For conference: great political parties exist for great public purposes.

Here in this party we know the high ideals - public service, justice and equality, internationalism - that created our movement, that brought us into politics, that call us to build a different kind of Britain.

And we do not forget where we have come from, the people we seek to serve and with whom and for whom we stand as one.

Every time an unemployed teenager, written off under the Tories, finds a job under Labour, it is a victory not just for

them, it is a victory for our values. Every time a 16 year-old stays on at school because of the help we are giving, it represents not just a personal victory for them but a victory for our values. Every time a young child is lifted out of poverty, every time a parent is able to make choices that allow them to balance work and family, every time a pensioner, who once went without, secures dignity in retirement, every time our public services strengthen our communities, it is a victory not just for them, it is a victory for our values.

But as long as one unemployed person is unfairly denied a job, as long as prosperity bypasses a single community, as long as one young student is denied a place at university not because of their ability but because of their background, as long as one child or one pensioner is condemned to a life of poverty, we are not satisfied and our ideals must drive us forward.

And friends, five years in government have taught me that

Yes we must be pragmatists

Yes we must be realists

Yes we must be credible

But when in communities right across this country I see wrongs still to be righted, injustices still to be remedied, unfairness yet to be rectified, enduring poverty that still scars our nation’s soul, let me tell this conference - five years in government have not dimmed our idealism - they have made us more idealistic than ever and more

determined to turn our ideals into achievements.

Now is not the time to stall or be content, but to demand more of ourselves and to dare to dream that - month by month, year by year, brick by brick - the ideals that brought us into politics can, in our generation, be made real.

Our mission is not just 1.5 million more jobs so far, but full employment for a generation, not just in one region of our country but in all regions and nations of our country.

Our mission is not just more spending on education but ensuring that no one is left out and for everyone at every age the doors of educational opportunity are open wide.

Our mission is not just 1 million children already lifted out of poverty, but an end to child poverty and a guarantee that every pensioner has dignity in retirement.

And our mission is not just better public services, but the best public services - making the NHS not just free at the point of need but of such a high standard of service that for all British people the NHS is the best insurance policy in the world.

A great Britain great again because of the greatness of the opportunities and security enjoyed not just by some, but by all.

So let me set out the next steps in our economic policy.

First, employment and enterprise.

The old idea was that you got full employment from a small number of large companies.

Today, full employment needs a large number of small companies creating jobs.

Yet think of the inequalities across the country.

GORDON BROWN’S SPEECH

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.And we are the first Labour government as a result with the strength to be able to match our historic aims as a party with long term spending plans to meet them.

And this gives us an opportunity denied every previous generation.

We have never sought stability, employment and public investment just for their own