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Welsh Labour conference: Keir Starmer speech; ** 1 of 8 ** WALES: Llandudno: Welsh Labour conference: INT Sir Keir Starmer MP (Prime Minister) speech SOT - Thank you. Thank you so much. And thank you Catherine for those words of introduction. It seems a long time since we were on that bridge in Abergavenny launching I think on that day the first steps, so thank you for those words. Mae’n wych i fod nôl yn Llandudno. And bore da! I’ve been practising since last year, as you can see. And conference – what a year it has been. Because fourteen years, this nation here has carried the torch for the entire Labour Party… The only great nation on our islands where we could show, as a movement, the change that we can deliver for working people. But now – A Labour government in Cardiff Bay, joined by a Labour government in Westminster. A new era. A new opportunity. A responsibility that we must now take. To return Wales and Britain, decisively to the service of working people. And of course, I had the privilege of travelling through the valleys and mountains on the campaign stump earlier this year. From the beginning, in Abergavenny, with Catherine where we launched our first steps to change Wales. On the final day of the campaign in Carmarthen – and that was just hours before the polls opened. And then beyond the campaign as well – because just three days after that election I was at the Senedd, a statement of intent, keeping my promise to the people of Wales. And then this summer, I was back again in the rolling hills of Carmarthenshire with Eluned. Kickstarting our mission to make Wales an energy superpower. And if I remember rightly, it was August, it was a beautiful sunny day. Today we are enjoying something maybe a little more typical for November! But look, I know that during that election – we have just seen some of the images a moment ago – I know how hard you work for our party – and this nation. And the doors you knock, the streets you poun...