And is focusing on tackling criminal gangs behind some of the People Smuggling that leads people to making those very dangerous crossings. I suspect that might be something else that might be something else that Yvette Cooper will talk about when she takes to the stage in the next couple of minutes also. D0 stage in the next couple of minutes also. Stage in the next couple of minutes also. Do we expect to hear policy . Minutes also. Do we expect to hear policy . It minutes also. Do we expect to hear policy . It is minutes also. Do we expect to hear policy . It is perhaps hear policy . It is perhaps worth explaining the point of a conference and what is official policy and watches for the Party Members . It policy and watches for the Party Members . Policy and watches for the Party Members . It is a two part thin. Party members . It is a two Part Thing there Party Members . It is a two Part Thing. There is Party Members . It is a two Part Thing. There is an Party Members . It is a two Part Thing. There is an element that | thing. There is an element that the leadership of the party is talking to the members, the activists and delegates who will gather at conferences so part of it is addressing the room, if you like, but the other aspect to a Party Conference is the message it sends to the country. I think for this conference in particular, labours first conference as a party in government for 15 years, there is a sense of people wanting to know about the Policy Direction the party will go in. To be honest, so far it has not been very rich in terms of new policy. You could say they have only been in government for two and a half months. Things like planning reforms and gb energy, onshore wind. In terms of new policy it has not been huge, to be frank, it has been more about tone, the message the party is trying to send out and i think trying to convince the country they have a plan and to get the country on board with it. ,. ,. , get the country on board with it. The Home Secretary had a tricky start it. The Home Secretary had a tricky start to it. The Home Secretary had a tricky start to the it. The Home Secretary had a tricky start to the job it. The Home Secretary had a tricky start to the job in tricky start to the job in dealing with the unrest that followed the killings of the girls in southport and the widespread riots which would have been three weeks after she came into position. We canjust see Yvette Cooper applauding, waiting for her to get up. It has been a Baptism Of Fire in terms of her assuming this role . , terms of her assuming this role . ,. ,. , role . That was a huge early Challenge Role . That was a huge early challenge for role . That was a huge early challenge for the role . That was a huge early challenge for the Home Challenge for the Home Secretary and the prime Minister Sir Keir starmerjust a few weeks into government, the huge unrest that swept across the country. The Governments Approach at that time was to really crack on it. We saw people swiftly put through the criminalJustice System in a very visible way, they wanted to put people in prison to try to deter others from taking part and i think the Home Secretary will address that head on and probably had some very firm words regarding that unrest. This brief, the home office, covered by Yvette Cooper, is a challenging brief with lots of different elements. There is the criminal krhin elements and how that feeds into the wider criminal Justice System which we know is under huge pressure, and the issue of migration falls under her brief. We can see her hugging as she is approaching the conference podium. Lets listen into Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, addressing the labour Party Conference. Labour Party Conference. Thank ou. Labour Party Conference. Thank yom thank labour Party Conference. Thank you thank you labour Party Conference. Thank you. Thank you for labour Party Conference. Thank you. Thank you for your labour Party Conference. Thank you. Thank you for your words, | you. Thank you for your words, thank you for your courage. It isjust two thank you for your courage. It is just two years since ronan was killed, but puja has not stopped fighting for him since. Fighting for ronan, fighting for other children, four other mums and dads, because no parent should have to go through this unimaginable pain. So puja, we salute you, we support you and now we are in government we will back you in yourfight to save government we will back you in your fight to save young lives. Applause ronins teenage killers ordered the Ninja Sword online. No checks, no questions asked. Lethal weapons put straight in the hands of children. So this Labour Government will bring in new laws to crack down on dangerous online sales and the gangs who draw children then, alongside new youth hopes to steer young people away from violence, 18 Hus Start to build hopein violence, 18 Hus Start to build hope in future. Applause a teenage surestart. We will make a Trade Mission for our whole country to have Knife Crime in a decade and, yes, this Labour Government will pass ronans law, a ban on Ninja Swords. He will make it our mission for a whole country to half Knife Crime in a decade. This Labour Government will. It is 15 years since i have been able to say those words at a labour Party Conference. All those years we said things but could not do them. So dont let anyone tell you that politics doesnt matter, because six months ago our party tried to ban Ninja Swords. But we didnt have enough mps to win back votes. Because of the election, because of the change you campaigned for, now we do. Applause ten yea rs ten years ago, i called for Buffer Zones around abortion clinics, but we werent in government, we couldnt make it happen. Now we can and, yes, we have, because no woman should be harassed on the way to a Health Care Appointment that is her legal rights. Applause it can be hard to trust in change when things have felt so tough for so long. A year ago at this conference i warned about the depth of the damage the tories have done in 1a years, how they had taken a Wrecking Ball to the criminal Justice System so criminals laugh at the law, how they left communities to fracture so criminals and Extremists Step in. Conference, eight weeks ago when the unbearable news broke about the horrendous attack in southport, on little children at a summer dance school, from all across the country our hearts went out to the Loved Ones of little alice, lc and bebe. I met the paramedics and firefighters first on the scene and whose bravery in the face of such trauma saved so many lives. But within hours the same southport police were under attack, facing missiles, bottles and bricks. The most shocking, violent insult to a Breathing Community a Grieving Community a Grieving Community and the Police Officers protecting them. A total, total disgrace. Applause thenin then in Copycat Violence over the following days, stirred up from a safe distance by the grifters and the agitators online, we saw looting of shops, attacks on mosques, a Citizens Advice Bureau torch, and a silent targeted on the streets of britain because of the colour of their skin. And here in liverpool on county roads, the burning of the library, a place where children go to reeds, left in ashes. I spoke to some of those children who live around the library in walton and one told me how scared she was that night, how her mum switched off all the lights in the house and told her to stay quiet and sit on the stairs as bins were being satellite along street. So dont anyone tell you that was protest as bins were being set alight along her street. Let nobody tell you that was about immigration, policing or poverty. Plenty of people had strong views but they do not pick up bricks and throw them at the police, they dont satellite to buildings with people inside. Cheering and applause it was our son, racism, thuggery, it was crime. Cheering and applause It Cheering and applause it was arson. And you know its happened because criminals thought they would get away with it. They saw the cracks in the system, the impunity that built up through the tory years, and when they decided to run riot to those in early august days, they thought No One would stop them. They were wrong. With Keir Starmer� s leadership, this Labour Government made clear that we would back our police, not blame them, we would stand up not blame them, we would stand up for our not blame them, we would stand upfor our courts, not blame them, we would stand up for our courts, not undermine them, we would pull our communities together, not to them. We stood up for the Rule Of Law, decent people stood up for their communities and together we put the disorder down. Applause ill be honest, i have been shocked by the response from some of those in political parties on the right who once claimed to care about Law And Order. After rioters attacked the police they should have given full throated back to our brave officers. Instead, too often we have seen them undermine the Integrity And Authority of the police, even making excuses for the mob. If you remember back in the run up to Armistice Day last year, disgraceful slur is made against the police which made it harderfor them to against the police which made it harder for them to do their job that day were treated as a Sacking Offence for a tory Home Secretary. A year on, the same slurs have become an article of faith for every tory leadership contender. It is shameful what that party has become. Applause for the tories, with their mates and were full, they are becoming right wing backers, undermining respect for the Rule Of Law and trying to fracture the bonds that keep communities together for the tories, with their mates in reform. They are trying to feel Division And Anger but that is not what the country is about. Our country has always championed respect and the Rule Of Law and that is what the Labour Party will stand up for. The party of Law And Order, now a government of Law And Order once more. Applause and noel will be like Disorder And Violence silenced a serious debate on immigration and know well be left Disorder And Violence silenced the serious debate on immigration, something which has been set aside for too long amid the rhetoric. A serious government sees Net Migration has trebled because Overseas Recruitment has soared while training has been cut right back, and says Net Migration must come down as we properly train young people here in the uk. A Series Government sees an Asylum System in chaos and says we had to clear the Backlog And End asylum hotels. A serious government looks at the criminal gangs profiting from undermining our Border Security while women and children are crushed to death in crowded, flimsy small boats, and says the guns have got away with it for too long. We will not stand for too long. We will not stand for this vile trade in human lives. A serious government nose immigration is important, and that is why it needs to be properly managed and controlled so the system is fair, so rules are properly respected and enforced, and we never again see a shameful repeat of the Windrush Scandal that led to british citizens down. Cheering and applause that let british citizens down. So in three months we set p down. So in three months we set up the Border Security command, launched an investment in covert operations, Hi Tech Operations to go after the gangs with proper enforcement and returns, and instead of spending £700 million employing 1000 people to send four volunteers to rwanda, we are boosting Border Security instead, because the best way to do that is to work with countries on the other side of our borders, not to just stand on the Shoreline Shouting at the sea. Cheering and Applause So from our Border Security to national security, combating the changing terror, state and cyber threats, to the Security And Safety of our local streets, we know security is the bedrock on which communities can come together and on which all the Opportunities Labour has always fought for our build. You dont get socialjustice if fought for our build. You dont get Social Justice if you fought for our build. You dont get socialjustice if you dont have justice, get socialjustice if you dont havejustice, and respect is the very foundation of democracy. Those labour values are at the heart of all we do and at the heart of our mission for safer streets, where across the country for too long rising Town Centre and Street Crime have been driving people away from our high streets, corroding the fabric of our communities. So this Labour Government will bring in new powers are anti social behaviour, shoplifting and off road bikes and we will put Neighbourhood Police back in our communities and back on the beat. Applause and, yes, after years of co Op And Usdaw campaigning, this government will launch a new law on assaults on shop workers because everyone has the right to work in freedom from fear. Applause and you know, conference, it is so long overdue. At long last this government will treat violence against women and girls as the national Emergency Edge really is. Cheering and applause the national emergency it really is. Cheering and applause when one woman called the police four times the night she was killed, No One came. So in her name, this Labour Government specialists in 999 Control Systems and go after dangerous perpetrators who put lives at risk, new rules on spiking, an ambitious mission for the whole of government, the whole of the country to have violence against women and girls in a decade because we cannot and will not let the next generation of women and girls face the same violence as the last to Half Violence against women and girls in a decade. 0ur Daughters deserve better than this. And why do we do all this . For the same reason that communities came together in liverpool and across the country, to clear up the damage that rioters had done, to rebuild the broken Mosque Wall in southport, to find a new Citizens Advice Centre in sunderland, to clean up centre in sunderland, to clean up the streets. Because the simple belief we all share is this. Our streets do not belong to the gangs, yobs and feeds. They do not belong to the racist, extremist and thugs and our streets will never belong to the stalkers, abusers or rapists. The streets belong to us all and it is time to take them back. Applause so, conference, of course the work as hard. As a poet once said, our sleeves will grow rugged from rolling them up. But if you need to hope that together we can deliver, just look down the road again at the library. After the fire, a young man from netherton here with us this morning, alex mccormick, started a fundraiser a gun mum. Donations have poured in from all over the world. Thousands of books, Hundreds Of Thousands of pounds, and already the labour council, Labour Mayor and community are restoring and rebuilding Spelow Library better than ever before. So when alec said, lets show the world what community in liverpool really means, she did her city approach, her community proud, a symbol of hope, a model of what the community can do. Leave the politics of fear, Division And Decline to others. The politics of hope is ours. The future belongs to us all. Let change begin. Thank you, conference. Applause thank you. Studio a Standing Ovation for the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, with jess the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, withJess Phillips in the green very enthusiastically campaigning. She has been a very strong campaigner against violence against women and girls and clearly appreciated the Home Secretarys remarks. Lets speak to Danny Shaw, a former senior adviser to Yvette Cooper and a former home Affairs Correspondent with the bbc. Hello, danny. That speech went down very well at conference. What were the main points you took away from it . I thought it was a Barnstorming Speech from Yvette Cooper who is a very good operator. I think she got the flavour of what the conference wanted to hear, which was a message of hope at the end. Yvette cooper, who is a very good orator. Change is coming, change can begin, but crafting that message out what she would say its the ruins of the conservative good which has stoked division, hatred and fear, but the hope that has sprung out of the riots when communities came together afterwards to rebuild Community Centres and so on and try to clean up the streets after those riots. So that is the hope that i think she was sending a signal about, saying look what has happened after the riots, communities came together to reclaim the streets, that is what we are going to do. Before that she had outlined a series of ways in which the Labour Government intends to do that. I thought the most powerful bit was when she talked about the riots and she talked about the riots and she said this wasnt about concerns about immigration, Policing Or Anything like that, it was arson, thuggery and crime. She got a huge response from the people in the conference hall. I think that was the strongest part of the speech which really tapped in to a sense out there thats what those riots were about was crime. 0ther what those riots were about was crime. Other issues can be discussed but most people dont go to the streets and pelted Police Vans with bottles and bricks and so on. Bricks and so on. Lets talk about having bricks and so on. Lets talk about having Knife Bricks and so on. Lets talk about having Knife Crime. Bricks and so on. Lets talkj about having Knife Crime in bricks and so on. Lets Talk L about having Knife Crime in a decade, one of the things she said in her speech about halving Knife Crime in a decade. It is a huge issue, particularly with the zombie nights, but the commitment was that you half Knife Crime in a decade. It that you half Knife Crime in a decade. ,. , , decade. It is a very, very stretching decade. It is a very, very stretching target decade. It is a very, very stretching target to decade. It is a very, very stretching target to do. Decade. It is a very, very i stretching target to do that decade. It is a very, very stretching target to do that on the government has not yet set out the parameters or the baseline on which that will be measured so i would hope and expect that might be set out soon. It will require lots of work on different fronts and Yvette Cooper outlined some of that work. New hubs, a sort of Sure Start for teenagers is how she hasjumped 80. As well as cracking down on online sales of dangerous nights and so on. So there will be a series of things that have to be brought to bed to get close to that target. I think the government will bejudged on target. I think the government will be judged on whether or not it is making progress towards that target, year by year. Its Knife Crime coming down, are there fewer attacks and killings . If they can show they are making progress over they are making progress over the next two, three or four years, i think people will support them in that mission. If we are not seeing progress after then, if we are not seeing progress afterthen, people if we are not seeing progress after then, people will say the target is not achievable so they have to show progress over they have to show progress over the next few years even if they are not reaching the absolute target yet. Are not reaching the absolute Target Yet Target yet. Immigration, another target yet. Immigration, another Issue Target yet. Immigration, another issue the target yet. Immigration, another issue the home| another issue the Home Secretary talked about, not necessarily anything we have not heard about before but setting up a Border Security command . Setting up a Border Security command . ,. ,. ,. , command . Immigration and small boats was not command . Immigration and small boats was not a command . Immigration and small boats was not a big command . Immigration and small boats was not a big Thing Command . Immigration and small boats was not a big thing in boats was not a big thing in this speech, it was predominantly about Law And Order and Yvette Cooper saying now we are the government of Law And Order, that title always used to be something the conservatives very proudly wall, so not so much about borders and immigration. Which the conservatives very proudly wore. It is probably the one issue which could blow her mission off course if the small Boat Numbers continue to rise and there is no tangible signs of improvement in the border and immigration protection system. If those problems persist, that is clearly something that could cause the party some damage. This was a speech very much about those other missions, it touched on Knife Crime, violence against women and girls, anti social behaviour, neighbourhood policing, that was the message today. Policing, that was the message toda. ,. ,. , policing, that was the message toda. , policing, that was the message toda. ,. , ~ policing, that was the message toda. ,. ,. , today. Good to talk to you, Danny Shaw. Today. Good to talk to you, Danny Shaw, former today. Good to talk to you, Danny Shaw, former senior adviser to Yvette Cooper. Lets go back now to liverpool and speak to our political correspondent Alex Forsyth was listening to the Home Secretarys speech. We were speaking to Danny Shaw and talking about the pledge to halve Knife Crime in a decade. It is always difficult putting those pledges out there because you will be judged those pledges out there because you will bejudged on those pledges out there because you will be judged on the results, but this is clearly high on her Priority List . Yes, but it is also high on her Priority List . Yes, but it is also clearly high on her Priority List . Yes, but it is also clearly a high on her Priority List . Yes, but it is also clearly a very. But it is also clearly a very ambitious and specific target and when any politician does not, some might say it is brave because it can be they can because it can be they can be measured against it. We have heard about the crackdown on the sales of some nights online and also this idea about teenage Sure Start centres. Sure start was an early Years Programme set up by the last Labour Government for early years, she was talking about Youth Hubs which would address this at the root causes i guess of why some people get into Knife Crime in the first place but it was an ambitious and very measurable pledge. More broadly she was talking, as we expected, about neighbourhood policing, making streets safer. It is interesting politically because traditionally people might have assumed to replace the conservatives might have felt more comfortable labelling themselves the party of Law And Order. Labour is very clearly trying seize that mantle, Yvette Cooper saying clearly thatis Yvette Cooper saying clearly that is us now, we are the government of Law And Order and that was the first and focus of her speech. A mention of small boat crossings but not a huge focus in the Speech Today despite the fact that it is a huge challenge for her and her department. find huge challenge for her and her department department. And finishing on violence against department. And finishing on violence against women department. And finishing on violence against women and L Violence against women and girls and another pledge within ten years to halve violence against women and girls. It went down very well with the audience, including Jess Phillips who, as we know, has long campaigned for this, but another target to be met . Another ambitious and measurable targets, another challenging target. But i was actually in the whole listening to the speech, it is just behind me through the doors, and that was one of the points at which everybody stood up i was actually in the hall. There was a huge Standing Ovation and a big round of applause when she spoke about tackling violence against women and girls so i think you can get the mood of conference once more broadly. It is something he government wants to make a priority and Jess Phillips has been campaigning hard on this issue for some time, and that sentiment was echoed in Yvette Coopehs sentiment was echoed in Yvette Coopers speech but it is a difficult, complex, nuanced, difficult, complex, nuanced, difficult problem so now i think they had set themselves the challenge of trying to address it. The other thing she got a huge ovation for was when she addressed the riots, the unrest that happened following the awful attacks in southport when she got a huge amount of applause and clearly took the firm line we heard from her before but this is not a protest, it is a total disgrace, she said. She said people have very strong views but they do not necessarily pick up a break and throw it at the police about what a huge, rousing reception here. I think the speech went down very well, it was not entirely packed out but with anything that happens in this conference this is part of government talking to members, delegates and activists but it is talking to the country and it is not only how these things are received more she mentioned, used the word hope a few times, and i think sort of, with regard to rachel reeves, if there was criticism coming into conference there was too much Doom And Gloom and you got the sense from the Home Secretary again today it was looking to a brighter future if you like, is this going to be a theme, do we think of the speeches, we are thinking about Keir Starmer speaking. Speeches, we are thinking about Keir Starmerspeaking. I speeches, we are thinking about Keir Starmer speaking. Keir starmer speaking. I think it already has Keir Starmer speaking. I think it already has been Keir Starmer speaking. I think it already has been a Keir Starmer speaking. I think it already has been a theme, | it already has been a theme, for the reasons you say, there was some concern, that with all the talk about the economic picture and the tough choices the government has already made and says it is doing to have to make come the budget on October 30th they had to inject a bit more optimism and a sense of hope. We heard it from rachel reeves, who while saying there