Politics: Labour Party conference: Tony Blair speech

ENGLAND: East Sussex: Brighton: INT Tony Blair MP (Prime Minister) along as shakes hands with applauding supporters in front row at annual Labour Party conference (flash photography) CMS Blair along as shakes hands with David Blunkett MP (Work and Pensions Secretary) LS Blair shaking hands with cabinet ministers Blair shaking hands with Charles Clarke MP (Home Secretary), his wife Cherie Blair, and Ruth Kelly MP (Education Secretary) as along onto stage with Jack Straw MP (Foreign Secretary) and Gordon Brown MP (Chancellor) in front row clapping TGV Conference hall with people stood applauding MS Blair smiling as stands at podium TGV Conference hall Tony Blair MP (Prime Minister) speech SOT - As I stand before you, as the first leader in the Labour Party's history to win three full consecutive terms in office CMS Cherie Blair clapping as winks towards Blair with Kelly sat alongside applauding and Lord Falconer (Lord Chancellor) behind CMS Blair at podium SIDE Dr John Reid MP (Defence Secretary) clapping sat alongside Straw, Brown, other cabinet ministers and Cherie Blair in b/g Supporters sat clapping TGV Conference hall Blair speech SOT - Choice is what wealthy people have exercised for centuries/ And the tories of course have always been confortable with that, of course, but remember, choice should be too important to be the monopoly of the wealthy/ Everytime I have every introduced a reform in government I wish in retrospect I had gone further/ Specialist schools, denounced at the time, have performed better than traditional comprehensives, fact/ City academies are massively oversubscribed, fact/ The beneficiaries are not fatcats, they are some of the poorest families from the poorest parts of Britain CUTAWAY Brown sat next to Patricia Hewitt MP (Health Secretary) clapping CUTAWAY Labour supporters applauding GV Labour party members sat clapping MS Kathryn Blair (Daughter of Tony and Cherie Blair) clapping GV Audience in conference hall ...