[A]This week I will form a new government with new priorities to meet the new challenges ahead. 

[B]And having visited every part of Britain and listened to and learned from the British people, I have seen at first hand a Britain of rising aspiration and I see the need for change to meet new needs.

[C]I've met parents in Newcastle wanting more help to balance work and family life, teenagers in Lewisham wanting better chances of education after school, working mothers in Basildon calling for better child care, entrepreneurs in Warwickshire who value economic stability but want help to gain new markets, young couples in every city I’ve visited wanting to buy their first home of their own - men and women who look to us to respond to their hopes for a better life for themselves and their children.

Rising aspirations that are no longer just about a basic safety net and basic services, but aspirations that are about higher standards tailored to people’s individual needs.    

[D]And I have seen also in fast changing communities the new insecurities people feel – and I know we can make changes to address them too.

[E]In Liverpool and Cardiff I’ve met pensioners wanting more police on local streets, police and local communities in Birmingham and Glasgow calling for new action on drugs and anti-social behaviour, men and women anxious about their jobs, their future and our way of life, and they are yearning for stronger communities.

[F]We need to change too to meet the new challenges—climate change, global competition, tackling extremism – and we are learning an inescapable truth: it is only by engaging people in the decisions that matter to their lives, only by a new government building trust by involving the British people, that we as a country will meet the new challenges of 2007 and beyond.

[G]So as people's aspirations and priorities change, we the Labour party must renew ourselves as the party of change.

[H]Our mission has always been to be the party of progressive change.

[I]Our party was born because of a demand for change.

[J]We became a governing party because we championed the need for economic and social change.

[K]We were reborn under Neil Kinnock, John Smith and Tony Blair because we believed that to change the country we as a party had to change.

[L]And once again we are called to be the party of change.

[M]And let me tell you the values that will guide me:

[N]I grew up in Kirkcaldy, the community I now represent in Parliament.

[O]I went to my local school and was one of the people in my class to get to university. When at 16 I suffered an injury at rugby and lost my sight in one eye, I was fortunate enough to have the NHS which saved the sight in my other. And it is for me a matter of fundamental principle that the best education and the best health care I received should be there not only for me and my family, but there for all families in all parts of Britain.

[P]All I believe and all I try to do comes from the values that I grew up with: duty, honesty, hard work, family and respect for others.

[Q]And this is what my parents taught me and will never leave me: that each and every one of us has a talent, each and every one of us should have the chance to develop their talent, and that each of us should use whatever talents we have to enable people least able to help themselves.

[R]And so I say honestly: I am a conviction politician. 

[S]My conviction that everyone deserves a fair chance in life.

[T]My conviction that each of us has a responsibility to each other.

[U]And my conviction that when the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger.

[V]Call it 'the driving power of social conscience', call it 'the better angels of our nature', call it 'our moral sense', call it a belief in 'civic duty'.

[W]I joined this party as a teenager because I believed in these values. They guide my work, they are my moral compass. This is who I am.

[X]And because these are the values of our party to the party I lead must have more than a set of policies – we must have a soul.

[Y]Wherever we find opportunity denied, aspirations unfulfilled, potential unrealised; wherever and whenever we find injustice and unfairness, there we must be also – and it is our duty to act.
(From http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ 454560.html)

Notes to the Text

Labour party: British political party, one of the two dominant parties in Great Britain since World War I.

priority: the most important thing that you think needs attention before everything else.

ahead: in front of, in the future.

aspiration:a strong desire to achieve or have something.

entrepreneur：someone who owns a company.

tailored to people’s individual needs: to make the change and standard exactly right for person’s individual need.

address: 针对，解决In the passage, it means “to discuss, think about, or do something about a particular problem, especially with the aim of solving the problem.”

pensioner:领取养老金的人someone who is receiving a pension, a sum of money paid regularly by the government or company to someone who is officially considered to be too old or too ill to earn money by working. anti-social：反社会的anti-social activities show a lack of concern for other people and will possibly cause damage to other people. The prefix anti- means against.

yearn: 渴望 to have a strong desire for something.

tackling extremism: to get rid of terrorism. extremism:极端主义opinions, ideas and actions that most people think are unreasonable and unacceptable.

inescapable: impossible to escape or avoid

champion: 捍卫to publicly fight for or defend an aim or principle.

lose one’s sight: being unable to see anything.

NHS: National Health Service 国家卫生事业局

conviction politician: a politician with strong beliefs. conviction: a very strong belief or opinion.

the driving power of social conscience: 社会良心的驱动力

a set of: a series of, a group of things that form a whole.

unfulfilled: 未实现的not realized or achieved

injustice: a situation in which people are treated very unfairly and not given their rights. the injustice of slavery.

 

Verbs

Nouns

priority: the most important thing that you think needs attention before everything else.

entrepreneur：someone who owns a company.

aspiration: a strong desire to achieve or have something.

pensioner:领取养老金的人someone who is receiving a pension, a sum of money paid regularly by the government or company to someone who is officially considered to be too old or too ill to earn money by working.

extremism:极端主义opinions, ideas and actions that most people think are unreasonable and unacceptable.

conviction: a very strong belief or opinion.

conscience: the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong.

injustice: a situation in which people are treated very unfairly and not given their rights. the injustice of slavery.

Verbs

address: 针对，解决In the passage, it means “to discuss, think about, or do something about a particular problem, especially with the aim of solving the problem.”

yearn: 渴望 to have a strong desire for something.

champion: 捍卫to publicly fight for or defend an aim or principle.
   

Adjectives

anti-social：反社会的anti-social activities show a lack of concern for other people and will

possibly cause damage to other people. The prefix anti- means against.

inescapable: impossible to escape or avoid

unfulfilled: 未实现的not realized or achieved

Adverb

ahead: in front of, in the future.

Phrases

lose one’s sight: being unable to see anything.

a set of: a series of, a group of things that form a whole.

Cultural Note

1.The Labour Party

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. It has been described as a broad church, bringing together an alliance of social-democratic,democratic socialist and trade unionist outlooks. The party’s platform emphasizes greater state intervention, social justice and strengthening workers’ rights. Labour is a full member of the Party of European Socialists and Progressive Progressive Alliance, and holds observer status in the Socialist International. As of 2017, the party is considered the "largest party inWestern Europe" in terms of party membership, with more than half-a-million members.

2.The Conservative Party

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political partyin the United Kingdom. It is currently the governing party, having been so since the 2010 general election, where a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats was formed. In 2015, the Conservatives led by David Cameron won a surprise majority and formed the first Conservative majority government since 1992. However, the snap election on 8 June 2017 resulted in a hung parliament, and the party lost its parliamentary majority. It is reliant on the support of a Northern Irish political party, the Democratic Unionist Party(DUP), in order to command a majority in the House of Commons through a confidence-and-supply deal. The party leader, Theresa May, has served as both Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister since July 2016. It is the largest party in local government with 9,116 councillors. The Conservative Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United Kingdom, the other being its modern rival, theLabour Party.