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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 January 2001.

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Photo of Tony Blair Tony Blair Prime Minister 12:00, 17 January 2001

The job will, of course, take a very long time indeed, but the resources will be put into it. Those resources are going into inner cities up and down the country for the simple reason that this Government and this political party believe in prosperity being spread to every part of our country. We also believe that no one should be shut out and excluded from our society. [Interruption.] Conservative Members can shout as much as they like, but they wrote off our country's inner cities, just as they wrote off the mining communities. This Government are bringing prosperity to those areas, so that every one of our citizens gets the chance to succeed.