Labour Party Conference: Gordon Brown's keynote speech

Labour Party Conference: Gordon Brown's keynote speech; Gordon Brown MP (Prime Minister) speech SOT - So my sense of talking to people in all parts of these islands is that instead of leaving us pessimistic, these three months make us more optimistic about what we the British people at our best can do / Our response was calm and measured / We simply got on with the job / Britain has been tested and not found wanting and this is who we are / And there is no weakness in Britain today that cannot be overcome by the strengths of the British people / So don't let anyone tell us Britain is not equal to every challenge / We all know that in our society we do have real problems to solve, real needs to meet, but don't let anyone tell us the British people that this country of ours, which has over centuries given so much to the world, has ever been broken by anyone or anything / I am proud to be British / I believe in British values / My father and my mother taught me about family and the great virtues of hard work, doing your duty and always trying to do the right thing / And I have never forgotten my father telling me to 'treat everyone equally with respect' / His optimism led him to find goodness in everyone / My father was a minister of the church / his favourite story was the parable of the talents because he believed, and I do too, that each and everyone of us has a talent and each and everyone of us should be able to use that talent / And the values I was brought up with are not just what I learned; they are part of the fabric of the life I have led / Not just where I come from but the experiences that have shaped me / I attended the local state primary school in Kirkcaldy a few streets away from where I lived and then I took the school bus to the local secondary school up the hill / And I have school friends I have kept in touch with all my life who have shared the good times and comforted me in the bad times - [Brown seen through camera viewfinder] Today I ...
Labour Party Conference: Gordon Brown's keynote speech; Gordon Brown MP (Prime Minister) speech SOT - So my sense of talking to people in all parts of these islands is that instead of leaving us pessimistic, these three months make us more optimistic about what we the British people at our best can do / Our response was calm and measured / We simply got on with the job / Britain has been tested and not found wanting and this is who we are / And there is no weakness in Britain today that cannot be overcome by the strengths of the British people / So don't let anyone tell us Britain is not equal to every challenge / We all know that in our society we do have real problems to solve, real needs to meet, but don't let anyone tell us the British people that this country of ours, which has over centuries given so much to the world, has ever been broken by anyone or anything / I am proud to be British / I believe in British values / My father and my mother taught me about family and the great virtues of hard work, doing your duty and always trying to do the right thing / And I have never forgotten my father telling me to 'treat everyone equally with respect' / His optimism led him to find goodness in everyone / My father was a minister of the church / his favourite story was the parable of the talents because he believed, and I do too, that each and everyone of us has a talent and each and everyone of us should be able to use that talent / And the values I was brought up with are not just what I learned; they are part of the fabric of the life I have led / Not just where I come from but the experiences that have shaped me / I attended the local state primary school in Kirkcaldy a few streets away from where I lived and then I took the school bus to the local secondary school up the hill / And I have school friends I have kept in touch with all my life who have shared the good times and comforted me in the bad times - [Brown seen through camera viewfinder] Today I ...
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