Gordon Brown speech to Labour Party Spring Conference

Gordon Brown speech to Labour Party Spring Conference; Gordon Brown speech continued SOT - I am determined that more people have more opportunities because I seen the power of opportunity to change lives and I know that for me the power of opportunity has changed my life/ because people before me had decided education should be free for every child, I had the best of education in my local primary and secondary school so close to my home I could walk to or take the bus there every day/ the best education I had myself and I want for my children I want to be there on offer for every child in Britain - I can only see your faces today because after a rugby accident, labour's national health service saved my sight with treatment my parents could never have paid for because people I have never met - whose names I don't even know - pooled resources in their generation to provide services to be used by everyone, regardless of their ability to pay/ the best healthcare I received I want for my children and I want for every family in Britain - I am only standing here today because a previous generation fought for education for all, demanded an NHS for all, dared to stand up for a common purpose, opportunity for all, and in their generation, unleashed the power of opportunity to change lives. - so generations don't just have soundtracks, fashions and icons/ the generations history remembers have ideals that inspire them to action and dreams that drive them forward/ people don't write great new chapters of history when they stand frozen by fear in time and place - but when they come together in common purpose, emboldened by hope/ and now it is our turn - and what we will be remembered for? - I want our children and their children to say that in the first decades of the 21st century there lived a generation that built a Britain, where the talent you had mattered more than the title you held/ imagine if together we build a Britain where counts is not how high up ...