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Evening all. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
Welcome to our final Today at Conference here at the Labour | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
Party Conference in Liverpool. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
A day in which Jeremy Corbyn revelled in his re-election | 0:00:17 | 0:00:21 | |
as Labour leader and promised the party faithful socialism | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
for the 21st century. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
The Labour conference lapped it up. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
How the wider electorate will see it is another matter. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
Mr Corbyn thinks he could soon face a snap election. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
He promised more homes, more jobs, more public investment, | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
but not more controls on immigration. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:43 | |
He said the ten point programme for power that had re-elected him | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
as leader would form the basis of Labour's next manifesto. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:50 | |
But he made few concessions to his critics despite calling | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
for an end to party trench warfare. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
We were there to find out what the party faithful made of it all. | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
Absolutely brilliant, inspiring, we're going | 0:00:59 | 0:01:00 | |
to win the next election. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
Mr Corbyn is now undisputed leader of his party, even if many centrists | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
find that hard to stomach. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:15 | |
It was clear today that he wanted to stamp his authority on Labour, | 0:01:15 | 0:01:19 | |
but he didn't offer any olive branches to his opponents. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:24 | |
Thank you. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
Thank you so much for that welcome and that introduction. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:33 | |
This hall is absolutely packed here today in Liverpool, | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
we've even got an overspill down the road. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
I want to say thank you to everyone that's here today. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:45 | |
But I've got to slightly correct myself because I did say the hall | 0:01:45 | 0:01:51 | |
is completely packed. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:52 | |
Well I got a message on the way in from Virgin Trains. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:57 | |
They have assured me there are 800 empty seats in the hall. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:05 | |
Let me also pay particular tribute to those parliamentary colleagues | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
who stepped forward in the summer to fill the gaps | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
in the Shadow Cabinet... | 0:02:12 | 0:02:22 | |
...and ensure that Labour can function as an effective | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
opposition in Parliament. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:30 | |
They actually didn't seek office but they stepped up when their party | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
and in fact the country needed them to serve. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:40 | |
They all deserve the respect and gratitude of our party and movement. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
And this conference should thank them today. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
They are our future. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
In the May elections we overtook the Tories to become | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
the largest party nationally. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
We won back London with a massive win for Sadiq Khan, | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
the first Muslim mayor of Western capital city. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
My congratulations, Sadiq, for that incredible win. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:08 | |
Since the crash of 2008, the demand for an alternative | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
and an end to counter-productive austerity has led to the rise | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
of new movements and parties. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
In one country after another. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
But in Britain it's happened in a different way. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
In the heart of traditional politics in the Labour Party | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
which is something we should be extremely proud of. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:37 | |
It's exactly what Labour was founded for, to be the voice of the many. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
Social justice and progressive change from the bottom up. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:51 | |
But it also means it's no good harking back to the tired | 0:03:52 | 0:03:58 | |
old economic and political fixes of 20 and 30 years ago | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
because they won't work any more. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:03 | |
The old model is broken. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:08 | |
We are in a new era that demands a politics and economics | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
that meets the needs of our own time. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
So Labour is offering solutions. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
During this summer's leadership campaign I set out ten pledges | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
which I believed could be the platform of our party's | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
programme at the next election. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:29 | |
They were put to conference yesterday. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:30 | |
They lay out the scope of the change we need to see. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:35 | |
For full employment, a homes guarantee, | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
security at work, a strong public National Health Service and social | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
care, a national education service for all, action on climate change, | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
public ownership or control of our services, a cut in inequality | 0:04:46 | 0:04:52 | |
of income and wealth, action to secure an equal society, | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
and peace and justice at the heart of our foreign policy. | 0:04:56 | 0:05:06 | |
Don't worry, don't worry conference, they're not the Ten Commandments. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:14 | |
I haven't come down from the mountain with them. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
They are here already, and they will now of course go | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
to the national policy forum, and the whole party | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
needs to build on them. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:28 | |
All our brilliant members have ideas. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:29 | |
The speech was long on aspiration and short on detail but that's | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
pretty much the hallmark of all party conference speeches. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:36 | |
This was all he had to say about a massive increase in public | 0:05:36 | 0:05:42 | |
borrowing to finance investment. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:43 | |
If the Tories are the party of cuts and short termism, | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
Labour is the party of investing for the future. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:55 | |
With the same level of investment as other major economies, | 0:05:55 | 0:06:00 | |
we could be so much more. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:06 | |
Unlock so much skill, ingenuity and wealth. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:08 | |
That's why we'll establish a national investment bank | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
at the heart of our plan to rebuild and transform this country. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
And we will borrow to invest at historically low interest rates | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
to generate far greater returns. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:17 | |
It would be foolish not to. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
Because that investment is expanding the economy and the income it | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
generates for us all in the process. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:29 | |
Even this government, after years of austerities | 0:06:29 | 0:06:36 | |
and savage cuts, is starting to change its tune. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
I'm not content with accepting second class broadband. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
Not content with creaking railways. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
Not content with seeing the United States and Germany | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
investing in cutting-edge and green technologies while we lag behind. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:52 | |
That's why we've set out proposals for a national investment bank | 0:06:52 | 0:06:57 | |
with ?500 billion of investment to bring our broadband, | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
our railways, our housing and our energy infrastructure | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
up to scratch. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:13 | |
A country that doesn't invest is a country that's given up, | 0:07:13 | 0:07:18 | |
that has taken the path of managed decline. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:24 | |
A Labour government will never accept second best for this country. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:29 | |
We are a wealthy country, and not just in terms of money. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:35 | |
We are rich in talent, which in potential. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:37 | |
That's why we proposed a comprehensive national education | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
service at the heart of our programme for government, | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
to deliver high quality education for all throughout our lives. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:53 | |
Education has always been a core Labour value, | 0:07:58 | 0:08:06 | |
from the time of Alan Wilkinson the MP for Jarrow and later | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
education Minister and before that. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
And a national education service will be an essential part | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
of the 21st century welfare state. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
In a rapidly changing economy people need to retrain or upgrade their | 0:08:17 | 0:08:22 | |
skills without falling into debt. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
Britain already lags behind others in productivity. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
Partly that's about investing in technology and infrastructure, | 0:08:27 | 0:08:31 | |
and partly it's about investing in people and their skills. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:39 | |
So today I'm offering business a new settlement. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
A new deal to rebuild Britain. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:43 | |
Under labour we will provide investment to rebuild | 0:08:43 | 0:08:49 | |
Britain's infrastructure. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:50 | |
We will fund that investment because it will lead | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
to a more productive economy, providing the basis | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
on which our economy and our businesses can thrive. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
Helping to provide over a million good jobs | 0:08:57 | 0:09:01 | |
and opportunities for businesses. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:09 | |
But investment in capital must include investment in human capital. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:16 | |
The skilled workers needed to make our economy a success. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:18 | |
So this is the deal Labour will offer to business. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
To help pay for a national education service, we will ask you to pay | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
a little more in tax. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:25 | |
We've already started to set out some of this, | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
pledging to raise corporation tax by less than 1.5% to give | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
an education maintenance allowance to college students, | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
grants to university students, so that every young learner can | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
afford to support themselves as they develop skills | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
and get qualifications. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:45 | |
As politicians, as political activists, as citizens, | 0:09:45 | 0:09:55 | |
we have zero tolerance towards those who whip up hate and division. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:59 | |
Stand together against racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:00 | |
And defend those being demonised. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:10 | |
It's been shaming to our multicultural society that assaults | 0:10:12 | 0:10:17 | |
on migrants have increased sharply since the referendum campaign. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:22 | |
A campaign that peddled myths and whipped up division. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
It isn't migrants that drive down wages, it's exploitative employers | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
and the politicians who deregulate the labour market and rip | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
up trade union rights. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:39 | |
It isn't migrants who put a strain on our National Health Service, | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
it only keeps going because of the migrant nurses and doctors | 0:10:45 | 0:10:50 | |
who come here, filling the gaps left by politicians who failed | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
to invest in training. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:58 | |
It isn't migrants that have caused the housing crisis, | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
it's a Tory government that has failed to build homes. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:11 | |
Immigration can certainly put extra pressure on services. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:15 | |
That's why under Gordon Brown Labour set up the migrant impact fund, | 0:11:15 | 0:11:19 | |
to provide extra funding to communities that have the largest | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
rises in populations. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:27 | |
Good plan, very effective. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:28 | |
What did the Tories do? | 0:11:28 | 0:11:29 | |
They abolished it. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:30 | |
Then they demonised the migrants for putting pressure on services. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:36 | |
A Labour government will not offer false promises on immigration has | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
the Tories have done. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:45 | |
We will not sow division by fanning the flames of fear. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
We will tackle the real issues of immigration instead. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
Whatever the eventual outcome of Brexit negotiations, | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
and make the changes needed. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:53 | |
We will act decisively to end the undercutting | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
of workers pay and conditions through the exploitation of migrant | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
labour and agency working, which would reduce the number | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
of migrant workers in the process. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:09 | |
And we will ease the pressure on hard-pressed public services that | 0:12:09 | 0:12:14 | |
are struggling to absorb Tory austerity cuts in communities | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
absorbing new populations. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:22 | |
Labour will reinstate the migrant impact fund and give extra support | 0:12:22 | 0:12:28 | |
to areas of high migration using the visa levy | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
for its intended purpose. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
And we'll add a citizenship application fee levy. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
That is the Labour way to tackle social tension. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:42 | |
Investment in assistance, not racism and division. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:49 | |
Everyone of us in the Labour Party is motivated by the gap | 0:12:49 | 0:12:53 | |
between what our country is and what it could be. | 0:12:53 | 0:13:03 | |
We know that in the sixth largest economy in the world the food banks, | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
stunted life chances, growing poverty alongside wealth | 0:13:10 | 0:13:14 | |
on an undreamt of scale are the mark of a shameful and totally | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
unnecessary failure. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:27 | |
We know how great this country could be for all its people | 0:13:28 | 0:13:31 | |
with a new political and economic settlement. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:36 | |
With new forms of democratic public ownership driven by investment | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
in the technology and industries of the future. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
With decent jobs, education and housing for all. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:44 | |
With local services run by and for people, not outsourced | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
to faceless corporations. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:51 | |
This is not backward looking, this is the very opposite. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
It's the socialism of the 21st-century. | 0:13:54 | 0:14:03 | |
Our job is now to win over the unconvinced of our vision. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:10 | |
Only that way can we secure the Labour government we need. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:13 | |
And let's be frank, no one will be convinced of the vision promoted | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
by a divided party. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:17 | |
We all agree on that. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:24 | |
So I ask... | 0:14:24 | 0:14:25 | |
So I ask each and everyone of you to accept the decision of the members. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:31 | |
End the trench warfare and work together to take on the Tories. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:41 | |
We could also face a general election next year. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:41 | |
Whatever the Prime Minister says about snap elections, | 0:14:47 | 0:14:53 | |
there is every chance Theresa May will cut and run for | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
an early election. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:57 | |
So today we put ourselves on notice. | 0:14:57 | 0:14:59 | |
Labour is preparing for a general election in 2017. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:02 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:08 | |
Everyone here and everyone of our hundreds of thousands | 0:15:08 | 0:15:10 | |
of members has something to contribute to our cause. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
That's why we will unite, build on our policies, | 0:15:13 | 0:15:16 | |
take our vision out to a country crying out for change. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:21 | |
We are half a million of us and there will be many more, | 0:15:21 | 0:15:26 | |
working together to make our country the place it could be. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:32 | |
Conference, united we can shape the future and build | 0:15:32 | 0:15:36 | |
a fairer Britain in a peaceful world. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
Thank you. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:43 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:15:43 | 0:15:53 | |
So what did his own troops make of it all? | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
As always, we sent Adam to make a nusiance of himself by ambushing | 0:16:10 | 0:16:14 | |
people as they left the hall. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
What did you think of the speech? | 0:16:16 | 0:16:17 | |
Absolutely brilliant, inspiring. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:18 | |
We're going to win the next election. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
Left you with butterflies in the stomach? | 0:16:20 | 0:16:22 | |
Oh, absolutely, yeah. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:23 | |
Didn't it you? | 0:16:23 | 0:16:24 | |
No comment. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
Was there a message or a storyline that he was talking about? | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
I think it was a fairer society. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
You know, somebody who works in the NHS, | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
we see the inequality, you know, and we see | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
the need for reinvestment. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:36 | |
He says the right things and the people responded | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
to that very positively. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
So, keep the fingers crossed. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
Yep. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:43 | |
I thought it was very good. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:44 | |
It was very good and it covered loads of things that everybody | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
is really feeling passionate about and I'm one of | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
the many thousands who's come back to the Labour | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
Party. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:52 | |
OK. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:53 | |
Madam, what did you think of the speech? | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
Do you think he addressed some of the problems he had to address? | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
I think it's given us a very, very clear platform now to go out, | 0:16:58 | 0:17:02 | |
out into our communities, and fight for this country and equality. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:04 | |
Have we got any Owen Smith supporters who were won | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
over by Jeremy today? | 0:17:07 | 0:17:08 | |
I'm one. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:09 | |
Yeah. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:10 | |
I think Jeremy's going forward and now we're addressing | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
the concerns of the country and the party, so I think we can | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
rebuild and build a Britain that we all want to see. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
Who was really inspired by the speech? | 0:17:18 | 0:17:19 | |
No, not at all. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:20 | |
I was very disappointed. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:21 | |
What was the problem? | 0:17:21 | 0:17:22 | |
I think, for me, there was an awful lot of talking about what's | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
problematic, what's wrong. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:26 | |
There was a lot of saying, great, let's change that and why | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
we should change that, but I'm still waiting to hear how | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
we're going to change that. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:33 | |
I think there was an opportunity - We're going to change it. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
How? | 0:17:36 | 0:17:37 | |
He talked about the changes to the companies that | 0:17:37 | 0:17:39 | |
are going to make a contribution to improve education. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
He talked about that we're going to be more welcoming of people | 0:17:41 | 0:17:46 | |
coming into this country. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:48 | |
He talked about building more houses. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
He talked about a bank that is going to invest | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
in the country. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:56 | |
He's talking all the practical things. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:57 | |
How can you say, it's got everything except... | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
We're going to get out there, I hope you as well, and we're | 0:17:59 | 0:18:02 | |
going to persuade people that what he's saying | 0:18:02 | 0:18:04 | |
is absolutely right. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
It's about the needs of the many, not the few. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
It's not the Tories, who are just interested in a few. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
But what are we going to do? | 0:18:12 | 0:18:14 | |
I told you what he's going to do. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:16 | |
We'll let you carry on that discussion later on. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
So trench warfare hasn't quite been extinguished among the troops, | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
but what about the officer class? | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
I asked Unite leader, Len McCloskey, which speech he preferred - | 0:18:23 | 0:18:27 | |
Jeremy Corbyn's or Deputy Leader Tom Watson's? | 0:18:27 | 0:18:32 | |
Jeremy Corbyn's, Tom's speech was about yesteryear's politics. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:34 | |
I think what we seen today was a leader, somebody who spelt out | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
a vision and a vision that is desperately needed | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
in our country, and that call for unity and what Labour can | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
achieve, when we are together, I thought was very powerful | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
and very inspiring. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
Where did your attack on Tom Watson's speech | 0:18:49 | 0:18:51 | |
though fit into the call for unity? | 0:18:51 | 0:18:52 | |
What attack? | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
A critique, an opinion that says I thought Tom was going back - | 0:18:54 | 0:18:58 | |
You said he was confused, the right-wing of the Labour Party. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
..that it was going back to the third way of Blairism. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:06 | |
That was for a different era. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:07 | |
I said that that really is not a vision any more. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:10 | |
So, of course, it is about... | 0:19:10 | 0:19:14 | |
Jeremy's asked us to wipe the slate clean and perhaps to unite. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:20 | |
Perhaps, I need to be careful about my rhetoric as well, Andrew. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
Well, don't we all at times. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
Let me ask you this. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:25 | |
Do you think that the Parliamentary Labour Party needs to change | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
to reflect more the kind of Labour Party that Mr Corbyn | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
was outlining in his speech today? | 0:19:31 | 0:19:33 | |
I think that's a great question and the answer to that is, yes. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:36 | |
When you're a representative of a party, you have to understand | 0:19:36 | 0:19:40 | |
if the party is changing. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
I'm sure that the vast majority of the Plp will recognise | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
that the party's changed, that there is a vision | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
and a commitment there and I think they'll come back | 0:19:49 | 0:19:51 | |
to support the leader and, effectively, support the membership | 0:19:51 | 0:19:56 | |
that put them there. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:59 | |
The morning provided a couple of warm-up acts | 0:19:59 | 0:20:01 | |
for the Labour leader, the agenda was home affairs. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
So we heard from Richard Burgon, Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
Let me turn to my Conservative opponent, | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
also from Leeds, Liz Truss. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
It's fair to say that her appointment as Justice Secretary | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
wasn't universally welcomed. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
Many said that as another non-lawyer in the role she didn't fulfil | 0:20:19 | 0:20:23 | |
the legislative requirement for a person qualified | 0:20:23 | 0:20:27 | |
by experience. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
Others criticised her for being loyal to her party leader - | 0:20:30 | 0:20:32 | |
although there's nothing wrong with that, but what I will... | 0:20:32 | 0:20:38 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:20:38 | 0:20:40 | |
..but what I will criticise Liz Truss for, Conference, | 0:20:40 | 0:20:45 | |
is voting for legal aid cuts, for prioritising our | 0:20:45 | 0:20:50 | |
Probation Service and for closing down the courts we need to deliver | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
justice in our country. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
Immigration and asylum are different, too often this | 0:20:56 | 0:21:02 | |
Government treats them as though they are the same. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
We won't use fear on immigration as reason not to help | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
those most in need. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:09 | |
We won't call people swarms or hoards when they are mothers, | 0:21:09 | 0:21:13 | |
fathers and children and we will never EVER do | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
what Nigel Farage did in the referendum campaign and use | 0:21:16 | 0:21:19 | |
a poster of desperate refugees to stoke fear and hatred. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:23 | |
That man should be ashamed. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:21:26 | 0:21:32 | |
So if ever you despair at the state of our politics or even | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
the divisions you think there are in our party, | 0:21:35 | 0:21:38 | |
if ever you think of walking away, if ever you want to know why | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
so many of us carry on, if you've ever have any doubts, | 0:21:41 | 0:21:46 | |
think of those children we can help. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:55 | |
Of the amazing things that we can do together. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
The amazing people we can help. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:58 | |
The amazing things that Labour can do. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
Conference, that is what our politics | 0:22:00 | 0:22:01 | |
is all about. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
Thank you. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:03 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
This is my tenth conference speaking to you as a Cabinet | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
or a Shadow Cabinet Minister and it will be my last. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
Was that a cheer I heard?! | 0:22:11 | 0:22:19 | |
It is time for me to turn my full focus to Greater Manchester. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:24 | |
That's why I can tell you all, first today, that I've | 0:22:24 | 0:22:30 | |
asked Jeremy to plan for a new Shadow Cabinet without me, | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
although I will of course stay until it is in place. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:38 | |
It has been my privilege to represent our great party over | 0:22:38 | 0:22:41 | |
these last 10 years, but at times the last 12 months have | 0:22:41 | 0:22:46 | |
made me profoundly sad. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:50 | |
Sad to hear the achievements of our government, our Labour | 0:22:50 | 0:22:55 | |
government, in which I was proud to serve, being dismissed | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
as if they were nothing. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
Sad that old friendships have been strained. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:23:03 | 0:23:06 | |
Sad that some seem to prefer fighting each other | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
than fighting the Tories. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
I have given my all to this party. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:14 | |
I've always put its interests above those of factions | 0:23:14 | 0:23:16 | |
and personalities. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
I have given exactly the same loyalty to all four of the Labour | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
leaders that I have had the privilege to serve. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:26 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:23:26 | 0:23:34 | |
So let us unite. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
Let's have an end to divisive talk about deselections but, in return, | 0:23:37 | 0:23:43 | |
let's have more respect for the democratic will | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
of you, our members. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:23:49 | 0:23:56 | |
This party must fully face up to this fact - | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
millions of life-long Labour supporters voted to leave the EU | 0:23:59 | 0:24:03 | |
and, let's be honest, they voted for change on immigration. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:07 | |
We haven't yet even begun to show them that we understand why | 0:24:07 | 0:24:11 | |
and I don't want to hear this party make the patronising | 0:24:11 | 0:24:15 | |
argument that people didn't understand their referendum vote. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:18 | |
They understood it very well. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:22 | |
The truth is, the EU was working better for some parts of our country | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
than it was for others. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:28 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:24:28 | 0:24:37 | |
Out there there's a demand for big changes in the way | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
this country is run. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:41 | |
This party should be the voice for that change. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
That is why I am ready to leave Westminster. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
It's time to make a change, to challenge the status | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
quo from the outside. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:24:53 | 0:25:02 | |
Winning the party leadership is one thing, being regarded as Prime | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
Ministerial is entirely a higher bar. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:06 | |
So we sent our Adam out to find out if people really did see Jeremy | 0:25:06 | 0:25:10 | |
Corbyn as a future Prime Minister. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:11 | |
Questions don't come bigger than this - | 0:25:11 | 0:25:13 | |
is Jeremy Corbyn going to be the next Prime Minister - yes or no? | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
Absolutely. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:17 | |
Definitely, 100%? | 0:25:17 | 0:25:18 | |
100%. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:19 | |
Nothing is going to get in his way? | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
I hope not. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:22 | |
OK, go-ahead then. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:23 | |
Can't say more decisive than that. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:25 | |
Thank you very much. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:26 | |
We now just have to get out there, the feet are going to get | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
hammered, lots of... | 0:25:29 | 0:25:30 | |
You've got new trainers on already, I see. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
Ready to go. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:33 | |
That's how I survive conference, in trainers, honestly! | 0:25:33 | 0:25:35 | |
Well, why did you vote no? | 0:25:35 | 0:25:37 | |
Well, Because I still think he hasn't shown the leadership | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
what he needs to show. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:40 | |
What, winning two leadership elections? | 0:25:40 | 0:25:41 | |
No, leadership. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
Unifying the party and leading the party to changing. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:47 | |
No from me. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:48 | |
No? | 0:25:48 | 0:25:49 | |
Definitely. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:50 | |
OK. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:51 | |
Is that the done thing at this conference, to doubt | 0:25:51 | 0:25:53 | |
the dear leader? | 0:25:53 | 0:25:54 | |
Yes. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:55 | |
Yes, if you doubt it. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:56 | |
Yes. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:57 | |
You feel you're allowed to do that? | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
I'm old enough to know what I'm talking about. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
I think the media's undermined him too much and people have lost | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
confidence in his abilities. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:05 | |
Well, on the Daily Politics, we're scrupulously fair. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:07 | |
Well, yeah, I'm not saying the BBC, I'm saying the papers more. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:10 | |
If he's not Prime Minister, how will you feel? | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
Gutted because it'll mean we've still got the Tories. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
Yeah, for another five years, in four years? | 0:26:16 | 0:26:18 | |
I know, I know. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
It's not worth thinking about it. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
It's horrific. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:25 | |
What's it going to be like, Jeremy Corbyn standing on the steps | 0:26:25 | 0:26:28 | |
of Downing Street having just won an election? | 0:26:28 | 0:26:31 | |
I'd think, this is the start of an excellent new future. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:33 | |
We've got some Labour conference specials. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:35 | |
We've got Jeremy Corbyn cufflinks and some Labour Party | 0:26:35 | 0:26:37 | |
cufflinks as well. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
Look at that, Jeremy Corbyn as Che Guevara on your wrists. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:44 | |
How much does a "Jeremy for PM" badge cost? | 0:26:44 | 0:26:48 | |
60 pence. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:49 | |
60 pence. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:50 | |
That's a bargain. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:52 | |
My brother's called Jeremy, he's a Tory voter, so I'm | 0:26:52 | 0:26:54 | |
going to send it to him. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
There you go, thank you very much. | 0:26:56 | 0:26:59 | |
Pop a ball in, it doesn't cost 60p, it's free. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:05 | |
It's not a pub quiz, it's not a pub quiz! | 0:27:05 | 0:27:08 | |
I don't even know what it is, I'm not doing it. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:10 | |
She says no to the balls. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
Bye. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:13 | |
You're meant to be Shadow Foreign Secretary, | 0:27:13 | 0:27:15 | |
that's not very diplomatic. | 0:27:15 | 0:27:16 | |
Peter, we're doing the Daily Politics balls, | 0:27:16 | 0:27:19 | |
is Jeremy going to be the next Prime Minister - yes or no? | 0:27:19 | 0:27:22 | |
Just looked at me bemused. | 0:27:22 | 0:27:25 | |
Right, you've managed to avoid the Daily Politics | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
balls all week. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:28 | |
OK. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:29 | |
Is Jeremy Corbyn going to be the next Prime Minister? | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
Of course he is, of course, he is. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
Definitely? | 0:27:34 | 0:27:35 | |
That's an easy one. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:36 | |
How come the polls suggest that's really not going to happen? | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
Now you're asking me tricky questions. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:40 | |
I've done your poll. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
OK, fine. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:42 | |
He's just going to put a ball in and that's all. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
Well, Tom Watson had the final ball after managing to evade us all week. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:49 | |
He went with the majority of people at this conference saying, yes, | 0:27:49 | 0:27:51 | |
Jeremy Corbyn will be the next Prime Minister. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:53 | |
Although, look at all those noes. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:56 | |
And, that's your lot from Liverpool. | 0:27:56 | 0:27:59 | |
Team Corbyn will have its work cut out to flesh out its policies quick | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
time if it really thinks an election is just round the corner | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
and all the time there will be that continuing power struggle | 0:28:05 | 0:28:09 | |
on the National Executive Committee. | 0:28:09 | 0:28:12 | |
Next stop, Birmingham and the Tories, who have party | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
struggles of their own to fight, especially over Brexit. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
We'll be live from Birmingham on Sunday morning at 11.00am | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
with the Sunday Politics, then three days of the Daily Politics | 0:28:22 | 0:28:25 | |
and Today at Conference. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:27 | |
You know you won't want to miss that. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:29 | |
In the meantime, enjoy this burst of the Red Flag. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
Nighty night, comrades. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:39 | |
# So raise the scarlet standard high | 0:28:39 | 0:28:41 | |
# Beneath it's folds we'll live and die | 0:28:41 | 0:28:44 | |
# Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer | 0:28:44 | 0:28:50 | |
# We'll keep the red flag flying here. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
# Flying here #. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:56 |