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Manchester is my capital city. | 1:54:16 | 1:54:18 | |
I didn't apply to university there, because it was too close to home. | 1:54:18 | 1:54:21 | |
It was the place we went to when we got to 18 - well, maybe 17 - | 1:54:21 | 1:54:25 | |
the place we went to the Hacienda, to Affleck's Palace, | 1:54:25 | 1:54:28 | |
to enjoy the bright lights and the glamour of Manchester. | 1:54:28 | 1:54:32 | |
I love Manchester - and I was there again last night at the vigil, | 1:54:32 | 1:54:37 | |
and just hours after the devastation of that terrorist outrage, | 1:54:37 | 1:54:41 | |
people stood together in that community, | 1:54:41 | 1:54:44 | |
in that big Albert Square, jam packed with people. | 1:54:44 | 1:54:48 | |
People had come from miles - | 1:54:48 | 1:54:49 | |
I talked to an elderly couple, they'd come from miles, they said. | 1:54:49 | 1:54:52 | |
I said, "Where from?" | 1:54:52 | 1:54:53 | |
"From Oldham." | 1:54:53 | 1:54:54 | |
Well, that can be miles away from Manchester, from one point of view. | 1:54:54 | 1:54:57 | |
It was just a wonderful experience of seeing people coming together - | 1:54:57 | 1:55:01 | |
and it occurred to me, as I walked through the streets afterwards, | 1:55:01 | 1:55:04 | |
talking to people and just observing what was going round, | 1:55:04 | 1:55:07 | |
I bumped into people who were going into gigs, | 1:55:07 | 1:55:09 | |
sat outside bars, carrying on as normal. | 1:55:09 | 1:55:12 | |
I was proud of them. | 1:55:12 | 1:55:14 | |
It struck me. | 1:55:14 | 1:55:15 | |
What also strikes me is, almost by the hour, now, | 1:55:15 | 1:55:17 | |
we get the name of another child - | 1:55:17 | 1:55:20 | |
maybe some of them are adults, but they're all someone's children - | 1:55:20 | 1:55:24 | |
dead. | 1:55:24 | 1:55:25 | |
People whose lives have been lost. | 1:55:25 | 1:55:27 | |
Another family utterly, utterly shattered. | 1:55:27 | 1:55:31 | |
And it's heartbreaking. | 1:55:31 | 1:55:32 | |
My kids, each know somebody who was there on that night, | 1:55:32 | 1:55:36 | |
and for all of us, it feels beyond devastating. | 1:55:36 | 1:55:39 | |
Beyond heartbreaking. | 1:55:39 | 1:55:41 | |
But here's the thing - | 1:55:41 | 1:55:43 | |
you see, we will remember those 22 children. | 1:55:43 | 1:55:47 | |
We will remember every single one of them, | 1:55:47 | 1:55:48 | |
and we will stand by their families. | 1:55:48 | 1:55:51 | |
We will put our arms around them. | 1:55:51 | 1:55:53 | |
They will be never forgotten - | 1:55:53 | 1:55:56 | |
but the terrorist will. | 1:55:56 | 1:55:58 | |
You see, here's the thing - he died in vain. | 1:55:58 | 1:56:02 | |
He died to divide us. | 1:56:02 | 1:56:03 | |
He died to set us against one another - | 1:56:03 | 1:56:06 | |
and what did I see in Manchester? | 1:56:06 | 1:56:07 | |
People putting their arms around one another. | 1:56:07 | 1:56:09 | |
We saw the homeless guy who did everything to help those people | 1:56:09 | 1:56:12 | |
who were suffering and in need in that dark time on Monday night. | 1:56:12 | 1:56:16 | |
We saw Muslim cabbies giving free rides to people. | 1:56:16 | 1:56:19 | |
We saw people opening up their homes. | 1:56:19 | 1:56:21 | |
You see, that's the Britain I love, | 1:56:21 | 1:56:22 | |
and that's the Britain the terrorists want to destroy - | 1:56:22 | 1:56:24 | |
and only a day and a half after that devastating terrorist attack, | 1:56:24 | 1:56:29 | |
he has already lost. | 1:56:29 | 1:56:31 | |
They have already lost. | 1:56:31 | 1:56:33 | |
It feels raw now. | 1:56:33 | 1:56:34 | |
It really feels raw - | 1:56:34 | 1:56:36 | |
but I want to just say - those children, they're our children. | 1:56:36 | 1:56:40 | |
We're all Manchester. | 1:56:40 | 1:56:42 | |
We are all Britain. | 1:56:42 | 1:56:43 | |
In the words of Tony Walsh, the poet, | 1:56:43 | 1:56:46 | |
"We are all Britain, | 1:56:46 | 1:56:47 | |
"whether we are born here or drawn here." | 1:56:47 | 1:56:49 |