He said: “This is my 10th conference speaking to you as a cabinet or shadow cabinet minister”.
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Mr Lewis reportedly said later it was time for Labour to stop “picking at the scab” of its Trident policy. Only that way can we secure the Labour government we need.
“Our party is about campaigning, and it’s about protest too, but most of all it’s about winning power at local and national government, to deliver the real change our country so desperately needs”.
“But we can only take action to make our communities more cohesive and to strengthen social integration if Labour is in power”. “A Labour woman Prime Minister is long overdue”.
In his first keynote speech since becoming London Mayor in May, Khan listed his achievements to prove what Labour can do when in power.
“We will act decisively to end the undercutting of workers’ pay and conditions through the exploitation of migrant labour and agency working which would reduce the number of migrant workers in the process”.
In contrast to Corbyn’s strong defence of immigration, Burnham also said Labour needed to face up to the fact that “millions of lifelong Labour supporters voted to leave the European Union and – let’s be honest – voted for change on immigration”. But we all have lessons to learn and a responsibility to do things better and work together more effectively.
Both Welsh Labour and Scottish Labour leaders were this week handed the power to elect one of their frontbenchers to the National Executive Committee (NEC), after conference delegates voted through a package of party reforms.
Khan added: “With Labour out of power, hate crime is rising – whether anti-semitism, Islamaphobia, homophobia or any other form of this vile crime”. He said it was time for Mr Corbyn not just to “talk the talk, but walk the walk” and that he had a “duty and responsibility” to try to win elections.
Jeremy Corbyn and Clive Lewis at the Burston School Strike Rally 2015.
Ms Abbott is expected to say: “Labour will restore the NHS to a properly functioning service after years of Tory cuts, damaging reorganisations and privatisations”.
In a far more confident speech after he increased his mandate as leader, Corbyn insisted a radical programme at the next election could lead to electoral success, warning that election could come as soon as next year. The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism said the Labour leader had reneged on a promise not to nominate new peers “in return for a clean bill of health”.
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Meanwhile, deputy leader Tom Watson will launch an independent commission into the future of work, to look into the challenges of new technology and automation, as well as what he referred to as “the dark side of the gig economy”.
