Labor Party Conference: British Prime Minister delivers emotional speech

Labor meets in Liverpool

Labor Party Conference: British Prime Minister delivers emotional speech

In his first party conference speech as Labor leader, Andy Burnham underlines his desire for a radically changed Britain. The British Prime Minister also gets personal.

At the end of his passionate keynote speech, he broke Andy Burnham the voice. The British Prime Minister remembered his father, who died a few days ago – and he stood for a United Kingdom that he also believed in, Burnham shouted to the delegates at the party conference of his ruling Labor party to loud applause: “A country that has opposed fascism, a country of solidarity, not of demarcation.”

Great Britain was not perfect, the prime minister admitted. But it could be better. “And we will do better,” he promised. How – that’s what Burnham explained for just over an hour in Liverpool on Tuesday. The Labor motto could be read everywhere in the trade fair complex in the workers’ town: “Hope again” (translated roughly: “hope again”). Essentially, Burnham wants to govern in a more social democratic way – including major reforms in the areas of care, energy and the housing market.

The party conference speech was awaited with great excitement. The ex-mayor of Manchester has only been the successor to the failed mayor since July Keir Starmer in office. In contrast to Starmer, Burnham enjoys high popularity ratings. However, the first budget, which Finance Minister John Healey plans to present at the end of October, will be the decisive test of his brilliant promises at the end of October.

Burnham explained that he didn’t return to Westminster because he missed it so much. He wants to change Westminster much more. Just a year ago, as mayor, shortly before the Labor Party conference, he caused a rumble in the government district when he publicly flirted with the idea that he could pose a threat to Starmer, who was already ailing at the time.

A year later, he is actually prime minister and the beacon of hope for the party that had previously lost ground in polls and elections. Thanks to his popularity, he was able to calm the downward trend for the time being, now it’s time to deliver – and he wants to do that with a radical change, as he explained. “More of the same is not good enough and will not get us where we need to be,” he said.

Many of his plans are essentially based on giving the state back control of key areas such as care, health and housing. For example, the Prime Minister is planning a drastic reform of the care system: in England, like health care, this should essentially be free. Burnham also wants to intervene in the area of ​​privatized water supply and give municipalities the power to take over and renovate dilapidated housing.