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Labour Party Conference: Ed Miliband speech; Ed Miliband speech continued SOT - But I may not remember that spirit, but that spirit has echoed through British history. You know one hundred and forty years ago, one hundred and forty years ago to the year. Another Leader of the Opposition gave a speech. It was in the Free Trade Hall that used to stand opposite this building. It璽��砂�┬ the Radisson now by the way. His name was Benjamin Disraeli. He was a Tory. But don璽��砂�┤ let that but you off, just for a minute. His speech took over three hours to deliver, don璽��砂�┤璽��砂�� worry, don璽��砂�┤ worry, and he drank two whole bottles of brandy while delivering it. That is absolutely true. Now look, I just want to say, I know a speech that long would probably kill you. And the brandy would definitely kill me. But let us remember what Disraeli was celebrated for. It was a vision of Britain. A vision of a Britain where patriotism, loyalty, dedication to the common cause courses through the veins of all and nobody feels left out. It was a vision of Britain coming together to overcome the challenges we faced. Disraeli called it 璽��玳�One Nation璽��玲�. 璽��玳�One Nation璽��玲�. We heard the phrase again as the country came together to defeat fascism. And we heard it again as Clement Attlee璽��砂�┬ Labour government rebuilt Britain after the war. - Friends, I didn璽��砂�┤ become leader of the Labour Party to reinvent the world of Disraeli or Attlee. But I do believe in that spirit. That spirit of One Nation. One Nation: a country where everyone has a stake. One Nation: a country where prosperity is fairly shared. One Nation: where we have a shared destiny, a sense of shared endeavour and a common life that we lead together. That is my vision of One Nation. That is my vision of Britain. That is the Britain we must become. - And here is the genius of One Nation. It doesn璽��砂�┤ just tell us the country we can be. It tells us how we must rebuild. We won the war because we were One Nation. We built the peace bec...