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Monday, April 11, 2005
Tony Blair has kicked off his election tour of Britain with a major speech on education.
Mr Blair told an audience at Trimdon Constituency Labour Club in his Sedgefield constituency that education is a major dividing line between Labour and the Conservatives.
Before he delivered his speech, local party members went through the formality of re-adopting Mr Blair as the partys Parliamentary candidate for the constituency, where at the 2001 General Election he amassed a majority of 17,713.
Mr Blair told his audience that education had been the key to transforming the prospects of people in the constituency and across the country in the years since he entered Parliament in 1983.
He laid out 10 points on the state of the education system which Labour inherited from the Tories, 10 points about the reforms which Labour have introduced and 10 points about how he sees education developing in the future.
Mr Blair pledged that if re-elected the Labour government would increase spending on education as a percentage of national income.
Accompanied by his wife Cherie, the Prime Minister told his audience that Labours education agenda was about providing opportunity for all, rather than a privileged few.
Education has been, is, and will be the driving mission of a new Labour government: to give our children, I mean all our children, not just those at the top, the best chance to succeed, he said.
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