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My new bargain for UK – Miliband
26 September 2011 Last updated at 17:06 ET
Ed Miliband will vow to end Britain’s “fast-buck” culture and ensure the “right people” are rewarded, in a speech to Labour’s annual conference.
The Labour leader will say on Tuesday that the country needs “a new bargain based on a different set of values”.
And he will call for radical changes to the welfare system and the way businesses are run.
The speech – his biggest since being elected Labour leader a year ago – will contain no new policy announcements.
But it will give delegates in Blackpool a flavour of what the party might include in its next manifesto – once it has concluded its current policy review.
‘Asset-stripping predators’
Among the ideas Mr Miliband will talk about are tax incentives for companies that make a contribution to the economy through training and long-term investment.
And he will draw a distinction between genuine wealth creators – who should be championed and encouraged – and “asset-stripping predators”.
He will also float the idea – already being piloted by two Labour councils, Manchester and Newham – that people who make a contribution the local community will be allowed to jump housing queues.
And he will argue for a “something for something” culture in schools and call for a new effort to get children from poor backgrounds to university.
The Labour leader has this week come under fire from union leaders angry at his failure to back their planned day of action on 30 November over cuts to their members’ pensions.
And he also faced criticism from some of his own MPs, including ex-minister Tessa Jowell, that voters are not listening to the party.
‘Quiet crisis’
But Mr Miliband believes that in the wake of the banking crisis and the summer riots, voters are crying out for a new kind of society in which the responsible and the “grafters” – those who work hard – are properly rewarded.
He will talk in his speech of a “quiet crisis” in Britain and the “failure of a system” which too often rewarded “not the right people with the right values, but the wrong people with the wrong values”.
He will add: “Labour will always stand as the voice of the people, our people. Their values will be heard. And we will challenge the vested interests that benefit when the wrong values are rewarded.
“Never again should they be able to take advantage of a system which doesn’t work to the values and instincts of decent people in our country.”
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