Full text of speech by former Labour leader and prime minister to the fresh Labour pressure group ProgressTwenty-one years ago yesterday I became leader of the Labour party. A lot has happened since then. We discovered winning successively. And now we have re-discovered losing successively. Personally I prefer winning.
I could make a speech to you approximately how to win. You win from the centre; you win when you appeal to a broad cross-section of the public; you win when you support commerce as well as unions. You don’t win from a traditional leftist position.
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Source: theguardian.com