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Brown to make 'speech of his life'.


Summary: Gordon Brown has a tough act to follow as he delivers his keynote speech keynote speech
n.
See keynote address.

Noun 1. keynote speech - a speech setting forth the keynote
keynote address

keynote - the principal theme in a speech or literary work
 at the Labour party conference.

Gordon Brown has a tough act to follow as he delivers his keynote speech at the Labour party conference.

Business Secretary Peter Mandelson The Rt Hon. Peter Benjamin Mandelson (born 21 October 1953) is the current British Commissioner of the European Union for Trade. Before taking this post, he was a British Labour politician, and served as Member of Parliament for Hartlepool for twelve years.  stole the show with his rousing speech on Monday, saying "if I can come back, Labour can".

The Prime Minister is expected to focus on crime and anti-social behaviour as he tries to claw back ground from the Conservatives.

He will promise tough action on 'families from hell' who terrorise Verb 1. terrorise - coerce by violence or with threats
terrorize

coerce, force, hale, pressure, squeeze - to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for
 their neighbours as he delivers his final big address before the General Election.

His pledge follows criticism of police for failing to help mother Fiona Pilkington and her disabled daughter who burned to death in a car after complaining for years about harassment by youths.

Meanwhile, Labour have been pushed into third place behind the Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats, British political party
Liberal Democrats, British political party created in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal party with the Social Democratic party; the party was initially called the Social and Liberal Democratic party.
.

An Ipsos Mori
Ipsos MORI is the second largest survey research organisation in the UK, formed by two of the UK's leading companies in October 2005. MORI (Market & Opinion Research International
 survey puts the Tories on 36 per cent, the Liberal Democrats on 25 per cent and Labour on 24 per cent.

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