Lord Mayor's Banquet at London's Guildhall: Arrivals and Gordon Brown speech

Lord Mayor's Banquet at London's Guildhall: Arrivals and Gordon Brown speech; Prime minister announced SOT / Gordon Brown (Prime minister, wearing poppy) speech SOT - My Lord Mayor, my late Lord Mayor, your Grace, my Lord Chancellor, your Excellencies, my Lords, Aldermen, Sheriffs, Chief Commoner, ladies and gentlemen. Let me start on this evening one day after Remembrance Sunday and one day before Armistice Day let us honour the contribution of those who laid down their lives for this country. Let us at the smae time salute all those who serve in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world. Let us praise their professional, their patriotic dedication and their unsurpassed courage. - Let me also welcome at this the largest dinner for some years, the largest number ever of international busines leaders reflecting not just the wonderful hospitality of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayor but refelcting as the Lord mayor has just said London's special place in the life of the world. Let me thank the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayor for their charitable work over the years. - These last weeks and months will be studied by generations to come. Historians will look back and say this was no ordinary time but a defining moment: an unprecedented period of global change, a time when one chapter ended and another began - for nations; for continents; for the whole world. - Decades ago in the earliest days of the BBC, the evening news bulletin could be very brief with the announcer informing the nation that there is no news tonight. Long before that one of my predecessors considered that when a cabinet meeting clashed with a race meeting he'd generally go to the race meeting. When Ramsay MacDonald became Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in 1924 it is said he broke with tradition by arriving at the Foreign Office before 10 o'clock in the morning. - Communications were also more leisurely then too. One United States president wrote a memorandum to his Secretary of State lamenting t...
Lord Mayor's Banquet at London's Guildhall: Arrivals and Gordon Brown speech; Prime minister announced SOT / Gordon Brown (Prime minister, wearing poppy) speech SOT - My Lord Mayor, my late Lord Mayor, your Grace, my Lord Chancellor, your Excellencies, my Lords, Aldermen, Sheriffs, Chief Commoner, ladies and gentlemen. Let me start on this evening one day after Remembrance Sunday and one day before Armistice Day let us honour the contribution of those who laid down their lives for this country. Let us at the smae time salute all those who serve in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world. Let us praise their professional, their patriotic dedication and their unsurpassed courage. - Let me also welcome at this the largest dinner for some years, the largest number ever of international busines leaders reflecting not just the wonderful hospitality of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayor but refelcting as the Lord mayor has just said London's special place in the life of the world. Let me thank the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayor for their charitable work over the years. - These last weeks and months will be studied by generations to come. Historians will look back and say this was no ordinary time but a defining moment: an unprecedented period of global change, a time when one chapter ended and another began - for nations; for continents; for the whole world. - Decades ago in the earliest days of the BBC, the evening news bulletin could be very brief with the announcer informing the nation that there is no news tonight. Long before that one of my predecessors considered that when a cabinet meeting clashed with a race meeting he'd generally go to the race meeting. When Ramsay MacDonald became Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in 1924 it is said he broke with tradition by arriving at the Foreign Office before 10 o'clock in the morning. - Communications were also more leisurely then too. One United States president wrote a memorandum to his Secretary of State lamenting t...
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