Unions are planning to work closely with the new Government to rebuild the country after 14 years of Tory “chaos”, according to the leader of the TUC. Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC, said: "Two months ago the British people cast their verdict on one of the most right wing, incompetent, anti-union, morally bankrupt governments this country has ever seen, and congress it feels good to be meeting here in Brighton for the first time in 15 years under a Labour government." Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Two months ago, the British people cast their verdict on one of the most right-wing, incompetent,
00:09anti-union, morally bankrupt governments this country has ever seen. And, Congress, it feels
00:15good to be meeting here in Brighton, for the first time in 15 years, under a Labour government
00:23with a 174-seat majority. Now, some Tory MPs had the good sense, or the lack of backbone,
00:35to do the chicken run before the votes were cast. The likes of Kwasi Kartang and Michael
00:41Gove, scuttling away from the mess that they left behind. Others decided to face the voters.
00:49And while I am not one to revel in other people's misfortune, I have to say I enjoyed every
00:55single Portillo moment in the early hours of July 5th. It was a roll call of political
01:05failure. Gillian Keegan, gone. Grant Shapps, gone. Penny Mordaunt, gone. Jacob Rees-Mogg,
01:18gone. And, of course, the former Prime Minister that couldn't outlast the letters, Liz Truss,
01:27gone. All now political history, Congress, goodbye, and good riddance to every single
01:34one of them. We pledged to fight the Tories' spiteful attack on the right to strike, and
01:41fight it we did. A year on, and those appalling laws are about to be repealed, repealed before
01:49they have ever been used. Congress, generations of working people fought for the right to
01:55strike, and thanks to you, thanks to every union in this room, thanks to the whole of
02:01the trade union movement, we have protected the fundamental right to strike for future
02:05generations of working people.