Ed Miliband speech

Ed Miliband speech; ENGLAND: London: Bethnal Green: INT Ed Miliband MP (Labour Leader) speech SOT - Along with Rachel Reeves and the Head of Labour’s Policy Review, Jon Cruddas, I am delighted to be here with you launching the IPPR’s Condition of Britain report. For years, IPPR has done brilliant work to help us respond to the challenges Britain faces. And they have done it again with this important report. So I want to thank the report’s authors Kayte Lawton, Graeme Cooke and Nick Pearce for the work they have done. And all those – voluntary group leaders, campaigners and community organisers – many of whom are here today who helped IPPR with their work. The issue that motivates this report is the same one that brought me into politics. A belief that the deep inequalities of income, wealth and power in our country are damaging, wrong and can be tackled. In each generation, we must seek to tackle these inequalities. And today this belief means there is one question, over-riding all others, that matters to the future of this country. It is a question that goes beyond one party, one government or one election. It is a question that countries all around the world are grappling with: How can we make the country work not just for a few at the top but for the security and success of ordinary families? When I went round the country in the recent elections, so many people told me the country didn’t work for them. They were talking about the basic fundamentals of work, family and community. Things many people at the top of our society just take for granted. The basic bargain that if you work hard there would be a degree of security, an ability to make ends meet, has been broken. Low paid, low skill, insecure work that doesn’t give people any sense of fulfilment: that is the reality for millions of people. That is not good enough for me. And it is not good enough for Britain. For the first time in ge...