Labour Party Conference: Gordon Brown's keynote speech

Labour Party Conference: Gordon Brown's keynote speech; Gordon Brown MP speech SOT - Every fifty seconds a child is born and who knows what might happen to that child? / Who knows if they could someday start a thriving business, become a proud nurse, a good football player, or a great scientist? / Who knows if they will exceed all of their parents’ hopes to see them get on, have a good job and a loving family? / Every child deserves the best possible start in life / We have lifted 600,000 children out of poverty / We are doubling child benefits / We have trebled maternity allowances / 6 million families now benefit from the Child Tax Credit / None of this happened before a Labour Government / And the Pre Budget Report will set out our next steps because our goal for this generation is to abolish child poverty and let me reaffirm that goal today / And I say to the children of two parent families, one parent families, foster parent families / to the widow bringing up children / I stand for a Britain that supports as first class citizens not just some children and some families but supports all children and all families / We all remember that biblical saying: 'suffer the little children to come unto me' / No Bible I have ever read says 'bring just some of the children' / Because no child should ever be written off, for mothers of infants, we will expand the help of nurse-family partnerships / And for families and teenagers in trouble, new one-to-one support led by the voluntary sector that, up and down the country, we makes so much difference / And because it's unfair to the children that fathers walk away from their responsibilities / we will insist on the new powers to name absent fathers on birth certificates and to pay their share / maintenance deducted from benefits as we return them to work /And let me say I am also understanding the daily pressures all families and all parents are under to do everything on time / serve breakfast, get the kids to school, h...