Below is the full text of Rebecca Long-Bailey’s Labour conference 2019 speech. Uma, isn’t she amazing! I want to thank her, youth strikers for climate justice and our trade union movement, Extinction Rebellion and our climate activists for coming together to make politicians listen. And some brilliant politicians are listening …
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