The Dagenham MP spoke at the day's final session:
The task in hand is to build a progressive politics and a coalition for the future of this city, recognising that the world has massively changed at the same time...The political assumptions of the benign period of the fifteen years that came before are now, literally, irrelevant...we have to develop a political programme for the future based on a wider coalition than before and one that is durable. And I think that starts today...
He declared himself encouraged by what he'd heard at the conference progressive case anew and came up with a list of ten themes he'd like to be developed. Have I got time to set those out? Not today, Rene. I'll get back to them, though.
