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OK, I'll just introduce myself again because it's in my speech and even though Nigel has very kindly introduced me
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I was leader of Newham Council for six and a half years and now I was the executive mayor for 16 years
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I was the first ever Labour directly elected mayor. You'll remember Ken Livingstone was elected but he was elected as independent
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So in the end I beat him. It used to annoy him. And we are here to explain basically why we've left the Labour Party and why we've joined reform
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and Clive is going to say something about some of the other reasons why we did it
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We've tried to coordinate our speech. If we say the same thing twice, I apologise for wasting your time
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So, we came to the conclusion that the old parties can't deliver services
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and the result of not delivering services is cynicism in the electorate
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We promise, we promise, we promise and then nothing happens. Now, the Tories did that to excess
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They promised and promised and nothing happened. They failed to deliver all the things they said they would do
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And then the Labour government came and we thought, here we are. Keir Stammer's going to do things brilliantly
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It's going to be different. I wasn't convinced. So what have we done since then? We're going to stop the legal boats
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But we can't even send a warship to Cyprus. Never mind stopping the legal boats
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The Labour government said we'll build 300,000 homes a year. Not a chance
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Not a chance. There never was a chance. And the result is rents will go up
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and people who are currently suffering with high rents are going to suffer even further in the private sector The NHS they pour billions down it and nothing happens And one of our contentions is that we forgotten how to deliver services
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And that delivering services is how we will connect with the British people and stop the cynicism that's going on there
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But it's worse. In the NHS, Labour's lost its moral compass. Not only have they decided to cut waiting lists
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they've gone to the waiting list and said, where are the people who shouldn't be on the waiting list
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We'll take them off and then we can say we've cut the waiting lists. That is immoral
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And then, and I know they've gone back on this, they're going to experiment on children
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Experimenting on children is not something that the Labour Party should... That is Labour unveiling their first significant Labour defector
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He's called Sir Robin Wales. He was Mayor of Newham, which is a London borough, East London borough
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For years, it was 60 councillors, all Labour. But if that, Miriam, is the major Labour defection
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that's been flagged for some weeks, that doesn't quite... It's not quite up there with a former Tory Home Secretary
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and a former Chancellor. No, he's not a household name, is he
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I mean, clearly... He's not a household name in Newham. I had never heard of him, as you know, Andrew. I've just been Googling him
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Now, clearly he's a long-time Labour loyalist. What's he ever done? That's what you have to ask yourself
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Oh, this major Labour figure, what has he done? And he fell out with Labour. Stephen Pound will be able to tell us why
