Tony Blair stepped up his election campaign yesterday in his home territory of Sedgefield in County Durham.
In the first of a series of keynote speeches, given to the Labour Club in Trimdon Village, he said: "As long as there is one child still in poverty in Britain, one pensioner still in poverty, one person denied their chance in life, there is one MP from Sedgefield, one Prime Minister and one party that will have no rest, no vanity in achievement, no sense of mission completed."
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