00:00We often say in our country that every child goes or should go as far as their talent or ability
00:07will take them.
00:08And it sounds a good thing to say, but it's honoured in the breach.
00:13For so many children, they're held back by a system that doesn't work for them.
00:18I've got examples in my own family.
00:20So I'm sitting here with the great privilege of sitting here as Prime Minister, having come from a working-class
00:25background.
00:26My brother, Nick, who sadly died of cancer a year ago, boxing there, had difficulties learning at school.
00:34And he was put to one side.
00:36He had to fight even to be seen, to be counted.
00:40And his life was very different from mine.
00:42He spent his adult life wandering from one job to another in virtual poverty because the system didn't work for
00:50him.
00:50He couldn't be seen.
00:51He couldn't be acknowledged.
00:53Now I'm not saying for a moment there haven't been huge improvements since then, but that same sense is still
00:59there of children that cannot find the opportunities and the chances that they need to go as far as their
01:06talents and their ability will take them.
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