Tony Blair's Bornemouth Speech

650,000 more jobs in the economy, long-term youth unemployment halved and – here’s one for us to put back down a few Tory throats – fewer days lost in strikes than any of the 18 years of Tory Government. Who says Labour’s not working now?

• All employees with the right to a paid holiday.
• Leave for parents to take time off work for a family crisis.

And after 100 years of trying, the right for union members to have their union recognised, not on the whim of an employer, but as a democratic right in a fair and free society.

• Maternity grant doubled.
• 7 million families with the largest ever rise in Child Benefit Britain has seen.

And I say to Britain’s pensioners: I know when you get an extra £100 for every pensioner household this November - not just those on benefits, everyone - it’s not the end of your worries, but it’s £100 more than you got under any Conservative Government; and they’d take the £100 back off you if they were ever elected again.

Half-way through one Parliament. Nothing like half-way towards meeting all our goals.

And all around us the challenge of change.

A spectre haunts the world: technological revolution.

10 years ago, a fifteen-year-old probably couldn’t work a computer.

Now he’s in danger of living on it.

Over a trillion dollars traded every day in currency markets and with them the fate of nations.

Global finance and Communications and Media. Electronic commerce. The Internet. The science of genetics. Every year a new revolution scattering in its wake, security, and ways of living for millions of people.