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| LIVE: Brown's conference speech | LIVE: Brown's conference speech |
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| By Victoria King | By Victoria King |
| BBCLauraK tweets:So she's doing it again - Sarah Brown the warm up act for the PM Read BBCLauraK's tweets. | |
| 1426The first surprise - or maybe not so surprising giving her positive reception last year. Sarah Brown is back - taking the stage before her husband. Lots of cheering all round. | |
| BBCLauraK tweets:Brown,Sarah and entourage just swept past our camera at great speed-expected to announce recall elections for MP s who fiddle their expenses Read BBCLauraK's tweets. | |
| 1426 The pre-speech video is playing, inspirational phrases a-plenty. The cheers are coming thick and fast too. | |
| 1420 The auditorium is packed. Cabinet members past and present are ready. There are some more unlikely faces too - comedian Eddie Izzard is chatting to Neil Kinnock. Meanwhile, the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg says she's got word that a big chunk of the speech is going to focus on building a "new politics" post-expenses row with tougher measures to punish MPs who break the rules. | |
| 1417 Former home secretary David Blunkett tells the BBC's Jon Sopel what it's like to give a big speech like this. "It's terrible," he says. "It changes the nature of who you are in the days before the speech." Some might want to change Gordon Brown's nature - he will be hoping to change their minds. | |
| 1416 The television cameras follow Gordon Brown as he walks to the conference hall, accompanied by wife Sarah. She's wearing a floral dress in autumnal colours - he's wearing a big grin. The route is lined with delegates and the PM takes time to shake as many hands as possible before making his way inside. | |
| 1412 Hello and welcome to our live text commentary of Gordon Brown's keynote conference speech. Well, the hall is packed, there's a buzz in the air and everyone is waiting for the man himself. Can he give, as everyone seem to think he must, the speech of his life? | 1412 Hello and welcome to our live text commentary of Gordon Brown's keynote conference speech. Well, the hall is packed, there's a buzz in the air and everyone is waiting for the man himself. Can he give, as everyone seem to think he must, the speech of his life? |