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Chuka Umunna and Liz Kendall will feature alongside Ed Miliband in a Labour party political broadcast that will be screened later today.
Here is the full transcript.
Ed Miliband….The winner and the leader of the Labour Party
I know we lost trust
I know we lost touch
I know we need to change
I think the older generation did great things for labour and for the country but a new generation has taken charge of the party. So we need to once again become a party that shows we get it, we understand, we are in touch with the hopes and aspirations of people across this country.
Chuka Umunna – MP for Streatham
This is definitely a time for a new generation and I think that in many respects that was what the electorate were looking for.
Liz Kendall – MP for Leicester West
As one of the new members of parliament for labour I have been struck by how unified we are and how determined we are to l isten to people and understand their concerns.
Ed Miliband
And I say I get it that people were not prejudice about immigration, people felt anxious and insecure…people felt anxious and insecure about their wages and conditions and housing…I get and and I understand the need to change.
When it succeeded new labour took on old ideas and said how we needed to change. Like on the public services and the improvements that we have seen. We need again to have that reforming spirit.
When I went to the Durham care home and I saw people being paid frankly just barley the minimum wage for doing one of the most important jobs in our society and I know that needs to change. Or meeting a student who told me about her worries about student debt and I know we need to change on that. Or meeting a small businesswoman who said look I am struggling to get by, I am struggling to make a success of our business I don’t feel like any body is on my side. It’s those human st ories that inform my politics. It’s those stories that inspire me on to think about how we can change our party so that we can in time change our country gain.
Danni – Member of Labour Students
I think that what was key to Ed’s campaign was that he engaged with the public not just labour voters.
Ed Miliband
I approach this job with great humility, as I know this is a big task that faces me, but I have steel and determination about doing this job and leading a united party back into power. Not power for its own sake, but because I believe in a Britain that is fairer, more just and more equal and that is what I came into politics for and I know we’ve got a big task to reconnect to the country and that is what I am going to do as leader.
Today the work of the new generation begins.
Thank you very much.
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