Review: Gordon Brown's speech
By
Channel 4 News
Updated on 29 September 2009
Review our live blog following the flurry of promises and U-turns that Gordon Brown made in his speech to the last Labour conference before the next general election.
- 12:16 PM: channel4news Gordon Brown's speech is
expected this afternoon. It won't be an easy speech for the PM. With his poll
ratings falling, cabinet ministers have been rallying the delegates all week,
urging voters not to write the party off before the next election.
- 12:17 PM: channel4news Jack Straw is the latest
minister to take the stage - on message with calls not to dismiss Labour at the
next election.
- 12:19 PM: channel4news Straw tells us "that lad"
Ed Miliband will go far - along with his brother David that is.
- 12:19 PM: channel4news Straw reckons crime doubled
under the Tories. Did it? Possible FactCheck...
- 12:23 PM: channel4news "Entrusting the
Conservative Party to reduce the public sector deficit is like asking Sweeney
Todd for a quick trim," says Straw.
- 12:27 PM: channel4news