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23 septembre

Minute-by-minute: Gordon's speech LIVE

Posted by Laura Snook, senior news editor

Gordon Brown is about to deliver 'the speech of his political life' - maybe. I'll be following it live. Join me here for minute-by-minute coverage.

2:25pm: Gordon's wife, Sarah, just took the floor to introduce her husband. The BBC's commentators are saying it's hard to imagine Cherie Blair doing the same.

2:27pm: "Your love keeps lifting me higher" by Jackie Wilson - the chosen track for the PM's entrance.

2:28pm: He's going to get "straight to the point" - tell us who he is and what he believes in. "I didn't come into politics to be a celebrity - or thinking I would always be popular." <laughter from the crowd>

2:30pm. "If people say I'm too serious, quite honestly, there's a lot to be serious about." Don't call him dour! He managed a smile...

2:32: He says he'll admit his mistakes - and was shocked by what happened with the 10p tax debacle, because on the side of working families "is the only place I want to be." It's a fairer Britain that Gordon wants.

2:33: Times have changed since 1997, he says - and we need to raise our game accordingly. The collapse of banks, spiralling oil prices, a resurgent Asia: it's a global age. Gordon wants Labour to be "the rock of fairness on which people can stand."

2:35: "Fair duties for all, matched to fair opportunities for all." Anyone who says the government should butt out "will be on the wrong side of history."

2:37: Hard work, effort and enterprise are what Labour thinks really matters - and should be rewarded.

2:39 Those who believed in the dogma of unbridled freemarket forces have been proven wrong, he says. He wants to build a world-leading financial system - and the work begins now (well, tomorrow - when he and Alistair Darling will meet with the US banking sector).

2:40: Banking speculators beware: bonuses will no longer be paid for speculating, but for hard work and results.

2:41: The new 'global settlement' also needs to end the dictatorship of oil and avert catastrophic climate change, he says - there are too many people in this world and not enough energy. And he's not short of ambition: CO2 emissions should be reduced not by 60%, but by 80%.

2:42: "You can't just wave a magic wand and solve spending problems - not even with the help of Harry Potter." Much laughter among the muggles.

2:44: The new global settlement should be about more than the world's economy. It should include law and order; security and dignity for the elderly; helping parents protect their children.

2:47: Neil Kinnock is in the front row... Brown seems assertive, almost slick. Do you think he's consciously trying to outdo David Cameron 'unplugged' performance at last year's Tory conference?

2:50: "We're changing the world the only way we really can - one home, one family at a time - that's the power Labour has to change lives."

2:51: "Fairness is in our DNA" - how long before the Conservatives produce a geneticist to testify otherwise?

2:52: Developing all the talents of all the people is the modern approach to social mobility, he's saying.

2:53: "Fairness is why Labour will continue to fight the British National Party" - rousing applause from the audience...

2:54: Brown wants to make the biggest investment in children that Britain has ever seen: more nursery places; affordable childcare for all; "the complete elimination of child poverty by 2020" (to be enshrined in law); more schools; "no child who falls behind will be left behind" - each child will have the right to personal catch-up tuition; failing schools will be given new leadership or closed; 1million extra families will be given funding to get online.

2:58: He's saying a personal thank-you to all the doctors, nurses, cooks, cleaners, etc who comprise the NHS, which turned 60 earlier this year. His personal tale: he lost the sight in one eye at 16 during a rugby match. Later, he almost lost the sight in the other - and was mentally preparing himself for "a life of audio books" - but it was saved by an operation paid for by the NHS, which his parents could not have afforded otherwise. He wants to make the NHS "more personal". As of next April, there will be free health check-ups for everyone over the age of 40 and doctors' surgeries will extend their opening hours.

3:03: Labour's "unprecedented" £16bn investment in the NHS will be used, in part, to push for pioneering treatment for conditions such as cancer. He's pledging to scrap prescription charges for cancer patients <standing ovation>. This will later be rolled out to sufferers of other long-term conditions.

3:05: "No one should fear growing old": he wants older people to be able to stay longer in their own homes and not have to fear punitive care costs.

3:08: Back to fairness: "everyone who can work, should work" - a blatant warning to dole abusers.

3:10: More police on the streets and more emphasis on making criminals "pay back" their communities - that's the message on crime. "We will create rules that reward those who play by them, and punish those who don't."

3:11: By the way, he's speaking without notes - had you noticed?

3:13: 'If the Conservatives were running the country, things would be much worse than they are' - I'm paraphrasing Brown's "What if?" comparison of Labour and Conservative policies and how they would have influenced recent events, including the credit crunch. "This is no time for a novice!" he says, triumphantly. "Their strategy is to change their appearance to give the appearance of change" - he says that's what salesmen do when they're selling something no-one wants to buy.

3:17: Brown says the Tories have nothing to offer tomorrow because they're still "prisoners of their past." And he's reminding us that Britain has never been 'broken' - not even by fascism - and says Team GB's performance at the Beijing Olympics was "Britain at its best."

3:20: He's paying tribute to Britain's armed forces - "the best in any part of the world."

3:21: Working together - with the rest of Europe, with the US, with whoever - is the only way to confront immediate global security threats and deliver peace.

3:23: "Never again": the UK will not stand by as the world's poor die of diseases we know how to cure. Britain will stand up for justice at the next general meeting of the United Nations.

3:25: All the headlines, all the criticism, all the polls: it's all worth it if he makes the life of one child better, says Brown. "Tough times strengthen our resolve."

3:26: He's been talking for almost an hour and still hasn't said anything direct about leadership challenges...

3:27: And it's over - a very different speech to the one he delivered in Bournemouth a year ago, says the BBC - comparing him to Roosevelt. Did every member of the Cabinet get a mention? Sarah is at his side again - standing ovation, cheers from the audience of about 2,000 delegates.

How do you think he did? Was he convincing? Did he emphasise the right things? Is he tuned into the national mood?

I'll be bringing you a round-up of the best post-speech opinion and analysis later today. Catch you in a couple of hours.

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	piers wilsona écrit : If you cannot see through the obvious lies and multiple scandals Gordon Brown and his Labour Government spread then you a surely a buffoon, but with a lesser intelligence! They, and particularly 'Lord' Mandleson, would see this country become nothing more than just another European country, one with no culture, brain dead laws and yet even more corruptness then you could contemplate. The funny thing is that they have done a damn good job at one thing, which is bring this country to its knees and do you know what we can do about it... nothing, unless the British public like you and me stand up for ourselves and tell the imbeciles that we will not stand for this any longer. Bit by bit they chip away at anything that even hints at being British and replace it with something European. Don't be fooled into thinking Britain would do well if run like the rest of Europe, it wont. We are an Island cut away from Europe and everyone else and so have developed our own culture, by which I do not mean getting pissed every weekend. Personally I think the Euro bitches (Gordon and co) should either bugger off to Europe where they'll be happy or locked up as enemies of the state, the monarchy in which they so despise, though she contributes millions of pounds annually, and the British public that they lie so easily to and make sure not to let them say a word against them until the elections... My God I could make a list engulfing this land of reasons why these criminals should not be in government but the point is those of you thinking of voting for them should start taking politics seriously! Do not vote labour because your parents do or because you think they are the working class party... Or even just because you dislike the Tories and think they're toffs. It does not matter who or what kind of person they are if they're the best person for this country that’s that and Gordon is NOT! And one last thing if you’re not sure or don’t really pay much attention to politics because you think it’s boring or whatever (despite thee fact it effects you directly or indirectly) then do me a favour and just don't vote. Definition of Labour Party: Originally a party for the working classes those who work their asses off, the constant rumblings of the fine machine that is Britain driving it onward. Now the mounter of debt, which will need to be paid, the hater of monarchy and Britishness, the taxer of the rich and working class most of all and giver to idle chavs and terrorist they haven't the balls to kick out of our country in fear of upsetting the human rights activists all in free accommodation, not to mention dissever of good honest working people like you and I. sounds like communism to me... are you going to vote for them because I'm not. 27 Déc.
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	Aucun noma écrit : BROWN WAS THE OLD GREEN, NOW HE'S THE NEW RED 25 Sept.
	Aucun noma écrit : Well Done Sarah! It takes a woman, as usual - now we know who has the b*lls in number 10 - shame it's wasted - too much rhetoric and no substance - it would be funny but too many people have sufferred and will suffer as a result of 10 years New/Old/Has Been Labour - I think the 'fat lady' has sung!!. 24 Sept.
	Petera écrit : Lorcan your backside must be facing upwards toward the sun and your head must be in sinking sand! Even a true Labour Party Leader wouldn't dare to utter such codswollop as we heard this afternoon. 23 Sept.
	Ross a écrit : What a great blog to read. If I'd started to write my own thoughts, I could not have put them better. The views here just match mine so precisely. 'Judith' hit me with my exact thoughts of the house price bubble and exactly where it nearly left me. .... Losing my entire life savings in HBOS. Yes! In my worst thoughts, I had imagined this over the last 18 months, but something inside had said 'Don't be silly'. I've always seen the buy to let explosion as a huge, empty eggshell based on economic delusion. The Americans caught the disease too. Mr Brown allowed a basic social right, a home, to be used for speculation. He sat and watched as buy to lettors simply assisted in pushing the price of a home beyond the reach of young people. And he is/was(?!) a Labour chancellor?? Now he has assumed the air of riding to our rescue. He loved the taxes, the apparent economic growth based on empty credit, the spending, and now .... the borrowing. The eggshell has imploded. Guess what,... they are even now suggesting that taxes will have to rise! Tell me they are joking!! Will Council Taxes go up again and bash the pensioners? Answer, yes. As for other points about fines, all kinds of charges, parking charges, ...and so on ... in my view these are once again taxes brought about by underfunding from central government. I realised earlier today that, although I was born British some 50 or so years ago, I am in no longer typically British. Again, taxes drove immigration. More workers, bigger economy, more tax revenue. But what about the infrastructure for the immigrant masses? Oh, forget that, MP's don't have to live in crowded communities, with disharmony gently brewing. Enough said. What did the speech ACTUALLY say? F A!! 23 Sept.
	LyRAXa écrit : Sorry Gordon lol 23 Sept.
	Lorcan a écrit : Gordon isn't a showman. He gets things done. You only hate him because the media turned on him. He can't control the banks but you didn't care about that untill things that were out of his controll happened and you needed someone to blame, because it's hard to blame a corperation isn't it? The regulations he wants to bring in to stop a crisis like this again in the future could only have been brought about by ressesion. You will just happily forget that. Don't just read the papers; actually see for your self what your government is planning to do and decide for your self what you want to think. I'm going to volunteer for my local Labour MP this thursday because I believe that Goron can change the prospects of the poor and change them for the better. xx 23 Sept.
	jim a écrit : Mr Brown,why not give a novice a try, they could do no worse than you did when you were a novice. Selling our gold at rock bottom prices and totally devastating private pensions, who could do worse than that. Every one of the general public will get through this crisis with out any help from you by cutting back on fuel, heating bills and food bills and when its over I hope you dont pat yourself on the back, I don't suppose you or your ministers will have any hardships during these difficult times. 23 Sept.
	john a écrit : Only when Labour voters vote for Gordon Should New Labour congratulate themselves on a job well done. As a labour voter who has seen the changes labour has made , i do not believe anything Gordon & co now say The 10p tax fiasco 3 by election losses with one more on the way attacking the sick an unemployed power companies allowed to set their own price ( with government approval ) and most of all giving the tories the best chance they ever had of winning , whilst ignoring the views of core labour voters okay so i am not won over with a bit of spin by rich guys in suits. I would have been more impressed if Gordon had said he has kicked the power companies are and we can afford to turn the heating back on. Money talks, bullshi walks 23 Sept.
	Piers Wilson a écrit : He is actually insane though! If a party full to the brim with deadheads, liers and out and out criminals wants this guy out, what does that say about Gordan... all a bit worrying isn't it. Also the brown nosed cronies of his, like Milliband or whatever his name is, saying: oh but he's such a dedicated, caring person and is the best (labour) politician for the job. It doesn't matter if hes a bloody saint if he can't protect and act on the interests of the BRITISH public it counts for didley. Sad thing is he believes he is representing us, but he is just bringing the country to its knees. Buger of back to Scotland you euro bum boy... OH YEAH THEY DON'T WANT YOU EITHER, what a pitty. Doesn't that tell you something Gordan Brown!?!?! 23 Sept.
	Juditha écrit : Let's see... As chancellor he presided over a situation where the banks and building societies lent people more and more money that the could only marginally afford to repay, thus fueling stellar house price inflation. He also introduced a staggering number of stealth taxes to fuel Labour's "tax and spend". And as for so-called green taxes - just listen to the bleating about lost revenue when it was suggested that petrol taxes should be eased - green taxes are not about encouraging a change of culture - they're simply about unfairly taxing hard working commuters who don't have the option of using train or bus. And now - after how many years in power - sorry in office (remember Geoffery Howe?) - he has the unmitigated gall to talk about what he wants to do, having done nothing except appoint as chancellor the only person more incompetent than himself! He's a waste of space - He, Tony style-rather-than-substance Blair and the lot of them! It's time to restore some basic honesty and integrity into politics and into government. Not that any of this shower would know the meaning of either word! 23 Sept.
	Michael Polglasea écrit : its the usual labour p&w,we've had ten good years when he should have saved for the lean times! now he has no room to manouver as the revenue cupboard is bare! he has taken the country to the verge of bankruptcy with his thoughtless budgetting over the past ten years! he could start to improve things by getting rid of his jobsworth cronies and hangers on, and realise he is a servant to the public!! we pay his salary and his reckless waste of resources!!! have an election now, not later!!! 23 Sept.
	alan kirkbya écrit : It all sounds so plausible and stirring (well at least to some people, not me) when he's there delivering the speech. It's when you sit back and read it dispassionately and think about the reality and what's really happened that you realise what unmitigated garbage it is. The only reason we got through the last 11 years before it all collapsed in a heap was because of the golden legacy of the last Tory government (Take a bow, Kenneth Clarke). To coin a phrase " There is nothing you could now say, Prime Minister, that I would believe". Today's speech included. Gordon Brown is the new Jim Callahan. Bring on the winter of discontent say I : then Brown can follow Blair, Kinnock, Foot,Callahan Wilson et al into the dustbin of history. The sooner the better. 23 Sept.
	A Jenkina écrit : more uncosted promises on the NHS prescription charges ,or should i say no jam today but maybe tomorrow. And how this man can pay tribute to britain armed forces when he is the man most responsible for the last 11 years of underfunding is beyond the pale ,he was responsible for there chronic underfunding. He was not fit to be in charge of the countries finances and is not fit to be primeminster ,he had any courage he call a election let the people judge him on his record! 23 Sept.
	Peter (Bournemouth) a écrit : As usual it took Gordon so long to say what could have been said in seconds. "Sorry I have messed you all up for the last 11 years, I will try harder to mess you all up even more in the next 11 years, if I get the chance". Nice try but it wont wash. 23 Sept.
	alan kirkbya écrit : Interesting, isn't it that Bottler Brown's supporters all decline to give their names! Come on, you can't be that embarrassed about it! To Alan Rees I say, did you really expect him to? The "listening" Prime Minister only ever talks about what he wants to talk about : don't expect any kind of debate or argument. All you need to know is "Gordon knows best". Accept that, put your critical faculties to one side and believe everything you're told. Like "No name " 15:42 and 15:51! 23 Sept.
	(no name) a écrit : Well well if only Gordon could, it would be heaven on earth. The only problem with Gordon is that words speak louder than actions. How is he going to do all these things he talked about today - He and Tony have had since 1997 , Tony dropped out and Gordon and his fellow apprentices are still Novices, lets face it most apprentices would be fully qualified by now. Verdict - A good after dinner speach but how is he going to do so many things in the future when he can't get done what has been on the job sheet since 1997? My problem - Who the hell can run this country that Gordon loves so much? 23 Sept.
	(no name) a écrit : Just a load of hot air as usual - a small attempt at buying some popularity with the kids internet handouts, but is that going to address all the global issues which will affect everybody for years to come. Support the armed services with National Service for all work-shy 16-18 year olds & re-instating the death penalty for the most serious crimes would have made him an overnight sensation. 23 Sept.
	alan kirkbya écrit : "Fairness is in our DNA" Yeah, right. Tell that to the people who get hit with £200 fines for putting their bins out on the wrong day or for returning to their parked car two minutes late, or get nicked by the Litter Gestapo for accidentally dropping a bit of paper before they have a chance to pick it up, or fall foul of any of the other hundreds of new offences created by these binge-legislators designed to criminalize the law abiding and so take even more money off them. And what's fair about private sector employees working till they drop to pay the gold-plated pensions of the public sector? What's fair about English patients being denied drugs and treatment that Gordon's countrymen get free? Not to mention having to sell your home to cover retirement home fees. 23 Sept.

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