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Labour Party conference: David Lammy speech; Part 1 of 5ENGLAND: Liverpool:INTDavid Lammy MP (Foreign Secretary) speech SOT / cutaways of audience and stage with Lucy Powell MP, Darren Jones MP, John Healey MP.- "Conference, everyone in this room has their own story.My story starts in place called Dongola Road, in the shadow of Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm Estate.Life was not always easy. My mum struggling to put food on our table. Skinheads shouting abuse as we walked by. My father leaving when I was 12.He didn’t leave me very much. But he did leave me a map, an atlas of the world which I put on my bedroom wall. And from this map, I learned about the countries my ancestors had come from. Transported from West Africa to Guyana as part of the Transatlantic slave trade. Long before my parents moved from Guyana to Britain to help rebuild Britain after the Second World War.Conference, I can’t tell you how it feels to stand here today. A Black working-class man from Tottenham; a child of the great Windrush Generation. Now back on this stage as the Foreign Secretary in a Labour Government.My job is to tell a new story about the United Kingdom abroad.A story of openness. A story of the future. A story of hope that will reconnect Britain with the world once more. Conference, when I stood in this room last year, I said we had a once in a generation chance to get Britain’s future back.The chance to win back the public’s trust. To turn the page on 14 years of Tory decline.Well Conference, we did it.And when I say we did it – I mean you did it.Every party member who walked dozens of miles knocking on doors. Every activist who convinced a young person to register to vote. Every supporter who endured the failing private train networks to campaign in an unfamiliar town.Every single one of you who supported our leader – our Prime Minister – Keir Starmer.You are the greatest advocates of our va...