On Tuesday Andy Burnham gave his first speech to Labour Conference as the Party Leader and Prime Minister.

It was a speech full of emotion and tough choices to change this country.

Burnham is clearly a man who wants to change the country for the better. The best line of the speech and most emotion point was when he was talking about his father, Roy, who had recently passed away.

He said he would “use this job to build the kind of Britain my dad wanted to see – and fight with everything I’ve got to keep it together”.

One of the big changes that Burnham wants to bring in is electoral reform. There will be a national commission on electoral reform and Labour will contest the next election with a manifesto commitment to change electoral system.

This is a massive step forward for the party and the country. It’s about time the way we voted change. It’s out dated and doesn’t show the true political picture of the country. It’s about time we had a system where each vote counts and politicians should work for each vote.

Following on from working for each vote and allowing people to have more say. The Prime Minister vowed to overturn Thatcher’s 1980s reforms to housing, water and energy. A step towards public ownership of water companies. For too long shareholders have benefited from a water system that has polluted bathing areas and leaking outdated pipes.

It’s time to allow the public to have a proper say and for them to be run in the public interest. Water can’t have competition in it. It doesn’t work in the private sector.

And the big announcement…..

Burnham wants to create a National Care Service in England, a way to sort out the big problem of social care that no government has properly dealt with.

The triple lock will be honoured until the end of the current Parliament. The plan is from April 2030, the state pension would rise every year by inflation or 2.5% – whichever is higher. He had stated that it will be increased in some years if needed to keep pace with average worker earnings.

This is a massive political gamble by Burnham. One that will anger a lot of pensioners, however one that can be explained. The birth rate in this country is falling, the population is growing older and some parties want to limit more of immigration. If everything was kept at the same rate, then we wouldn’t be able to afford it.

Burnham is trying to sort out two issues. How to afford the triple lock and how to deal with Social Care.

People in need of social care have suffered for too long with expensive costs and a lack of help, irrespective of how long they’ve paid taxes and worked for.

The change to the triple lock is not an isolated change of policy, it’s to help fund the social care.

This is a bold move. I believe in Burnham.

Hope Again.