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Brown urges Labour to 'dream big'

By Channel 4 News

Updated on 29 September 2009

The prime minister, Gordon Brown, urges his party to dream big dreams in his conference speech - but is the biggest dream of all that he could win? Gary Gibbon reports.

Brown (Credit: Reuters)

For a man at the bottom of an electoral cliff, Gordon Brown went out to persuade his party they had a future and even a cascade of policies - some of them new.

He formalised two u-turns on abandoning compulsory ID cards and rolling back 24-hour drinking.

Admitting parliament's failure, he announced a referendum on voting reform. But is he a bit of the way up that cliff or still at the bottom uncoiling the rope?

"Nothing is inevitable - now is not the time to give in," said Gordon Brown as he tried to rouse his delegates in Brighton, with a warning to the wider audience outside not to assume that he and the Labour party were heading for defeat next year.

The biggest choice in a generation he called it, as he castigated an opposition who said he was wrong on the economic call of the century.

There was a string of policy promises on anti-social behaviour and a referendum on the voting system, along with many re-announcements.

As last year he asked his wife Sarah to give the introduction. She described him as both messy and noisy, but her hero.

Channel 4 News reports on Gordon Brown's 'make or break' speech and his promise to fight to win.

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