RUSHES: Labour Party conference 2025: David Lammy speech

Labour Party conference 2025: David Lammy speech; Part 3 of 6ENGLAND: Merseyside: Liverpool: ACC Liverpool:INTDavid Lammy MP (Deputy Prime Minister) speech SOT / cutaways including of Shabana Mahmood MP (Home Secretary).- "And conference, I know that you know after my friend Khadija Saye died on the 9th floor of Grenfell Tower along with 71 others, I was the first to call for an inquiry.You also know after my parents’ generation, the Windrush generation who gave so much but took so little were stripped of their rights, deported, detained and denied housing, healthcare and work, I led the campaign for their justice.So, it was the honour of my life in my first weeks as Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, to meet with the Hillsborough families and bring the Hillsborough Law to Parliament.So here in Liverpool I say: working people seeking justice will never walk alone again.That is the difference a Labour government makes.And friends, when you see Nigel Farage measuring the curtains of Downing Street, look around the world.In Australia, Labour trailed by ten points – until they won.In Canada, the Liberals were once twenty points behind – until they won.In Norway, Labour were at one point 16 points down – until they won.The lesson is clear: progressives win when we follow the north star of our values with the guardrails of our realism.Not through scapegoats. Not through stunts. But through hope. Purpose. And progress.My first task, as your Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, is to bring these values to our justice system.Justice has been the constant thread throughout my life.Growing up in the shadow of Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm estate, in Thatcher’s Britain, life wasn’t easy.I was stopped and searched by the police.I saw too many who looked like me end up on the wrong side of the law.But education gave me a different path.I studied law. I Practiced as a young lawyer.I served as a Minister.I led a r...