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Ministers not offering ‘gloom’, says Pat McFadden, just being ‘honest’ and ‘serious’ about problems facing UKIn his speech to the conference Pat McFadden, the Cabinet Office minister, explained why he thought Labour was able to win over new voters at the election.
We welcome every supporter old and new.
And why did they come to us?
Because they could see that we were serious.
Economic stability over unfunded wish lists.
National security, support for NATO, 100% behind Ukraine’s fight for survival.
A party of wealth creation as well as wealth distribution.
A party that learned from its defeat rather than telling the voters that they had got it wrong.
That isn’t caution. It’s our duty. It’s our job description. It’s our founding purpose to learn from the people and to win.
McFadden argued Labour government’s all had the same mission.
The Attlee government gave us a welfare state out of the ruins of war.
The Wilson government saw how society was changing and let…