00:00Two months ago, the British people cast their verdict on one of the most right-wing, incompetent,
00:09anti-union, morally bankrupt governments this country has ever seen. And, Congress, it feels
00:15good to be meeting here in Brighton, for the first time in 15 years, under a Labour government
00:23with a 174-seat majority. Now, some Tory MPs had the good sense, or the lack of backbone,
00:35to do the chicken run before the votes were cast. The likes of Kwasi Kartang and Michael
00:41Gove, scuttling away from the mess that they left behind. Others decided to face the voters.
00:49And while I am not one to revel in other people's misfortune, I have to say I enjoyed every
00:55single Portillo moment in the early hours of July 5th. It was a roll call of political
01:05failure. Gillian Keegan, gone. Grant Shapps, gone. Penny Mordaunt, gone. Jacob Rees-Mogg,
01:18gone. And, of course, the former Prime Minister that couldn't outlast the letters, Liz Truss,
01:27gone. All now political history, Congress, goodbye, and good riddance to every single
01:34one of them. We pledged to fight the Tories' spiteful attack on the right to strike, and
01:41fight it we did. A year on, and those appalling laws are about to be repealed, repealed before
01:49they have ever been used. Congress, generations of working people fought for the right to
01:55strike, and thanks to you, thanks to every union in this room, thanks to the whole of
02:01the trade union movement, we have protected the fundamental right to strike for future
02:05generations of working people.
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