00:00And I do hereby declare that Andy Burnham is duly elected. Thank you.
00:08Everyone knows that politics isn't working.
00:13Everyone can feel that the country isn't where it should be.
00:19Tonight could, just could, be the turning point.
00:24From here on, I will give everything I have got to make it so
00:28to ensure the name Makerfield is forever synonymous
00:34with bringing about the change this country needs.
00:39And let it be really understood that I will be your MP, however you voted.
00:46When Ms Borough went to the polls in May, it made a loud cry for change.
00:54In this campaign, we have begun to answer that.
00:58But I do say to my own party, this is a final chance to change.
01:06This is what people said directly to me on the hundreds of doorsteps that I stood on.
01:13We must hear it.
01:15We must act upon it, and we must get it right.
01:19There will be no second chance.
01:21But it is a chance now, from this result tonight, to build a new politics based on unity and hope,
01:30turning away from the path that takes us to a divided, dark politics of the kind we see in the
01:37United States.
01:38We must now take this path and put this country back on the right path and bring people back together
01:47and get things working properly again.
01:50This result changes that.
01:53This result will bring about a country that works fairly for everywhere and for everybody.
02:00People here have voted for change.
02:04They have voted for more power for the North and everywhere, forgotten by Westminster.
02:10They have voted for hope.
02:13Now let's give that back to them.
02:16Thank you very much indeed, everybody.
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