By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982
Last Thursday, Neil Kinnock gave a rousing thirty-five minute speech to a fundraiser at the Tottenham Labour Party in David Lammy‘s constituency.
Get him out on the campaign trail, because this is Kinnock as his very best.
Here he is talking about David Lammy’s own story and the nature of aspiration; on how a core vote and aspirational strategy are not mutually exclusive; and on how Labour wrote the book on aspiration:
And here’s the former Labour leader on how the British public have “rumbled” David Cameron’s “slippery, insubstantial, insincere” Conservatives, and how Labour can now reconnect its record with the principles and convictions of the people:
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