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Evening all.

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Welcome to our final Today at Conference here at the Labour

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Party Conference in Liverpool.

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A day in which Jeremy Corbyn revelled in his re-election

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as Labour leader and promised the party faithful socialism

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for the 21st century.

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The Labour conference lapped it up.

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How the wider electorate will see it is another matter.

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Mr Corbyn thinks he could soon face a snap election.

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He promised more homes, more jobs, more public investment,

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but not more controls on immigration.

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He said the ten point programme for power that had re-elected him

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as leader would form the basis of Labour's next manifesto.

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But he made few concessions to his critics despite calling

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for an end to party trench warfare.

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We were there to find out what the party faithful made of it all.

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Absolutely brilliant, inspiring, we're going

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to win the next election.

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Mr Corbyn is now undisputed leader of his party, even if many centrists

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find that hard to stomach.

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It was clear today that he wanted to stamp his authority on Labour,

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but he didn't offer any olive branches to his opponents.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much for that welcome and that introduction.

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This hall is absolutely packed here today in Liverpool,

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we've even got an overspill down the road.

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I want to say thank you to everyone that's here today.

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But I've got to slightly correct myself because I did say the hall

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is completely packed.

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Well I got a message on the way in from Virgin Trains.

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They have assured me there are 800 empty seats in the hall.

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Let me also pay particular tribute to those parliamentary colleagues

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who stepped forward in the summer to fill the gaps

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in the Shadow Cabinet...

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...and ensure that Labour can function as an effective

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opposition in Parliament.

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They actually didn't seek office but they stepped up when their party

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and in fact the country needed them to serve.

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They all deserve the respect and gratitude of our party and movement.

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And this conference should thank them today.

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They are our future.

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In the May elections we overtook the Tories to become

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the largest party nationally.

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We won back London with a massive win for Sadiq Khan,

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the first Muslim mayor of Western capital city.

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My congratulations, Sadiq, for that incredible win.

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Since the crash of 2008, the demand for an alternative

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and an end to counter-productive austerity has led to the rise

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of new movements and parties.

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In one country after another.

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But in Britain it's happened in a different way.

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In the heart of traditional politics in the Labour Party

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which is something we should be extremely proud of.

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It's exactly what Labour was founded for, to be the voice of the many.

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Social justice and progressive change from the bottom up.

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But it also means it's no good harking back to the tired

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old economic and political fixes of 20 and 30 years ago

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because they won't work any more.

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The old model is broken.

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We are in a new era that demands a politics and economics

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that meets the needs of our own time.

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So Labour is offering solutions.

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During this summer's leadership campaign I set out ten pledges

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which I believed could be the platform of our party's

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programme at the next election.

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They were put to conference yesterday.

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They lay out the scope of the change we need to see.

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For full employment, a homes guarantee,

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security at work, a strong public National Health Service and social

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care, a national education service for all, action on climate change,

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public ownership or control of our services, a cut in inequality

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of income and wealth, action to secure an equal society,

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and peace and justice at the heart of our foreign policy.

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Don't worry, don't worry conference, they're not the Ten Commandments.

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I haven't come down from the mountain with them.

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They are here already, and they will now of course go

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to the national policy forum, and the whole party

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needs to build on them.

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All our brilliant members have ideas.

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The speech was long on aspiration and short on detail but that's

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pretty much the hallmark of all party conference speeches.

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This was all he had to say about a massive increase in public

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borrowing to finance investment.

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If the Tories are the party of cuts and short termism,

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Labour is the party of investing for the future.

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With the same level of investment as other major economies,

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we could be so much more.

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Unlock so much skill, ingenuity and wealth.

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That's why we'll establish a national investment bank

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at the heart of our plan to rebuild and transform this country.

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And we will borrow to invest at historically low interest rates

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to generate far greater returns.

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It would be foolish not to.

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Because that investment is expanding the economy and the income it

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generates for us all in the process.

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Even this government, after years of austerities

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and savage cuts, is starting to change its tune.

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I'm not content with accepting second class broadband.

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Not content with creaking railways.

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Not content with seeing the United States and Germany

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investing in cutting-edge and green technologies while we lag behind.

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That's why we've set out proposals for a national investment bank

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with ?500 billion of investment to bring our broadband,

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our railways, our housing and our energy infrastructure

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up to scratch.

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A country that doesn't invest is a country that's given up,

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that has taken the path of managed decline.

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A Labour government will never accept second best for this country.

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We are a wealthy country, and not just in terms of money.

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We are rich in talent, which in potential.

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That's why we proposed a comprehensive national education

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service at the heart of our programme for government,

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to deliver high quality education for all throughout our lives.

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Education has always been a core Labour value,

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from the time of Alan Wilkinson the MP for Jarrow and later

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education Minister and before that.

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And a national education service will be an essential part

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of the 21st century welfare state.

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In a rapidly changing economy people need to retrain or upgrade their

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skills without falling into debt.

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Britain already lags behind others in productivity.

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Partly that's about investing in technology and infrastructure,

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and partly it's about investing in people and their skills.

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So today I'm offering business a new settlement.

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A new deal to rebuild Britain.

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Under labour we will provide investment to rebuild

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Britain's infrastructure.

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We will fund that investment because it will lead

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to a more productive economy, providing the basis

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on which our economy and our businesses can thrive.

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Helping to provide over a million good jobs

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and opportunities for businesses.

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But investment in capital must include investment in human capital.

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The skilled workers needed to make our economy a success.

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So this is the deal Labour will offer to business.

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To help pay for a national education service, we will ask you to pay

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a little more in tax.

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We've already started to set out some of this,

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pledging to raise corporation tax by less than 1.5% to give

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an education maintenance allowance to college students,

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grants to university students, so that every young learner can

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afford to support themselves as they develop skills

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and get qualifications.

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As politicians, as political activists, as citizens,

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we have zero tolerance towards those who whip up hate and division.

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Stand together against racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.

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And defend those being demonised.

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It's been shaming to our multicultural society that assaults

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on migrants have increased sharply since the referendum campaign.

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A campaign that peddled myths and whipped up division.

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It isn't migrants that drive down wages, it's exploitative employers

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and the politicians who deregulate the labour market and rip

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up trade union rights.

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It isn't migrants who put a strain on our National Health Service,

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it only keeps going because of the migrant nurses and doctors

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who come here, filling the gaps left by politicians who failed

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to invest in training.

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It isn't migrants that have caused the housing crisis,

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it's a Tory government that has failed to build homes.

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Immigration can certainly put extra pressure on services.

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That's why under Gordon Brown Labour set up the migrant impact fund,

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to provide extra funding to communities that have the largest

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rises in populations.

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Good plan, very effective.

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What did the Tories do?

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They abolished it.

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Then they demonised the migrants for putting pressure on services.

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A Labour government will not offer false promises on immigration has

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the Tories have done.

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We will not sow division by fanning the flames of fear.

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We will tackle the real issues of immigration instead.

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Whatever the eventual outcome of Brexit negotiations,

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and make the changes needed.

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We will act decisively to end the undercutting

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of workers pay and conditions through the exploitation of migrant

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labour and agency working, which would reduce the number

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of migrant workers in the process.

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And we will ease the pressure on hard-pressed public services that

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are struggling to absorb Tory austerity cuts in communities

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absorbing new populations.

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Labour will reinstate the migrant impact fund and give extra support

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to areas of high migration using the visa levy

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for its intended purpose.

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And we'll add a citizenship application fee levy.

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That is the Labour way to tackle social tension.

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Investment in assistance, not racism and division.

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Everyone of us in the Labour Party is motivated by the gap

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between what our country is and what it could be.

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We know that in the sixth largest economy in the world the food banks,

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stunted life chances, growing poverty alongside wealth

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on an undreamt of scale are the mark of a shameful and totally

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unnecessary failure.

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We know how great this country could be for all its people

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with a new political and economic settlement.

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With new forms of democratic public ownership driven by investment

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in the technology and industries of the future.

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With decent jobs, education and housing for all.

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With local services run by and for people, not outsourced

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to faceless corporations.

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This is not backward looking, this is the very opposite.

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It's the socialism of the 21st-century.

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Our job is now to win over the unconvinced of our vision.

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Only that way can we secure the Labour government we need.

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And let's be frank, no one will be convinced of the vision promoted

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by a divided party.

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We all agree on that.

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So I ask...

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So I ask each and everyone of you to accept the decision of the members.

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End the trench warfare and work together to take on the Tories.

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We could also face a general election next year.

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Whatever the Prime Minister says about snap elections,

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there is every chance Theresa May will cut and run for

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an early election.

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So today we put ourselves on notice.

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Labour is preparing for a general election in 2017.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

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Everyone here and everyone of our hundreds of thousands

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of members has something to contribute to our cause.

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That's why we will unite, build on our policies,

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take our vision out to a country crying out for change.

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We are half a million of us and there will be many more,

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working together to make our country the place it could be.

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Conference, united we can shape the future and build

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a fairer Britain in a peaceful world.

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Thank you.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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So what did his own troops make of it all?

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As always, we sent Adam to make a nusiance of himself by ambushing

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people as they left the hall.

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What did you think of the speech?

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Absolutely brilliant, inspiring.

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We're going to win the next election.

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Left you with butterflies in the stomach?

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Oh, absolutely, yeah.

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Didn't it you?

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No comment.

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Was there a message or a storyline that he was talking about?

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I think it was a fairer society.

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You know, somebody who works in the NHS,

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we see the inequality, you know, and we see

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the need for reinvestment.

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He says the right things and the people responded

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to that very positively.

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So, keep the fingers crossed.

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Yep.

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I thought it was very good.

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It was very good and it covered loads of things that everybody

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is really feeling passionate about and I'm one of

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the many thousands who's come back to the Labour

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Party.

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OK.

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Madam, what did you think of the speech?

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Do you think he addressed some of the problems he had to address?

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I think it's given us a very, very clear platform now to go out,

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out into our communities, and fight for this country and equality.

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Have we got any Owen Smith supporters who were won

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over by Jeremy today?

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I'm one.

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Yeah.

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I think Jeremy's going forward and now we're addressing

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the concerns of the country and the party, so I think we can

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rebuild and build a Britain that we all want to see.

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Who was really inspired by the speech?

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No, not at all.

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I was very disappointed.

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What was the problem?

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I think, for me, there was an awful lot of talking about what's

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problematic, what's wrong.

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There was a lot of saying, great, let's change that and why

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we should change that, but I'm still waiting to hear how

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we're going to change that.

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I think there was an opportunity - We're going to change it.

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How?

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He talked about the changes to the companies that

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are going to make a contribution to improve education.

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He talked about that we're going to be more welcoming of people

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coming into this country.

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He talked about building more houses.

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He talked about a bank that is going to invest

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in the country.

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He's talking all the practical things.

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How can you say, it's got everything except...

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We're going to get out there, I hope you as well, and we're

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going to persuade people that what he's saying

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is absolutely right.

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It's about the needs of the many, not the few.

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It's not the Tories, who are just interested in a few.

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But what are we going to do?

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I told you what he's going to do.

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We'll let you carry on that discussion later on.

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So trench warfare hasn't quite been extinguished among the troops,

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but what about the officer class?

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I asked Unite leader, Len McCloskey, which speech he preferred -

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Jeremy Corbyn's or Deputy Leader Tom Watson's?

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Jeremy Corbyn's, Tom's speech was about yesteryear's politics.

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I think what we seen today was a leader, somebody who spelt out

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a vision and a vision that is desperately needed

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in our country, and that call for unity and what Labour can

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achieve, when we are together, I thought was very powerful

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and very inspiring.

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Where did your attack on Tom Watson's speech

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though fit into the call for unity?

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What attack?

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A critique, an opinion that says I thought Tom was going back -

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You said he was confused, the right-wing of the Labour Party.

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..that it was going back to the third way of Blairism.

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That was for a different era.

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I said that that really is not a vision any more.

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So, of course, it is about...

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Jeremy's asked us to wipe the slate clean and perhaps to unite.

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Perhaps, I need to be careful about my rhetoric as well, Andrew.

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Well, don't we all at times.

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Let me ask you this.

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Do you think that the Parliamentary Labour Party needs to change

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to reflect more the kind of Labour Party that Mr Corbyn

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was outlining in his speech today?

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I think that's a great question and the answer to that is, yes.

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When you're a representative of a party, you have to understand

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if the party is changing.

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I'm sure that the vast majority of the Plp will recognise

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that the party's changed, that there is a vision

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and a commitment there and I think they'll come back

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to support the leader and, effectively, support the membership

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that put them there.

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The morning provided a couple of warm-up acts

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for the Labour leader, the agenda was home affairs.

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So we heard from Richard Burgon, Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper.

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Let me turn to my Conservative opponent,

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also from Leeds, Liz Truss.

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It's fair to say that her appointment as Justice Secretary

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wasn't universally welcomed.

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Many said that as another non-lawyer in the role she didn't fulfil

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the legislative requirement for a person qualified

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by experience.

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Others criticised her for being loyal to her party leader -

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although there's nothing wrong with that, but what I will...

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APPLAUSE

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..but what I will criticise Liz Truss for, Conference,

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is voting for legal aid cuts, for prioritising our

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Probation Service and for closing down the courts we need to deliver

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justice in our country.

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Immigration and asylum are different, too often this

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Government treats them as though they are the same.

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We won't use fear on immigration as reason not to help

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those most in need.

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We won't call people swarms or hoards when they are mothers,

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fathers and children and we will never EVER do

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what Nigel Farage did in the referendum campaign and use

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a poster of desperate refugees to stoke fear and hatred.

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That man should be ashamed.

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APPLAUSE

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So if ever you despair at the state of our politics or even

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the divisions you think there are in our party,

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if ever you think of walking away, if ever you want to know why

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so many of us carry on, if you've ever have any doubts,

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think of those children we can help.

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Of the amazing things that we can do together.

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The amazing people we can help.

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The amazing things that Labour can do.

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Conference, that is what our politics

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is all about.

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Thank you.

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APPLAUSE

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This is my tenth conference speaking to you as a Cabinet

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or a Shadow Cabinet Minister and it will be my last.

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Was that a cheer I heard?!

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It is time for me to turn my full focus to Greater Manchester.

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That's why I can tell you all, first today, that I've

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asked Jeremy to plan for a new Shadow Cabinet without me,

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although I will of course stay until it is in place.

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It has been my privilege to represent our great party over

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these last 10 years, but at times the last 12 months have

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made me profoundly sad.

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Sad to hear the achievements of our government, our Labour

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government, in which I was proud to serve, being dismissed

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as if they were nothing.

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Sad that old friendships have been strained.

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APPLAUSE

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Sad that some seem to prefer fighting each other

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than fighting the Tories.

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I have given my all to this party.

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I've always put its interests above those of factions

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and personalities.

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I have given exactly the same loyalty to all four of the Labour

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leaders that I have had the privilege to serve.

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APPLAUSE

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So let us unite.

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Let's have an end to divisive talk about deselections but, in return,

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let's have more respect for the democratic will

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of you, our members.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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This party must fully face up to this fact -

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millions of life-long Labour supporters voted to leave the EU

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and, let's be honest, they voted for change on immigration.

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We haven't yet even begun to show them that we understand why

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and I don't want to hear this party make the patronising

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argument that people didn't understand their referendum vote.

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They understood it very well.

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The truth is, the EU was working better for some parts of our country

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than it was for others.

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APPLAUSE

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Out there there's a demand for big changes in the way

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this country is run.

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This party should be the voice for that change.

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That is why I am ready to leave Westminster.

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It's time to make a change, to challenge the status

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quo from the outside.

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APPLAUSE

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Winning the party leadership is one thing, being regarded as Prime

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Ministerial is entirely a higher bar.

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So we sent our Adam out to find out if people really did see Jeremy

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Corbyn as a future Prime Minister.

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Questions don't come bigger than this -

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is Jeremy Corbyn going to be the next Prime Minister - yes or no?

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Absolutely.

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Definitely, 100%?

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100%.

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Nothing is going to get in his way?

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I hope not.

0:25:210:25:22

OK, go-ahead then.

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Can't say more decisive than that.

0:25:230:25:25

Thank you very much.

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We now just have to get out there, the feet are going to get

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hammered, lots of...

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You've got new trainers on already, I see.

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Ready to go.

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That's how I survive conference, in trainers, honestly!

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Well, why did you vote no?

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Well, Because I still think he hasn't shown the leadership

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what he needs to show.

0:25:390:25:40

What, winning two leadership elections?

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No, leadership.

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Unifying the party and leading the party to changing.

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No from me.

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No?

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Definitely.

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OK.

0:25:500:25:51

Is that the done thing at this conference, to doubt

0:25:510:25:53

the dear leader?

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Yes.

0:25:540:25:55

Yes, if you doubt it.

0:25:550:25:56

Yes.

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You feel you're allowed to do that?

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I'm old enough to know what I'm talking about.

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I think the media's undermined him too much and people have lost

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confidence in his abilities.

0:26:040:26:05

Well, on the Daily Politics, we're scrupulously fair.

0:26:050:26:07

Well, yeah, I'm not saying the BBC, I'm saying the papers more.

0:26:070:26:10

If he's not Prime Minister, how will you feel?

0:26:100:26:13

Gutted because it'll mean we've still got the Tories.

0:26:130:26:16

Yeah, for another five years, in four years?

0:26:160:26:18

I know, I know.

0:26:180:26:21

It's not worth thinking about it.

0:26:210:26:23

It's horrific.

0:26:230:26:25

What's it going to be like, Jeremy Corbyn standing on the steps

0:26:250:26:28

of Downing Street having just won an election?

0:26:280:26:31

I'd think, this is the start of an excellent new future.

0:26:310:26:33

We've got some Labour conference specials.

0:26:330:26:35

We've got Jeremy Corbyn cufflinks and some Labour Party

0:26:350:26:37

cufflinks as well.

0:26:370:26:39

Look at that, Jeremy Corbyn as Che Guevara on your wrists.

0:26:390:26:44

How much does a "Jeremy for PM" badge cost?

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60 pence.

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60 pence.

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That's a bargain.

0:26:500:26:52

My brother's called Jeremy, he's a Tory voter, so I'm

0:26:520:26:54

going to send it to him.

0:26:540:26:56

There you go, thank you very much.

0:26:560:26:59

Pop a ball in, it doesn't cost 60p, it's free.

0:26:590:27:05

It's not a pub quiz, it's not a pub quiz!

0:27:050:27:08

I don't even know what it is, I'm not doing it.

0:27:080:27:10

She says no to the balls.

0:27:100:27:12

Bye.

0:27:120:27:13

You're meant to be Shadow Foreign Secretary,

0:27:130:27:15

that's not very diplomatic.

0:27:150:27:16

Peter, we're doing the Daily Politics balls,

0:27:160:27:19

is Jeremy going to be the next Prime Minister - yes or no?

0:27:190:27:22

Just looked at me bemused.

0:27:220:27:25

Right, you've managed to avoid the Daily Politics

0:27:250:27:27

balls all week.

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OK.

0:27:280:27:29

Is Jeremy Corbyn going to be the next Prime Minister?

0:27:290:27:32

Of course he is, of course, he is.

0:27:320:27:34

Definitely?

0:27:340:27:35

That's an easy one.

0:27:350:27:36

How come the polls suggest that's really not going to happen?

0:27:360:27:39

Now you're asking me tricky questions.

0:27:390:27:40

I've done your poll.

0:27:400:27:42

OK, fine.

0:27:420:27:42

He's just going to put a ball in and that's all.

0:27:420:27:45

Well, Tom Watson had the final ball after managing to evade us all week.

0:27:450:27:49

He went with the majority of people at this conference saying, yes,

0:27:490:27:51

Jeremy Corbyn will be the next Prime Minister.

0:27:510:27:53

Although, look at all those noes.

0:27:530:27:56

And, that's your lot from Liverpool.

0:27:560:27:59

Team Corbyn will have its work cut out to flesh out its policies quick

0:27:590:28:02

time if it really thinks an election is just round the corner

0:28:020:28:05

and all the time there will be that continuing power struggle

0:28:050:28:09

on the National Executive Committee.

0:28:090:28:12

Next stop, Birmingham and the Tories, who have party

0:28:120:28:15

struggles of their own to fight, especially over Brexit.

0:28:150:28:19

We'll be live from Birmingham on Sunday morning at 11.00am

0:28:190:28:22

with the Sunday Politics, then three days of the Daily Politics

0:28:220:28:25

and Today at Conference.

0:28:250:28:27

You know you won't want to miss that.

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In the meantime, enjoy this burst of the Red Flag.

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Nighty night, comrades.

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# So raise the scarlet standard high

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# Beneath it's folds we'll live and die

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# Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer

0:28:440:28:50

# We'll keep the red flag flying here.

0:28:500:28:52

# Flying here #.

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