Jeremy Corbyn told Labour delegates today that ‘together, we are going to change Britain’.

Appearing for his keynote speech to Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, Corbyn declared that the party now represents ‘the new common sense’ and is ready to govern.

He added that ‘change in our country is long overdue’.

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Appearing for his keynote speech to Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, Corbyn said the party is going to anchor what it does in communities (Picture: PA)

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Closing the speech he called on Prime Minister Theresa May to call an early general election, which he said could see him in 10 Downing Street by this time next year.


The Labour leader said his party was ‘ready to take charge’ and deliver ‘a real alternative to the people of Britain – a radical plan to rebuild and transform our country’.

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Among a number of topics discussed, Corbyn vowed to tackle the ‘racket’ of privatisation’, mentioned plans for a ‘green jobs revolution’ and addressed an extension of free childcare.



Jeremy Corbyn said: ‘I can announce today that our programme of investment and transformation to achieve a 60% reduction in emissions by 2030 will create over 400,000 skilled jobs.’

Labour would commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.

The ‘ambitious’ goal will be delivered with the most ‘far-reaching programme of investment and transformation in decades’.

Addressing tackling ‘the racket of privatisation’, he said: ‘Evidence of the failure of privatisation and outsourcing is piling up day after day,’ he said, highlighting trouble with prisons, the trains and the collapse of Carillion.

‘What has long been a scam is now a crisis.’

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Accusing the Tories of ‘social vandalism’, Mr Corbyn added: ‘Privatisation and outsourcing are now a national disaster zone. And Labour is ready to call time on this racket.

‘We will rebuild the public realm and create a genuinely mixed economy for the 21st century.’

In a plea for party unity, Jeremy Corbyn said he wanted Labour to be ‘fighting for democracy and social justice against poverty, inequality and discrimination’.

‘If we are to get the chance to put those values into practice in government we are going to need unity to do it,’ he said.

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‘We must learn to listen a bit more, and shout a lot less’, he added.

The leader later acknowledged the summer had been ‘tough’ because of the row over anti-Semitism.

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In a message to the Jewish community he said: ‘This party, this movement, will always be implacable campaigners against anti-Semitism and racism in all its forms.

‘We are your ally.

‘And the next Labour government will guarantee whatever support necessary to ensure the security of Jewish community centres and places of worship, as we will for any other community experiencing hateful behaviour and physical attacks.

‘We will work with Jewish communities to eradicate anti-Semitism, both within our party and wider society.

‘And with your help I will fight for that with every breath that I possess.’

Jeremy Corbyn also said Labour ‘will recognise a Palestinian state as soon as we take office’ – a pledge greeted with enthusiastic support, with some in the audience waving Palestinian flags.

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On Brexit, the Labour leader hit out at the Tories’ goals for the negotiations.

‘The Tory Brexiteers unite the politics of the 1950s with the economics of the 19th century, daydreaming about a Britannia that both rules the waves and waives the rules,’ he said.



He confirmed that ‘as it stands’ Labour would vote against the Chequers plan and oppose the ‘national disaster’ of a no-deal Brexit.

But in a message to Theresa May he said: ‘If you deliver a deal that includes a customs union and no hard border in Ireland, if you protect jobs, people’s rights at work and environmental and consumer standards – then we will support that sensible deal.

‘A deal that would be backed by most of the business world and trade unions too.’

If she would not do that deal she should ‘make way for a party that can’.

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The leader later acknowledged the summer had been ‘tough’ because of the row over anti-Semitism (Picture: PA)

Later in his speech, Corbyn claimed the Tories had created a ‘hostile environment’ for disabled people.

He said: ‘For too many people, social security has become a system of institutionalised bullying and degradation’.

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In comments which won extended applause in the conference hall, Mr Corbyn said there were ‘human consequences’ from a ‘Tory Government that puts tax cuts for the wealthy ahead of care for disabled people’.

Setting out Labour’s plan to extend free childcare, Jeremy Corbyn said: ‘Decent early years education is now at risk of becoming a privilege.

‘Families most in need are not even entitled to it and many who are struggle to claim it, because the system’s fragmented and underfunded.’

The Government’s ‘limited’ offer was ‘free in name only’ but Labour will make 30 hours a week of free childcare available to all two, three and four-year olds.

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‘We will rebuild the public realm and create a genuinely mixed economy for the 21st century’ (Picture: Reuters)

He also promised additional subsidised hours of childcare on top of the 30-hours, free for those on the lowest incomes and capped at £4 an hour for the rest.


‘Patchy support for childcare is holding back too many parents and families and the life chances of too many children,’ he said.

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‘This universal free high quality childcare will benefit parents, families and children all across our country.’

Jeremy Corbyn said: ‘To rebuild our public services and our communities we are going to have to rebuild and transform our economy for the 21st century.

‘We can no longer tolerate a set-up where the real economy, in which millions work, is just a sort of sideshow for the City of London and for banks fixated on piling up profits around the world.’

He later took the opportunity to hit out at media coverage.

He said: ‘It turns out that the billionaires who apparently own the bulk of the British press don’t like us one little bit.

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Closing the speech, he added: ‘We must take our message to every town, city and village. United and ready to win, ready to govern as we were in 1945, 1964 and 1997’ (Picture: PA)

‘Now it could be because we’re going to clamp down on tax dodging. Or it may be because we don’t fawn over them at white tie dinners and cocktail parties.

‘Or it could even be because Tom Watson has been campaigning for a second part of the Leveson media inquiry to be set up.’

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Mr Corbyn insisted that Labour would ‘protect the freedom of the press to challenge unaccountable power’ but the free press has ‘far too often meant the freedom to spread lies and half-truths and to smear the powerless, not take on the powerful’.

At the end of a conference dominated by Brexit, Mr Corbyn added: ‘We must take our message to every town, city and village. United and ready to win, ready to govern as we were in 1945, 1964 and 1997.


‘So that when we meet this time next year let it be as a Labour government.

‘Let every constituency, every community know Labour is ready.

‘Confident in our ideas, clear in our plans, committed to rebuild Britain.’