Labour Party Conference 2011: Andy Burnham speech
Labour Party Conference 2011: Andy Burnham speech; - Today, Labour reaches out beyond its own closed circle and I want to welcome all the members of the public and young members who join us today.
- My home city is much stronger for 13 years of a Labour Government.
- These days, the people hiring taxis are the Yellow Tories - sent packing for propping up a ruthless Tory Government cutting this Council's budget by over £100 for every person who lives here.
- And, yet, take heart from this.
- Liverpool's Labour Leader - Joe Anderson and his team have found a way to keep building new schools for the people of this city.
- A lesson for Gove and his Tories: never, ever underestimate the people of this city.
- Streetwise, self-confident - but always the city of the underdog, as its blue half will show in Saturday's Merseyside Derby.
- On some issues, though, we stand together.
- For 22 years, this city has borne the deepest scars imaginable when 96 of its sons and daughters didn't come home from an FA Cup semi-final.
- As it sought answers, obstacles were thrown up and insults added to injury.
- Perhaps we could have done more.
- But, with Gordon's support, Labour made the historic committment to disclose all public documents through the Hillsborough Independent Panel.
- Conference, I ask you and our Party to stand with those Hillsborough families until they have finally prevailed in their dignified campaign for truth and justice.
- Nothing matters more to me on a personal level.
- That's because my own family story is bound up with the ups and downs of Liverpool.
- And, in that story, a vivid illustration of Ed's Promise of Britain.
- In the 60s and 70s, my grandad drove a lorry around these docks for Tate & Lyle. Could he ever have imagined that his grandson, a former Cabinet Minister, would stand on these very same docks addressing this Conference?
- We've all come a long way.
- But, in the cold light of this century, it suddenly feels much h...
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