UK Politics

Some highlights:

I want you to compare where we are now, with when I first addressed you as general secretary in Liverpool two years ago.

The Tories anti-strike legislation...now gone...Our right to strike...protected.

Hundreds of disputes across the public and private sector... won

A public inquiry into the scandal at Orgreave... secured.

And the Employment Rights Bill – about to be given Royal assent in a matter of weeks.

Not by chance.

Not by accident.

But because we fought for it.

We campaigned for it.

And we will ensure it’s delivered, in full.

Congress – we are winning for workers.

And that’s not all.

It was unions, and a Labour government working together, that saw Parliament recalled and thousands of jobs saved in British Steel.

It is thanks to our campaigning over decades that Britain’s railways are coming back where they belong – in public ownership.

And it is thanks to us and our calls for taxes on the wealthiest, that at the Budget the Chancellor abolished tax breaks for non-doms, and introduced VAT on private school fees.

Increased taxes on private jets.

And even clamped down on well-known TV personalities buying farms to avoid taxes.

Taxes that are vital for our NHS, and our schools.

Again.

Not by chance.

Not by accident.

But because we fought for it, we campaigned for it , and Congress, we won it.

It is right to celebrate our success, because our movement is needed now more than ever.