay in her own home.

:36:39. > :36:47.This is causing considerable distress to her and her relatives.

:36:48. > :36:52.Local councillors and the Tory MP have been lobbied to try to get a

:36:53. > :36:57.proper care package but when such cuts are being made it becomes about

:36:58. > :37:01.the budget bottom line and not the person. My concern is that in this

:37:02. > :37:09.circumstance it becomes more about who knows how to effectively lobby,

:37:10. > :37:14.not social care on health needs. This lady is lucky, you can call it

:37:15. > :37:21.that, because she has a family who are politically active and know how

:37:22. > :37:25.the system works and who to lobby. Conference, I am proud that we are a

:37:26. > :37:28.party that stands for ending austerity and for ending these

:37:29. > :37:33.devastating cuts. But, conference, we can't do this in opposition. We

:37:34. > :37:36.can only do this with a Labour government. So I appeal to everybody

:37:37. > :37:45.in this hall, whatever differences we may have had in the past, that

:37:46. > :37:50.that behind us and do what we know best, get behind our elected leader,

:37:51. > :38:02.go and campaign for a Labour government.

:38:03. > :38:06.Thank you, conference, I am now pleased to ask Diane Abbott to reply

:38:07. > :38:28.to the debate. Conference, I am proud to be

:38:29. > :38:30.responding to this debate is as Shadow Secretary of State for Health

:38:31. > :38:41.under the leadership of a re-elected Jeremy Colman. APPLAUSE

:38:42. > :38:49.-- Jeremy Corbyn. My mother was a nurse. And preparing for this debate

:38:50. > :38:57.I tried to think about what she would want me to say. And I realised

:38:58. > :39:04.that what she would want me to say is how precious our NHS is and what

:39:05. > :39:14.backbreaking work being a worker in health and social care fears. -- is.

:39:15. > :39:20.And she would want me to do her generation of nurses proud. First of

:39:21. > :39:26.all I want to talk about the junior doctors dispute. You will have

:39:27. > :39:34.heard, over and over again, Jeremy Hunt vilifying the BMA and the

:39:35. > :39:44.junior doctors themselves. But it is absolutely clear to the public, that

:39:45. > :39:59.the responsibility for this dispute lies at the door of Jeremy Hunt

:40:00. > :40:03.himself. His arrogance, his mishandling, and his insistence on

:40:04. > :40:15.treating dedicated junior doctors like the enemy within. The junior

:40:16. > :40:21.doctors dispute shows us two things. One is the collapse of morale

:40:22. > :40:29.amongst NHS workers as a whole. But it also points to the age-old Tory

:40:30. > :40:43.hostility to people organising at their place of work. The junior

:40:44. > :40:49.doctors's action is suspended and we all hope that even at this late

:40:50. > :40:56.stage Jeremy Hunt will go back into negotiations. But, conference, let

:40:57. > :41:10.there be no doubt, labour stands with the junior doctors.

:41:11. > :41:19.Another important issue which reflects a wider malaise is the

:41:20. > :41:26.government decision to withdraw bursaries from student nurses. Many

:41:27. > :41:36.would-be nurses will be frightened of debt and will feel they cannot

:41:37. > :41:40.afford to study to be a nurse. My predecessor, Heidi Alexander, waged

:41:41. > :41:47.a great campaign in Parliament against ending the bursary and I

:41:48. > :41:58.want to make it clear that Labour will restore the bursary.

:41:59. > :42:08.It takes the team to deliver good health care, we have heard this is

:42:09. > :42:14.health visitors week, and you will all be aware how health visitors and

:42:15. > :42:22.a whole range of aspects of health care in the community have been

:42:23. > :42:29.decimated by Tory cuts to local government and public health. But,

:42:30. > :42:35.you know, Tories have ill repaid the dedication of NHS workers. I know

:42:36. > :42:40.about the dedication, my mother came to this country as a pupil nurse and

:42:41. > :42:51.worked in the health service until her retirement. And I would see her

:42:52. > :42:56.come home night after night completely exhausted. But, you know,

:42:57. > :43:00.my mother was so proud being a nurse. So proud of being in the NHS.

:43:01. > :43:09.The NHS gave her dignity and a vocation, and she gave the NHS her

:43:10. > :43:13.absolute commitment and the entirety of her working life. So the next

:43:14. > :43:19.time you hear commentators saying that immigrants are a drain on our

:43:20. > :43:37.public services, think of women like my mother.

:43:38. > :43:47.I want to talk, briefly, about the NHS and Brexit. In the coming months

:43:48. > :43:52.the Labour team will be holding the government to account and battling

:43:53. > :43:56.to protect the interests of working people in the Brexit negotiations.

:43:57. > :44:04.But I wish to remind conference that there are 50,000 EU workers in our

:44:05. > :44:10.NHS and 80,000 EU workers in social care. Our health and social care

:44:11. > :44:17.system depends on these workers and we need to be clear that an end to

:44:18. > :44:28.freedom of movement could be a disaster for the NHS and social

:44:29. > :44:33.care. APPLAUSE And we need to demand assurances

:44:34. > :44:38.from the government about the EU workers already here. You have heard

:44:39. > :44:45.in the excellent speeches in this debate about funding crises facing

:44:46. > :44:55.the NHS. I was pleased to address a demonstration earlier in the wake to

:44:56. > :44:59.save the Liverpool women's Hospital. -- in the week. We know is well as

:45:00. > :45:08.deep cuts to services, waiting lists and missed targets there is a move

:45:09. > :45:12.to restricting is says to nonurgent operations. This rationing by stub

:45:13. > :45:19.will affect the poor, the elderly and vulnerable the most severely.

:45:20. > :45:24.Jeremy Hunt's answer to the funding cap on the stub a nobility and

:45:25. > :45:28.transmission plans you have heard about. -- sustainability. Some of

:45:29. > :45:32.these plans might be a good idea in principle but let me tell you

:45:33. > :45:36.increasingly these plans look like a vehicle to drive through cuts and

:45:37. > :45:44.closures. I have already led the debate on the SDPs in Parliament and

:45:45. > :45:56.I can assure conference where these SDPs are purely about cuts Labour

:45:57. > :46:03.will fight them all the way. Under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership the

:46:04. > :46:10.Labour Party will be committed to halting and reversing the tide of

:46:11. > :46:23.privatisation and marketisation of the NHS. The health and social care

:46:24. > :46:27.act has fragmented the system, making it so much easier for the

:46:28. > :46:32.private sector to move in. Conference, Labour in government

:46:33. > :46:44.will repeal the health and social care act.

:46:45. > :46:55.This means returning our NHS to what it was originally conceived as, a

:46:56. > :47:00.publicly-owned, publicly-funded, publicly-accountable, universal

:47:01. > :47:05.service, as outlined in the NHS reenstatement bill now being

:47:06. > :47:09.expertly piloted through Parliament by my colleague mar greted Greenwood

:47:10. > :47:17.MP, with the support of the Labour Leadership.

:47:18. > :47:25.And I would also like to thank my colleague, Justin Madders for all

:47:26. > :47:32.his help and support in the last few months. I can see there are people

:47:33. > :47:37.here from Ellesmere Port. One of the other burdens on our NHS, is the

:47:38. > :47:49.huge burden fted Private Finance Initiative. The PFI is costing the

:47:50. > :47:56.NHS over 1.8 billion a year. So, conference, I am here to tell

:47:57. > :48:10.you that Labour, in government, will not sign another PFI contract.

:48:11. > :48:19.And we want a PFI monitoring unit to support NHS providers in holding

:48:20. > :48:25.contractors to account. Our NHS is there to prevent ill-health and

:48:26. > :48:27.treat the sick. It is not there for investment bankers and private

:48:28. > :48:43.equity specialists to rake off profits.

:48:44. > :48:49.There is a crisis in social kamplt the Tory government's cuts in

:48:50. > :48:55.funding for local governments has meant big cuts in social care and

:48:56. > :49:01.this means added pressure to the NHS, but it also means added misrain

:49:02. > :49:09.uncertainty for the elderly and that families. Elderly people are bearing

:49:10. > :49:15.the brunt of the cuts to the NHS, yet we are the fifth wealthiest

:49:16. > :49:19.country in the world. It is shameful that so many elderly people and

:49:20. > :49:27.their families have to worry about how they will able to afford the

:49:28. > :49:33.care they need as they age. And Labour is committed, both to

:49:34. > :49:37.bringing social care and the NHS together, and reviewing our

:49:38. > :49:38.provision of social care, so the elderly and their families do not

:49:39. > :49:54.have to struggle as is now the case. My mother was a mental health nurse.

:49:55. > :49:58.I saw through the prism of her working life how mental health has

:49:59. > :50:02.long been the Cinderella of the NHS But everybody in this hall knows

:50:03. > :50:09.somebody, whether it is a friend, whether it is a family member,

:50:10. > :50:13.whether it is someone in your workforce who's had mental health

:50:14. > :50:21.challenges and it's made so much worse by the stigma that still

:50:22. > :50:27.surrounds mental health. My predecessor in this role - Andy

:50:28. > :50:28.Burnham - who was also one of our finest Health Secretaries, did

:50:29. > :50:39.important... APPLAUSE

:50:40. > :50:46.In opposition, he did important campaigning work on the importance

:50:47. > :50:52.of parity between mental and physical health and in this will

:50:53. > :50:59.Parliament my deleg, Lausannia Berger has done excellent work,

:51:00. > :51:05.campaigning on mental health. But Labour will put the money behind

:51:06. > :51:14.our commitment to parity of esteem. We want an end to shame. We want an

:51:15. > :51:17.end to the tacit acceptance that the mentally ill are somehow second

:51:18. > :51:22.class citizens in our health care system and we will also pryer

:51:23. > :51:34.advertise childhood mental health services.

:51:35. > :51:41.On Sunday, I visited the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It is

:51:42. > :51:48.the largest and busiest hospital on Merseyside. I went in order to see

:51:49. > :51:55.for myself the world class care that they deliver and I was pleased to

:51:56. > :51:59.meet a team of doctors and consultants working on a Sunday.

:52:00. > :52:10.Jeremy Hunt, why don't you take a visit?

:52:11. > :52:25.And, as I was leaving, one of the consultants took my hand and said to

:52:26. > :52:27.me, "Please save the NHS." "It really is the best thing about being

:52:28. > :52:38.British." APPLAUSE

:52:39. > :52:45.At the most crucial time in our lives, when we are ill, when we are

:52:46. > :52:55.starting our families, when we are elderly, we depend on the NHS. And

:52:56. > :53:02.now, in its time of need, the NHS looks to communities and the Labour

:53:03. > :53:04.movement to come together, defend it, campaign for it, and save our

:53:05. > :53:46.NHS. APPLAUSE

:53:47. > :53:49.# Happy birthday to you # Happy birthday dear Diane

:53:50. > :53:50.# Happy birthday to you...#

:53:51. > :54:18.APPLAUSE Thank you very much, Diane,

:54:19. > :54:21.conference, I will now the shadow Secretary of State for Wales and

:54:22. > :54:23.shadow Leader of the House of Commons, Paul flint, to address the

:54:24. > :54:30.conference. APPLAUSE

:54:31. > :54:41.Good to be barks conference. I last spoke in 1981, and I'm here today,

:54:42. > :54:44.as a great - good to be back. I'm a grateful recipient of Jeremy's job

:54:45. > :54:56.creation scheme for geriatrics. Is it all over? Is that last 12 months

:54:57. > :55:03.gone? Is that last 12 months, when we've been locked in a gap year of

:55:04. > :55:08.negativity, of pessimism, of hopelessness by many in our party?

:55:09. > :55:12.It seemed at times that there was a competition to see who can be the

:55:13. > :55:17.most pessimistic about our future and our prospects. We have got to

:55:18. > :55:28.end that. It's time now to give unity a chance.

:55:29. > :55:36.What we should do is take all the bile and hatred together and put it

:55:37. > :55:41.in a box, bury it deep underground. Put six feet of concrete on top and

:55:42. > :55:47.then put a sign saying - never shall the last 12 months be unearthed from

:55:48. > :55:48.its dishonoured grave. . We are going forward, comrades, to

:55:49. > :55:58.government. Len McCluskey made a great speech

:55:59. > :56:03.for unity yesterday. But there is one phrase in it, the one that he

:56:04. > :56:08.stole from Shakespeare that I must disagree with, because he did say

:56:09. > :56:17.that some should depart the field. No, no, no.

:56:18. > :56:21.The Tories are already out there, the A-team on the field and we've

:56:22. > :56:25.got some of our best people sitting there on the subs bench. You don't

:56:26. > :56:34.score goals from the subs bench. We need them all back. Many resigned in

:56:35. > :56:40.that awful period, three months ago. Some resigned. They all did so for

:56:41. > :56:44.honourable reasons. This took courage for many of them to resign.

:56:45. > :56:48.It is going to take greater courage for many of them to come back and we

:56:49. > :56:57.must make it possible for them to return with dignity and respect.

:56:58. > :57:04.The trouble with unity, it is not sexy. The press, the media aren't

:57:05. > :57:08.interested in it. They are interested in rouse, division and

:57:09. > :57:11.condition flict but they don't notice the brilliant year we've H

:57:12. > :57:16.magnificent election result. Instead of the polls, look what happens when

:57:17. > :57:20.real people use real votes in real elections. Marvellous results all

:57:21. > :57:28.the mayoral elections. In all the by-elections. In Wales we have gain

:57:29. > :57:32.parliamentary seats we lost a year ago. There have been successes, too,

:57:33. > :57:39.in the Commons, working with our comrades in the Lords. We have done

:57:40. > :57:43.a great deal to force u-turns on the government, on personal independence

:57:44. > :57:47.payments on Sunday trading laws, selling prison contracts to Saudi

:57:48. > :57:50.Arabia, all those things have been achieved n opposition, working

:57:51. > :57:58.intelligently, with others in the House of Commons. . Dump Do you

:57:59. > :58:04.remember David Cameron, he was so prime ministerial? He was so

:58:05. > :58:11.wonderful, he had his ?100 haircut and ?1,000 suits. What happened to

:58:12. > :58:15.him? He exploded in disgra.s he has wrecked his own career and done

:58:16. > :58:25.great damage to this country. APPLAUSE

:58:26. > :58:33.The heart of our democracy is rotten and the last act of David Cameron

:58:34. > :58:40.was to shower benefit, honours, peerages on his cronies and his

:58:41. > :58:48.donors. The Daily Mail - of all people - described his honours list

:58:49. > :58:54.as devalued, debased, discredited, egregious, grubby, tawdry, tainted,

:58:55. > :58:59.tarnished. Otherwise, all right. If they think that, we look at their

:59:00. > :59:04.House of Lords, the new elected Tory speaker. He said we have got 200

:59:05. > :59:11.peers too many. More than there are MPs. We have now got a position

:59:12. > :59:14.where there is a whole pile of new laws, new business, new work being

:59:15. > :59:23.dumped on the Commons because of Brexit. We are losing 73 MEPs. Is

:59:24. > :59:34.this the time to cut the number of MPs and further bloat the House of

:59:35. > :59:40.Lords, the unelected House of Lords? They favour one reform, one small

:59:41. > :59:48.reform only and that's boundary changes, which will of course hit us

:59:49. > :59:52.and bowedry changes are at best an irrelevance and at worse a cheat

:59:53. > :59:57.that robbed 2 million of our electorate of their vote. There are

:59:58. > :00:01.disenfranchised about this. We have to stop this nonsense and we have to

:00:02. > :00:07.say to the Government that we need a root and branch reform of our

:00:08. > :00:13.democracy. The only house in the world where we have chieftains,

:00:14. > :00:21.hereditary chieftains, in the Parliament, is ourselves and

:00:22. > :00:25.Lesotho. Only other council tricks like Iran have clerics as lawmakers.

:00:26. > :00:33.We need reform of our democracy. It must be done on an all-party basis.

:00:34. > :00:38.It must be done with the consent of all parties, so we get fresh

:00:39. > :00:45.democracy that's fair, that's durable, that's democratic. It can

:00:46. > :00:50.come. But in the meantime, we forget this Tory cheat of boundary changes

:00:51. > :00:53.and consign it to the dustbin. I would like to tell you, many people

:00:54. > :01:00.will be giving personal stories in this. I would like to indulge in one

:01:01. > :01:03.of mine. In the 1945 election, I, my brother Michael, were working for

:01:04. > :01:10.the Labour Party. Hard to believe, he was ten years' old. My mother

:01:11. > :01:14.drew us to one side and said - look boys, you are on the right side, the

:01:15. > :01:17.Labour Party is the right party but this candidate cannot win because of

:01:18. > :01:21.prejudice. You cannot win in Wales, as a candidate if you have got an

:01:22. > :01:22.Irish name. And no-one called Jim Callaghan has any future in

:01:23. > :01:44.politics. Then heard from my parents, my

:01:45. > :01:49.grandparents, those wonderful generations of people who had no

:01:50. > :01:55.wealth that marvellous vision and have given us this great inheritance

:01:56. > :01:59.of socialist achievement, we can't let those past generations down

:02:00. > :02:11.because of differences between ourselves that our petty and

:02:12. > :02:17.transitory. From henceforth we are one party, only the friends of

:02:18. > :02:20.Tories will say anything else. We have one leader. We have one set of

:02:21. > :02:25.opponents and they are the Tories. And we have one direction in which

:02:26. > :02:26.we are going and that is forward to a Labour government. Thank you,

:02:27. > :03:01.comrades. Conference, we are still behind

:03:02. > :03:07.schedule so we have agreed that the co-operative party speaker will be

:03:08. > :03:15.taken this afternoon. We now welcome our guest speaker to bring greetings

:03:16. > :03:20.from the TUC. Liz Snape is the outgoing president and was born and

:03:21. > :03:23.grew up in the hall. She joined the National Association of local

:03:24. > :03:28.government officers is a legal officer and then worked on equal

:03:29. > :03:31.opportunities and European policy before becoming Unison's director of

:03:32. > :03:40.policy and political affairs in 2006. In 2012 she was appointed one

:03:41. > :03:44.of Unison's three general secretaries, she has served on the

:03:45. > :03:48.women at work commission and the health and safety ticketed and has

:03:49. > :04:00.been a champion for both women's rights and health and safety. Thank

:04:01. > :04:08.you, friends, it really is a great honour to be here today, to bring

:04:09. > :04:13.solidarity greetings from the TUC. And to congratulate Jeremy on his

:04:14. > :04:21.election. We will work with you to build forum members. And I'm proud

:04:22. > :04:28.to be here in Liverpool, my home city. The city with a proud

:04:29. > :04:36.socialist tradition. The city that far too often has been trashed and

:04:37. > :04:41.vilified by the media. But city that today's stands proud once more in

:04:42. > :04:52.the world thanks to the hard work of its great people and Labour Council.

:04:53. > :04:58.And today, friends, the link between Labour and are great trade union

:04:59. > :05:04.movement has never mattered more. Our shared values of fairness,

:05:05. > :05:13.equality and respect have never been more crucial. Because the battle is

:05:14. > :05:18.on. The fight for all we hold dear, our public services, welfare state

:05:19. > :05:21.and industries, that fight and our shared vision of a better world, a

:05:22. > :05:25.world that works for the many and not just the few. And that offers

:05:26. > :05:34.hope to those that live in fear and in poverty. And a word to about

:05:35. > :05:38.those who come to our shores seeking a better life. And as trade

:05:39. > :05:45.unionists let us make it clear it is not migrants who are the problem in

:05:46. > :05:48.our country, it is those unscrupulous bosses who seek to

:05:49. > :06:00.abuse them by cutting pay. They are the problem. And that is why we need

:06:01. > :06:06.unity to challenge the Tories and the challenge those bosses. To fight

:06:07. > :06:10.for our class like the Tories do. And this year when the Tories came

:06:11. > :06:17.out as with their vicious trade union act we showed our strength and

:06:18. > :06:21.we showed our fight. Conference, they thought they could silence us

:06:22. > :06:28.and they failed. They thought they could crush us and they failed. They

:06:29. > :06:31.thought they could finish off Thatcher's dirty work and do us in

:06:32. > :06:43.but conference, they failed. And they failed because we stood

:06:44. > :06:52.together. Our Labour family at its very best, MPs, the House of Lords,

:06:53. > :06:55.every union, big and small, affiliated and non-affiliated, one

:06:56. > :07:04.focus and one fight back. That is how it must be. To fight for our NHS

:07:05. > :07:06.now teetering on the brink against zero hours contracts, to challenge

:07:07. > :07:15.the rise in sexism in the workplace. And the file and vicious rise in

:07:16. > :07:20.racism unleashed by Brexit. That is our challenge. So we are at a

:07:21. > :07:24.critical point in our history. Our proud Labour history. If there is

:07:25. > :07:28.one lesson we should never forget, it's that our people and our class

:07:29. > :07:36.were never handed anything on a plate. Nothing was given graciously

:07:37. > :07:41.and nothing came without a fight. So that old saying, unity is strength,

:07:42. > :07:48.has never mattered more. So when the battles ahead -- in the battles

:07:49. > :07:52.ahead, let's stand together as trade unionists, as party members, and as

:07:53. > :08:00.friends. Treating each other with dignity and respect. And that

:08:01. > :08:09.includes our party's staff, proud trade unionists, they have our full

:08:10. > :08:15.support. So, conference, there is no better time, no better moment and

:08:16. > :08:18.certainly no better city to celebrate the ties that have bound

:08:19. > :08:28.us together for over a hundred years. Party and unions as one.

:08:29. > :08:31.Fighting the Tories, not each other. Organised together, campaigning

:08:32. > :08:56.together and winning together, conference, thank you.

:08:57. > :09:05.Thank you, lives. Conference, our final speaker this morning is

:09:06. > :09:13.perhaps most famous son of a bus driver in the history of the human

:09:14. > :09:17.race. APPLAUSE But before we hear from Sadiq, we

:09:18. > :11:44.have a short film. APPLAUSE

:11:45. > :12:19.CHEERING Thank you. Labour in power. CHEERING

:12:20. > :12:26.Not just talking the talk, but walking the walk, too. Never

:12:27. > :12:34.sacrificing or selling out on our ideals, but putting them in action

:12:35. > :12:39.every single day. Not a revolution but real and meaningful change that

:12:40. > :12:43.makes life easier for the people who need it most. Conference, after the

:12:44. > :12:49.election this summer, the leadership of our party has now been decided

:12:50. > :12:59.and I congratulate Jeremy on his clear victory.

:13:00. > :13:07.Now it is time for us to work together towards the greatest prize,

:13:08. > :13:14.getting Labour back to power. Conference, with Labour in power

:13:15. > :13:19.your home and your commute are more affordable. The air you breathe gets

:13:20. > :13:24.less polluted. You get better pay and conditions at work. Our

:13:25. > :13:29.businesses are supported to grow. As new jobs are created. With Labour in

:13:30. > :13:36.power Britain is a fairer country. A more equal country. And a more just

:13:37. > :13:42.country. And Labour is in power right now. Not just in London, but

:13:43. > :13:51.in Wales, too. Labour re-elected with First Minister Carwyn Jones.

:13:52. > :14:02.And in Bristol with the new mayor, Martin Rees. -- Martin

:14:03. > :14:15.Labour is in power right now, in Liverpool, Manchester and

:14:16. > :14:16.Southampton. In Newcastle, Glasgow and Cambridge, Birmingham,

:14:17. > :14:21.Nottingham, Leeds and Cardiff. Labour is in power in towns and

:14:22. > :14:26.cities the length and breadth of Britain. Conference, where Labour is

:14:27. > :14:40.in power it is down to your hard work. Thanks to Labour members,

:14:41. > :14:42.activists and supporters. Thanks to the trade unions and the working

:14:43. > :14:51.people they represent. Soir Thanks to the Labour staff who

:14:52. > :15:08.work so hard for us. And thanks to every single Labour

:15:09. > :15:13.councillor, Member of Parliament, Assembly Member and MSP who walk the

:15:14. > :15:17.streets and knock on doors, come rain or shine, who deliver Labour

:15:18. > :15:21.leaflets and listen to the voefrts and had make the communities they

:15:22. > :15:32.represent day in and day out, better - listen to the voters. I want to

:15:33. > :15:42.say thank you to the very bottom of my heart. And go above and beyond to

:15:43. > :15:47.help us win back London in May. Because, it is only when Labour is

:15:48. > :15:52.in power that we get the chance to fix the problems that we care most B

:15:53. > :15:56.like the housing crisis. With Labour out of power, the number of

:15:57. > :16:00.affordable new homes built falls. The cost of rent rockets and the

:16:01. > :16:04.number of homeless people sleeping on our streets rises. But it is only

:16:05. > :16:08.with Labour in power that we can make tackling the housing crisis our

:16:09. > :16:12.number one pry the o. We can create new teams, like homes for Londoners,

:16:13. > :16:18.to get more genuinely affordable homes built. Or a new social letting

:16:19. > :16:25.scheme, to stop renters being ripped off. We can relax new policies, like

:16:26. > :16:29.the London living rent, to put home-ownership back within reach for

:16:30. > :16:32.our young people. And we can make tackling homelessness and rough

:16:33. > :16:37.sleeping a real priority. Because it is a stain on our great racial. -

:16:38. > :16:47.our great nation. Of course, we always have to be

:16:48. > :16:51.honest. We won't be able to fix the housing crisis overnight. It's too

:16:52. > :16:55.serious and entrenched a problem. But it is only with Labour in power

:16:56. > :17:00.that we can make a real start and a real difference.

:17:01. > :17:04.Take air quality and pollution. When Labour is out of power, nowhere near

:17:05. > :17:10.enough is done to clean-up our filthy air. Nearly 10,000 Londoners

:17:11. > :17:16.die every year from air so filthy, it is actually illegal. Rather than

:17:17. > :17:18.taking action to clean up our air, the Government fought against this,

:17:19. > :17:22.tooth and nail in the courts. Once again, it is only with Labour in

:17:23. > :17:28.power that we can make a real difference. With world leading new

:17:29. > :17:34.approaches like an ultralow emissions zone, stretching from the

:17:35. > :17:39.North to South Circular. APPLAUSE

:17:40. > :17:43.And by putting in the resources and effort required to create the first

:17:44. > :17:50.clean bus areas in Britain. To ensure that we only buy truly clean

:17:51. > :17:56.buses from 2018. All of this is only possible when Labour is in power.

:17:57. > :18:00.Take social integration. With Labour out of power, we've just been

:18:01. > :18:06.through a divisive and bruising EU referendum campaign.

:18:07. > :18:11.With Labour out of power, the future of EU citizens in Britain, who came

:18:12. > :18:14.here because they want to work and contribute, is being used as a

:18:15. > :18:16.bargaining chip - well that's wrong and I tell you this, the Government

:18:17. > :18:25.should be ashamed. APPLAUSE

:18:26. > :18:35.I don't want - - I want to take a moment to speak to the European

:18:36. > :18:40.citizens living across Britain and who make a huge contribution to our

:18:41. > :18:43.NHS, schools, and construction sites and in business.

:18:44. > :18:49.You make a massive contribution to our country.

:18:50. > :18:54.Economically, socially, and culturally.

:18:55. > :18:59.APPLAUSE And my message to you is, thank you,

:19:00. > :19:03.thank you for all that you do to make our country great. You are

:19:04. > :19:15.welcome here. APPLAUSE

:19:16. > :19:23.Meanwhile, with Labour out of power, hate crime is rising, whether

:19:24. > :19:29.anti-Semitic, Islam phobia, homophobia or any other form of this

:19:30. > :19:33.vile crime. Extremism is a growing problem, whether in the Muslim

:19:34. > :19:36.community or far right and the gap between the richest and the poorest

:19:37. > :19:41.in our society continues to grow. But we can only take action it make

:19:42. > :19:44.our communities more cohesive and to strengthen social integration if

:19:45. > :19:49.Labour is in power. It is only with Labour in power that

:19:50. > :19:55.we can give social independent gracing the priority it deserves, by

:19:56. > :20:00.appointing Britain's first Deputy Mayor for social integration.

:20:01. > :20:04.Creating London's first economic fairness team it fight for better

:20:05. > :20:06.rights at work and better pay and conditions.

:20:07. > :20:11.It is only with Labour in power that we can have leaders who are proud to

:20:12. > :20:19.call themselves a feminist. APPLAUSE

:20:20. > :20:27.That we can have real gender pay auted its and real plans it tackle

:20:28. > :20:32.pay and equality. Or ensure that at least half of the people we appoint

:20:33. > :20:36.are women. It's only with Labour in power that we can ensure that

:20:37. > :20:40.minority communities have a real sense of belonging, so they are as

:20:41. > :20:44.resilient as possible to extremism and radicalisation. It is only with

:20:45. > :20:47.Labour in power that we can build bridges, rather than walls. To bring

:20:48. > :20:54.our communities together, not keep them apart.

:20:55. > :20:59.Of course, conference, Labour is not in power - in the place where we can

:21:00. > :21:03.have the biggest impact in our country - in Parliament. It is in

:21:04. > :21:07.Government that Labour can make the biggest changes to people lives and

:21:08. > :21:12.every day now, we see what happens when Labour is not in power. We see

:21:13. > :21:15.the reintroduction of grammar schools, which will leave too many

:21:16. > :21:20.children behind and deepen inequality in our country.

:21:21. > :21:25.We see that the Government has no plans for leaving the EU. We see

:21:26. > :21:29.that in 2016, someone's pay and career prospects can still be

:21:30. > :21:33.defined by their gender. We have seen six years of damage to

:21:34. > :21:38.the services that people rely upon, to the NHS, to schools, to social

:21:39. > :21:43.care. The people who need us the most, are

:21:44. > :21:47.those who suffer the most, when Labour is not in power.

:21:48. > :21:55.Conference... APPLAUSE

:21:56. > :22:03.Conference, let me end by saying this - Labour out of power would

:22:04. > :22:08.never, ever be good enough. We can only improve lives with Labour in

:22:09. > :22:14.power, by winning elections, by putting Labour values into action

:22:15. > :22:17.every day. Real Labour values, equality, social justice and

:22:18. > :22:22.opportunities for all. It is only with Labour in power can we create a

:22:23. > :22:26.fairer, more equal and more just Britain and when Labour is not in

:22:27. > :22:32.power, we fail the very people who need us the most.

:22:33. > :22:37.So, conference, my message today is clear - it's our duty and our

:22:38. > :22:42.responsibility to put Labour back in power across Britain. We have to

:22:43. > :22:46.start by winning the mayoral elections next year in Liverpool,

:22:47. > :22:51.Manchester, and Birmingham. And ensuring Labour is in power in

:22:52. > :22:56.every great city in Britain. Because, with Labour in power in

:22:57. > :23:01.cities and regions, we can show that our party can be trusted to govern

:23:02. > :23:05.again. With Labour in power, we can demonstrate that we can make a real

:23:06. > :23:10.difference to people's lives. And with Labour in power, we can

:23:11. > :23:13.prove that we are ready for Government.

:23:14. > :23:18.Conference, it's time to put Labour back in power. It's time for a

:23:19. > :23:22.Labour Government, a Labour Prime Minister in Downing Street, a Labour

:23:23. > :23:27.Cabinet, Labour values put into action. Conference, it's time we put

:23:28. > :23:57.Labour back into power. Thank you. APPLAUSE

:23:58. > :25:05.Thank you Sadiq. Conference, we will now take the votes on this morning's

:25:06. > :25:09.debate. First, the NEC statement on the leader's policy plan, can I see

:25:10. > :25:18.all those in favour of accepting the statement? And all those against.

:25:19. > :25:20.That's carried. Next, the NEC statement on international trade.

:25:21. > :25:28.Can I see all of those in favour of accepting the statement? And all

:25:29. > :25:31.those zbhens That's carried. Contemporary compostite 9 on

:25:32. > :25:36.housing, moved by Gravesham CLP. Can I see all of those in favour? And

:25:37. > :25:41.all those against? Carried. Contemporate, compostite 7 on the

:25:42. > :25:48.NHS, moved by Sutton and Cheam CLP. Can I see all those in favour and

:25:49. > :25:51.all those against? Carried. The health and care policy commission

:25:52. > :26:00.annual report, can I see all those in favour? All those against? Car

:26:01. > :26:01.India the health and care priorities instrument can I see all those in

:26:02. > :26:13.favour and against. Carried. These must be taken by card votes

:26:14. > :26:20.and there will be card votes 1-5. The rule change is to be moved by

:26:21. > :26:28.Wimbledon CLP and AirwashCLP not moved so card votes 6 and 7 will not

:26:29. > :26:31.be taken. The summary of the votes and NEC recommendations are in CAC

:26:32. > :26:37.report number 3 and on the screenp behind me. You should cast all 5 of

:26:38. > :26:40.your votes at the same time. Please remain in your votes whilst the vote

:26:41. > :26:51.is being taken.