Tony Blair's Bornemouth Speech

No. But in time, if we are returned to power:

We will have booked appointments for everyone.

Walk-in NHS centres in all our major towns and cities.

Primary care surgeries that offer you all services on one site.

And everyone with the chance to go back on the NHS to see their dentist.

And just to show you it’s not impossible. Today I can tell you: we will start next year with booked appointments for cancer and cataract patients.

And working with the British Dental Association, everyone within the next 2 years will be able once again to see an NHS dentist just by phoning NHS Direct.

So much more to do. But it will be done.

We aren’t just workers. We are citizens proud to say there is such a thing as society and proud to be part of it.

Yet, today, we feel our social fabric torn.

Respect for law and order broken.

My grandfather’s generation was strong on values. Respect for people. Good manners. Horror of crime. But it was a generation also of deference and of prejudices: racial, sexual, social.