:00:16. > :00:23.Good evening, welcome to the last day of the Labour Party Conference
:00:23. > :00:28.in Brighton. The conference is over and the members are heading home
:00:28. > :00:32.with what they think our policies they can sell on the doorstep.
:00:32. > :00:35.Harriet Harman finished the week off in traditional fashion with a couple
:00:35. > :00:40.Harriet Harman finished the week off of bad jokes. Ed Miliband face
:00:40. > :00:45.delegates in a question and answer session. Doreen Lawrence, received a
:00:45. > :00:52.standing ovation as a guest speaker. And full speed ahead or reverse
:00:52. > :00:59.gear? What is Labour's position on HS2?
:00:59. > :01:03.After Ed Miliband's speech yesterday, in which he set out his
:01:03. > :01:11.ambitious plans to freeze energy prices, today he faced is party
:01:11. > :01:19.members in a question and answer session. Not all the questions were
:01:19. > :01:27.hostile. We need the Burnham plan for health and social care. I am
:01:27. > :01:36.behind his idea, which he talked about. I said yesterday, we have got
:01:36. > :01:41.to integrate mental health, social care and unless we do it we will not
:01:41. > :01:46.deal with the resource crunch we have in the health service. It is
:01:46. > :01:51.not just the right thing to do, it is to make us spend the money we
:01:51. > :01:54.spend on the health service wisely. You have talked about the green
:01:54. > :02:00.economy and challenging energy prices. What will you do about
:02:00. > :02:04.challenging where the energy is coming from? What is your opinion on
:02:04. > :02:10.fracking? What are the environmental policies around the fact we are
:02:10. > :02:16.missing 2015 targets the moment? On this point of how we meet the energy
:02:16. > :02:22.needs of the country, we meet them with what is available. Renewable is
:02:22. > :02:26.important. Nuclear is important. When George Osborne is talking about
:02:26. > :02:35.fracking as being a panacea, he is misguided. You have to meet concerns
:02:35. > :02:49.but the notion it will solve the energy problems and you don't have
:02:49. > :02:53.to go green is nonsense. My stepfather has carers everyday to
:02:53. > :02:57.get him up and washed. Unison represents many thousands of care
:02:57. > :03:01.workers. But it has become clear they are struggling with the 15
:03:01. > :03:06.minute appointments and they are not being allowed any travelling time.
:03:06. > :03:13.What will Labour do to tackle the crisis of social care? Caring is one
:03:13. > :03:18.of the most important jobs in our society. But we give it the least
:03:18. > :03:26.regard in terms of wages, conditions. We have to change that,
:03:26. > :03:29.and I am determined we do. Will you pledge the government will eliminate
:03:29. > :03:32.domestic violence, eliminate rape and violence to girls in the UK.
:03:32. > :03:38.domestic violence, eliminate rape Will your government be a feminist
:03:38. > :03:42.one? My two boys, when they grow up, I don't want them growing up with
:03:42. > :03:47.many of the images and portrayals we have of the role of young women and
:03:47. > :03:56.men in our society. What Yvette Cooper said in our conference about
:03:56. > :03:59.sex education is a core part. Teaching youngsters about what it
:03:59. > :04:06.means to be a man and a woman in our society. It is thought to what needs
:04:06. > :04:10.to be done. In light of the fact LGBT people in Russia are being
:04:10. > :04:14.treated as second-class citizens, what would a Labour government do to
:04:14. > :04:19.help LGBT people in Russia and elsewhere? It is one of the most
:04:19. > :04:24.proudest achievements of this movement in the last three years, we
:04:24. > :04:27.are the people who have forced equal marriage through the House of
:04:27. > :04:31.Commons and the House of Lords. But the point you make about the wider
:04:32. > :04:36.challenge is totally right. The international challenge. Many of us
:04:37. > :04:43.have been shocked about some of the things happening in Russia around
:04:43. > :04:49.the law that has been passed. I want to assure you that a battle for the
:04:49. > :04:53.LGBT writes internationally is a battle I take seriously and I will
:04:53. > :04:59.take incredibly seriously as Prime Minister. How can we overcome the
:04:59. > :05:06.politics of divide and rule which has started since your speech by the
:05:06. > :05:12.Tories. How can we overcome that and make sure the politics of truth
:05:12. > :05:15.prevails in 2015? The wisdom of the British people is something we
:05:15. > :05:18.should never under estimate. The wisdom of the British people to
:05:18. > :05:21.should never under estimate. The understand how high the stakes are
:05:21. > :05:26.and who will fight for them. We have shown this week who we will fight
:05:26. > :05:30.for and it is up to all of us over the next 20 months, to go out and
:05:30. > :05:35.win that fight. We know who we are fighting for, we know how high the
:05:35. > :05:38.stakes are, let's go out and win that fight. Thank you very much.
:05:38. > :05:45.Ed Miliband addressing his party. that fight. Thank you very much.
:05:45. > :05:48.This afternoon, Doreen Lawrence, the mother of the murdered teenager,
:05:48. > :05:52.Stephen Lawrence came to the stage. She is going to become the new
:05:52. > :05:55.member of the Labour team in the She is going to become the new
:05:55. > :06:01.house of lords. She got a standing ovation before her speech and after.
:06:01. > :06:04.It was late on a Friday back in May that I received a message that Ed
:06:04. > :06:10.Miliband was trying to get in touch with me. I spent the weekend
:06:10. > :06:14.wondering what would he want to talk to me about? You can imagine my
:06:14. > :06:21.brain was working overtime. Monday to me about? You can imagine my
:06:21. > :06:26.came and I made the call. I was put through to Ed Miliband. Then it
:06:26. > :06:35.became clear. He wanted to tell me that he had put my name forward for
:06:35. > :06:42.the house of lords. At first, I thought, " it is amazing". Then the
:06:42. > :06:47.enormity of it hit me while I was still on the phone. To be honest, I
:06:47. > :06:52.was lost for words. I know it must sound strange, and don't get me
:06:52. > :06:59.wrong, I was very flattered, but if anyone knows anything about me, it
:06:59. > :07:03.would take me time to analyse, way up things before I decide,
:07:03. > :07:08.especially when it is something as potent as this. Since it was
:07:08. > :07:14.announced I was to become a peer, I have had a lot of people bowing...
:07:15. > :07:57.APPLAUSE money from the proceeds of crime,
:07:57. > :08:01.change the law to make criminals pay more and prevent them from hiding
:08:01. > :08:05.assets. We will drive down Tory waste. They spent £100 million on
:08:05. > :08:13.holding November elections, which could have 3000 police on the
:08:13. > :08:16.streets. £30 million is going on extra CCTV bureaucracy, hundreds of
:08:16. > :08:20.millions on chaotic police procurement they fail to tackle and
:08:20. > :08:26.privatised forensics are pushing costs up. We need a long-term vision
:08:26. > :08:28.of policing for the future. It needs to make savings, but deliver better
:08:28. > :08:35.public services. That is why we have to make savings, but deliver better
:08:35. > :08:39.asked Lord Stevens, former Lord Commissioner of the Met to set up a
:08:39. > :08:44.commission. With experts from across the world to draw up a radical and
:08:44. > :08:48.positive plan for policing in the 21st century. Raising police
:08:48. > :08:54.standards, improving diversity in policing, giving neighbourhoods are
:08:54. > :08:59.stronger say, saving money to keep police officers on the beat, looking
:08:59. > :09:04.at Police and Crime Commissioner 's and accountability. And delivering
:09:04. > :09:08.stronger, swifter action when things go wrong. As they did so badly over
:09:08. > :09:15.Stephen Lawrence and also as they did so badly over Hillsborough. So
:09:15. > :09:27.families never again have to wait over 20 years for truth and justice.
:09:27. > :09:31.Yvette Cooper was interviewed by Andrew Neil on the daily politics.
:09:31. > :09:34.He began by asking her about the low turnout in the elections for police
:09:34. > :09:40.commissioners and asked if Labour would scrap them? We have asked Lord
:09:40. > :09:46.Stevens to look at this issue. He is setting out a long-term vision of
:09:46. > :09:50.policing, looking at issues around accountability but also looking at
:09:50. > :09:51.how you raise policing standards, stronger checks and balances when
:09:51. > :09:56.things go wrong, and making sure the stronger checks and balances when
:09:56. > :10:00.police can cope with the challenges of the 21st century. He is due to
:10:00. > :10:05.report before Christmas and then we will consider what his conclusions
:10:05. > :10:13.are. It could advise you it is advisable to scrap the PCC and you
:10:13. > :10:18.will follow that advice either way? We will consider his conclusions and
:10:18. > :10:21.have a debate in the Labour Party. What we have said previously is we
:10:21. > :10:26.oppose the principle of them to start off with because we felt it
:10:26. > :10:31.was concentrating too much policing power in one person's hands. We are
:10:31. > :10:36.clear reforms will be needed, but we will await John Stephen's advice and
:10:36. > :10:41.the expert commission he has gathered which involves people from
:10:41. > :10:44.all over the globe. Because we believe in public services, we need
:10:44. > :10:46.a reform plan for the future, especially at the time when there is
:10:46. > :10:52.a reform plan for the future, less resources around. When the
:10:52. > :10:56.coalition started cutting the police service, you were planning to cut it
:10:56. > :11:02.as well, but they have cut it by more. You said policing in Britain
:11:02. > :11:06.faced a perfect storm. We are halfway through a coalition
:11:06. > :11:11.government, crime is at its lowest level for many years, lower than
:11:11. > :11:18.under Labour. Cuts have not had an effect, have they? That is not what
:11:18. > :11:23.victims think. We have 30,000 fewer crimes being solved since the
:11:23. > :11:27.election. We have got fewer cases being referred to prosecution for
:11:27. > :11:32.domestic violence or rape. In fact, they have dropped by a third, the
:11:32. > :11:36.number of rape cases being referred to the prosecution, even though in
:11:36. > :11:41.fact the number of cases reported to the police has gone up. We can seek
:11:42. > :11:43.the evidence of victims being let down, more criminals and abusers
:11:43. > :11:49.getting away with it. It is a result down, more criminals and abusers
:11:49. > :11:56.of there being fewer police officers and others being stretched. Do you
:11:56. > :12:01.support the fire brigade strike? We want negotiations to continue, we
:12:01. > :12:06.think it is the right approach. It is a difficult situation. If the
:12:06. > :12:14.police cannot strike, should fireman also recovered by no strike
:12:14. > :12:14.legislation? They have had a long-standing arrangement and we are
:12:14. > :12:20.not proposing to change that. long-standing arrangement and we are
:12:20. > :12:25.This week, Ed Balls came to this podium and he questioned Labour's
:12:25. > :12:30.support for the High Speed Rail link. He said it might not be a good
:12:30. > :12:34.idea to spend £50 billion on the project. Alan Fleming went out with
:12:34. > :12:40.his balls to show whether it should be full steam ahead.
:12:40. > :12:44.The message from Labour this week on HS2 has been mixed. What will
:12:45. > :12:51.delegates think about it? Do they want to construct it or cancel?
:12:51. > :12:57.Construct. The southern end of the West Coast Main Line is full. I
:12:57. > :13:06.don't think it is the right thing. I think we need massive investment in
:13:06. > :13:12.railways but not this railway. The issue for me is it part of a wider
:13:12. > :13:16.transport strategy or a glamour project just to build between London
:13:16. > :13:25.and Manchester? To bring it to Swansea, that should be my dream. I
:13:25. > :13:28.will vote to go with HS2. In places like China they have amazing
:13:28. > :13:39.networks. If we don't improve ours, we would be left behind in the race
:13:39. > :13:44.for infrastructure. £50 billion would be better spent on schools and
:13:44. > :13:52.hospitals. It is £50 billion over loads of years, isn't it, about 20
:13:52. > :13:54.years? I would still rather spend it on them, but then I live in the
:13:54. > :14:00.south. You have plenty of railways, on them, but then I live in the
:14:00. > :14:06.any friends in Manchester? I probably won't get any after this.
:14:06. > :14:13.It is causing widespread devastation, we are losing homes and
:14:13. > :14:19.space in Camden. Do you think Ed Balls wants to cancel it? It sounds
:14:19. > :14:23.like he wants to. I think he needs to be reminded it is about capacity,
:14:23. > :14:37.about the future and having some vision. Why cancel it? It is not
:14:37. > :14:43.going to do anything for the North. I would not build it in the North.
:14:43. > :14:50.They are building it so you can save 20 minutes on a train to
:14:50. > :14:57.Birmingham. You will be able to move around the country quicker. What he
:14:57. > :15:08.meant was his sister lives in Manchester and it would be handy.
:15:08. > :15:13.There are some balls escaping. This document is the latest polling on
:15:13. > :15:18.HS2. I know your balls are scientific, but this poll might be
:15:18. > :15:23.more scientific, showing 60% of Labour voters are against HS2. So
:15:23. > :15:31.should we just filmed this bit of paper and go home? Oh dear! That is
:15:31. > :15:35.quite a shocking development. I think we will call it a day because
:15:36. > :15:42.it is impossible to work it out. It is about half and half, maybe
:15:42. > :15:47.slightly more in favour of construction.
:15:47. > :15:49.Don't worry, Adam will get his box back together in time for the
:15:49. > :15:54.Conservative conference in Manchester next week.
:15:54. > :16:00.Although Ed Miliband stood at this podium and got a warm applause, they
:16:00. > :16:05.voted overwhelmingly to renationalise the railways and also
:16:05. > :16:10.the soon-to-be privatised Royal mail, which isn't Labour policy.
:16:10. > :16:16.This is a flavour of those debates. The Royal mail offers an example of
:16:16. > :16:19.one nation politics. Whether you live in St Ives or Inverness, you
:16:19. > :16:24.can post a letter anywhere in the country for the same tariff. You can
:16:24. > :16:32.be certain of a daily collection and there is a standard delivery across
:16:32. > :16:38.the country. The next Labour government should renationalise. I
:16:38. > :16:47.am very proud partner of a Royal Mail worker. He came home one day
:16:47. > :16:53.recently and was quite subdued, not like him. And he said he had
:16:53. > :17:01.encountered a distressed elderly lady on his delivery round. She had
:17:01. > :17:07.approached him as a trusted postal worker, as a trusted postman. Her
:17:07. > :17:12.carer for her husband had not turned up and she could not get him out of
:17:12. > :17:17.bed. She called him into her home to do the most personal task, to help
:17:17. > :17:22.her husband get up, get washed, get dressed and use the bathroom. That
:17:22. > :17:29.is the level of trust the public has in its postal workers. TNT might be
:17:29. > :17:36.interested in delivering in Camberwell or acting, but not in
:17:36. > :17:41.Aaron. In London, they employ staff on zero hours contracts which means
:17:41. > :17:44.they employ more people than they need, so every day people are sent
:17:44. > :17:49.home without work. We are going back need, so every day people are sent
:17:49. > :17:56.to the 30s. It is completely unacceptable. On the Royal mail
:17:56. > :18:05.privatisation, can I see those in favour. Those against. Carried
:18:05. > :18:10.unanimously. East Coast is proof a public owned and public accountable
:18:10. > :18:14.railway can work. It can generate the funds to put back into the
:18:14. > :18:20.railways, to invest in employing more staff to keep the public save,
:18:20. > :18:24.invest in new rolling stock and new infrastructure. It has been party
:18:24. > :18:29.policy since 2004 to take the railways under state control. Let's
:18:29. > :18:36.make sure in 2015 when Ed Miliband walks into Downing Street, it is
:18:36. > :18:40.government policy also. Our ideology is the right one and we should not
:18:40. > :18:46.be afraid to talk about the ideology of public ownership. Whether it is
:18:46. > :18:50.the railways, whether it is the power companies, the water
:18:50. > :18:55.companies, gas or electric power companies, it does not matter,
:18:55. > :18:58.whether it is telecommunications or the post service, they natural
:18:58. > :19:05.monopolies, natural monopolies that should be in public ownership.
:19:05. > :19:13.Emergency motion number one on rail. Can I see those in favour, please?
:19:13. > :19:18.Those against. Carried unanimously. Today was the chance for Andy
:19:18. > :19:22.Burnham to address his party. He said Labour would repeal the
:19:22. > :19:27.government's health reforms which he said were leading to the sell-off of
:19:27. > :19:33.the NHS. NHS values are Labour values. They are the country's
:19:33. > :19:40.values. For 65 years they have served us well. But a new century
:19:40. > :19:47.demands new thinking. Care of older people is not what anyone would want
:19:47. > :19:54.it to be. So today, we set Labour's new mission, to make it right. This
:19:54. > :19:59.conference can Compleat Bevan's vision, unite the NHS with social
:19:59. > :20:08.care. Imagine one service looking after the whole person, physical,
:20:08. > :20:12.mental and social. The NHS of the 21st-century. A National health and
:20:13. > :20:17.care service based on people before profit. What a way to mark the 65th
:20:17. > :20:24.anniversary and what a contrast with profit. What a way to mark the 65th
:20:24. > :20:29.this government. They have spent all year running it down. And we know
:20:29. > :20:37.why, don't we, conference? They are softening it up to sell it off.
:20:37. > :20:42.Since April, all NHS services forced out to the market. And look at what
:20:42. > :20:51.has happened. Major contracts for NHS work won by Tory donors. Donors
:20:51. > :20:58.who bank Road Andrew Lansley when he was planning his health Bill. --
:20:58. > :21:05.bankrolled. You can see why, private firms run by people who have donated
:21:05. > :21:14.1.5 million to the Tories, winning 1.5 billion in NHS contracts. Who
:21:14. > :21:21.gave this Prime Minister permission to sell the NHS to his friends? In
:21:21. > :21:29.Cameron's NHS, the competition lawyers call the shots. They call
:21:29. > :21:33.integration, " anti-competitive". Have you ever heard anything more
:21:33. > :21:44.integration, " anti-competitive". ridiculous than that? The health and
:21:44. > :21:52.social care act 2012 has placed the NHS on a fast-track to fragmentation
:21:52. > :21:57.and privatisation. It has got to go and it will. In the first Queen 's
:21:57. > :22:10.speech of the next Labour government, we will repeal the act.
:22:10. > :22:13.The shadow health secretary. The ubiquitous sketch writer, Quentin
:22:14. > :22:18.Letts has been following events here, and his verdict is spine
:22:18. > :22:24.tingling. Is that the clinics having a dip
:22:24. > :22:28.over there? It feels Hallowe'en might have come early because in the
:22:28. > :22:32.conference hall behind me, it has been echoing to the ghostly cries of
:22:32. > :22:37.spirit passed. Enough to give Ed Mili, the willies. The week has been
:22:37. > :22:43.spirit passed. Enough to give Ed dominated by the spectre of Damien
:22:43. > :22:50.bride, even though he has been politically deceased tints -- since
:22:50. > :22:56.2009. -- Damian McBride. He has returned with tales of treachery in
:22:56. > :22:58.the heart of new Labour. It is something I regret. Equally, I don't
:22:58. > :23:03.think I was alone in politics, over something I regret. Equally, I don't
:23:03. > :23:07.the last decades in some of the ways I operated. I hope one of the
:23:07. > :23:10.effects of writing this book is people can see the truth of some of
:23:10. > :23:17.these operations laid bare, learn from that and make sure those things
:23:17. > :23:23.don't happen again. Ed Miliband has been out this week, but it has felt
:23:23. > :23:30.retro. Delegates have been reassured welfare reforms will be exercised.
:23:30. > :23:32.That has been bashing of Tory millionaires and Ed Miliband
:23:32. > :23:40.breathed life into that old corpse called socialism. Will you bring
:23:40. > :23:46.back socialism? That is what we are doing. It says on our party card,
:23:46. > :23:52.democratic socialism. It works for all and not just for some. The
:23:52. > :23:54.corridors here are full of ancient bogey men including Alastair
:23:54. > :24:00.Campbell and Charlie Whelan. And then union red Len McCluskey took
:24:00. > :24:07.umbrage because Ed Miliband walked out just as he was about to start
:24:07. > :24:14.his speech. I am sorry Ed has left the platform. I know there are those
:24:14. > :24:18.fearful of the prospect of a bad line in the Daily Mail. I say to
:24:18. > :24:24.them, you will never, ever appease line in the Daily Mail. I say to
:24:24. > :24:30.the right wing media. And to try the means you and our party. The Back To
:24:30. > :24:34.The Future feel continued with a spot of Carry On Conference.
:24:34. > :24:42.Somebody with the distinctly appropriate name of Balls was akin
:24:42. > :24:49.to a naughty seaside postcard. It was a Prime Minister and his beach
:24:49. > :24:55.towel. On the beach, changing into his swimming trunks, behind the
:24:55. > :24:59.Mickey Mouse towel, captured with unflattering pictures spread across
:24:59. > :25:02.the national press. I thought for a Prime Minister, it was a
:25:02. > :25:06.surprisingly small towel! Conference, let us all agree, after
:25:06. > :25:10.the last three years, the sooner Conference, let us all agree, after
:25:10. > :25:19.David Cameron throws in the towel, the better. Ed Balls, Labour's very
:25:19. > :25:26.own Kenneth Williams. It makes you wonder what will happen next week,
:25:27. > :25:32.doesn't it? See you in Manchester. For those who stayed until the
:25:32. > :25:40.bitter end, there was the chance to hear the speech from Harriet Harman.
:25:40. > :25:42.There were jokes. Labour is the only party for women, and what a contrast
:25:42. > :25:46.with the other parties. David party for women, and what a contrast
:25:46. > :25:51.Cameron believes women should be seen and not heard - and that is
:25:51. > :25:55.when he is thinking about his own cabinet. And as for the UKIP
:25:55. > :25:59.when he is thinking about his own conference, where to begin! What can
:25:59. > :26:06.you say about the human car crash that is Godfrey Bloom? A man so
:26:06. > :26:19.unreconstructed, he makes Jeremy Clarkson lookalike Fabian. But
:26:19. > :26:24.Godfrey, all is not lost, you have some time on your hands so I have
:26:24. > :26:32.arranged a special emergency session for you at the Harriet Har person
:26:32. > :26:36.Institute for political correctness. Godfrey, I will be on hand to give
:26:36. > :26:41.you some advanced, one-to-one training and we will start with the
:26:41. > :26:49.whisking the Dyson around the back of my fridge. Ed has shown, even
:26:49. > :26:56.from opposition, the ability to make change. He stood up against phone
:26:56. > :27:04.hacking, he averted David Cameron's rush to war in Syria and has shown
:27:04. > :27:08.politics can make a difference. But Ed is also about a new kind of
:27:08. > :27:27.politics, and that shines through everything he does. Like when he
:27:27. > :27:38.got. Eggert. -- egged. When John Prescott, he got angry. When Ed
:27:38. > :27:43.Miliband got hit by eggs, he said, I hope they are free range. That is
:27:43. > :27:48.the type of guy he is. That is it that night. Ed Miliband
:27:48. > :27:52.and his party leave in good spirits. He has positioned his party as the
:27:52. > :27:58.defender of the people against the energy bosses. It gives the energy
:27:58. > :28:02.-- party members something to say on the doorstep, but it gives opponents
:28:02. > :28:08.something to aim at. The conference road show moves to Manchester next
:28:08. > :28:13.week. I will be here next week as usual on BBC Two to give you the
:28:13. > :28:14.highlights. But from Brighton, I will leave you with the traditional
:28:14. > :28:20.way the Labour Party always ends its will leave you with the traditional
:28:20. > :28:33.conference, the singing of The Red Flag.