Labour Party Conference: Day two: Tony Blair speech

Labour Party Conference: Day two: Tony Blair speech; **WARNING FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY** ENGLAND: Sussex: Brighton: INT CUTAWAYs Audience applauding SOT Blair speech - still no complacency - the first of May was a beginning not an end / we have never one two full consecutive terms of office, never, that is one more record I want to break Blair speech - today I say to the British people 'the chains of mediocrity have been broken, the tired days are behind us, we are free to excel once more' - when people say sorry, that's too ambitious, it can't be done, I say: this is not a sorry country, we are not a sorry people. It can be done CUTAWAYs Applauding conference Blair speech - under our proposals, no parent will have to pay more. Low income families will be entirely exempt from tuition fees. All students will repay only as they can afford to. CUTAWAYS Conference Blair speech - our new society will have the same values as it ever did. Fighting poverty & unemployment. Securing justice and opportunity. It should be a compassionate society. Harriet Harman MP (Social Security Sec) sitting listening on stage Blair speech - but it is compassion with a hard edge. A strong society can't be built on soft choices CUTAWAYS Conference Blair speech - attitudes have changed, the world has changed, but I am a modern man leading a modern country and this is a modern crisis / nearly 100,000 teenage pregnancies every year, children growing up without role models they can respect and learn from, more and deeper poverty, more crime, more truancy / I give you this pledge - every area of this Government's / policy will be scrutinised to see how it affects family life Conference Blair speech - and I say to the House of Lords, before it is reformed / don't try to wreck this legislation: we have the votes of the people, you've got the votes of nobody CUATWAYS applauding conference Blair speech - help us make Britain that beacon shinin...
Labour Party Conference: Day two: Tony Blair speech; **WARNING FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY** ENGLAND: Sussex: Brighton: INT CUTAWAYs Audience applauding SOT Blair speech - still no complacency - the first of May was a beginning not an end / we have never one two full consecutive terms of office, never, that is one more record I want to break Blair speech - today I say to the British people 'the chains of mediocrity have been broken, the tired days are behind us, we are free to excel once more' - when people say sorry, that's too ambitious, it can't be done, I say: this is not a sorry country, we are not a sorry people. It can be done CUTAWAYs Applauding conference Blair speech - under our proposals, no parent will have to pay more. Low income families will be entirely exempt from tuition fees. All students will repay only as they can afford to. CUTAWAYS Conference Blair speech - our new society will have the same values as it ever did. Fighting poverty & unemployment. Securing justice and opportunity. It should be a compassionate society. Harriet Harman MP (Social Security Sec) sitting listening on stage Blair speech - but it is compassion with a hard edge. A strong society can't be built on soft choices CUTAWAYS Conference Blair speech - attitudes have changed, the world has changed, but I am a modern man leading a modern country and this is a modern crisis / nearly 100,000 teenage pregnancies every year, children growing up without role models they can respect and learn from, more and deeper poverty, more crime, more truancy / I give you this pledge - every area of this Government's / policy will be scrutinised to see how it affects family life Conference Blair speech - and I say to the House of Lords, before it is reformed / don't try to wreck this legislation: we have the votes of the people, you've got the votes of nobody CUATWAYS applauding conference Blair speech - help us make Britain that beacon shinin...
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