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| Expose 'nasty' Tories says Harman | |
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| Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has been rallying party activists ahead of May's local elections. | |
| Ms Harman told the party's Welsh conference that the elections were an opportunity to expose the "shallowness" of David Cameron's Conservatives. | |
| It was her first speech in Wales since the controversy over donations to the party's deputy leadership contest. | |
| She said the Tories were "the same old nasty party, although they pretend that they've changed." | |
| Ms Harman said the council elections in Wales and England gave Labour the chance to "expose the falseness and the shallowness of the Tories." | |
| "We can expose the duplicity and opportunism of the Tories." | |
| She also used her speech in Llandudno to pay tribute to Peter Hain, who resigned as Welsh Secretary last month over undeclared donations. | |
| Ms Harman, who beat him to the deputy leader's post, said Mr Hain would remain a "progressive force" in Labour politics. | |
| The conference is also due to hear a first major speech from Mr Hain's successor, Paul Murphy. | |
| On Friday evening, Gordon Brown told delegates there were no "Wales-only" solutions to some of the United Kingdom's biggest challenges. | |
| Labour councillors will make our communities safer, cleaner, greener and better Gordon Brown on Friday evening | |
| He praised devolution but stressed the importance of UK-wide policies. | |
| "Our message is one for the whole of the United Kingdom: stronger together, weaker apart," he said. | "Our message is one for the whole of the United Kingdom: stronger together, weaker apart," he said. |
| "We also know whether it's the need to cooperate for a safe environment or national security, or for the safeguarding of pensions and general economic success, that there is no Wales-only, no England-only, no Scotland-only solution to the biggest challenges we face." | |
| The prime minister also issued a rallying cry ahead of the local elections. | |
| "Let us on May the first send the message: Labour councillors will make our communities safer, cleaner, greener and better. Getting results for Wales," stressed Mr Brown. | "Let us on May the first send the message: Labour councillors will make our communities safer, cleaner, greener and better. Getting results for Wales," stressed Mr Brown. |
| Key-themes for the party were also tackled as the prime minister talked of "the tragedy of talents unrealised", pledging educational opportunities for all throughout life. | Key-themes for the party were also tackled as the prime minister talked of "the tragedy of talents unrealised", pledging educational opportunities for all throughout life. |
| Mr Brown also invoked the memory of the founding father of the modern NHS, the Ebbw Vale MP Aneurin Bevan, as he set out policies on tackling child poverty and the challenges of helping developing countries. | |
| "Before the 1945 election Nye Bevan said at a meeting here in Wales: 'We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, now we are the builders'," he said. | "Before the 1945 election Nye Bevan said at a meeting here in Wales: 'We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, now we are the builders'," he said. |
| "So here this evening from Wales let us rededicate ourselves. Let us work to fulfil our dreams of a better world. Let us work to end needless suffering." | "So here this evening from Wales let us rededicate ourselves. Let us work to fulfil our dreams of a better world. Let us work to end needless suffering." |