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Labour Party conference 2025: Yvette Cooper speech; ENGLAND: Merseyside: Liverpool: ACC Liverpool:INTPanel on stage including Hamish Falconer MP (Parliamentary Under-Secretary) and John Healey MP (Defence Secretary)Yvette Cooper MP (Foreign Secretary) speech SOTAsk those overseas what it means to them when they see the Union Jack or the St George’s Cross. You will hear people in every continent talk with admiration about our Royal Family and our Parliament, our heritage and our culture, our armed forces and our universities, the literature, music, film and sport that we have given the world, the British inventions that have changed history.But even more than that, they will tell you that our flags stand for justice, for fairness, for tolerance, and for decency.A flag on the side of an army truck that has meant the difference between life and death for people facing massacre in Sierra Leone or Kosovo.A flag on the side of a crate that has brought vaccines and medicine, food and water to those in desperate need.A flag on the diplomatic table that means a trading partner you can trust, and an ally who will never let you down.That is what our flag means to our friends around the world.And if anyone doesn’t believe that, think back six years to when the England men’s football team played a qualifying match in Kosovo, and the players lined up for the national anthems.As God Save The Queen began to play, every Kosovan fan in the stadium held up a St George’s Flag, and amid them all a banner, which read: “you gave us hope for freedom.”And they waved our flag with pride, they applauded our anthem with warmth, and they sang the name of our Queen. Because they remembered how Britain had stood with them.That is what our country stands for around the world, and that is what we must always continue to be.A force for good,a force for peace,and a force for hope.Conference Thank you. //Standing ovation