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Welsh Labour Conference 2022: Keir Starmer speech; *Part 6 of 6* WALES: Llandudno: INT Sir Keir Starmer (Labour Leader) speech SOT. - This isn’t a pipe dream: This it is our mission. I refuse to accept that we are stuck where we are now. There is another way to lead this country. This United Kingdom – and the nations which come together in it. Our best days are ahead of us. I refuse to accept that there is no place to talk about the future and no way to bring people together on the things that we have in common and the change we need to build. I refuse to accept that all that matters is where people were on Brexit. Just as I refuse to accept that the people of this country no longer care about what happens in Europe. Or that we will tolerate child poverty rising again, here at home. I refuse to accept that the biggest cost of living crisis in our lifetimes should break the backs of ordinary families. It is because I believe in the people of the United Kingdom that I am angry, that we have a government at Westminster more concerned with handing contracts to their mates, than addressing the challenges the UK faces. It is because I believe in us that I am angry that the Tories have allowed the UK to be a place that is laughed about abroad. And Conference, I am angry that we have allowed these Tories to beat us. This is on all of us to fix. And we can fix it. We are not just on the road to the locals this May. We are on the road to the next General Election. Whether it’s next year or the year after, the General Election approaches. I want to lead the United Kingdom because I believe in it. In all its parts and all its differences. In all of our home nations. In all of the good and decent people, who share the same hopes and dreams, fears and frustrations, the same land and the same coasts and the same threats to our way of life. It is the honour of my life to be the Leader of our Party. But I tell you this: I have no ambition to be Leader of the Opposition. W...