:00:46. > :00:51.The autumn colours of the River T are an unfamiliar backdrop for
:00:52. > :00:58.Scottish Labour was Mike autumn Conference. Delegates usually get
:00:59. > :01:05.together in these bring but summer saw the election of two new Labour
:01:06. > :01:12.leaders, Jeremy Corbyn and Kezia Dugdale in Scotland. I next March,
:01:13. > :01:17.the party will be just weeks away from the Holyrood election and there
:01:18. > :01:21.is a 30 point polling gap to close between now and then so they have
:01:22. > :01:26.gathered here in Perth to kick-start a long campaign. Scottish Labour has
:01:27. > :01:34.been trying to reinvent itself ever since Joanne Larman quit as leader
:01:35. > :01:42.leaning the UK party for treating Scotland like our branch office.
:01:43. > :01:47.Brian Taylor project to Kezia Dugdale that whatever Scottish
:01:48. > :01:55.Labour decided it would always be trumped by Westminster. - Johann
:01:56. > :02:02.Lamont. This Conference but strongly worded motions to cancel Trident,
:02:03. > :02:08.1989 Herald 13th March, and an unyielding message to Mr Neil
:02:09. > :02:13.Kinnock at the weekend that he must not abandon the commitment to
:02:14. > :02:18.unilateral disarmament. 1988, evening News 6th of March, the
:02:19. > :02:22.Scottish Labour Party today snubbed Tony Blair by refusing to scrap
:02:23. > :02:29.Britain was Mike nuclear deterrent. I can give you many cases where the
:02:30. > :02:43.Scottish Labour Party voted against Trident. They never took notice.
:02:44. > :02:46.That is like say the SNP do not have a opinion on
:02:47. > :03:18.That is like say the SNP do not have make it more democratic.
:03:19. > :03:20.That is like say the SNP do not have covered them, it might be a while in
:03:21. > :03:27.your past or possibly before you were born as an example of some of
:03:28. > :03:32.them but the Scottish Labour Party voted repeatedly for nuclear
:03:33. > :03:39.disarmament and that was over as far as I am away, ignored, we still have
:03:40. > :03:40.Trident on the Clyde. Bhoy the Scottish Labour Party Conference
:03:41. > :05:20.Trident on the Clyde. Bhoy the and Scottish Labour Party is
:05:21. > :05:27.coordinating in solidarity with one another. Jeremy Corbyn then turned
:05:28. > :05:33.specifically to the politics of last week and the tax credit to beat in
:05:34. > :05:37.the house of lords. 1300 per year will be taken from a quarter of a
:05:38. > :05:44.million families across Scotland from next April. Across the UK as a
:05:45. > :05:47.whole beast tax credit cuts will put another 200,000 children into
:05:48. > :05:53.poverty. Have a million more children are already in poverty than
:05:54. > :05:57.you were in 2010. How can we rest when the government is trying to
:05:58. > :06:02.dismantle the support for working people that we deal Labour Party and
:06:03. > :06:06.Labour government would tempt place. Why should our members in the house
:06:07. > :06:12.of Lord not take action to force the hands of the government as they did
:06:13. > :06:18.this week. Eventually he saw Pope in Labour Party might future in the
:06:19. > :06:22.energy debate. In the referendum last year 85% of people don't vote
:06:23. > :06:27.because the stakes were very high. The new regardless of how people go
:06:28. > :06:33.to do would be a dramatic effect on the future of this nation. I believe
:06:34. > :06:37.all politics today, not just constitutional politics, is
:06:38. > :06:41.important. He stakes are high. When we vote for the government as we are
:06:42. > :06:49.seeing with the Tories, these have an impact on people's lives. This is
:06:50. > :06:56.true across Scotland. Let's build that caving, inclusive society where
:06:57. > :07:01.everybody matters, everybody is included, every child can fulfil
:07:02. > :07:05.ambitions and dreams. That is our mission, that is our mission, that
:07:06. > :07:15.is the Labour vision. Thank you very much. Earlier in the day the general
:07:16. > :07:19.secretary of the ST UC offered a stern rebuke to those who suggested
:07:20. > :07:25.the policies of the new leader where extremist. It is not extreme to be
:07:26. > :07:32.against 's deputy, it is not extreme to be pro-trade union, it is not
:07:33. > :07:36.extreme to believe that reducing competitiveness can be
:07:37. > :07:40.complementary. It is not extreme to believe in progressive taxation or
:07:41. > :07:46.if we want high quality public services we all might have two p a
:07:47. > :07:52.bit more tax. It certainly is not extreme to question the morality or
:07:53. > :07:57.if his sake of spending ?167 billion on Trident renewal. The French would
:07:58. > :08:04.think it extreme not too happy publicly owned and run real system.
:08:05. > :08:07.The Germans would think it extreme not to support manufacturing or not
:08:08. > :08:12.to recognise the central role of trade unions or collective
:08:13. > :08:17.bargaining or not to require countries to pay 30% corporation
:08:18. > :08:22.tax. The Scandinavians would think it strange not to have a high level
:08:23. > :08:26.of union membership or two pay higher taxes for better public
:08:27. > :08:31.services. The Norwegians would think it not extreme to have a state owned
:08:32. > :08:36.oil company and it is ironic we have someone else's state owned company
:08:37. > :08:41.running our railway or operating our nuclear power stations or to
:08:42. > :08:44.advocate public ownership of transport, energy utilities is
:08:45. > :08:53.considered by some to be the on the Peel in the UK. The next referendum
:08:54. > :08:58.on the future of the UK will be on whether to remain in the EU. The
:08:59. > :09:05.labouring movement for staying in hell a fringe movement. Deeper
:09:06. > :09:09.co-operation has allowed the left in the UK to join forces with our
:09:10. > :09:15.European counterparts and to achieve protection for workers across 28
:09:16. > :09:20.member states, that is quite something, able achievement, we
:09:21. > :09:24.should celebrate that. It is lengthening the left in Europe I
:09:25. > :09:28.believe, would not serve the objectives of the progresses but
:09:29. > :09:33.rather we can our attempts to affect change to the many, not the few. The
:09:34. > :09:41.UK leaving the European Union would deprive the left of one voice to
:09:42. > :09:45.benefit one continent. Being part of the European community has
:09:46. > :09:52.undoubtedly changed our society. It has brought investment for our
:09:53. > :09:56.workers on maternity and paternity pay and often my favourite one, the
:09:57. > :10:01.right to paid holiday. Local companies like Nissan and Siemens
:10:02. > :10:05.all choosing to set up shop in Britain because of our continued EU
:10:06. > :10:12.membership. The challenge for Europe is best, we are one 20th of the
:10:13. > :10:17.world'spopulation with 20% of the world's wealth, that cannot
:10:18. > :10:21.continue. Wealth is moving east. The rise of China, meant countries close
:10:22. > :10:26.behind. We have two ensure a competitive union so we have the
:10:27. > :10:31.best products officially produced without lowering wages or standard
:10:32. > :10:42.of living. We must not accept Britain just falls behind.
:10:43. > :10:50.Labour Party might only surviving Scottish MP is now the SkyDome
:10:51. > :10:53.Scottish secretary and he told the Conference a moving story about how
:10:54. > :10:59.it is possible to come from a humble background and rice to the top. I
:11:00. > :11:02.want to tell you a story of an ordinarily Scottish boy from an
:11:03. > :11:08.ordinarily Scottish family, this little boy was born and grew up in a
:11:09. > :11:10.deprived areas. He had as much talent and potential if not
:11:11. > :11:15.opportunity at the start of his life as anyone else. He had the
:11:16. > :11:18.supportive and loving family, at the age of nine he had to deal with the
:11:19. > :11:22.death of his family which was a horrible time for his family at his
:11:23. > :11:27.mother pushed through determined to get them the best life she could,
:11:28. > :11:31.work all hours and told her two sons there was nothing in life he could
:11:32. > :11:35.not achieve. He grew up, went to a state school in one of the most
:11:36. > :11:41.deprived areas of the city but got through school with good results,
:11:42. > :11:45.why? Cause the school may have been deprived of resources but it was not
:11:46. > :11:50.deprived of teachers who inspired, supported and encouraged him. Thanks
:11:51. > :11:55.to those teachers in that school he got to university, the first-ever in
:11:56. > :11:59.his family, he graduated, worked temporary jobs before packing it all
:12:00. > :12:04.in and going it alone, starting his own micro-businesses. While they got
:12:05. > :12:10.off the ground he moonlighted at the deception is to pay bills. I call
:12:11. > :12:13.start-ups things did not always go smoothly or according to plan but
:12:14. > :12:22.after a few years he was broadcasting on the Internet,
:12:23. > :12:27.renovating buildings and turning them around. That could be anyone's
:12:28. > :12:30.story but it just happens to be mined and is probably a story like
:12:31. > :12:33.any of you in here today which reminds us no matter where you are
:12:34. > :12:40.from or what you believe you can succeed. A delegate spoke from
:12:41. > :12:46.personal experience and persuaded Conference to vote to end social
:12:47. > :12:50.care charges. Why is it that I need help to go to toilet in hospital it
:12:51. > :12:54.is free and I am damp rag to be part of the party who made it so that if
:12:55. > :12:59.I need help to go to the toilet in my own home I have two people at it.
:13:00. > :13:03.It was a Tory government to split social kid and I do not see this
:13:04. > :13:06.often but they were right to do that because I would rather get help in
:13:07. > :13:10.the community that I need and be able to come to Conference today
:13:11. > :13:15.that had to stay in an institution out when they did it the worst
:13:16. > :13:19.sneaky. He did not just change where care happened, they hived off bits
:13:20. > :13:24.of it and bits we used to get for free we suddenly had to start paying
:13:25. > :13:28.for. The abysmal line between health and social care, this SNP government
:13:29. > :13:34.have resided over social care system in Scotland and I resided over a
:13:35. > :13:39.social care system in Scotland that is in crisis. Instead of ending the
:13:40. > :13:42.injustice they say the alibi justice. Instead of ending that
:13:43. > :13:49.injustice they simply say reform them and make them fairer but how
:13:50. > :14:01.can that be fair to have to gauge to get out of bed in the morning? - B.
:14:02. > :14:06.Closing the school attainment gap between the least and most
:14:07. > :14:10.successful school pupils is the priority of all parties but how do
:14:11. > :14:13.you go about achieving that? That was the question the Joseph Rowntree
:14:14. > :14:21.foundation asked at its fringe meeting. Currently the biggest
:14:22. > :14:25.impact factor on how quickly a child in Scotland learns to read is the
:14:26. > :14:32.amount of money his or her patients letter and that down. That is wrong.
:14:33. > :14:39.In the 21st century we must do something about that.
:14:40. > :14:48.The attainment gap matters, unemployment can beckon, you get low
:14:49. > :14:52.income, it has health, psychological consequences and it also matters
:14:53. > :14:56.because it means there is a pool of unexplored talents. We are missing
:14:57. > :15:01.out on the future engineers, artists, entrepreneurs of the future
:15:02. > :15:06.because so many children are not doing well in school. The geography
:15:07. > :15:13.of poverty in Scotland is different in terms of education from poverty
:15:14. > :15:18.in England or America. England and America property is zoned according
:15:19. > :15:23.to schools. In Scotland it is not, Scotland has a more comprehensive
:15:24. > :15:31.education system so 60% of kids who are living in poverty do not go to
:15:32. > :15:36.school. Kezia Dugdale followed with startling statistics and a policy
:15:37. > :15:41.announcement. If you are looked after kid, you are more likely to go
:15:42. > :15:45.to jail than University, that should shock every person in the room. We
:15:46. > :15:51.should not stand for that until it is turned around. There are 16,000
:15:52. > :15:58.looked after kids in Scotland with that identity, 156 are studying at
:15:59. > :16:02.higher education institutions. I have higher aspirations. One of the
:16:03. > :16:07.policies I have released today and I will say more tomorrow is if you are
:16:08. > :16:12.a looked after kid, a child who has had no real mum and dad in your life
:16:13. > :16:16.is at the state, we recognise the state is your parent and it should
:16:17. > :16:21.do a better job than it has done looking after your education. I have
:16:22. > :16:26.said every child that wants to go to university will get a full grant,
:16:27. > :16:30.you will not have to borrow a penny, that is a full grant of ?6,000 for
:16:31. > :16:34.every year they are at university to make sure they can fulfil their
:16:35. > :16:42.potential and not have to go into debt. On Saturday Kezia Dugdale made
:16:43. > :16:46.her first speech as leader as the third Scottish woman leader she
:16:47. > :16:54.focused part of her speech on equality. We need 147,000 more
:16:55. > :16:58.engineers in Scotland by 2022. Just a fraction of those studying
:16:59. > :17:03.engineering science and phonology are preparing for the jobs of the
:17:04. > :17:09.future are women. Having three female leaders should mean we win
:17:10. > :17:16.more victories for women. It can't mean we declare victory prematurely.
:17:17. > :17:21.She turned her attention to the record of the SNP government. I say
:17:22. > :17:26.to the SNP, after eight years in charge, I will judge you on your
:17:27. > :17:31.record and I will judge you above all on your record on education.
:17:32. > :17:35.APPLAUSE Every single one of the 6000
:17:36. > :17:42.children who left a Scottish primary school this year on your watch
:17:43. > :17:45.unable to read properly, that record disgraces this nation and it
:17:46. > :17:53.constrains its future. APPLAUSE
:17:54. > :17:57.The Scottish parliament will soon have new powers which give us the
:17:58. > :18:03.chance to break with the Tories unfair taxes. At SNP conference John
:18:04. > :18:09.Swinney was asked if he would make a different choice on tax credits than
:18:10. > :18:16.the Tories. He offered only excuses saying they could not afford to do
:18:17. > :18:19.it. If the SNP government can't even commit to doing things differently
:18:20. > :18:24.from a Tory government, what does it say about their ambitions for
:18:25. > :18:28.Scotland? We have a government in Scotland which looks at a problem
:18:29. > :18:33.and sees only the politics. We need a government that looks at the
:18:34. > :18:39.problem and sees possibilities. I see things differently. I don't look
:18:40. > :18:45.to make political capital out of grievance, when I see a problem I
:18:46. > :18:49.ask what can be done? Let me say today, to Scotland what we will do.
:18:50. > :18:53.If the Tories do not see sense, Scottish Labour will stand for the
:18:54. > :18:57.elections with a promise to restore the money Scottish families stand to
:18:58. > :19:04.lose in this Tory tax rise on working families.
:19:05. > :19:09.APPLAUSE The SNP have said they would cut the
:19:10. > :19:15.tax paid on airline tickets, a policy which will eventually cost
:19:16. > :19:21.?250 million a year. I know this is a policy which many will welcome,
:19:22. > :19:28.not least the airport operators but I say this, a tax cut for those who
:19:29. > :19:31.can all ready afford to shop for airline tickets cannot be
:19:32. > :19:41.Scotland's priority when families cannot afford the weekly shop.
:19:42. > :19:44.APPLAUSE The SNP have squeezed health
:19:45. > :19:50.spending by more than the Tories in England. I say it again because it
:19:51. > :19:54.is hard to believe. Even this Tory government, the most hostile to the
:19:55. > :20:00.NHS in a generation, has increased spending on the NHS in England more
:20:01. > :20:07.than the SNP have in Scotland. Isn't that shameful? As the population
:20:08. > :20:11.gets older, we want parents and grandparents to have a regular
:20:12. > :20:16.friendly face with a time to care for them. Let's make caring a career
:20:17. > :20:21.that more will choose for the longer term. I can announce today Scottish
:20:22. > :20:26.Labour will guarantee a real living wage for care workers. It is
:20:27. > :20:31.Labour's mission that those post-war babies born to the NHS will be cared
:20:32. > :20:35.for into their 70s and beyond with the dignity and respect they
:20:36. > :20:41.deserve. By people with time to care. And by improving care, we will
:20:42. > :20:47.relieve the pressure on the front line NHS. The SNP are starting to
:20:48. > :20:51.make the mistakes we did when we dominated Scottish politics. And
:20:52. > :20:56.whilst the SNP went from strength to strength, they increasingly arrogant
:20:57. > :21:01.way they exercise their strength, that has been their choice. Freedom
:21:02. > :21:05.of Information requests are refused, Parliamentary questions are
:21:06. > :21:10.stonewalled, journalists come under attack for simply asking difficult
:21:11. > :21:13.questions. At first Minister's Questions whatever issue I raised,
:21:14. > :21:19.the response has been the same complacent answer. Look at our poll
:21:20. > :21:24.ratings. Friends in a modern democracy we need a government in
:21:25. > :21:25.Scotland spends more time explaining itself and less time congratulating
:21:26. > :21:35.itself. APPLAUSE
:21:36. > :21:43.In this world nothing is certain except death and taxes, or so they
:21:44. > :21:47.say. But did we think about how we are taxed and do anything more about
:21:48. > :21:53.how we could be taxed differently? Should we even be contemplating the
:21:54. > :21:57.joy of tax? Good or ethical tax systems is one in which people give
:21:58. > :22:02.cheerfully in recognition of that which has been graciously given to
:22:03. > :22:07.us, we need to challenge things like the idea the poorest and most
:22:08. > :22:12.vulnerable are a burden. And at the cost of supporting them is what is
:22:13. > :22:17.to blame for this country is financial situation. We have to
:22:18. > :22:23.challenge the unfair rhetoric which contrasts hard-working families with
:22:24. > :22:27.benefits scroungers. Which blames and demeans and stigmatises. And we
:22:28. > :22:32.all ready no there is more in work poverty than out of work poverty. We
:22:33. > :22:37.have to challenge it is a good thing to avoid paying tax, taxes are a
:22:38. > :22:46.dirty word and the lower tax you pay the better. The tendency to divide
:22:47. > :22:51.people into tax payers ants -- service users, one group who pay the
:22:52. > :22:56.tax and another group which use the services. We are all taxpayers
:22:57. > :23:01.whether by direct taxation or indirect taxation and we are all
:23:02. > :23:05.service users as well. And I think we have to challenge the convenient
:23:06. > :23:12.brushing aside for tax avoidance by wealthy companies and individuals,
:23:13. > :23:20.we say of the 100 largest companies in the UK, 98% use tax havens to
:23:21. > :23:25.hide their profits. There was a fire in Glasgow in the south of the
:23:26. > :23:29.bridge, an old building, the biggest fire in Glasgow for 20 years. I
:23:30. > :23:36.wanted to find out who owns the building, it was owned by company in
:23:37. > :23:42.Belfast. I went to the website to see how much the building was worth
:23:43. > :23:51.in terms of rental value, four or ?5,000 which would equate to
:23:52. > :23:56.?200,000 a year. In our wisdom, we have chosen to provide 100% relief
:23:57. > :24:01.to empty industrial buildings and therefore the tax was not paid. Over
:24:02. > :24:05.ten years, Glasgow City Council was short of ?2.5 million but the
:24:06. > :24:11.property still expects the fire brigade to come out, the police to
:24:12. > :24:14.maintain public order and the courts to be available to adjudicate
:24:15. > :24:18.liabilities on insurance. And property owners rely on the Army and
:24:19. > :24:28.navy and air force to defend the country.
:24:29. > :24:33.Kezia Dugdale was elected on a promise to open up debate to
:24:34. > :24:35.ordinary party members over towards the end of conference delegates have
:24:36. > :24:44.tackled the issue of Trident renewal. This is a life or death
:24:45. > :24:47.decision. We can choose to squander resources, squander talents,
:24:48. > :24:53.squandered a chance to build a different and better future by
:24:54. > :24:59.choosing a greater capacity to dismantle death. Or instead we can
:25:00. > :25:02.invest and choose to invest in our communities and skills and building
:25:03. > :25:06.an economy that can deliver the kind of society we want to see for
:25:07. > :25:11.ourselves and our children the conference, let's choose life, the
:25:12. > :25:18.change you want in the world, let's cancel Trident renewal. Conference,
:25:19. > :25:24.I believe in multilateral nuclear disarmament, I do not believe giving
:25:25. > :25:30.up our nuclear weapons in isolation will trigger other nations to reduce
:25:31. > :25:34.their number. As for the SNP, this is the party that believes simply
:25:35. > :25:40.moving Trident from the Clyde, if you hundred miles south of the
:25:41. > :25:44.border to England is appropriate. That is NIMBY is on a national scale
:25:45. > :25:54.and the worst kind of gesture politics. The truth is the SNP don't
:25:55. > :25:59.want to talk about jobs, they make false promises, on the one hand you
:26:00. > :26:03.have Angus Robertson pledging to spend all the money on defence on
:26:04. > :26:07.the other hand you have an array of SNP backbencher is promising to
:26:08. > :26:14.spend the money time after time after time. The media recently
:26:15. > :26:20.decried Jeremy Corbyn for saying he would not push the nuclear button.
:26:21. > :26:22.Apparently in the minds of tabloid journalists, not being willing to
:26:23. > :26:27.wipe out millions of your fellow human beings is a sign of weakness.
:26:28. > :26:33.Conference, I will support someone who works for peace, justice and
:26:34. > :26:39.human rights any day over someone who is willing to cause nuclear
:26:40. > :26:46.Armageddon. We are told the motion recognises the importance to jobs.
:26:47. > :26:52.The fact is, it is disingenuous. What you are asking us to do is --
:26:53. > :26:57.as a trade union is to vote other members out of skilled work and into
:26:58. > :27:03.non-jobs. This debate is a nonsense and frankly it is an utter
:27:04. > :27:07.indulgence. We have closed dozens of yards, we have closed thousands of
:27:08. > :27:11.factories up and down this country and people have seen what actually
:27:12. > :27:17.happens, high skilled well-paid union jobs replaced by part-time low
:27:18. > :27:21.skilled low-paid part-time work. In the end of the vote was more than
:27:22. > :27:27.70% in favour of not renewing Trident. I think the vote and the
:27:28. > :27:36.scope of the vote in trenches opposition to Trident. In practice,
:27:37. > :27:39.I remember in the 80s and 90s and conferences routinely voted against
:27:40. > :27:42.Trident, it made a difference. What may be different this
:27:43. > :28:28.Trident, it made a difference. What left is they
:28:29. > :28:30.Trident, it made a difference. What Restoring tax credits and putting
:28:31. > :28:35.added tax on those who are middle and higher income earners. In doing
:28:36. > :28:39.so she is trying to challenge the SNP to get
:28:40. > :28:39.so she is trying to challenge the debate about what powers Hollywood
:28:40. > :28:40.should