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Manchester is my capital city.

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I didn't apply to university there, because it was too close to home.

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It was the place we went to when we got to 18 - well, maybe 17 -

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the place we went to the Hacienda, to Affleck's Palace,

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to enjoy the bright lights and the glamour of Manchester.

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I love Manchester - and I was there again last night at the vigil,

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and just hours after the devastation of that terrorist outrage,

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people stood together in that community,

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in that big Albert Square, jam packed with people.

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People had come from miles -

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I talked to an elderly couple, they'd come from miles, they said.

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I said, "Where from?"

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"From Oldham."

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Well, that can be miles away from Manchester, from one point of view.

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It was just a wonderful experience of seeing people coming together -

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and it occurred to me, as I walked through the streets afterwards,

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talking to people and just observing what was going round,

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I bumped into people who were going into gigs,

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sat outside bars, carrying on as normal.

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I was proud of them.

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It struck me.

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What also strikes me is, almost by the hour, now,

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we get the name of another child -

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maybe some of them are adults, but they're all someone's children -

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dead.

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People whose lives have been lost.

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Another family utterly, utterly shattered.

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And it's heartbreaking.

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My kids, each know somebody who was there on that night,

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and for all of us, it feels beyond devastating.

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Beyond heartbreaking.

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But here's the thing -

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you see, we will remember those 22 children.

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We will remember every single one of them,

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and we will stand by their families.

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We will put our arms around them.

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They will be never forgotten -

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but the terrorist will.

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You see, here's the thing - he died in vain.

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He died to divide us.

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He died to set us against one another -

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and what did I see in Manchester?

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People putting their arms around one another.

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We saw the homeless guy who did everything to help those people

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who were suffering and in need in that dark time on Monday night.

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We saw Muslim cabbies giving free rides to people.

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We saw people opening up their homes.

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You see, that's the Britain I love,

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and that's the Britain the terrorists want to destroy -

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and only a day and a half after that devastating terrorist attack,

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he has already lost.

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They have already lost.

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It feels raw now.

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It really feels raw -

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but I want to just say - those children, they're our children.

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We're all Manchester.

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We are all Britain.

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In the words of Tony Walsh, the poet,

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"We are all Britain,

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"whether we are born here or drawn here."

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