Ed Miliband’s speech on reforming Labour’s relationship with trade unions: full text

Let me start by saying how pleased I am to be here at the St Bride’s Foundation.

Only a few hundred yards from where the Labour Party was founded over a century ago.

And especially to be here with so many community organisers and Labour Party members from right across the country.

I am here today to talk about how we can build a different kind of politics.

A politics which is truly rooted in every community of the country.

And reaches out to people across every walk of life.

That is what I mean by One Nation.

A country where everyone plays their part.

And a politics where they can.

It is about a politics that is open.

Transparent.

And trusted.

Exactly the opposite of the politics we’ve recently seen in Falkirk.

A politics that was closed.

A politics of the machine.

A politics that is rightly hated.

What we saw in Falkirk is part of the death-throes of the old politics.

And the reason why Falkirk is so damaging is because it comes against growing mistrust in politics.