Tony Blair's Bornemouth Speech

Britain is stronger with the US today because we are strong in Europe.

Britain has the potential to be the bridge between Europe and America and for the 21st century the narrow-minded isolationism of right-wing Tories should not block our path to fulfilling it.

The Third Way is not a new way between progressive and conservative politics.

It is progressive politics distinguishing itself from conservatism of left or right.

New Labour must be the new radicals who take on both of them, not just on election day but every day. People say in our first two years we ran a Tory economic policy. Nonsense. If we had run a Tory economic policy Britain would be in recession by now which is no doubt why they predicted it.

We gave the Bank of England independence.

We cut the borrowing.

We cut unemployment. We are at long last reforming welfare, making work pay more than benefit for hard-working families through the Working Families Tax Credit.

They would scrap each and every one of these reforms.

Slowly the Tory general election strategy is emerging.

To 2 million people given a pay rise through the minimum wage. Tory pledge 1: we’ll cut it.

To 1.5 million families helped by the working families tax credit. Tory pledge 2: we’ll scrap it.