布莱尔三次蝉联首相职务的获胜英语演讲稿

Hello and welcome to what I am sure will be the first of many direct broadcasts from the Downing Street website. I'm sitting here at my desk in Downing Street in front of my PC terminal, which I'm just getting to use after many years of not really wanting to come to terms with the new computer technology. I did a course. I'm coming to terms with it. I'm using the new PC terminal and it really brings me to reflect upon what I wanted to say to you this week, which is of course the importance of education and skills-the importance of education and skills for everyone including adults but most particularly for our children. My children, like others, are having to learn the new technology. They have to become expert at it and they are going to be leaving school and going to work in a world in which skill and talent and ability is not just their route to personal fulfilment, it is their route to prosperity. They will need those skills and talents if they have got any chance of succeeding. And the country needs them to be highly skilled as well.In Britain, we've always been excellent at educating an elite well. The top 20 per cent have always been pretty well educated. But for the majority, the standards just haven't been high enough. We've had a poverty of ambition and aspiration which has meant that large numbers of people leave school either without qualifications or without nearly the qualifications they need. Our vision for the education system is really like this. We need education throughout life. Everyone understands that.It has to begin at a young age so the first stage is nursery education for the four year olds and three year olds. And we're pretty well on the way to achieving that. The four year olds have now got the chance of decent nursery education. We've doubled the numbers of three year olds who get the chances of nursery education and will extend that further over time.Then after that, at the second stage, we need primary schools that really focus on the basics - getting literacy and numeracy right and I'll come back to that in a minute.And then the third stage is a comprehensive system. That isn't comprehensive in the sense of being so uniform that everyone gets the same type of teaching in the same way as if they were all of the same ability. But is comprehensive in the sense that everyone gets the chance of an equal opportunity dependent on their ability, to do the very best that they can.And the fourth stage is a university system where we're opening up access to more people and where we're building up really high class, high quality universities.So, going back to the primary school system, this week we had a report from OFSTED - which is the body that inspects all our schools and says how they're doing - we had a report which was good news in many ways and showed where we still have to improve.On the primary schools they've pointed out that, thanks to the reforms of the literacy and numeracy hour, then results of English and Maths for the test for 11 year olds had shot up to the best ever. And that's good news. It's a great tribute to the people and of course the teachers. And it's important in other ways too because what it meant was that we could see that the reforms introduced, which many people resisted at the time, have actually yielded good results, I think we're well on the way, with the reduction in infant class sizes and the new money that's going into primary school buildings to make our primary schools a place where kids can pretty much be guaranteed the very basics they need for later life education.What we've now got to do is turn our attention to the secondary schools. And here, in a sense, we've tolerated bad results and low expectations, particularly in some of the inner city comprehensives, for far too long. Now when I said we wanted a comprehensive system in which there was equal opportunity but where we didn't have a uniform system, what I meant by that was we need schools that all have strong headteachers, good discipline and ethos of hard work and learning, high quality motivated teachers, parents that get involved, good facilities - all these things are vital, and you can tell a good school the moment you walk through the door. Those things are, if you like, common to all good schools. But then we also need to recognise that children are of different abilities and we also need to recognise that schools can specialise in different types of subjects. So what we are now doing is, as well as trying to raise standards generally in the schools, developing specialist schools and, in fact by the year 2003, about a quarter of our secondary schools will be specialist schools. That means that they will specialise in science or languages or technology and they'll offer something particular, and a bit more in those specalties that wil attract children to the school they want to specialize in that way,but also raise the standards in the school generally.Along with all the other investment that we're putting in-with the changes in teachers' pay so that teachers can get an increase above the ordinary increase but related to standards of performance, along with the measures we're taking to train headteachers properly and to set up a new college of leadership for our schools where we're trying to develop the headteachers of the future - along with all these things, I think we will be able to build a secondary school system for the future that isn't abouteither returning to the old system where we divided kids up into successes and failures at the age of 11, but is getting away from, if you like, the 60s or 70s concept of the comprehensive school. So I think again there the OFSTED report said that we were making improvements. They said that the majority of schools were doing better than they were last year but we've got some way to go. And we've acknowledged that and I hope that the reforms that we're putting in place will help us get there. So, yes we've got a long way to go, but there's nothing more important in Britain than the sort of teenagers that emerge from our schools. And our aim has got to be that more and more of them get high quality, high class education that enables them to go into university or to develop their skills in a way that gives them the chance of fulfilling their own potential. And I think that's within our reach. We need the investment in our schools, but we need the reform and the modernisation too. So it's a long haul but this week's OFSTED report is important because it shows we can make a difference.I'm the first to say that we have to go even further. That education is my passion, the passion of this Government. We said it would be our number one priority. It is our number one priority. And I think we can say asa result of this report this week that, yes, there's much still to do buta lot has been achieved. Britain's schools are getting better step by step, and, as those reforms take root, and as people start to see the results of those reforms, then I think we can build the notion of high quality excellent education for all as the national purpose for Britain as we begin the 21st Century.。

英国首相鲍里斯·约翰逊的胜选演说•本文译自英国保守派杂志 The Spectator（7月23日）•英文标题：Full text: Boris Johnson’s victory speech•万吉庆译，译文约1700字，个别语句得到了徐衍老师的帮助，在此表示感谢•英文原文见文末的“阅读原文”……………………谢丽尔，谢谢你。

查尔斯，谢谢你。

布兰登，你组织了一场出色的、有条不紊的竞选活动，无比感谢。

正如布兰登所言，我认为这次胜选很大程度上归功于我们（保守）党，归功于我们的价值观和理想。

不过，我首先要感谢我的对手杰里米（译注：杰里米·亨特）。

大家一致认为，你是一个令人敬畏的竞选者、伟大的领袖、伟大的政治家。

杰里米，在20场竞选活动中，或者说像竞选那样的活动中，你奔波了3000多英里，顺便说一下，我们在全国各地来回跑了大约7000英里。

你一直很友好。

你脾气真好。

你有很多了不起的点子，我打算把它们偷过来。

最重要的是，我要感谢我们即将离任的领导人特蕾莎·梅，感谢她为这个党和这个国家做出的杰出贡献。

能在她的内阁任职是我的荣幸，我还有幸看到她满怀热情、锲而不舍地投身各项事业，从男女同工同酬到解决刑事司法系统中的心理健康和种族歧视问题，这将成为你的遗产。

谢谢你，特蕾莎，谢谢。

而且，我要感谢你们所有人，今天在座的所有人，当然还有每一个保守党人，感谢你们的辛勤工作，感谢你们的竞选活动，感谢你们的公共精神，当然也感谢你们刚刚授予我非凡的荣誉和特权。

我知道这里会有人质疑你们的决定是否明智。

在座的有些人甚至可能还在想他们到底做了些什么。

我要向你们指出的是，显然没有人，没有一个党派，没有一个人可以垄断智慧。

但如果你看看这个政党过去200年的历史，你会发现正是我们保守党对人性有着最深刻的洞见，人心有各种冲动互相冲突，而我们最懂得怎样弥合调解。

而且，英国人民一次次求助于我们，以便在各种本能中求得平衡。

I make no apologies for returning to the subject of drugs so soon. As I said three weeks ago, the threat drugs pose to our children is something which terrifies all parents.Some of you may have seen the TV programme on Wednesday night about the death of Leah Betts after taking ecstasy. Not long ago, I sat down - with Mo Mowlam and Keith Hellawell, whos the UKs anti-drugs co-ordinator and I listened to Leahs parents talk about their grief and their anger and most of all their crusade for the future against drugs.Their tragedy was every parents nightmare. And what was chilling as you listened to them was that you realised it could happen to anyones daughter, to anyones son.Its why Im determined that, as a country, we will do everything we can to tackle the menace of drugs. But theres no point pretending we can do it alone.Those behind this evil trade dont recognise national borders. The drugs that cause the most damage to our young people and to our society are not grown here. Theyre often not refined here. And the main supply routes, as you know, are usually controlled by criminal gangs based a long way from our shores.Hard drugs sold on the streets of London or Glasgow can be grown in Afghanistan or Columbia and make a fortune for criminals based anywhere in the world.So if we are serious about stopping the drugs trade we have to think and act internationally. Because unless we do, we will simply fail.Of course, its up to us as countries to draw up our own policies and plans to tackle drugs. And the weapons we use wont always be the same in the fight against drugs.Keith Hellawell is driving forward new policies and new approaches to tackling drugs here. Policies which are already making a difference.And I was in Scotland yesterday to look at the Drug Enforcement Agency - set up as one of the first priorities of the new Scottish Parliament.Its an exciting initiative intended to co-ordinate action against drugs north of the border and one we will be watching closely.But whether we do things slightly differently in Scotland to England, or in the UK to the rest of the Europe, or indeed in Europe to the rest of the world, the real lesson for all of us is that we can only win this war against drugs together.There is a great deal of good work already going on internationally particularly in Europe - between Governments, police forces and other anti-drug agencies such as customs.But if we needed any reminder that more must be done, we only have to look at the amount of drugs still being peddled on our streets, the number of addicts and the amount of crime fuelled by drugs.So we want to press European Union leaders to give an even higher priority to this battle.There must be rapid progress, for instance, on agreeing minimum penalties throughout the European Union for those caught trafficking in drugs like cocaine and heroin. Dealers must know they will face severe penalties wherever they are caught.I also want us to work harder in Europe to learn from each other. We all share drug problems. We must also share the successful methods we have found to counter them.And I want to see common targets so we can measure the success of our anti-drug action plans. By enabling us to compare our performance nationally, it will highlight the weaknesses so that we can put them right.But we have also got to reach out beyond the existing European Union members to countries like Poland and Hungary - helping those countries that want to join us.We are already helping them economically to prepare for European Union membership. But we must also help them in the fight against international crime and drugs. Not just for their own sakes now but for the future of an enlarged European Union.Britain will be setting a lead by expanding our own anti-drugs programmes with these countries.Increasing the assistance, for instance, we already give in training police and customs officers. Providing the extra resources they need from sniffer dogs to computer software to spot money laundering.So we are going to set a lead internationally. Keith Hellawell is doing this with INTERPOL and the United Nations. But we are also going to do more at home.In the next few days, we will be unveiling the new Criminal Justice Bill. This will give police new powers to help break the link between drugs and crime. For the first time, they will be able to test for drugs suspects they have arrested for a whole range of offences.Its a controversial move but one that I am convinced is right. Because I know you expect us to do all we can to combat the threat drugs pose to our families, our communities and our country. And that's what we will continue to do, whether at home or abroad.。

卡梅伦首相府发表的胜选英语演讲稿I’ve just been to see Her Majesty the Queen, and I will now form a majority Conservative government.I’ve been proud to lead the first coalition government in 70 years, and I want to thank all thosewho worked so hard to make it a success; and in particular, on this day, Nick Clegg. Electionscan be bruising clashes of ideas and arguments, and a lot of people who believe profoundly inpublic service have seen that service cut short. Ed Miliband rang me this morning to wish meluck with the new government; it was a typically generous gesture from someone who isclearly in public service for all the right reasons.The government I led did important work: it laid the foundations for a better future, and nowwe must build on them. I truly believe we’re on the brink of something special in our country;we can make Britain a place where a good life is in reach for everyone who is willing to workand do the right thing. Our manifesto is a manifesto for working people, and as a majoritygovernment we will be able to deliver all of it; indeed, it is the reason why I think majoritygovernment is more accountable.Three million apprenticeships; more help with childcare; helping 30 million people cope with thecost of living by cutting their taxes; building homes that people are able to buy and own;creating millions more jobs that give people the chance of a better future. And yes, we willdeliver that in/out referendum on our future in Europe.As we conduct this vital work, we must ensure that we bring our country together. As I said inthe small hours of this morning, we will govern as a party of one nation, one United Kingdom.That means ensuring this recovery reaches all parts of our country: from north to south, fromeast to west. And indeed, it means rebalancing our economy, building that “NorthernPowerhouse”. It means giving everyone in our country a chance, so no matter where you’re fromyou have the opportunity to make the most of your life. It means giving the poorest peoplethe chance of training, a job, and hope for the future. It means that for children who don’t getthe best start in life, there must be the nursery education and good schooling that cantransform their life chances. And of course, it means bringing together the different nations ofour United Kingdom.I have always believed in governing with respect. That’s why in the last Parliament, we devolvedpower to Scotland and Wales, and gave the people of Scotland a referendum on whether to stayinside the United Kingdom. In this Parliament I will stay true to my word and implement asfast as I can the devolution that all parties agreed for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.Governing with respect means recognising that the different nations of our United Kingdomhave their own governments, as well as the United Kingdom government. Both are important,and indeed with our plans, the governments of these nations will become more powerful, withwider responsibilities. In Scotland, our plans are to create the strongest devolved governmentanywhere in the world with important powers over taxation. And no constitutional settlementwill be complete, if it did not offer, also, fairness to England.When I stood here 5 years ago, our country was in the grip of an economic crisis. Five years on,Britain is so much stronger, but the real opportunities lie ahead. Everything I’ve seen over thelast 5 years, and indeed, during this election campaign, has proved once again that this isacountry with unrivalled skills and creativeness; a country with such good humour, and suchgreat compassion, and I’m convinced that if we draw on all of this, then we can take theseislands, with our proud history, and build an even prouder future.Together we can make Great Britain greater still. Thank you.。

布莱尔演讲稿：《I Did What I Thought Was Right我问心无愧》中英I Did What I Thought Was RightResignation Speech (May 10, 2007)Thank you very much, indeed.It’s a great privilege to be with you here again today and to thank all of you, too, for such a wonderful and warm welcome, especially Maureen and her friends, who gave me such a wonderful welcome. The only thing is theywhen I was coming in"Four more years,I was saying, "Maureen, that’s not our message for today."I’d just like to say, also, if I might, just a special word of thanks to John Burton. John has been my agent here for many years now. He’s still the best political adviser that I’ve got. He’sall the years I’ve known him, he’s been steadfast in his loyalty to me, to the Labour Party, and to the Sunderland Football Club, not necessarilyin that order. We won’t get into that.But, you know, it’s been my great good fortune at certain points in my life to meet exceptional people, and he is one very exceptional person.And also, if I may refer to another exceptional person, who’s my wife, friend and partner Cherie.And the children, of course, Euan and Nicky and Kathryn and Leo, who make me never forget my failings... but give me great love and support.So I’ve come back here to Sedgefield to my constituency, where my political journey began and where it’s fitting that it should end.Today I announce my decision to stand down from the leadership of the Labour Party. The party will now select a new leader. On the 27th of June, I will tender my resignation from the office of prime minister to the queen.I’ve been prime minister of this country for just over 10 years. In this job in the world of today, I think that’s long enough for me, but more especially for the country. And sometimes, the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down.It’s difficult in a way to know how to make this speech. There are obviously judgments to be made on my premiership, and in the end, that is for you the people to make.I can only describe what I think has been done over these last10 years and, perhaps more important, why I tried to do it. And I’ve never quite put it in this way before.I was born almost a decade after the Second World War. I wasa young man in the social revolution of the ‘60s and ‘70s. I reached political maturity as the Cold War was ending, and the world was going through a political and economic and technological revolution.And I looked at my own country: a great country, wonderful history, magnificent traditions, proud of its past, but strangely uncertain of its future, uncertain about the future, almostold-fashioned.And all that was curiously symbolized, you know, in the politics of the time. You had choices. You stood for individual aspiration and getting on in life or social compassion and helping others. You were liberal in your values or conservative. You believed in the power of the state or the efforts of the individual. Spending more money on the public realm was the answer or it was the problem.And none of it made sense to me. It was 20th-century ideology in a world approaching the new millennium.Of course, people want the best for themselves, and their families, but in an age where human capital is the nation’s greatest asset, they also know it’s just and sensible to extend opportunities to develop the potential to succeed for all our people, not just the elite at the top. And people today are open-minded about race and sexuality, they’re averse to prejudice, and yet deeply, rightly, conservative with a small c when it comes to good manners, respect for others, treating people courteously. They acknowledge the need for the state and the responsibility ofthe individual. And they know spending money on our public services matters. And they know it’s not enough: How they are run and organized matters, too.So 1997 was a moment for a new beginning, the sweeping away of all the detritus of the past. And expectations were so high. Too high, probably. Too high in a way for either of us.And now, in 2007, you could easily point to the challenges or the things that are wrong or the grievances that fester. But go back to 1997. Think backno, really think back.Think about your own living standards then in May 1997 and now. Visit your local school, any of them around here or anywhere in modern Britain. Ask when you last had to wait a year or more on a hospital waiting list or heard of pensioners freezing to death in the winter, unable to heat their homes.There is only one government since 1945 that can say all of the following: more jobs, fewer unemployed, better health and education results, lower crime, and economic growth in every quarter. Only one government: This one.But we don’t need statistics. There’s something bigger than what can be measured in waiting lists or GSCE results or the latest crime or jobs figures.Look at the British economy, at ease with globalization; London, the world’s financial center; visit our great cities in this country and compare them with 10 years ago. No country attracts overseas investment like we do.And think about the culture in Britain in the year 2007. I don’t just mean our arts that are thriving. I mean our values: the minimum wage, paid holidays as a right, amongst the best maternity leave and pay in Europe, equality for gay people.Or look at the debates that reverberate around the world today: the global movement to support Africa in its struggle against poverty, climate change, the fight against terrorism. Britain is not a follower today. Britain is a leader. It gets the essential characteristic of today’s world: It’s interdependence.This is a country that today for all its faults, for all the myriadof unresolved problems and fresh challenges, it is a country comfortable in the 21st century, at home in its own skin, able not just to be proud of its past, but also confident of its future.And I don’t think Northern Ireland would have been changed unless Britain had changed, or the Olympics won if we were still the Britain of 1997.And as for my own leadership, throughout these 10 years, where the predictable has competed with the utterly unpredicted, right at the outset, one thing was clear to me: Without the Labour Party allowing me to lead it, nothing could have ever been done.But I also knew my duty was to put the country first. That much was obvious to me when, just under 13 years ago, I became Labour’s leader.What I had to learn, however, as prime minister, was what putting the country first really meant.Decision-making is hard. You know, everyone always says in politics,"Listen to the people,and the trouble is, you find,they don’t always agree.And when you’re in opposition, you meet this group and they say,"Why can’t you do thisand you say, "It’s a really good question, thank you,and they go away and say, "It’s great; he really listened."And then you meet that other group, and they say, "Why can’t you do that and you say, "It’s a really good question, thank you,and they go away happy that you listened.In government, you have to give the answer; not an answer, the answer.And in time, you realize that putting the country first doesn’t mean doing the right thing according to conventional wisdom or the prevailing consensus or the latest snapshot of opinion. It means doing what you genuinely believe to be right; that your duty as prime minister is to act according to your conviction.And all of that can get contorted so that people think that you act according to some messianic zeal.Doubt, hesitation, reflection, consideration, reconsideration: These are all the good companions of proper decision-making. But the ultimate obligation is to decide.And sometimes the decisions are accepted quite quickly. Bank of England independence was one which, gave us our economic stability.Sometimes, like tuition fees or trying to break up old monolithic services, the changes are deeply controversial, hellish hard to do, but you can see you’re moving with the grain of change around the world.And sometimes, like with Europe, where I believe Britain should keep its position strong, you know you are fighting opinion, but you’re kind of content with doing so.And sometimes, as with the completely unexpected, you are alone with your own instinct.In Sierra Leone and to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, I tookthe decision to make our country one that intervened, that did not pass by or keep out of the thick of it.And then came the utterly unanticipated and dramatic September the 11th, 2001, and the death of 3,000 or more on the streets of New York. And I decided we should stand shoulder to shoulder with our oldest ally, and I did so out of belief. And so Afghanistan, and then Iraq, the latter, bitterly controversial.And removing Saddam and his sons from power, as with removing the Taliban, was over with relative ease, but the blowback since from global terrorism and those elements that support it has been fierce and unrelenting and costly. And for many, it simply isn’t and can’t be worth it.For me, I think we must see it through. They, the terrorists who threaten us here and around the world, will never give up if we give up. It is a test of will and belief, and we can’t fail it.So some things I knew I would be dealing with. Some I thought I might be, some never occurred to meor to youon that morning of the 2nd of May 1997 when I came into Downing Streetfor the first time.Great expectations, not fulfilled in every part for sure.Occasionally, people say, as I said earlier, "The expectations were too high. You should have lowered them.But to be frank, I would not have wanted it any other way. I was and remain, as a person and as a prime minister, an optimist. Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life give the impossible a go.So, of course, divisions are painted in the colors of the rainbow and the reality sketched in the duller tones of black and white and gray. But I ask you to accept one thing: Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. I may... I may have been wrong. That’s your call. But believe one thing, if nothing else: I did what I thought was right for our country.And I came into office with high hopes for Britain’s future, and you know, I leave it with even higher hopes for Britain’s future. This is a country that can today be excited by the opportunities, not constantly fretful of the dangers.And people say to me, "It’s a tough job.Not really. A tough life is the life led by the young severely disabled children and their parents who visited me in Parliament the other week. Tough is the life my dad had, his whole career cut short at the age of 40 by a stroke.Actually, I’ve been very lucky and very blessed.And this country is a blessed nation. The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts, we know it. This is the greatest nation on Earth.So it has been an honor to serve it.I give my thanks to you, the British people, for the times that I’ve succeed, and my apologies to you for the times I’ve fallen short. But good luck.我问心无愧[1]辞职演说(2007年5月10日)非常感谢诸位。

Tony Blair:(In French)Mr President, IOC members, distinguished guests. I am sorry I can't be with you in person. My responsibility as host of the G8 summit, which starts today, means I must be back in the UK. It is the only reason I am not at your historic session. I was, however, honoured to meet many of you over the last few days, and delighted to renew old friendships.Last year I was privileged to attend the superb Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Athens. And proud to be one of 20,000 Britons, the largest group of overseas spectators.Athens inspired me - and taught me much about the Olympic Movement. Our goal is to witness its power in London.(in English)It is a unique honour to act as Host City. I also understand it is an honour which comes with a great responsibility - and which requires the highest levels of co-operation with the IOC.My promise to you is that we will be your very best partners. All of us who have made guarantees to you are ready to deliver on them now. On security. On finance. On every single undertaking we have given. If you award London the Games, I pledge to you personally we will continue to give the highest level of support to Seb Coe and Keith Mills as they lead the Organising Committee, backed up by our Olympic Minister Tessa Jowell.My entire Government - and the main Opposition parties too - are united behind this bid. It has total political support. It is the nation's bid. It has excited people throughout the country. More than three million have already volunteered their support. And that support goes beyond our shores too. We were honoured to receive the endorsement of the most inspiring statesman of our age: Nelson Mandela. He said this: `I can't think of a better place than London to hold an event that unites the world. London will inspire young people around the world and ensure that the Olympic Games remain the dream for future generations'.Those words remind us that as leaders, in government or sport, we have a duty to reach beyond our own time and borders. To have a vision which serves those who come after us.Our vision is to see millions more young people - in Britain and across the world - participating in sport, and improving their lives as a result of that participation.And London has the power to make that happen. It is a city with a voice that talks to young people. And, with more than 1,000 foreign media correspondents based here, it is a city with a voice that is heard all around the world.It is that unique combination of strengths which London offers - a global platform for the Olympic message to young people. Not just for the 17 days of the competition, but for the years leading up to the Games, and beyond.。

布莱尔首相演讲篇一：布莱尔首相演讲 InvestmentTranscript of the Prime Minister's broadcast on investmentWherever you look in our country, you can see the result of decades of under-investment.Children still being taught in cramped or prefab classrooms. Patients treated in wards built long before penicillin was discovered.Our railways and roads fall short of the standards we need. And that's not just bad for travellers but bad for our economy.And it's not just the fabric of our country which reveals the signs of this failure to invest.There was a chronic shortage of people, of teachers, doctors, nurses when we came into Government three years ago.Even worse, we found that training places and recruitment had often been cut back.Now I don't go along with those who claim, for example, that we have a third world health service.That's an insult to the dedicated doctors and nurses who work in the NHS. And it also ignores the fact that thousands of people every day get superb treatment and care.But we are now the fourth biggest economy in the world. And few people would claim we have the fourth best public services. I certainly don't. That's because for far too long - we haven't invested. We haven't looked to the long-term. We haven't invested for our future.And that's largely because of the cycle of boom and bust which has gripped our economy for so long.It meant sudden increases of investment followed by panic cut-backs which made it impossible to plan sensibly for the future.We were so determined to restore stability to the economy - even if it meant hard decisions and some unpopularity.We didn't ignore investment in our early years. Indeed we launched the biggest hospital building programme in the history of the health service. The first of these is already open in Carlisle. We invested to make surethat infant class sizes have fallen. Over 10,000 schools have been re-furbished or repaired. Wherever you live, there'll be a school near you which has benefited.But there is a great deal more to do. And with inflation and interest rates low, billions saved in debt repayments and a record number of people in work, the country can now afford the sustained investment needed in our health service, schools, police and transport systems.It means a 150% increase in investment in public transport investment desperately needed for our roads and railways.Then there's a ￡1.4 billion increase in health spending on hospitals, clinics and equipment.And extra investment, too, for urgent repairs for 7,000 more schools. But there's little point in having wonderful new schools or hospitals if you don't have the trained staff to go into them.So we're working hard to tackle the shortage of nurses, doctors and teachers.We've reversed, for example, the short-sighted cuts in nurse training places. We've expanded medical schools and places.We are having some success, too - an increase of nearly 5,000 doctors in the health service in the last three years in the health service. An increase of 10,000 qualified nurses too.And this week we learnt that for the first time in eight years the number of teachers in training has risen.That is vital because it is the dedicated teachers who are delivering the real progress we're seeing in our schools.Good teachers can and do make a massive difference to the lives of the children they teach.Every day, in schools the length and breadth of our country, the hard-work of dedicated teachers give our children the help and encouragement they need to realise their potential. For far too long however, teachers have felt under-valued andunder-rewarded. And that's wrong when you think that there can be few jobsmore fulfilling, more challenging or more important to our society's future than being a teacher.So this welcome increase in the numbers of teachers in training is a sign that we are beginning to get things right.But there's a lot more that we need to do. I want to see the best and the brightest sign up in their tens of thousands to become teachers, to join that education crusade.We need more teachers just as we need more doctors, more nurses, more modern schools and hospitals.It can't be done overnight. It takes years to build a new hospital or train new doctors.But our hard-won economic stability means we now have the chance at least to plan and invest for the long-term.A chance to end the years of neglect of our public services and deliver the world-class education, health and transport system that this country needs and deserves. It's a chance that we should all take.篇二：布莱尔为最贵演讲者每分钟近赚万美元布莱尔为最贵演讲者每分钟近赚万美元就在各国领导人四处筹钱为拯救经济而殚精竭虑的同时，一些卸任的首脑虽然过日子不差钱，但也闲不住，英国前首相布莱尔就是其中一个表现最突出的一个。

布莱尔三次蝉联首相职务的获胜英语演讲稿tony blairs speech on returning to downing streetive just come from buckingham palace where the queen has asked me to form a new government which i will do.its a tremendous honour and privilege to be elected for a third term and im acutely conscious of that honour and that privilege.when i stood here first eight years ago i was a lot younger but also a lot less experienced.today as well as having in our minds the priorities that people want, we, i, the government, has the knowledge, as well as the determination and commitment, to deliver them.the great thing about the election is that you go out and talk to people for week upon week.and ive listened and ive learned, and i think ive a very clear idea what the people now expect from the government in a third term.and i want to say to them very directly that i, we, the government, are going to focus relentlessly now on the priorities that people have set for us.what are those priorities? first they like the strong economy, but life is still a real struggle for many people and many families in this country and they know there are new issues: help for first time buyers to get their feet on the first rungs of the housing ladder; families trying to cope with balancing work and family life; many people struggling to make ends meet; many families on low incomes who desperately need help and support to increase their living standards; businesses who whilst they like the economic stability, want us also to focus on stimulatingenterprise on investing in science and skills and technology for the future.its very clear what people want us to do and we will do it.second in relation to the public services, health and education, again people like the investment that has gone into public services, they welcome it. i have found absolutely no support for any suggestion we cut back that investment.the people want that money to work better for them, they want higher standards, both of care and of education for the investment we are putting in.and so we will focus on delivering not just the investment but the reform and change of those public services and i will do so with passion, because i want to keep universal public services that know that the only way of keeping the consent for them is by making the changes necessary for the twenty-first century.。

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。