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Article: BROWN'S CRUSADE TO TAKE POWER; Labour Conference: Speech sets out radical plan for life after Blair.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2005
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Byline: JOE MURPHY
GORDON BROWN explicitly laid claim to Tony Blair's job in a barnstorming speech this afternoon.
He set the clock ticking on Mr Blair's premiership by declaring that New Labour's greatest achievements are yet to come.
The Chancellor announced he will embark on a tour of the UK in the next few months in what looks like a victory lap for a man who has the Labour leadership in the bag.
A crusade to eradicate child poverty and to build "one moral community" in Britain where the strong care for the weak is his vision. "I learned from my mother and father that for every opportunity there was an obligation, for every demand ...