PM rallies party ahead of elections

12 April 2012

Prime Minister Gordon Brown rallied Labour activists for election battles to come with a promise of policies to deliver for families "year-on-year".

Mr Brown, addressing his party's spring conference in Birmingham pledged "fairness to hard working families".

And with Labour facing touch council elections in England and Wales in May, a fight for the London Assembly and London Mayor and a long-haul to the next General Election he also hit out at the Tories.

Mr Brown told delegates: "We must create a new economic policy that is designed to reward talent, creativity and skills.

"A new social and welfare policy of rights and responsibilities that equips people to master change, instead of letting change master them.

"A programme of new education reforms that for trusts, specialist and academy schools, focus on excellence for all.

"A new politics that places power and the opportunity to change things in the hands of people themselves.

"And new personalised public services, tailored to meet our needs and choices so that we can live the lives we all choose with a pace of reform stepped up not slowed down.

"A new programme of policies that year-on-year will meet the challenges of global change by ensuring opportunity and security not just for some, but for all who play by the rules.

"This is what I mean by fairness to hard working families."

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