The briefed line about rebuilding is here, leading to a riff about how working people have 'found a way through the chaos' of the Tory years. Trying to balance the attack on the Tories with optimism about the country

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'The fire of change'? Bit of an odd line, not surprised that wasn't pre-briefed

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If he were brave/insane, he'd call his missions 'Five-Year Plans', but... he probably won't

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This is echoing Biden a bit, on the subject of how working people have kept the country going and deserve a reward for it. Have to say, Biden did it better!

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Now criticising Hamas and calling them terrorists, which is a nod to the (silly, imo) fuss about the BBC calling them 'militants'. Supports the Two State Solution

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Talks about climate change and instability, and the need to unite the country to fight them. This bit is all a bit first draft. 'Do we have the hunger? [...] That's what we must become'. Wha?

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Metaphors going mad now! 'We must be the rock... that guides people... across the water... and shoulders the burden'. Some rock!

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I'd love to do Labour conference. You can get a laugh for anything there

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Hey, channelling Lula now! People have the right to nice things! Yes! Should've gone with the beer and barbecue line, but still

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A swipe at Boris Johnson: solutions 'aren't "oven ready"'

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Big ovation for saying that Lab will have to do '45, '63 and '97 all at once. Yeesh, bit gloomy. And he goes on to say we need a decade to do it

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Story time! A semi-pro footballer having to wait for surgery on the NHS, to illustrate the problem of 7,000,000 on waiting lists. Interesting description of public healthcare as the 'crowdfunded option' we should have. I wonder if he'll use that framing for other discussions of public spending?

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They'll use the end of non-dom to fix the NHS. Warns against 'putting the NHS on a pedestal' and not reforming it. The usual stuff now about preventing illness rather than treating it (I'll believe it when I see it)

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He keeps rushing at odd points. Buried the line about 'taking our streets back' by saying the whole section so quickly

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Paraphrasing here: The Tories aren't liars (except one), it's worse than that: they really believe this stuff!

Seems almost a call back to Blair saying that about himself, oddly...

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'Working people never let each other down' is an odd line he's used twice. Maybe it will ring better for some?

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He's talking about imposter syndrome now, to go into a riff about working class potential. Conference loving this bit

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'No more bonuses for people pumping sewage into our rivers'

A good line, leading into some more 'no mores'

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He's attacking the planning system, listing everything it hold back 'and, Conference, we must bulldoze through it!' Focusing on home ownership in particular

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Talks about his own childhood home. Pebble-dashed, apparently. Conference also love this?

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Did it also have an avocado bathroom suite? We'll find out at next year's conference, I hope!

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'Prosperity' and 'prosperous' very close together here. Again, somewhat first-drafty

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New towns! Love it!

He'll build on the grey belt, not the green belt. Yes!

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We'll 'fight the next election on economic growth' for the whole country. Criticises the Tories for talking levelling up but going straight to trickle down, where 'the wealth trickles up and the jobs trickle out'

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Starmer says university is good, tells Sunak he's wrong to criticise it

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Speaks directly to disillusioned Tory voters, listing a lot of generic but nice things we apparently stand for. Standard stuff but it had to be in there, I suppose

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Criticises Thatcher's Big Bang, says Labour will bring about the Big Build, but fluffs the delivery again!

We'll scrap zero hour contracts, end fire and rehire because it's good for growth

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'Fiscal responsibility is non-negotiable' but we should also invest for growth. Businesses like that idea, too, he says

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Laying into the Tories for short-termism.

More mad metaphors follow. A ship of prosperity, I think, being steered by government?

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He's laying out a multi-step plan now, I think we're at three, but now we're planting a flag in the ground of aspiration? Are there more steps?

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'When Sunak says row back on climate, I say speed ahead!' He does another Gordon Brown bit and, fittingly, ends that bit by saying GB Energy will be headquartered in Scotland.

Uses that to talk about Rutherglen, Sarwar and Shanks, celebrating the byelection win: 'Scotland can lead the way to a Labour government [...] but we must fight for every vote'

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'Labour serves working people across all these islands'

'A flame facing the future'?

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Criticises the SNP. A neat joke about how they sell nationalism as a bridge to the world but can't even get a ferry to the Hebrides

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Says the Tories are (paraphrasing) totally unscrupulous bastards.

'I grew up working class... I will fight for you. That's my mission!'

(Very good delivery for that bit)

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Ends with:

'Britain can, Britain must, Britain will get its future back'

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Not a great speech, to be honest, but some strong bits. Could definitely be clipped into a good vid for social media/the news

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Wait, he's back! For an encore? Someone's brushed the glitter off his shirt.

Okay, he's gone again.

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