Labour Party conference: PFI/IRAQ

Labour Party conference: PFI/IRAQ; ENGLAND: Lancashire: Fleetwood: INT Estelle Morris MP (Education Secretary) cutting ribbon to open Fleetwood High School, built using money raised under the Private Finance Initiative PULL OUT Morris being shown new buildings TLMS Morris speaking to people during opening (not heard) Secondary School pupils working in classroom Blackpool: Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott MP speaking at podium People sat on platform John Prescott MP (Deputy Prime Minister) speech SOT - Compares private financing of schools and hospitals with domestic mortgages Delegates listening John Edmonds (GMBU) to podium John Edmonds (GMBU) speech SOT - Talks of rising of salary increases paid to executives of PFI companies Prescott and Chancellor Gordon Brown MP sat on platform Delegates slow-handclapping speech by Paul Boateng MP (Chief Secretary to the Treasury) Boateng at podium Edmonds and delegates raising hands to vote Delegates voting Edmonds interview SOT - Government will be very silly if they disregard an overwhelming vote on a policy issue like this Sergeant talking with Brown Gordon Brown MP (Chancellor of the Exchequer) interview SOT - People should be in no doubt we will continue to put schools and hospitals first TX 30.9.2002/NAT