Tough talking Rachel Reeves is channelling Margaret Thatcher’s image
Ready, steady and go for the shadow chancellor: Rachel Reeves took to the stage in Liverpool in sombre navy trouser suit, a stern figure with glossy helmet of hair. Her message was that Labour, the old party of tax and spend, had been reborn as bearer of a “war on waste”, “cold-blooded efficiency in public finances” and the insistence (eight times in total) of being ”ready to lead Britain.” The other word she used a lot was “I”.
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00:00 But it is only through power that we can put our principles into action.
00:12 Under Kiir's leadership, that opportunity is finally within our grasp.
00:20 But only if we allow no complacency, only if we fight for every single vote, only if
00:28 we work every day to show that we are the party with the discipline, with the determination
00:36 and with the vision to rebuild Britain.
00:39 Thank you.
00:40 [Applause]
00:40 (audience applauding)
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