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It is a pleasure to be here in Ghana today - part of a four-day visit I am making to West Africa, including Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Senegal. I am accompanied by Clare Short, who will be well known to many of you as the UK's International Development Secretary. Yesterday, I spoke to the Nigerian Assembly and today it is my pleasure and privilege to have the opportunity of speaking to your Parliament. Right across the African continent, countries are emerging from military rule and dictatorship. You are rightly proud of your own democratic institutions, including the elections that took place just over a year ago which saw a peaceful change of government. The strength and vitality of this assembly is proof of the strength and health of your young democracy. The theme of my visit this week is partnership - the necessity and the possibility of a greatly strengthened partnership between reforming African governments and the world's richer countries. A partnership based on shared responsibility and mutual interest. A partnership in which both sides commit to the policy reforms required for Africa to secure poverty reduction and development. I believe that the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) creates an unprecedented opportunity for progress. It is clear that Africans themselves must drive the process of reform. If we have learned anything in development over the last decade it is that development strategies imposed from the outside, in the absence of local leadership and commitment, will fail. But you and I also know that poor countries need support if they are to promote development and consolidate their democratic institutions. Today, I want to focus on this - on our responsibilities to you. The efforts we can make to support your efforts. There are three dimensions to this. First, we need to be clear about the purpose of our development co-operation. There are too many mixed motives in aid and development. Indeed one of the reasons that many people in the West are cynical about aid and development is because a lot of aid has been misused over the years, feeding the elites and corrupt rulers like Mobutu, rather then helping the poor in developing countries. We need a very different approach. At the UN Millennium Assembly the governments of the world have endorsed a set of Millennium Development Targets. These include halving the proportion of the world's population living in poverty, universal primary education, a reduction by two-thirds in child mortality, and a cut of three-quarters in maternal mortality - all to be achieved by 2015. These are the world's agreed development goals. While there has been progress in recent years, the efforts of the international community are still falling well short of their potential. Too much of global aid is still used to sweeten commercial contracts or tied to the purchase of goods from the donor country. If we are going to make faster progress in development, we need to strengthen the international focus on achieving the Millennium development goals. Second - if we are to achieve this progress - we need a fundamental conceptual shift in our approach to aid. Not aid as a hand-out but aid as a hand-up, to help people to help themselves. Not aid to create dependence but to create sustainable independence, so that the relationship between the developed and the developing world is not one of donor and passive recipient but one of equal partners in building prosperity for all. This is aid as investment in our collective economic and political security. Over the years, a great deal of aid has sapped rather than strengthened the capacity of the government locally. This is the very opposite of what is needed. We need investment to help countries put in place more effective states, capable of generating higher levels of economic growth, creating the resources to fund better health, education and public services. In many developing countries institutions are weak, including systems of financial management, increasing the risk of corruption. Our new approach to partnership in development is to provide technical assistance and financial resources to enable you to build capable states. This is why NEPAD is such an important initiative. It is a real chance - the best chance in a generation - to do development differently, and more effectively. You will understand that there is often concern amongst the publics of developed countries about the way in which development resources are used. This is not a lack of compassion. There is huge compassion and a willingness to tackle poverty and injustice across the world. But there is often scepticism that resources really get to those who need them. The reforms that NEPAD is making, and that you are making, respond to this concern. It will ensure that our development efforts are more effective. It will also help us to gain support for development across the world. The UK and other progressive development agencies are now increasingly allocating their aid resources in line with this new approach. As you know, this is also very much the thinking behind the new Poverty Reduction Strategy process, linked to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative (HIPC). Of the 24 countries that have qualified for HIPC debt relief, 20 are African, freeing up $1.2 billion this year to spend on health, education and other services. I am pleased that Ghana has opted for HIPC, and I hope that within the next month you will have reached Decision Point, and begin to get the benefits of debt relief. The UK has a 60 million development programme with Ghana. We are working with your Government on health and education, water, roads and bridges, and governance reform. I believe that on health in particular you are at the cutting edge of the new approach to development - with the UK and other donors pooling their resources in support of your own nationally-agreed health strategy. I hope that before too long, the whole of the donor community can go a step further - allocating all of their development resources in support of your Poverty Reduction Strategy. The UK is already doing this in Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique. And I believe this approach is the way forward for development as a whole. Third - and this is critical - we need to recognise that the modern development agenda goes far wider than resource transfers, to embrace issues of trade and investment, conflict, governance and the environment. We need to look at all our policies in these areas to see what reforms are necessary to better assist the poorest countries in their development. Let me say something about two of these issues - trade and conflict. On trade, I know that Ghana has a particular interest in securing improved trading opportunities. Developed countries retain significant barriers to trade, particularly in agriculture. Access to EU agricultural markets is still restricted by the Common Agricultural Policy, including tariffs and seasonal levies. And although the market is open to tropical African agriculture and commodities, such as coffee and cocoa, tariffs of up to 300 per cent exist on some products. As I said in my speech in Nigeria yesterday, developed countries must practice what they preach, and cut these trade barriers. My other priority is conflict, a subject we have been discussing this morning We have published a paper today, setting out some proposals for the G8. Over the years, Ghana has played a crucial role in UN peacekeeping, including in Sierra Leone, and you have been an important stabilising force in the region. And of course in Kofi Annan you have an outstanding representative of your country leading the reform agenda in the UN, including its role in conflict prevention and resolution. I believe that the developed countries, particularly the G8, need to do more. Yesterday, I announced the establishment ofa special envoy for Sudan. We need similar energy and commitment to drive forward on the Lusaka peace process in the DRC. And we need to provide practical support for Africans to tackle conflict on the continent. This is a big agenda. I believe that it has never been more timely or necessary to forge such a partnership. The NEPAD process creates real potential on your side. On our side, through the G8 and in the wider international community there is a willingness and determination to work with you in new ways. Real advance is possible. Let's agree today to work together to make it happen.。

A year ago this month, four out of five Britons were aware of the Millennium Bug. Today, virtually all are. A year ago, only a quarter of smaller companies had started to fix it. Today, half have. Only some two thirds of local authorities had started. Today, all of you have. So first of all I want to thank you for the work you do, whether as officers or councillors, day in day out, tackling the Bug. As in so many other areas, you are the ones who turn speeches like this into reality. Thank you also to four people from central government. Margaret Beckett - who has mastered the issue with her usual calm effectiveness. John Prescott - who was telling local authorities about the importance of the Bug before it became fashionable. But most of all Don Cruickshank and Iain Anderson who have been advising government on our work with the private and public sectors respectively. Not many people would leap to take a job where if you help solve the problem, you will be criticised for crying wolf, and if you don't, you will be held responsible for accidents beyond your control. But it is typical of both of them that they did and have set about their task with determination. So we have come a long way in 1998. But we cannot be complacent. My purpose today is to spur you on to finish the job. Think of it as a half time pep talk - we're definitely ahead of the game, but could still throw it all away. This time last year, many companies weren't even aware of the problem. Awareness is now 100% - thanks to the work of Action 2000. But the job isn't finished. Action 2000's judgement now is that as a rule larger companies will be ready. But half of smaller companies have not yet started work. The good news is that they still have time to fix the problem if they act now. The bad news is that if they don't, they risk severe problems, including bankruptcy. Of course, Action 2000 hasn't been the only organisation raising awareness. Many private companies, like BT and NatWest, have decided the best way to help themselves is to help the smaller companies who are their suppliers and clients. And many local authorities have done the same - for example the Isle of Wight and Lewisham who have organised seminars for local businesses. This time last year, the skills shortage in small companies looked insuperable. That's why I announced the Bug Buster programme -to train 20,000 small company employees. The latest figures show that 18,000 people have either been trained, are being trained or have booked their course. We will not only meet the targets I set last year. We will do more. I can today announce that we will expand the programme by 10,000 places to 30,000 in all. And these figures are only for England. If you add in figures for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland we will have trained 36,000. Local authorities can also benefit from the expertise which the TECs have developed -you can buy Bug Buster courses from your local team. This time last year, there was no way of knowing what effect the Bug would have on the national infrastructure. Companies that had been focused on sorting out their own problems were starting to worry that those efforts would be in vain if, for example, their electricity or phones didn't work. Since then, Action 2000 has created the National Infrastructure Forum, which brings together the utilities and major public services to work together to prepare for the Bug. They are undergoing one of the most rigorous and objective assessments anywhere in the world. Last Thursday the regulators reported on progress in the key power, telecoms and finance sectors. Their assessment was that these sectors are well on the way to beating the bug. But the job is not finished. Don Cruickshank will be explaining later this morning what he hopes the Forum will achieve this year. And there is also a crucial role for local authorities to play here. We need an Infrastructure Forum in each region. Nick Raynsford has already set up a team in London because the eyes of the world will be on London as we go into the new Millennium. So let me turn now to the meat of today's conference - action at the local level. This time last year, John Prescott and Jeremy Beecham wrote to you asking every leader and chief executive to make dealing with the Bug one of the council's top priorities. We all depend on your services - whether traffic lights and waste collection, benefits or housing. If you can't do this because of the Bug, we will all be affected. And when things go wrong, people turn to their councils, particularly the vulnerable - such as the old and the disabled. I know from my visits around the country and what colleagues tell me that you are acting: * Sorting out your systems * Leading local emergency planning * Raising awareness That you are here today indicates that local government is treating the bug seriously. I want to thank the LGA for organising the conference - a great opportunity to pool knowledge and share best practice. For example, Hertfordshire and Suffolk Coastal District Council will be sharing with you later their approaches to emergency planning. Earlier this month, all the key organisations in Lincolnshire signed the Millennium Bug Pledge - pledging to co-operate and to share information. If any of you have not yet signed the Pledge, you can do so here today. But that is only a first step. We know that in local government, as elsewhere, the job is not finished. Indeed, in some councils there are particular problems which have been identified by the Audit Commission. The best amongst you have sorted out your problems, just as our best companies have. But others still have a good way to go. No one can afford to be complacent. So we are today announcing a package of measures to help local government prepare for the Bug. They are not financial - our proposals for local authority spending already make provision for dealing with the Bug. Today's measures are about sharing information and expertise. It is a package developed in close partnership with the LGA and the Audit Commission. John Prescott, Jeremy Beecham and Helena Shovelton, the new Chair of the Audit Commission, are writing to all council leaders today to tell them what we are doing, how it will help them, and what they need to do. For our part, we are setting up in each of the Government Offices a dedicated team, including people from local authorities, to work with councils in their region. These teams, drawing on the work of the LGA and Audit Commission, will form an overview of what has been achieved and what else needs to be done in their areas. They will work with councils, helping them to share experience and best practice. They will be able to play an important part in providing public reassurance. Because, as in central government, we need to be straight with the public about the state of progress. No one can afford to miss the deadline and if anyone falls behind, the Audit Commission will have to name them. So a huge amount of work has been done in local government, with the LGA acting as a key catalyst. You have made real progress, and we are counting on you to finish the job in 1999. This time last year, the Bug was a potential national emergency. I think Britain has risen to this challenge and that the threat of serious disruption over the Millennium is now falling. But ironically, now is the time we need to plan for such an emergency, even if its likelihood is falling. This is something the media find hard to understand - they assume that because we have plans we must be worried. The truth is that the government has well-established procedures for a wide range of emergencies - from floods to terrorism, from hurricanes to epidemics. Very few of these risks ever materialise, but we would be foolhardy and much criticised if we didn't plan for them. The same is true for the Millennium Bug. We are not inventing new procedures - we are adapting them to the particular circumstances of the Bug, such as New Year's Eve. Indeed, this emergency is in some respects easier to plan for because we know the risk dates in advance. Mike O'Brien, from the Home Office, will be saying more about this later today. For now, I would simply say that many councils are doing excellent work in this area. One example is the Sussex Millennium Management Group. 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I would like to begin by welcoming everybody but particularly the e-envoys from the many different countries who have been kind enough to join us today. You are very welcome to the UK and I hope that you find your trip worthwhile - we are certainly grateful for your contributions to this debate. I consider the question of how we harness the potential of technological change - alongside the related question of science, to be the fundamental economic and social challenge of our future. Long after the cloud of day to day events has dispersed, what we do with information technology and how we use it, will determine our success industrially and as a society for years to come. My message is blunt and simple: we are doing well, but not well enough. Over the next few years we will invest, as a Government, ??6bn in IT. We will radically alter access to IT facilities. But, we have yet to grasp the full scale of the opportunities that the information revolution presents. Business needs to see its application as a core management challenge. Public services need to see it as crucial to implementing public service reform. Government and people should make it the basis of forming relations between citizen and state. For all of that to happen, access needs to be universal not partial. In particular, we must recognise that the greater economic stability we have achieved - lower inflation, low interest rates, low unemployment - is only a foundation. It is a necessary but insufficient condition for success. The key is to build on this -an economy based on knowledge, on the alliance between technology and human capital, so that we are continually developing more high value-added goods and services. I see a very clear link here between British science, the development of British universities and the technological revolution. A couple of weeks ago, I had a presentation at Downing Street from some of our leading scientists. It covered fields such as nano-technology, brain transmitters and the latest in IT. The potential in all cases was immense, for industrial production, medicine and communications. The connection between top quality scientific research and business spin-offs and development was obvious. But I also reflected on how any young person at school receiving such a presentation would have been fascinated by the sheer scale of the possibilities of science and the excitement of it. And in the end, of course, it is business managers or public service reformers that will apply the technology in new ways. The point I am making is this. Part of winning this IT battle for the future is to create a culture in which the worlds of education, academia, science, technology and business are engaged in a perpetual conversation and exchange of views. A conversation in which we are breaking new ground in scientific and technological advance, in which our schools and universities feel comfortable with its potential; in which business and society are naturally looking for ways of applying the advances made. This is the modern industrial policy for any Government of the developed world. It is miles away from planning and picking winners. It has moved beyond the 1980s notion of "get Government out of it". It is a Government role that is enabling, creating the infrastructure of learning in our schools, universities, and in the wider community helping business access the technology, creating the environment in which new businesses can grow. So how does this translate to practical policy? In reaction to an unsustainable boom in stock market valuations, too many people wrote off the potential of new technology in the UK economy. We must take on the techno-sceptics but we must also recognise that technology alone is not the answer. Putting a PC on a desk does not itself boost efficiency. Establishing a broadband connection will not, alone, solve the productivity paradox. As economic research has shown, it is only when investment is combined with the right skills, with imaginative organisational change and rigorous managerial delivery that productivity gains come through. Despite the dramatic fall in share prices the influence of technology has continued to rise steadily. In society, digital technologies are changing the way we live, from the way we communicate through email and text messaging to how we access information. One million people from all over the world accessed the Government's dossier on Iraq within hours of its release on the No10 website, just one simple example of the democratisation of information that was unimaginable until very recently. There are now 600 million people online. Worldwide 140,000 more people connect to the net everyday. In the last three decades the price of a transatlantic phone call has fallen to a small fraction of its original level. In the same period, just as Intel's Gordon Moore predicted, computing power has doubled every eighteen months to two years. A 3G handset, soon to be on sale in every high street in the UK, has around 20,000 times more computing power than the Apollo 11 spacecraft. Recently, we witnessed an incredible moment when scientists at MIT in the US and UCL in London teamed up to pull off the first transatlantic virtual handshake. Using second generation Internet technology, they recreated the sense of touch over a 3000 mile distance - a remarkable development that could have applications for areas as diverse as medicine and design. Many companies are already taking advantage. One example is sheet metal suppliers Allsops in Huddersfield whoinvested in technology to enhance their production process and improve customer service. Enquiries from customers can now be instantly answered from any of the company's networked computers. Customers in a hurry for a quotation can send detailed and complex computer aided design drawings by e-mail, enabling Allsops to respond quickly and effectively. It's given them competitive edge - and saved them time and money. The consequence of all this is enormous. For economies the potential prize is wealth creation. For governments a new relationship between citizen and state. For people, greater prosperity more widely shared. The fundamental challenge is to create a knowledge-driven economy that serves our long-term goals of first-class public services and economic prosperity for all. To do so we need to innovate. We need to use ideas and intelligence in new ways that create higher value added products and better quality services. The opportunity to develop the knowledge driven economy is vastly increased by the digital age. Our ability to find and use information, to share ideas across geographic boundaries, is enhanced immensely by the revolution in communications and computing. Advances in ICT will represent a major shift in the way we work. Many people have drawn parallels between the technological breakthroughs of the past; steam, electricity, the internal combustion engine. But electricity began as a source of power for the telegraph, it took years to revolutionise industry by powering machines on the production line. The opportunity for an ICT revolution is there, but only if we apply the technology in the same radical way in which electricity was applied some eighty to a hundred years ago. And we must extend the opportunities of the information age to all. The networks of the digital age will be more powerful and more productive as the number of people and businesses connected increases. Digital transformation cannot be restricted to the few. Our success depends on extending it to the many. In 1998, I set a target to make the UK 'the best environment in the world for e-commerce by 2002'. I want to thank David Jordan and the Information Age Partnership for their work in this area and for sponsoring the report released today. The report makes clear that the UK has made a great deal of progress since 1997 - but we haven't quite made it. The benchmarking places us in second place behind the USA but we are the best in Europe and ahead of Japan. We have achieved more than many expected and laid the foundations for further improvement. We have made real progress in some key areas; a growing ICT sector, a strong venture capital market, among the world's lowest prices for internet access and the highest penetration of digital TV in the world. But we need to do more to convert progress into a real and positive impact on our economy. We plan to learn from around the world, whether it is the progress Canada has made in creating attractive online government services or the effectiveness with which Sweden has encouraged take up of PCs. I want to highlight five issues. First, we must promote effective competition. Competition drives innovation and competitiveness. It underpins improved business performance. Without it companies will be weaker and consumers will face higher prices and poorer service. Take broadband as a specific example. It is high speed and always-on. It makes using the Internet just like turning on a light. It enhances our ability to communicate, to exchange information and ideas. Some countries have chosen the planning route to drive up broadband numbers. We have deliberately chosen the competitive route. If we want broadband to work for businesses and consumers it has to be available at the right price on the basis of a world class service. Prices are now falling to among the lowest in the world, spurred by the many different products in the market. Take up is now rising towards 30,000 a week, a rate of growth among the best of the world's major economies. Second, we need to create the right incentives and support for businesses to seize the opportunities of new technology. That means investing in skills at every level, and raising the proportion of R&D spend in UK firms - precisely why we introduced the R&D tax credit. It means offering incentives for firms and individuals to invest in ICT. We have introduced capital allowances for small and medium sized enterprises investing in ICT equipment. And a PC leasing scheme through which employees in the UK can now claim a personal tax exemption against the cost of leasing PC's from their employers. But incentives need to be matched by support. We have created UK Online for Business. 100,000 businesses have sought and received advice from UK Online during the last year. Third, we must make the opportunities and benefits of the knowledge economy inclusive. Today, we have reached a milestone in ensuring 'access to the Internet for everyone who wants it by 2005'. In September 2000, I set the government a target of having six thousand UK online centres by the end of this year. We have now opened our six thousandth centre, meeting the target and providing a crucial entry point for those unable to afford PCs and connections. At least 126,000 new users have already come through the doors - a quarter of them unemployed or on benefits. To build on this we will launch an 'Online Nation' campaign next spring. My fourth theme is skills. Imagine the enormous benefits to our economy and society if not just a fraction, but all our young people can master 21st century skills. The productivity gap between the UK and other major competitors is more closely related to skills than any other single factor. We know that around 7 million adults in Britain lack functional literacy and numeracy skills. The number of adults with poorly developed ICT skills exceeds this. We are addressing this through the University for Industry, the Union Learning Fund and a range of workforce development measu r e s . W e n o w h a v e 1 , 8 00 I C T l e a r n i n g c e n t r e s w i t h t r a i n i n g i n b a s i c I C T s k i l l s a v a i l a b l e f r e e t o t h e u n e m p l o y e d a nd pe o p l e w i t hf e w s k i l l s . S i n c e w e l a u n c h e d ' l e a r n d i r e c t ' s o m e 6 0 0 , 0 0 0 p e o p l e h a v e t a k e n1 . 5 m i l l i o n c o u r s e s , o f w h i c h 9 5 0 , 0 0 0 h a v e b e e n I C T c o u r s e s . / p > p b d s f i d = " 7 3 " > 0 0 F o r i m p r o v i n g s k i l l s a n d f o r t a c k l i n g t h e d i g i t a l d i v i d e o u r s c h o o l s a r e f u n d a m e n t a l . 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A s p a r t o f o u r n e x t s t e p s , I c a n a n n o u n c e t o d a y t h a t t h e G o v e r n m e n t w i l l p r o v i d e f u n d i n g t o d e l i v e r b r o a d b a n d c o n n e c t i o n s t o e v e r y s c h o o l b y 2 0 0 6 . / p > p b d s f i d = " 7 5 " > 0 0 B e c a u s e e d u c a t i o n i s t h e n u m b e r o n e p r i o r i t y , a n d b e c a u s e w e b e l i e v e i n o p p o r t u n i t y f o r a l l , e v e r y P r i m a r y a n d e v e r y S e c o n d a r y i n t h e c o u n t r y w i l l h a v e h i g h s p e e d , a l w a y s o n a c c e s s t o t h e v a s t r e s o u r c e s o f t h e I n t e r n e t . E v e r y s c h o o l w i l l b e a b l e t o b e n e f i t f r o m t h e e x p e r i e n c e o f A s h c o m b e S c h o o l i n S u r r e y w h e r e w h o l e c l a s s e s o f s t u d e n t s n o w u s e b r o a d b a n d v i d e o s t r e a m i n g t o s u p p o r t t h e i r f o r e i g n l a n g u a g e G C S E w o r k . A u d i o a n d v i d e o a r e c o m b i n e d w i t h a n i n t e r a c t i v e q u i z w h i c h c a n b e p a u s e d a n d r e p l a y e d t o c a t e r f o r i n d i v i d u a l l e a r n i n g s p e e d s - a n e x c i t i n g a n d e f f e c t i v e w a y o f i m p r o v i n g t h e q u a l i t y o f e d u c a t i o n i n o u r s c h o o l s . B r o a d b a n d a c c e s s w i l l b e b a c k e d b y n e w i n t e r a c t i v e c o n t e n t a n d s u p p o r t m a t e r i a l t h a t w i l l b e m a d e a v a i l a b l e t h r o u g h t h e d i g i t a l c u r r i c u l u m . / p > p b d s f i d = " 7 6 " > 0 0 F i f t h , a s p a r t o f t h e s p e n d i n g r e v i e w s e t t l e m e n t , a t o t a l o f m o r e t h a n ? ? 1 b i l l i o n w i l l b e i n v e s t e d i n n e t w o r k i n g o u r p u b l i c s e r v i c e s . N o t o n l y f o r e v e r y p r i m a r y a n d s e c o n d a r y s c h o o l , b u t b r o a d b a n d c o n n e c t i v i t y f o r e v e r y G P s u r g e r y , e v e r y h o s p i t a l a n d e v e r y P r i m a r y C a r e T r u s t i n t h e c o u n t r y . I t w i l l m e a n h i g h e r b a n d w i d t h a c r o s s t h e e n t i r e c r i m i n a l j u s t i c e s y s t e m a n d a c r o s s o u r n e t w o r k o f o f f i c e s t h a t f o r m t h e D e p a r t m e n t f o r W o r k a n d P e n s i o n s . / p > p b d s f i d = " 7 7 " > 0 0 T h i s w i l l c r e a t e s i g n i f i c a n t p u b l i c s e c t o r d e m a n d . T h a t i s w h y S t e p h e n T i m m s w i l l b e e s t a b l i s h i n g a n e w U K B r o a d b a n d T a s k f o r c e t o e n s u r e t h a t p r o c u r e m e n t h a s t h e m a x i m u m i m p a c t o n t h e a v a i l a b i l i t y o f b r o a d b a n d a c r o s s t h e U K . O v e r t h e c o m i n g y e a r s w e e x p e c t b r o a d b a n d t o r e a c h a w i d e r a n d w i d e r p o p u l a t i o n , r e a c h i n g f u r t h e r i n t o r u r a l a r e a s a n d b e c o m i n g m o r e a n d m o r e i n c l u s i v e . / p > p b d s f i d = " 7 8 " > 0 0 B u t f o r t h e p u b l i c s e r v i c e s , t h e r e a l o p p o r t u n i t y i s t o u s e i n f o r m a t i o n t e c h n o l o g y t o h e l p c r e a t e f u n d a m e n t a l i m p r o v e m e n t i n t h e e f f i c i e n c y , c o n v e n i e n c e a n d q u a l i t y o f o u r s e r v i c e s . / p > p b d s f i d = " 7 9 " > 0 0 T h a t i s w h y w e a i m t o h a v e a l l g o v e r n m e n t s e r v i c e s o n - l i n e b y 2 0 0 5 , b u i l d i n g o n b e s t p r a c t i c e s u c h a s N H S D i r e c t O n - l i n e a n d t h e u n i v e r s i t y a d m i s s i o n s s e r v i c e . 5 4 % o f g o v e r n m e n t s e r v i c e s a r e a l r e a d y o n l i n e a n d w e e x p e c t t h a t f i g u r e t o r i s e t o a r o u n d 7 5 % b y t h e e n d o f t h i s y e a r . B u t w e r e c o g n i s e t h a t B r i t i s h b u s i n e s s e s a n d c i t i z e n s a r e n o t y e t u s i n g g o v e r n m e n t s e r v i c e s o n l i n e i n t h e n u m b e r s t h a t m a t c h t h e b e s t i n t h e w o r l d . / p > p b d s f i d = " 8 0 " > 0 0 S o o u r n e w s t r a t e g y w i l l f o c u s o n d r i v i n g u p a c c e s s i n k e y c a t e g o r i e s i n t h e N H S , e d u c a t i o n , t r a n s p o r t , b e n e f i t s , t a x a n d c r i m i n a l j u s t i c e . I t w i l l i n c l u d e , f o r e x a m p l e , s e r v i c e s t o e n a b l e d r i v e r s t o c o n d u c t a l l t h e i r d e a l i n g s w i t h G o v e r n m e n t s o n l i n e i n c l u d i n g t a x d i s c s , v e h i c l e r e g i s t r a t i o n a n d d r i v i n g l i c e n c e a p p l i c a t i o n s . T r a n s p o r t D i r e c t w i l l p r o v i d e t r a v e l i n f o r m a t i o n l i n k i n g t r a i n s , b u s e s a n d t a x i c o n n e c t i o n s t o i m p r o v e p u b l i c t r a n s p o r t a s a n i n t e g r a t e d s y s t e m . A n d r e w P i n d e r w i l l w o r k w i t h d e p a r t m e n t s t o a g r e e a s t r a t e g y f o r r e f o r m , d e s i g n e d t o i m p r o v e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t , d e l i v e r y a n d c o m m u n i c a t i o n o f o u r o n l i n e s e r v i c e s . / p > p b d s f i d = " 8 1 " > 0 0 O u r p l a n i s n o t o n l y t o o f f e r m o r e c o n v e n i e n t a c c e s s t o s e r v i c e s b u t a l s o t o t r a n s f o r m h o w w e o r g a n i s e m a i n s t r e a m d e l i v e r y . T o o m a n y s e r v i c e s l i v e i n t h e t e c h n o l o g i c a l ' d a r k a g e s ' : t o o f e w t e a c h e r s w i t h t h e i r o w n e - m a i l , a n N H S w i t h o u t a s i n g l e e l e c t r o n i c n e t w o r k , n o t w o p a r t s o f t h e c r i m i n a l j u s t i c e s y s t e m o p e r a t i n g w i t h t h e s a m e c o m p u t e r p a c k a g e s . / p > p b d s f i d = " 8 2 " > 0 0 I n J u l y t h e G o v e r n m e n t m a d e t h e l a r g e s t i n v e s t m e n t i n p u b l i c s e r v i c e s s i n c e 1 9 4 5 , b u t w i t h i t p r o m i s e d r a d i c a l r e f o r m i n t h e p u b l i c s e c t o r . O u r t a s k i s t o u s e t h e i n v e s t m e n t t o s h a p e p u b l i c s e r v i c e s t h a t m e e t m o d e r n e x p e c t a t i o n s . / p > p b d s f i d = " 8 3 " > 0 0 W i t h i n t h e s p e n d i n g r e v i e w s e t t l e m e n t s , a t o t a l o f ?6 b n w i l l b e i n v e s t e d i n I C T o v e r t h e c o m i n g y e a r s . / p > p b d s f i d = " 8 4 " > 0 0 I n t h e N H S w e w i l lb e i n v e s t i n g t oc r e a t e a n a t i o n a l i n t e g r a t ed c a re r e c o r d s s e r v i c e , a n e l e c t r o n i c p r e s c r i p t i o n s s e r v i c e , a n e l e c t r o n i c a p p o i n t m e n t b o o k i n g s e r v i c e . / p > p b d sf i d = " 8 5 " > 0 0 W e k n o w w h a t c a n b e a c h i e v e d . I n a S t o c k p o r t G P p r a c t i c e , t h e e l e c t r o n i c t r a n s f e r o f p a t h o l og y m e s s a g e sh a s r e d u c e d t h e a v e r a g e ti m e t a k e n b e t w e e n r e q u e s t i n g t e s t s a n d r e c e i v i n g r e s u l t s f r o m t w e l v e w o r k i n g d a y s t o t h r e e , w i t h t h e r e s u l t s a u t o m a t i c a l l y i n c o r p o r a t e d i n t o p a t i e n tr e c o r d s . I n a n X - r a y c l i n i c i n N o r t h a m p t o n t h e i n t r o d u c t i o n o f e l e c t r o n i c a p p o i n t m e n t b o o k i n g h a s r e d u c e d m i s s e d a p p o i n t m e n t s f r o m a r o u n d 9 % t o z e r o , s a v i n g s t a f f t i m e a n d r e d u c i n g w a i t i n g t i m e s f o r o t h e r p a t i e n t s . / p > p b d s f i d = " 8 6 " > 0 0 T h i s n o t o n l y r e p l a c e s t h e c u m b e r s o m e a n d i n e f f i c i e n t p a p e r b a s e d a p p r o a c h , b u t w i l l m a k e i t p o s s i b l e f o r a n a m b u l a n c e c r e w a r r i v i n g a t t h e s c e n e o f a n a c c i d e n t t o c h e c k a p a t i e n t s e l e c t r o n i c h e a l t h r e c o r d t h r o u g h a h a n d h e l d m o b i l e d e v i c e . I t w i l l b e p o s s i b l e f o r a G P t o e m a i l a p r e s c r i p t i o n d i r e c t l y t o a p h a r m a c i s t w h o i n t u r n w i l l e m a i l t h e p a t i e n t t o l e t t h e m k n o w i t s r e a d y t o p i c k u p . A n d w e c o u l d e l i m i n a t e u p t o 6 0 0 m i l l i o n p i e c e s o f p a p e r a y e a r a n d m a k e a G P ' s h a n d w r i t i n g l e g i b l e f o r t h e f i r s t t i m e i n h i s t o r y ! / p > p b d s f i d = " 8 7 " > 0 0 A n d w e w i l l b e i n v e s t i n g i n I C T i n f r a s t r u c t u r e t h r o u g h o u t t h e c r i m i n a l j u s t i c e s y s t e m . W e a r e b u i l d i n g a f u t u r e w h e r e v i c t i m s o f v i o l e n t c r i m e c a n p a r t i c i p a t e i n a t r i a l r e m o t e l y t h r o u g h v i d e o c o n f e r e n c i n g . W h e r e w i t n e s s e s a n d p o l i c e o f f i c e r s w i l l n o t h a v e t o w a i t a r o u n d i n c o u r t f o r d a y s a t a t i m e u n t i l t h e y a r e c a l l e d t o g i v e e v i d e n c e , b u t a r e c a l l e d b y t e x t m e s s a g e o r p a g e r . T h i s w i l l f r e e u p t h o u s a n d s o f p o l i c e d a y s w h i c h a r e c u r r e n t l y w a s t e d w a i t i n g t o g i v e e v i d e n c e , s a v i n g m i l l i o n s b y r e d u c i n g t h e n e e d t o r e c o n v e n e t r i a l s w h i c h a r e a b a n d o n e d b e c a u s e w i t n e s s e s h a v e s i m p l y g i v e n u p w a i t i n g a n d g o n e h o m e . / p > p b d s f i d = " 8 8 " > 0 0 H e r e t o d a y w e h a v e a g a t h e r i n g o f e x p e r t s . B u t t h i s i s s u e i s f o r e v e r y o n e . T h i s i s n o t j u s t a b o u t t r a n s f o r m i n g o u r I T b a s e , i t i s c e n t r a l t o o u r p r o j e c t t o m o d e r n i s e o u r p u b l i c s e r v i c e s a n d o u r e c o n o m y , t o d e l i v e r t h e j o b s , t h e b e t t e r s c h o o l s a n d h o s p i t a l s t h a t w e p r o m i s e d . / p > p b d s f i d = " 8 9 " > 0 0 T h e c o m m i t m e n t I h a v e d e s c r i b e d p u t s t h e U K a t t h e f o r e f r o n t o f I C T i n v e s t m e n t i n p u b l i c s e r v i c e s . / p > p b d s f i d = " 9 0 " > 0 0 W e a r e t a k i n g s t e p s t o i m p r o v e p r o j e c t m a n a g e m e n t w i t h i n D e p a r t m e n t s a n d w e a r e r e c r u i t i n g t h e b e s t p e o p l e t o r u n t h e m o s t c h a l l e n g i n g p r o j e c t s . I h a v e a l s o a s k e d P e t e r G e r s h o n t o b r i n g f o r w a r d i m m e d i a t e p r o p o s a l s f o r f u r t h e r s t r e n g t h e n i n g t h e s u c c e s s f u l d e l i v e r y o f I T i n G o v e r n m e n t . / p > p b d s f i d = " 9 1 " > 0 0 T h e n e w t e c h n o l o g i e s r e d r a w t h e p o s s i b l e : i t i s u p t o i n d i v i d u a l s , b u s i n e s s e s a n d g o v e r n m e n t s t o m a k e t h e p o s s i b l e r e a l a n d t o b u i l d a d y n a m i c k n o w l e d g e e c o n o m y a n d s o c i e t y . / p > p b d s f i d = " 9 2 " > 0 0 W e h a v e r e a l c o m p e t i t i v e a d v a n t a g e s : 8 0 % o f t h e w o r l d ' s i n f o r m a t i o n i s s t o r e d i n t h e E n g l i s h l a n g u a g e . W e h a v e s o m e o f t h e w o r l d ' s l e a d i n g I T c o m p a n i e s . B r i t i s h c o n s u m e r s a r e a m o n g t h e f a s t e s t a d o p t e r s o f n e w t e c h n o l o g y i n E u r o p e . / p > p b d s f i d = " 9 3 " > 0 0 O u r m i s s i o n i s t o u n l e a s h t h i s w e a l t h - c r e a t i n g p o t e n t i a l t h r o u g h o u t t h e e c o n o m y . G o v e r n m e n t s d o n o t c r e a t e w e a l t h : w o r k e r s , c o m p a n i e s a n d e n t r e p r e n e u r s d o . O u r t a s k i s t o w o r k w i t h b u s i n e s s e s t o t u r n o u r p o t e n t i a l c o m p e t i t i v e a d v a n t a g e s i n t o t r u l y c o m p e t i t i v e p r o d u c t s a n d s e r v i c e s . / p > p b d s f i d = " 9 4 " > 0 0 S o t h e s e a r e t h e c h a l l e n g e s f o r t h e p u b l i c s e c t o r a n d b u s i n e s s i n t h e U K i f w e a r e t o b e c o m e a g l o b a l k n o w l e d g e e c o n o m y l e a d e r : / p > p b d s f i d = " 9 5 " > 0 0 * T o c r e a t e a n I C T l i t e r a t e w o r k f o r c e th r o u g h s c h o o l s , c o l l e g e s , u n i v e r s i t i e s a n d o u r a d u l t s k i l l s s t r a t e g y . / p > p b d s f i d = " 9 6 " > 00 * T o a p p l y I C T s y s t e m a t i c a l l y a n d e f f e c t i v e l y t o s p u r p r o d u c t i v i t y a n d i n n o v a t i o n i n b u s i n e s s e s a n d p u b l i c s e r v i c e s . / p > p b d s f i d = " 9 7 " > 0 0 * T o t a c k l e t h e d i g i t a l d i v i d e t o e n s u r e t ha t a l l c a n c o n t r ib u t e t o , a n d b e n e f i t f r o m , r i s i n g p r o s p e r i t y . / p > p b d s f i d = " 9 8 " > 0 0 B r i t a i n , Ib e l i e v e , h a s t h e p o t e n t i a l t o b ec o m e a g r e a t t e c h n o l o g i c a l p o w e r h o u s e , m a t c h i n g t h e g r e a t a c h i e v e m e n t s o f t h e 1 9 t h c e n t u r y i nd u s t r i a l re v o l u t i o n w i t h a 2 1 s t c e n t u r y i nf o r m a t i o n r e v o l u t i o n . 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大家好！今天，我站在这里，深感荣幸与激动。

在此，我要向大家发表一篇关于爱国的演讲。

爱国，是中华民族的传统美德，是每个公民应尽的责任和义务。

在这个伟大时代，我们更应该弘扬爱国主义精神，为实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦而努力奋斗。

一、爱国之心，源于血脉自古以来，中华民族就是一个热爱祖国的民族。

我们的祖先，用自己的智慧和勇气，在这片土地上创造了灿烂的文明。

从炎黄子孙到华夏儿女，我们始终把祖国视为生命，把爱国之情深植于血脉之中。

回顾历史，我们可以看到无数爱国志士的英勇事迹。

从屈原投江自尽，表达对国家的忠诚；到岳飞精忠报国，誓死捍卫国家尊严；再到林则徐虎门销烟，坚决抵制外敌入侵。

这些英雄人物，用自己的行动诠释了爱国主义的真谛。

二、爱国之情，源于民族精神中华民族拥有悠久的历史和灿烂的文化，这是我们民族的骄傲。

在漫长的历史进程中，中华民族形成了独特的民族精神，其中最为核心的就是爱国主义。

爱国主义是中华民族精神的重要组成部分。

它激励着我们不断奋发向前，为祖国的繁荣富强而努力拼搏。

在中华民族的精神谱系中，爱国主义是永恒的主题。

三、爱国之行，源于实际行动爱国主义不仅仅是口头上的表达，更需要我们用实际行动去践行。

在新时代，我们要把爱国之情转化为报国之行，为实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦而努力奋斗。

1. 坚定理想信念。

我们要始终坚定中国特色社会主义道路自信、理论自信、制度自信、文化自信，为实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦而努力奋斗。

2. 弘扬民族精神。

我们要传承和发扬中华民族优秀传统文化，弘扬民族精神，增强民族凝聚力，为实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦提供强大的精神动力。

3. 勇于担当责任。

我们要关心国家大事，积极参与国家建设，为实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦贡献自己的力量。

4. 发扬奋斗精神。

我们要勇于创新，敢于拼搏，为实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦而努力奋斗。

四、爱国之路，源于团结奋斗实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦，需要全体中华儿女的共同努力。

标题英国首相布莱尔的演讲(1)Being Prime Minister is a difficult job but nothing's more difficult than being a parent.And there are fewer bigger worries when you are a parent than drugs. No matter how hard you try to bring your children up well, no matter how sensible and decent they are, we all of us worry.What if they fall in with wrong crowd? What if my kids get offered ecstasy at a party or a club? What if someone even offers them drugs at school?Heroin. Ecstasy. Crack. Cocaine.Lethal drugs with lethal consequences. Hard drugs that lead to addiction. Often after starting from so called softer drugs. These drugs ruin lives. They replace hope with despair, they tear families apart. They shatter communities.And they fuel, of course, we all know that, so much of our crime. It is estimated that at least half of all the property crime in this countryis linked in some way to drugs.And it isn't just inner-city housing estates which are prey to drugs.There's not a community, from here in the centre of London to the most remote parts of our countryside, which is free from it. Not a parent - rich or poor - that doesn't worry. Not a family that is immune to the threat.So not just as a Prime Minister, as a parent too, we want to support hard working families and make sure that we engage in a real battle to combat the scourge of drugs in our society.We all know there's no single, simple solution. What's needed is a raft of co-ordinated measures to tackle this modern menace.Choking off the supply of drugs. Catching and punishing drug dealers. Breaking the link between drugs and crime. Treating properly those hooked on drugs. Educating our children about the dangers.Giving families every possible support.New laws are the crucial first step.We're taking new powers to test criminals for drugs.Mandatory testing of all prisoners.New powers to ensure convicted drug offenders are referred for treatment.New seven year minimum sentences for drug dealers.But we have to do more. Because no matter how effectively the police, or courts or customs operate, they can't win this war on their own. We've all got to play our part.That's what's behind the successful Metropolitan Police Rat on a Rat phone-line here in London and the other Crime Stoppers campaigns that are engaging members of the public in this battle too.Just to give you a couple of examples, in one case a grandmother got suspicious about the people next door. From her call to the confidential number, the police were able to bust a。

英国首相布莱尔在美国国会演讲全文(2003年7月17日)议长先生、副总统先生、尊敬的国会议员先生们，我为所受到的热情慷慨的欢迎深深感动。

坦诚而言，我受之有愧，而且有违常规。

首先,我要最诚挚地感谢你们投票授予我国会金质奖章。

但是你们像我一样，知道谁是真正的英雄:那些英勇服役的男女们，你们的和我们的。

他们在这次战争中奋斗并仍然处在危险境地。

我们给予他们的献词应当以此方式来概括: 向他们和他们的家人证实,他们的奋斗和牺牲不是无谓的。

他们的牺牲使后代可以生活在伟大的和平、繁荣和希望之中。

（掌声）让我也表达对布什总统的感激之情。

经过自911灾难时刻以来的我们世界的改变,我们成为盟邦和朋友。

谢谢您的带领,总统先生。

（热烈掌声）议长先生，先生们，我为获此奖而受宠若惊的心情稍有淡化，唯一原因，是被告知第一个国会金质奖章授予了乔治. 华盛顿。

如国会所言，表彰他的“机智英勇的运作”，从而把英国人赶出了波士顿(笑声、掌声)。

在我们到这里来的时候,议员富瑞斯特（FRIST）亲切地向我展示1814年战争的交火之地，英国人在那里火烧国会图书馆。

我知道道歉有点晚了，但仍要说：对不起。

(笑声,掌声，笑声)事实上，你们知道，我的二儿子曾经学习18世纪历史和美国独立战争史,他对我说，“你知道，诺斯勋爵（Lord North, 十八世纪下半叶中期英国首相，美国独立战争的对手。

由于美国独立而下台----译者注），爸爸，他就是那个让我们丢了美国的英国首相。

所以想想吧，无论你将犯多少错误，都不会比那个错误更糟糕。

”(笑声)恐怖主义威胁世界自由国会议员们，我对关于今日世界的使命有相当的紧迫感。

9月11日不是一个孤立的事件，而是一个悲剧的序言。

在伊拉克的另一行动和许多未来的争斗将在悲剧结束之前, 呈现在这个舞台上。

历史从来没有像今天这样，美国的力量如此必要却如此被误解。

或者说, 在普通常识之外，历史的研究没有象今天这样为当前提供如此少的指引。

布莱尔的辞职演讲我回到了这里，塞奇菲尔德。

这是我的选区，我的政治生涯从这里开始，因此，它也应该是见证我政治生涯结束的地方。

我决定辞去工党主席职务。

工党将会挑选出新的领导者。

在6月27日，我将向女王陛下提交辞呈，辞去英国首相职务。

我在这个国家做了10年的首相，相比其他国家和英国历史上的情况而言，这个任期已经足够长的了。

有的时候，征服权力的唯一途径就是放开它。

做今天这个演讲不是一件容易的事情，它是对我执政生涯的一个判断，也是出自民众心中的判断。

我唯一能做的事情，就是在这里说明白过去10年自己所做的事情，以及动因。

我在二战结束后诞生，在社会革命风起云涌的六七十年代，我是一个充满激情的青年。

英国是一个伟大的国家，她拥有辉煌的历史和瑰丽的传统，然而她的前途并未有确定轮廓。

人们的一些想法和行为我不以为然，它们是属于20世纪的意识形态，而这个世界正在进入一个新千年。

当然，人们希望自己和家庭都过得好，同时，在一个个人资产成为国家最宝贵资产的年代，他们也意识到，获取发展和成功的机会应该是平等地摆在大家面前的，无分贵贱。

人们谦和有理，公正理性，没有种族和性别偏见。

他们为国家奉献，尽其义务。

他们意识到，把个人金钱投入公共事务并不是终点，他们更热衷于参与到组织和管理事务中来。

因此，1997年顺理成章地成为一个崭新的开始，它把过去的碎片一扫而空。

民众的期待空前高涨，以致于超出了我们的承受能力。

到2021年，其中的不如人意和负面之处已经非常明显了。

然而，回过头去，认真地回想，认真对比一下1997年5月和如今的2021年，你们自己的生活状况。

问一下，你们上一次需要排队一年才轮到医疗机会，是什么时候了?你们上一次听说福利金被冻结而难以安稳度过寒冬，是什么时候了?自1945年以来，只有一个政府做到了这些：更多的工作机会;更少的失业人员;更加完善的教育和医疗体制;较低的犯罪率;以及经济每季度的持续增长。

能做到这些的，就是我们。

然而我并不需要一个统计图表。

I am delighted to be back in my constituency at such an exciting and important event. Sedgefield is one of the pioneers of the sustainable communities' project. Britain will never be a modern, forward-looking country if it is a place whose beauty, character, air, rivers, are polluted, defaced, and contaminated. To be modern is to be green. It is about seeking new solutions to new environmental challenges. Not just so that future generations have a planet that is still inhabitable but so that all of us going about our lives today can improve our quality of life. And it is about working with business to ensure that our companies and industry are able to take advantage of the huge opportunities that markets for new technologies offer. Many businesses already recognise that this agenda is an opportunity not a threat. It is also about recognising that we will only succeed if we work together. Individuals, business, communities and government must all act if we are to meet these new challenges. Communities such as Sedgefield are taking the lead. Today we have all seen examples of people and communities who have decided to take effective and practical action to change their lifestyles so that they benefit and the environment benefits. I am particularly pleased that so many different businesses and organisations have been involved, from Northumbrian Water, to the library, from Fujitsu to local schools, working together in partnership. I hope that many more local communities will take up the challenge. And I welcome Going for Green's "Eco-Cal" initiative - a computer based tool to help people measure how green their lifestyle is. It encourages people to recycle, to walk more, to turn their thermostats down, to wash their car with a bucket not a hose. It will help all of us save money on our energy bills, improve the quality of our local environment-in short how to live a more sustainable lifestyle. Small changes can collectively make a big difference to energy use. There are so many simple things that can be done when you realise the waste that occurs in our daily lives; Every nine months households generate enough waste to fill Lake Windermere. A third of household waste is packaging. Hosing a car for ten minutes uses almost 100 litres of water. Leaving a computer screen on all night uses enough power to print 800 pages of A4 paper. Lighting an empty office overnight is equivalent to making 1,000 cups of coffee. What these facts show is that working towards a greener country doesn't require a PhD in bio-chemistry merely a degree of common sense and thought. Well over half of all journeys are less than 5 miles and if we did more of them on foot or by bike rather than by car we would save ourselves money, avoid causing pollution and make ourselves a bit healthier - in short improve our quality of life. Our job as a government is to encourage local action of this sort but also to take a lead ourselves. Since May 1 we have done just that. In a few short months we have: Set tough targets on leakage for water companies to meet. Given 3m to the Iwokrama rainforest in Guyana. Published a White paper on international development committing Britain to sustainable development. But I want to do more. I want to tackle head on the serious and growing pressures on the country's transport systems. We cannot carry on as we are. We know the problem. Congestion in our cities is increasing. At times there is complete log-gam. Pollution, noise, personal frustration, road rage, as well as extra costs and inconvenience is the result. That is why we are undertaking a fundamental review of transport policy so that we have an integrated transport policy that makes public transport a real and attractive alternative. Of course many people will always want to use their car. Often their livelihood depends on it. That is why we must takeadvantage of new technological advances to ensure that we minimise the adverse environmental impact of car use. Firstly we will provide 5m of grant funding to be matched by industry funds to help industry and academia work together to develop vehicles that are more environmental friendly through the foresight Vehicle Link programme. I want us to find new ways of making car use greener. So I have asked Ian McAllister of Fords, president of the society of Motor Manufacturers, to join with Gavin Strang in setting up a partnership between government and the private sector to find ways of making it easier for the public to switch to greener vehicles, more fuel efficient vehicles. I want people to be able to make real choices, and choosing an environmentally friendly car should be a real cost-effective alternative. We need new attitudes, so that more drivers think green. We are also taking action on air quality. Our first step will be to put in place a National Air Quality Strategy. We will give local authorities the tools they need to assess air quality and devise strategies to deal with problem areas. Local authorities in seven areas are going to be given the powers to carry out roadside checks on vehicles to make sure that all vehicles are up to standard. If this is successful it will be extended throughout the country. Second, we are going to make information about air quality easier to understand, so that people will be able to judge us on the progress we make. And we will also use the opportunity of our Presidency in the EU next year to make progress on reaching agreements to ensure that cars, vans and lorries sold throughout the EU minimise their emissions. This government's lead is not just about what we can do in Britain but how we can influence the international community. The government is convinced of the need to tackle the factors which contribute to climate change. Many of you will be aware that Sir Robert May, the government's Chief Scientific Adviser published a report in October which showed the evidence is now clear. At current trends carbon dioxide will be present in the atmosphere at twice pre-industrial levels by the middle of the next century and still rising. The IPPC predict this would mean an average global temperature rise of about 2.5??° by the end of the next century. This could lead to a rise in sea levels of up to 50cm on average causing widespread flooding of low lying coastal areas. It is a global problem and needs a global solution. The Kyoto conference in December is an opportunity to show that we and other developed countries are serious about taking this challenge on. We are in the forefront of efforts to secure a successful outcome at Kyoto. John Prescott has done sterling work in the negotiations so far and will continue to play a key role in the next few weeks to press for progress. We are urging all developed countries to agree to take on serious targets to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. I do not underestimate the challenges that we face in securing a meaningful agreement. But I also say that we should not underestimate the potential threat that climate change poses and it is vital that developed countries take the lead in reducing emissions. The message of today is that local action by individuals and national action by government can work together to make sure that progress today does not mean a degraded environment tomorrow. Britain is the country of Constable and Turner; of rural dreams and seaside holidays; of the Lake District and spectacular coastlines; the prettiest villages and the most vibrant cities. To be modern is to make our historic love of the countryside and of nature a modern day commitment to protect and sustain our environment. In Sedgefield today and Kyoto in December we see two ways in which we, the British people, can made an important start.。

I cannot recall a time when Britain was confronted, simultaneously, by such a range of difficult and, in some cases, dangerous problems. Iraq, and the prospect of committing UK troops to action if Saddam Hussein continues to flout international law and fails properly to disarm; the mass of intelligence flowing across my desk that points to a continuing threat of attack by Al Qaida; the lack of progress on the Middle East Peace Process which has the potential to wreak havoc well beyond that region; and more recently the disturbing developments over North Korea's nuclear programme. In the era of globalisation the world is more interdependent than ever. Whilst that has brought many benefits, particularly economic and cultural, it has brought risks too. Alongside security concerns, there are economic concerns arising from lack of confidence in key parts of the world economy. Last year global economic growth slowed to its lowest level since the first oil price shock in the 1970s. G7 industrial production actually fell and world trade stagnated following years of steady growth. This followed the world's three largest economies, the US, Japan and Germany, all experiencing recession in 2001. Growth picked up during 2002, led by recovery in the US. But growth in the Eurozone remains weak, particularly in Germany, and there is little sign of sustained recovery in Japan. Stock markets have fallen sharply during the course of the year, weakening hopes of a rapid investment-led recovery. Amid these twin concerns over world security and the world economy, my message is this: that though the concerns are real and justified, Britain is well placed to face up to them. The blunt truth is that there has never been a time when domestic and foreign policy were so closely linked. The world economy will be intimately affected by world events on peace and security, for good or ill. The British economy is hugely dependent on developments both in the US and European economies. All of this means that for many people the defining characteristic of the modern world is insecurity. People worry about the terrorist threat; the economic slowdown; the effect on jobs and pensions; and the sense that in key areas of social behaviour, and in our asylum system, those that play by the rules are being damaged by those that don't. It is fashionable in these times to dismiss the importance of politics and political decisions. Fashionable, but foolish. For whether we survive and prosper or decline in the face of this insecurity depends crucially on the political decisions Britain now takes. My belief is that however tough these decisions, the right decisions are clear and should be taken regardless of short-term popularity. * we must push on with the MEPP, whatever the problems, because otherwise we are guilty of the very double standards we are accused of * we must continue to take a leading role in the fight against terror. Doing so doesn't make us a target. We are a target anyway, as is every country in the world in the eyes of today's breed of terrorist, and the only way to stop being a target is to stop the terrorists * we must continue to play our full part in Europe because though difficult, there is no future in Britain marginalising itself in Europe where almost 50 per cent of our trade and many of our key alliances lie * we must hold firm, in these uncertain economic times, to the new framework of economic management we delivered in 1997 which has given us the lowest interest rates, inflation and unemployment for decades * we must put in the new investment in our public services, including through the tax rises that will come in this April, because already this new investment, despite the critics, is visibly improving our schools and hospitals * we must be bold on reform, opening up public services to greater diversity of supply, consumer choice and flexibility of working, ending the "one size fits all" idea of the past. This includes university reform, where, without change, Britain will lose a vital strategic national asset * we must enforce the changes in our criminal justice system and new penalties for anti-social behaviour, which alongside the huge investment we are making, are an indispensable part of creating a society of rights and responsibilities * we should carry on making the choices that cut poverty, whether for children, working families or pensioners None of these positions is easy. None will be popular in the short-term. But all help to set Britain on a course of greater prosperity, security and fairness for the long-term. I believe more than ever before, that the central message of the Government is right: at home and abroad, we needmeasures that combine a tough hard-headed approach to the economic and security threats we face, with a vision of a more equal and fair society, and a more equal and fair world. On Iraq, the choice is Saddam's. No-one wants a military confrontation with Iraq. But Iraq must be disarmed of WMD. By going down the UN route, the international community has given Saddam the chance for peaceful disarmament. If he does not seize it, he will have to be disarmed by force. Faced with his continual defiance of the UN, and knowing as we do the risk to the region and the world, we will be failing in our duty to make the world a safer place if we allow him to continue to develop WMD unhindered. Uniquely, he has used them before. He has to be stopped before he does so again. And to rogue states developing and trading in WMD, and terrorist groups, who would acquire and use them if they could, the message must go out; they can not and will not be allowed to. Al Qaida is a difficult enemy. Loosely organised, operating in many countries, fanatical, extreme, with no respect for human life. The threat we face is real, but our response must strike the right balance between necessary vigilance against a serious enemy, and our determination to preserve our way of life. We have stepped up security, and for most people, life goes on as normal, but there is no such thing as 100% ecurity, and all of us must be alert and vigilant. In the meantime, the government will continue to address the other international challenges, on the environment, on the poverty, war and famine that mark out Africa as a special problem for our world. We have to reach out to the Arab and Muslim world, and show that the hand of friendship is sincerely extended. We must understand too the anger they feel, that progress in the MEPP has been so slow, so painful, so deadly. We must focus on moving the process forward: on security, on political reform, on the only viable solution the whole world now supports - an Israeli state, recognised by all, and a viable Palestinian state. And we have to do it quickly which is why the UK will host a conference on Palestinian reform early in the New Year. Until we give a sense of hope and progress this issue will continue to cast a dark shadow over our world. Closer to home, continuing to build a lasting peace in Northern Ireland will require more hard work, courage and commitment. Added to all this is the enormity of some of the issues on the European front. The recent Copenhagen Summit cleared the way for the historic enlargement of Europe, which should further strengthen peace and prosperity across our continent. We are well placed in the discussions in the Convention on the future of Europe and our vision of Europe as a union of nation states co-operating in our common interest is widely shared. And this year we will face what may be the single most important decision that faces this political generation - the question of whether to join the Euro. We see no constitutional bar to joining, and the political case for entry is overwhelming. But ultimately it is an economic union, and it is an economic case that must be made. The judgement must be whether it is good for British jobs and industry, and for the living standards of the British people. We will publish our assessment by June and if it is positive, put the case for entry in a referendum. The British people will have the final say. So with the world economy, Iraq, terrorism, the MEPP, Africa, the environment, Europe, the Euro, this is a big and difficult agenda. We have shown on the international agenda what can be done. No-one who visits Afghanistan can fail to be impressed both by the enormous distance still to go, but also by the palpable sense of hope. Britain is now lea d i n g t h e w o r l d o n t h i r d w o r l d a i d , d e b t a n d d e v e l o p m e n t . / p > p b d s f i d = " 1 0 4 " > 0 0 A n d t h e c h a l l e n g e s th a t w e a s a G o v e r n m e n t h a v e s e t f o r t h e s e c o n d t e r m a r e m u c h c l o s e r t o h o m e , n a m e l y t h e l i vi n g s t a n d a r d s o f o u r p e o p l e a n d t h e i m p r o v e m e n t o f p u b l i c s e r v i c e s , w i t h s c h o o l s a n d h o s p i t a l s f i r s t . / p > p b d s f i d = " 1 0 5 " > 0 0 T h e r e i s r e a l p r o g r e s s . 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A n d I d e f y a n y o n e t o v i s i t a S u r e S t a r t p r o g r a m m e i n a n y p a r t o f B r i t a i n t o d a y a n d s a y t h e i n v e s t m e n t d o e s n ' t m a t t e r . / p > p b d s f i d = " 1 0 6 " > 0 0 T h a t i s n o t t o d e n y t h e p r o b l e m s : t h e f a i l u r e s i n t r a n s p o r t ; s t i l l a n i n s u f f i c i e n c y o f c a p a c i t y i n t h e N H S ; s t i l l t o o m a n y f a i l i n g s e c o n d a r y s c h o o l s ; p o o r c o n v i c t i o n r a t e s i n t h e C J S . B u t w e s h o u l d s e t p r o b l e m s a n d p r o g r e s s i n a c o n t e x t t h a t i s b a l a n c e d . A n d w h e r e p r o g r e s s h a s b e e n m a d e , i t h a s b e e n m a d e b e c a u s e w e h a v e h e l d f i r m t o t h e r e f o r m p a t h . / p > p b d s f i d = " 1 0 7 " > 0 0 S o t h a t i s w h e r e w e w i l l b e i n t h e c o m i n g y e a r . 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布莱尔的辞职演讲尊敬的各位同事和朋友们，今天，我站在这里向大家宣布我将辞去首相职务。

这对我来说是一个非常艰难的决定，但我相信这是对国家和党派的最好选择。

在过去的十年里，我有幸担任这个伟大国家的首相，并且为能够为人民服务而感到无比自豪。

我一直坚信，在团结和努力的基础上，我们能够实现更美好的未来。

然而，我也清楚地看到，现在是我离开的时候了。

首先，我希望感谢我的团队和全体工作人员，因为没有他们的支持和努力，我不可能完成我在政府中的使命。

他们是这个国家的无名英雄，他们的努力和奉献使我们能够取得各种成就。

我也要感谢我的家人，因为在我身边，他们一直是我力量和勇气的源泉。

我的妻子和孩子们一直支持着我，并且在我最困难的时刻给予了我无限的鼓励和支持。

辞职决定的背后有许多原因，但最主要的原因是，我相信我已经完成了我在这个国家的使命。

我带领政府采取了一系列措施来改善国家的经济状况、保障人民的福祉，并维护国家在国际事务中的地位。

现在，是时候将领导的责任交给新一代的领导人，他们将带领我们走向更美好的未来。

当然，在我任职的过程中，我也犯下了一些错误。

我希望向国民道歉，因为这些错误给你们带来了困扰。

但我也希望你们明白，我一直努力为你们的利益而工作，并且我相信，我们已经取得了一些积极的成果。

作为一个离任的首相，我将继续为这个国家和党派做出贡献。

我会继续关注政治和社会事务，并通过各种方式支持我接班人的工作。

最后，我想向全体国民表示真诚的感谢。

你们的支持和信任是我追求进步和改变的动力源泉。

我希望你们继续支持新的领导人，并一同推动这个国家迈向更加辉煌的未来。

谢谢大家！。