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Harriet Harman has said Labour "won't be bullied" after the Sun said it would not back Labour at the next election.Harriet Harman has said Labour "won't be bullied" after the Sun said it would not back Labour at the next election.
Labour's deputy leader said her party was "angry" at the paper's decision to desert the party but urged members to use it to inspire them to victory.Labour's deputy leader said her party was "angry" at the paper's decision to desert the party but urged members to use it to inspire them to victory.
"We may be the underdog but we won't be bullied... this underdog is biting back," she told the party's conference."We may be the underdog but we won't be bullied... this underdog is biting back," she told the party's conference.
Gordon Brown earlier shrugged off the Sun's decision by insisting "it is people that decide elections".Gordon Brown earlier shrugged off the Sun's decision by insisting "it is people that decide elections".
Opening a debate about equalities, she said she was speaking about "something the Sun knows absolutely nothing about - equality".Opening a debate about equalities, she said she was speaking about "something the Sun knows absolutely nothing about - equality".
She went on: "Let's face it, the nearest their political analysis gets to women's rights is Page 3's news in briefs."She went on: "Let's face it, the nearest their political analysis gets to women's rights is Page 3's news in briefs."
She added: "Let us say don't get bitter, get better. Don't get outraged, get out there. Don't get mad, get mobilised."She added: "Let us say don't get bitter, get better. Don't get outraged, get out there. Don't get mad, get mobilised."
Although it has said it will not support Labour, the Sun has not explicitly endorsed the Conservatives, saying they have to do more to earn voters' trust.
The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said Labour had known the decision was coming for some time and was designed, coming immediately after Gordon Brown made his last conference speech before the election, to have maximum political impact.
The Sun claimed that it helped win the election for John Major in 1992 but senior Labour figures like John Prescott have tried to play down the significance of its decision this time around.
Former Labour deputy leader Margaret Beckett said the Sun's switch was a "problem" for the party but not "insurmountable".
Mr Brown said he did not "get out of bed" each morning thinking what the newspapers were saying about him.
"In the end we would would like the support of every newspaper, you'd like to have the support of lots of people that are not giving you support. but it is people that decide elections," he told the Today programme.
He said he believed Sun readers would back new policies on tackling anti-social behaviour and on cancer test guarantees which he said appealed to the "mainstream, middle" of British society.