:00:15. > :00:18.This programme contains strobe lighting.
:00:18. > :00:28.Good evening and welcome back to Manchester for more highlights from
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:00:32. > :00:39.the Labour Party Conference. This is my faith, this is who I am.
:00:39. > :00:43.It was a highly personal speech, delivered with no notes and no
:00:43. > :00:51.autocue in which the leader of the opposition claimed the "one nation"
:00:51. > :00:54.mannedle for his party. In the conference's keynote speech,
:00:54. > :00:56.Ed Miliband outlined his political vision to his party and the country
:00:56. > :00:59.at large. It was a highly personal speech,
:01:00. > :01:02.delivered with no notes and no autocue, in which the Leader of the
:01:02. > :01:05.Opposition claimed the "one nation" mantle for his party.
:01:05. > :01:07.And, he got a warm reception,not just in the hall, but from many
:01:07. > :01:17.pundits. But was it more positioning than
:01:17. > :01:47.
:01:47. > :01:54.Years. Both of my parents came to Britain as immigrants. Jewish
:01:54. > :01:59.refugees from the Nazis. I know I would not be standing on this stage
:01:59. > :02:09.today without the compassion and tolerance of our great country,
:02:09. > :02:14.
:02:14. > :02:19.Great Britain. You know, my parents saw Britain rebuilt after the
:02:19. > :02:24.Second World War. I was born in my local, national health service
:02:24. > :02:29.hospital. The same hospital my two sons would later be born in. As you
:02:29. > :02:33.saw in the film, I went to my local school. I went to my local
:02:33. > :02:40.comprehensive with people from all backgrounds. It is this upbringing
:02:40. > :02:45.that has made me who I am. A person of faith. Not a religious faith,
:02:45. > :02:51.but a faith none the less. A faith that I believe many religious
:02:51. > :02:57.people would recognise. Here is my faith. I believe we have a duty to
:02:57. > :03:04.leave the world a better place than we found it. I believe we cannot
:03:04. > :03:08.shrug... APPLAUSE
:03:08. > :03:13.I believe we cannot shrug our shoulders at injustice and just say,
:03:14. > :03:21.that's the way the world is. I believe, that we can overcome any
:03:21. > :03:25.odds if we come together as people. That's how...
:03:25. > :03:33.APPLAUSE You see, that's how my mum survived
:03:33. > :03:38.the war. The kindness of strangers. Nuns in a con vent who took her in
:03:38. > :03:43.and shelledered her from the Nazis. Took in a Jewish girl at risk to
:03:43. > :03:49.themselves. It's what my dad found when he came to these shores and
:03:49. > :03:55.joined the Royal Navy and was part of Britain, winning the war. Now,
:03:55. > :03:58.of course, my parents didn't tell me what career to go into. My late
:03:58. > :04:08.father, as some of you know, wouldn't agree with many of the
:04:08. > :04:09.
:04:09. > :04:15.things I stand for. He would have loved the idea of Red Ed. He would
:04:15. > :04:19.have been a little bit disappointed that it wasn't true. My mum
:04:19. > :04:24.probably doesn't agree with me either. But, like most mums, is too
:04:24. > :04:28.kind to say so. Look, when I was younger I wasn't certain I wanted
:04:28. > :04:35.to be a politician, but I d believe the best way for me to give back to
:04:35. > :04:39.Britain, the best way to be true to my faith is through politics. Now,
:04:39. > :04:46.that is not a fashionable view today. Millions of people have
:04:46. > :04:50.given up on politics. They think we are all the same. I guess you could
:04:50. > :04:52.say, I'm out to prove them wrong. APPLAUSE
:04:52. > :04:57.That is who I am. APPLAUSE
:04:57. > :05:02.I want to talk to all the people of this country who have always
:05:02. > :05:06.thought of themselves as comfortably off, but who now find
:05:06. > :05:11.themselves struggling to make ends meet. They ask, why is it that when
:05:11. > :05:17.the oil price goes up, the petrol price goes up? When the oil price
:05:17. > :05:22.comes down, the petrol price just stays the same? They ask why is
:05:22. > :05:27.that the gas and electricity bill just goes up and up and up? They
:05:27. > :05:32.ask why is it that privatised train companies can make hundreds of
:05:32. > :05:42.millions of pounds in profit at the same time as train fares are going
:05:42. > :05:44.
:05:44. > :05:49.up by 10% a year? APPLAUSE
:05:49. > :05:55.They ask, why is it, they think the system just doesn't work for them.
:05:55. > :05:58.You know what, they're right. It doesn't. It doesn't work for them
:05:58. > :06:05.because of cosy cartels and powerful interests that Government
:06:05. > :06:11.haven't cut down to size. You know, 140 years ago, 140 years ago, to
:06:11. > :06:18.the year, another leader of the opposition gave a speech. It was in
:06:18. > :06:23.the free trade hall that used to stand opposite this building. The
:06:23. > :06:29.Radison now, by the way. His name was Benjamin Desraeli. He was a
:06:29. > :06:37.Tory. Don't let that put you off, just for a minute. His speech took
:06:38. > :06:43.over three hours to deliver. He... Don't worry, don't worry... He
:06:43. > :06:47.drank two whole bottles of brandy while delivering it. That is
:06:47. > :06:52.absolutely true. Now look, I just want to say, I know a speech that
:06:52. > :06:57.long would probably kill you. The brandy would definitely kill me.
:06:57. > :07:02.Let us remember what Desraeli was celebrated for. It was a vision of
:07:02. > :07:06.Britain. A vision of Britain where patriotism, loyalty and dedication
:07:06. > :07:11.to the common cause, courses through the veins of all and nobody
:07:11. > :07:17.feels left out. It was a vifgs Britain coming together to overcome
:07:17. > :07:22.the challenges we face. Desraeli called it ""one nation". "One
:07:22. > :07:26.nation". We heard the phrase again as the country came together to
:07:26. > :07:36.defeat fascism. We heard it again as the Labour government rebuilt
:07:36. > :07:48.
:07:48. > :07:54.Friends, I didn't become Leader of the Labour Party to re-invent the
:07:54. > :07:59.world of Desraeli or Atlee. I do believe in that spirit. That spirit
:07:59. > :08:04.of one nation, one nation a country where everyone has a stake. One
:08:04. > :08:09.nation, a country where prosperity is fairly shared. One nation, where
:08:09. > :08:15.we have a shared destiny, a sense of shared endeavour and a common
:08:15. > :08:22.life that we lead together. That is my vision of one nation. That is my
:08:22. > :08:25.vision of Britain. That is the Britain we must become.
:08:25. > :08:31.APPLAUSE When David Cameron says to you,
:08:31. > :08:39.well, let's just carry on as we are and wait for something to turn up.
:08:39. > :08:44.Don't believe him. Don't believe him. If the medicine's not working,
:08:44. > :08:53.you change the medicine. APPLAUSE
:08:53. > :08:59.And, friends, I'll tell you what else to change. You change the
:08:59. > :09:02.doctor too and that's what this country needs to do.
:09:02. > :09:08.APPLAUSE Next April, David Cameron will be
:09:08. > :09:16.writing a cheque for �40,000 to each and every millionaire in
:09:16. > :09:22.Britain. Not just for one year, but each and every year. That is more
:09:22. > :09:27.than the average person earns in a whole year. At the same time, as
:09:27. > :09:32.they are imposing a tax on pensioners next April. Friends, we,
:09:32. > :09:40.the Labour Party, the country, knows it is wrong. It is wrong what
:09:40. > :09:46.they are doing. It shows their priorities. Here's the worse part.
:09:46. > :09:51.David Cameron isn't just writing the cheques, he's receiving one.
:09:51. > :09:53.He's going to be getting the millionaire's tax cut.
:09:53. > :09:58.APPLAUSE So that's the reality in Britain
:09:58. > :10:03.today. It's a rebate for the top. A rip-off for everybody else. A
:10:03. > :10:09.recovery for the top. It's a recession for everybody else. This
:10:09. > :10:18.Prime Minister said "we're all in it together", don't let him ever
:10:18. > :10:25.tell us again "we're all in this together ." There is one thing that
:10:25. > :10:32.this Government might have claimed to be good at. That's competence.
:10:32. > :10:39.Because, afterall, they think they're born to rule. So maybe they
:10:39. > :10:44.would be good at it. Have you ever seen a more incompetent, hopeless,
:10:44. > :10:49.out of touch, U-turning, pledge- breaking, make tup as you go along,
:10:49. > :10:54.back at the envelope, miserable shower than this Prime Minister and
:10:54. > :11:00.had Government? APPLAUSE
:11:00. > :11:05.To be one nation we have to live within our means. Because borrowing
:11:05. > :11:08.is getting worse, not better, it means there will be many cuts that
:11:08. > :11:12.this Government made that we won't be able to reverse, even though
:11:12. > :11:15.we'd like to. You know, that is why we said in this Parliament that we
:11:15. > :11:19.would put jobs over pay in the public sector. In the next
:11:19. > :11:25.Parliament, we will have tough settlements for the public services.
:11:25. > :11:32.What does it mean for the Labour Party? To be one nation, it means
:11:32. > :11:39.we can't go back to Old Labour. We must be the party of private sector
:11:39. > :11:45.just as much as the party of the public sector. As much of the party
:11:45. > :11:51.as the small business and the home lep struggling against the cuts.
:11:51. > :12:01.Stkpwhrsh help struggling against the cuts. We must be the party of
:12:01. > :12:01.
:12:01. > :12:05.south, just as much as the party of the north.
:12:05. > :12:11.APPLAUSE We must be the party as much of the
:12:11. > :12:16.squeezed middle as those in poverty. There is no future for this party a
:12:16. > :12:26.as the party of one sectional interest of our country.
:12:26. > :12:31.APPLAUSE But so too it is right to move on
:12:31. > :12:34.from New Labour. New Labour, despite its great achievements, was
:12:34. > :12:41.too silent about the responsibilities of those at the
:12:41. > :12:46.top and too Tim mid about the accountability of those with power.
:12:46. > :12:50.In one nation, responsibility goes all the way to the top of society.
:12:50. > :13:00.The richest in society have the biggest responsibility to show
:13:00. > :13:04.
:13:04. > :13:11.responsibility to the rest of our country. I've got news for the
:13:11. > :13:18.powerful interests in our country. In one nation, no interests, from
:13:18. > :13:22.Rupert Murdoch, to the banks, is too powerful to be held to account.
:13:22. > :13:32.APPLAUSE I have a message for the banks. We
:13:32. > :13:32.
:13:32. > :13:36.can do this the easy way or the hard way. Either you fix it
:13:36. > :13:40.yourselves between now and the election or the next Labour Party
:13:40. > :13:45.Government will once and again ensure that the high street bank is
:13:45. > :13:51.no ronge -- longer the arm of a casino operation and we will break
:13:51. > :13:55.up by law. Next, we need an education system that works for all
:13:55. > :14:02.young people. APPLAUSE
:14:02. > :14:11.You see, to be a one nation economy you have to use all the talents of
:14:11. > :14:14.all of our young people. It's not just that it is socially right,
:14:14. > :14:18.it's essential for our economy for the future. For a long time our
:14:18. > :14:26.party has been focused on getting 50% of young people into university.
:14:26. > :14:29.I believe that was right. Now, it's time to put our focus on the
:14:29. > :14:38.forgotten 50% who do not go to university.
:14:38. > :14:41.Britain has given my family everything, the spirit and the
:14:41. > :14:46.courage and determination of the people who rebuilt Britain after
:14:46. > :14:50.the Second World War, and now the question is asked again, who in
:14:50. > :14:55.this generation will rebuild Britain for the future? Who can
:14:55. > :15:00.come up to the task of rebuilding Britain? Friends, it falls to us.
:15:00. > :15:03.It falls to us, the Labour Party, as it has fallen to previous
:15:03. > :15:07.generations of Labour Party pioneers to leave our country a
:15:07. > :15:15.better place than we found it. Never to shrug our shoulders at
:15:15. > :15:20.injustice and say, that is the way the world is. To come together, to
:15:20. > :15:27.join together as one country. It is not some impossible dream. We have
:15:27. > :15:32.heard it, we have felt it! That is my face. One nation, a country for
:15:32. > :15:42.all with everyone playing their part! A Briton we rebuilt together.
:15:42. > :15:47.
:15:47. > :15:52.Thank you very much. At CHEERING Ed Miliband speaking earlier today.
:15:52. > :15:57.Shortly after the speech, Andrew Neil spoke to the Shadow Foreign
:15:57. > :16:03.Secretary, Douglas Alexander. Welcome. How long has Benjamin
:16:03. > :16:08.Disraeli been Ed Miliband's political hero? Well, I think he
:16:08. > :16:11.answered that question today by saying his mission was to build a
:16:11. > :16:15.one-nation Britain and he was generous enough to attribute the
:16:15. > :16:20.phrase to Benjamin Disraeli. It was issued several decades ago from a
:16:20. > :16:24.building across the road from here that isn't up a hotel. And even
:16:24. > :16:30.that would not convince your viewers of Ed Miliband, the
:16:30. > :16:38.Conservative. But the phrase is as hackneyed as long as I have been
:16:38. > :16:45.covering politics! One nation being reborn. Mr Blair, 2004 - New Labour
:16:45. > :16:49.now wears the one-nation mantle. Chuka Umunna. And Ed Miliband, we
:16:49. > :16:59.need what you might call one Reformation banking, from Mr
:16:59. > :16:59.
:16:59. > :17:02.Cameron. What is new? What is new is, first of all, the
:17:02. > :17:08.ridiculousness of the Conservatives trying to reclaim their one nation
:17:08. > :17:16.when their policies are dividing our country between rich, poor,
:17:16. > :17:21.North, South, and the politics we stood for in the mid- 1990s, when
:17:21. > :17:26.we won a huge majority, we have the task of bringing together the
:17:26. > :17:33.country after a huge election victory. The party is not just for
:17:33. > :17:38.England, but Scotland, Wales, the North and the South, and finding
:17:38. > :17:42.policies that bind our country together. So I think today we heard
:17:42. > :17:46.the authentic Ed Miliband voice. This is the mission and this is the
:17:46. > :17:56.man. And I think there are many across the country who have been
:17:56. > :17:57.
:17:57. > :18:01.waiting to hear this voice and vision. So the Tories left the
:18:01. > :18:11.clothes at that hall and you have picked them up and run away with
:18:11. > :18:11.
:18:11. > :18:21.them? Well, they left them when they decided to cut tax for the
:18:21. > :18:23.
:18:23. > :18:26.millionaires in this country while cutting pensions. We believe those
:18:26. > :18:30.with the broadest shoulders should bear the burden of this country.
:18:30. > :18:35.One nation is not the vision but it is an approach we will take to
:18:35. > :18:40.deliver that division. Can I Pickup that line you repeated from the
:18:40. > :18:44.speech? You are saying every millionaire in the country,
:18:44. > :18:49.everybody worth �1 million or Moore, is going to get a cheque for
:18:49. > :18:57.�40,000? If you look at the changes announced at the last Budget in
:18:57. > :19:03.terms of the tax cut gibbon from 50 to 45%, there will be benefits of
:19:03. > :19:11.�40,000. -- tax cut given. So Ed Miliband will be getting a cheque
:19:11. > :19:17.for �40,000, too? Well, it is based on income... Why are you talking
:19:17. > :19:21.about welfare and wealth? Millionaires of we -- are measured
:19:21. > :19:27.by wealth. You have said this again and again to know it is just not
:19:27. > :19:33.true. Income tax is on income so if you get paid �1 million you will be
:19:33. > :19:40.�40,000 better off, but if you are simply worth �1 million and get
:19:40. > :19:44.paid 150,000, you will not be? Correct? The truth is, there are
:19:44. > :19:51.many who have incomes of more than �1 million in this country who will
:19:51. > :19:57.be benefiting by the sum of �40,000 next April. How many? I do not have
:19:57. > :20:02.the red book in front of me. I will tell you. 6,000 people in this
:20:03. > :20:09.country earned over �1 million a year. Let me finish that point...
:20:09. > :20:15.Facts do matter in politics. There are 310,000 millionaires in this
:20:15. > :20:22.country. It is only the 6,000 earning over �1 million who will be
:20:22. > :20:31.getting the �40,000. Is that not correct? No, facts matter. It would
:20:31. > :20:41.be Mr Miliband's �40,000, it is Mr Cameron's 40,000...
:20:41. > :20:46.
:20:46. > :20:53.A Douglas Alexander speaking a bit earlier. With one of the biggest
:20:53. > :21:00.Blairites asking for certain donors to be kicked out, we hear the words
:21:00. > :21:05.of another. She Blairites stay or go? They
:21:05. > :21:11.should stay. They found a way to bring his party back into a form of
:21:11. > :21:16.progressive politics. They should go. Why? Because we need a fresh
:21:16. > :21:22.start and to move in the right direction. And they did not do us
:21:22. > :21:27.any favours. They lost us the election. I think the party is
:21:28. > :21:31.probably around the right balance and level of unity. I am writing
:21:31. > :21:37.about why Blairites should never be allowed back. Can you give us a
:21:37. > :21:41.brief summary? They lost the Labour traditional values and we let down
:21:41. > :21:51.our constituencies and had appalling social housing policies.
:21:51. > :21:51.
:21:51. > :21:56.I never want to see them again. Put it in there. You have grasping
:21:56. > :22:00.it in an instant! Do you think Tony Blair will overcome to one of these
:22:00. > :22:04.things again? I imagine at some stage he will be here but perhaps
:22:05. > :22:11.not this week. Would you like to put an estimate on when? 5, 10
:22:11. > :22:14.years? I think the moment there is a New Labour government, Tony Blair
:22:14. > :22:23.will be addressing fringe meetings here. Are there any Blairite
:22:23. > :22:27.surround? You see some in suits occasionally. Any 12-year-olds in
:22:27. > :22:35.suits wanting to vote? They seem to have something against young people
:22:35. > :22:40.in suits! Can you see any Blairites here? Erm... I have not been
:22:40. > :22:45.looking around, actually. I can't see any. I am a Blairite so I had
:22:46. > :22:53.met -- better vote for myself to stay. Is it lonely being one at the
:22:53. > :23:03.moment? No! We would never be lonely. There are so many of us.
:23:03. > :23:03.
:23:03. > :23:07.they have secret meetings? Best not say on-camera! Ed Miliband is
:23:07. > :23:11.absolutely right to go back to the 1945 experience. We need to go back
:23:11. > :23:16.into our rooms and back to the rigs and get the job done. Are you
:23:17. > :23:26.worried about saying to the electorate, let's go back to 1945?
:23:27. > :23:34.
:23:34. > :23:38.It doesn't sound that modern. They were the people who got rid of
:23:38. > :23:41.militants for being too left wing, they are a party within a party and
:23:41. > :23:47.they have to go as well. I might swap these around because that
:23:47. > :23:52.would be the real view within the party.
:23:52. > :23:59.Is Tony Blair's book selling well in the bookshop? No. How many has
:23:59. > :24:04.it sold? So far, none. Well, Tony, you might be here only in book form
:24:05. > :24:12.but your acolytes are not. Possibly not!
:24:12. > :24:16.Of the mob the party Conference this year has been the Olympics. --
:24:16. > :24:24.one themes. They have been wanting to draw on the good success of the
:24:24. > :24:32.summer. In 1996 in Atlanta, we won just one
:24:32. > :24:42.gold medal. In London this summer, we won 29 gold medals.
:24:42. > :24:45.
:24:46. > :24:50.And it wasn't by accident. It was the sustained and well directed
:24:50. > :24:55.investment of public money in coaching and facilities that made
:24:55. > :25:05.that leap from the playground to the podium possible.
:25:05. > :25:05.
:25:05. > :25:10.And this summer we showed ourselves as we are at our best. A country of
:25:10. > :25:16.progressive values with an inclusive and joyous patriotism
:25:16. > :25:26.which celebrates our Open, diverse and tolerant society. We celebrated
:25:26. > :25:36.
:25:36. > :25:41.As she said, it has been one amazing national journey that we
:25:41. > :25:44.have all been involved in and end an extraordinarily seamless way. We
:25:44. > :25:47.have come together to deliver something we are probably never
:25:48. > :25:52.going to deliver again, or certainly not in my lifetime, and
:25:52. > :25:57.we have done it with a unity of purpose that I think probably is
:25:57. > :26:07.almost unique in any big project. So, David, another good year for
:26:07. > :26:10.
:26:10. > :26:16.you?! And enjoyable year. You even had a Tour de France! A few Olympic
:26:16. > :26:20.medals... And should add Bradley did have something to do with it?
:26:20. > :26:28.He certainly did. How do you keep doing it year after year after
:26:28. > :26:33.year? I think there's no one simple answer but there are several things
:26:33. > :26:37.that need to be looked at. Certainly investment is an
:26:37. > :26:41.important thing and we would not be in the situation we are in now
:26:41. > :26:50.Without that refunding. The funding has given us an opportunity to
:26:50. > :26:55.Hoover up a lot of the young sports people coming out of university. So
:26:55. > :26:58.they are coming out of the academic side and to infiltrate into the
:26:58. > :27:05.perimeters of the leading edge of sport in this country is pretty
:27:05. > :27:09.much like nowhere else I have seen in the world. I really do believe
:27:09. > :27:13.now that our structure at any level is probably the best in the world
:27:13. > :27:19.and we need to maintain that and build on that. It has been a tough
:27:19. > :27:25.journey to get your where you are now? Yes. Really tough. I have been
:27:25. > :27:29.training since I was 12 and a lot of ups and downs, a lot of injuries
:27:29. > :27:34.and whether I would carry on boxing. But has stuck at it and got that
:27:34. > :27:39.gold. You have just stuck in your own world and achieved what you
:27:39. > :27:43.have achieved, but do you have any sense, perhaps, of the impact of
:27:43. > :27:47.what you have done might have on women's sport and might make them
:27:47. > :27:52.do something different from what they normally might do? You know,
:27:52. > :27:57.to be honest, when I went out, I just thought, I want to win a gold
:27:57. > :28:01.medal. I won the gold medal and I did not realise the impact I would
:28:01. > :28:06.have combination winning that. It has been a lot to take in. I didn't
:28:06. > :28:10.realise how much I would achieve and I am just... You know, it feels
:28:10. > :28:15.like an honour to me to have people looking up to me and I have
:28:15. > :28:23.inspired them to take up sport and to get help the. I just think it's
:28:23. > :28:29.a great feeling and an honour to feel people think of me so highly.
:28:29. > :28:32.That is it from us here tonight. There's a real buzz in the Midlands
:28:32. > :28:37.hotel bar about Ed Miliband's speech and when he walked through a
:28:37. > :28:42.short while ago, he got an eruption of applause. Outside, the bookies
:28:42. > :28:46.have already started cutting the odds on him becoming Prime Minister.
:28:46. > :28:50.I think his speech will and have another hearing from many voters
:28:50. > :28:56.but when it changes the political game, however, will only become
:28:56. > :29:02.clear in the months ahead. Tomorrow, we hear from the Shadow Home