首相将脱欧、投票制度改革和公共服务串联起来，以切身且极具感染力的方式为更光明的未来作出有力陈述。
By linking Brexit, voting reform and public services, the prime minister made a powerful, personal pitch for a brighter future Andy Burnham’s first speech as prime minister to a Labour conference was a serious attempt to argue that rebuilding the public realm will be better for the country than shrinking the state.
安迪·伯纳姆首次以首相身份在工党大会上发表演说，认真尝试论证：重建公共体系比收缩国家权力更有利于国家。他这一点是对的。伯纳姆先生相信政府能够发挥力量，这一观点令人欣慰；他凭直觉认为，现在加大公共服务投入，日后就能节省资金，这也值得肯定。在提出与欧盟建立更紧密关系的若干选择之前，他承认脱欧“弊大于利”，这可能是整场演说中最具深远影响的一句话。
He is right about this. Mr Burnham’s belief in the power of government is welcome, as is his instinct that by spending now on public services he will save money later. Admitting that Brexit “has done more harm than good” before setting out options for a closer relationship with the EU could be the speech’s most consequential sentence.
他在下次选举中向选民提出一笔交易——略微减少养老金每年按三重锁定机制上调的幅度，以换取为老年人提供免费的个人照护服务——这是一场豪赌。
Offering voters a bargain at the next election – give up a little of the annual triple-lock increase in pensions for free personal care for older people – is a gamble.
不过，伯纳姆先生显然认为，到那时他已经能够证明，已有足够多的事物得到改善，足以让他请求选民允许他把已经开始的事情做完。首相巧妙地将“收回控制权”改写为工党的主张。他的论点是：私有化拿走了经济控制权，地方政府权力被削弱使政治控制权丧失，而脱欧又削弱了对移民的控制。他手法娴熟地将同一个理念贯穿于住房、水务、能源和欧洲问题之中。
But Mr Burnham clearly thinks that he will be able to show that enough has improved by then for him to ask voters to let him finish what he has started. The prime minister smartly recast “take back control” as a Labour argument. His pitch was that privatisation removed economic control, emasculating local government removed political control, and Brexit reduced control over immigration. This was deftly done – threading a common idea through housing, water, energy and Europe.