P162 CEEFAX 162 Tue 1 Oct 20:43/34 COUNTRY "NEEDS LABOUR" 1/5 Labour is fit to sjrvj and able to lead Britain to a better future, leader Neil Kinnock has proclaimed. He told his party conference that the people of Britain wanted "a party that will put the country first, not the party first". That was exactly what they would get with a Labour govjrnmjnt, hj said. "It is time to start transforming Britain from the country it has become into the country we know it can be," hj vowed. 160 Conference news index 102 Newswatch 180 Would News Next News Politics Newswatch WorldNewsP162 CEEFAX 162 Tue 1 Oct 20:46/50 LABOUR PLEDGES FOR FUTURE 2/5 Labour leader Neil Kinnock has pledged a phased release of the £6 billion held by local authorities from the sale of council houses. "The Tory govjrnmjnt forbids that," hj said, but Labour would use the money to build and improve homes. "We will modernise our transport system by mobilising private as well as public investment," Mr Kinnock added He said economic success would be built on converting scientific inventiveness into competitive industrial production. 160 Conference news index 102 Newswatch 180 World news Next News Politics Newswatch WorldNewsP162 CEEFAX 162 Tue 1 Oct 20:44/19 LABOUR PLEDGES FOR FUTURE 3/5 Labour leader Neil Kinnock has said that a Labour govjrnmjnt "will not spend what the country cannot afford". "We will not borrow" or "increase the tax contribution of the huge majority of the people," Mr Kinnock said. But the party knew that "providing for the treatment of the sick, caring for the old and giving full opportunities to the young must conj bjforj any tax cuts". Better public services would be paid for by "ending Tory waste" and getting value for money, Mr Kinnock asserted. 160 Conference news index Next News Politics Newswatch WorldNewsP162 CEEFAX 162 Tue 1 Oct 20:47/42 LABOUR PLEDGES FOR FUTURE 4/5 Neil Kinnock has said that confidence was a matter of security as well as job opportunities. A Labour government would have environmental policies which would ensure that the environment was safe, hj said. The Labour leader said his govjrnmjnt would overturn Tory policies "which have spread poverty and dependency to 10 million people". Benefits and pensions would be increased, Mr Kinnock said. 160 Conference news index 102 Newswatch 180 World News Next News Politics Newswatch WorldNewsP162 CEEFAX 162 Tue 1 Oct 20:45/21 LABOUR PLEDGES FOR FUTURE 5/5 Labour leader Neil Kinnock has said that Britain must be part of progress towards cutting nuclear arsenals. "'e must be part of new negotiations on verifiable disarmament" and trying to bring in other nuclear powers to halt and reverse proliferation, hj said "Wj must be part of the efforts to ensure progress is sustained in the Soviet Union too," Mr Kinnock added. Aid should bj linked to disarmament, he said, with the use of the peace dividend to promote civil production and combat worldwide poverty. 160 Conference news index Next News Politics Newswatch WorldNews