Gordon Brown: “Staying with the status quo is not an option”

The issue is not whether to change, but how.

And always a party of restless and relentless reformers, the new mission for new Labour is to realise our passion for fairness and responsibility in these new global times. And as we rise to the challenge of change so this coming election will not be a contest for a fourth term Labour government, but for the first Labour government of this new global age.

Our new economic model for a strong economy is founded on three guiding principles.

That in future finance must always be the servant of people and industry and not their master.

That our future economy must be a green economy.

And that we must realise all of Britain’s talent if we are to lead and succeed.

The best way finance can serve our country now is to help ensure that the inventions and innovations pioneered in Britain are developed and manufactured in Britain. So we will create a new national investment corporation to provide finance for growing manufacturing and other businesses; our £1 billion innovation fund will the back the creativity and inventions that are essential to the economy.
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Archive of conference news and speeches

• Harriet Harman MP: “Hannan is not the eccentric fringe” but “the beating heart of the Tory party”
• David Miliband MP: Cameron has shown the “white flag of surrender to euro-extremists in his own party”
• Bob Ainsworth MP: “We must continue to put the national interest first and stay the course in Afghanistan”
• Shaun Woodward MP: “We will not walk away from the people of Northern Ireland”
• Ed Balls MP: Only Labour will prioritise investment in education for all
• Andy Burnham MP: “Newspapers haven’t fixed the NHS; it’s Labour wot won it”
• Harriet Harman MP: “the whole labour team fights for equality”
• Mandelson: “we are in the fight of our lives, we start that fight as underdogs”
• John Healey MP: “decent, secure and affordable homes for all has always been at Labour’s heart”
• Jack Straw MP: “we have dramatically improved services for victims of crime”
• John Denham MP: “I’ve proposed the biggest shift in power to local people and local communities in 30 years”
• Alistair Darling MP: “Tories’ approach is wrong, is naïve, and down right dangerous”
• Ben Bradshaw MP: “We will never sacrifice the BBC on the altar of free market dogma”
• Ed Miliband MP: “We are the people who can make the world a greener, a fairer place”
• Hilary Benn MP: “the greatest thing we can do is to give people hope”
• Lord Adonis: “We want a cycling revolution in this country”
• Tessa Jowell MP: Olympics success measured not simply in bronze, silver and gold
• Yvette Cooper MP: “Never forget how close we came to catastrophe last year”
• Iain Gray: SNP has “No mandate. No majority. And no shame.”
• Jim Murphy MP: “Scottish Tory candidates are probably the most hard-line in living memory”
• Ed Miliband to announce Low Carbon Communities to tackle climate change
• Pat McFadden MP: “We didn’t rebuild Britain just to see it thrown into reverse”
• General Secretary: “I know you haven’t given up, you are fired up”
• Rhodri Morgan: “When times are tough Labour is the one party you can count on”
• Ed Miliband: “The economy of the future must be different from the past”
• Peter Hain MP: “We must not behave as if a Tory win is inevitable”
• Election Co-ordinator: Winning the election “will be difficult, but is do-able.”
• Gordon Brown: “We are fighting for a better future for our country”
• Labour conference visitors’ guide to venues who pay “fair tips”