Lord Glasman delivered a speech at the inaugural Frank Field Memorial lecture last week. Here is an edited transcript of the speech:

I am honoured by your invitation to give this Frank Field inaugural lecture, more than I can say. And that is because I loved and admired Frank Field, more than I can say. I rarely to say of a person that they meant the world to me, but this is true of Frank.

One of my favourite stories from the Bible is at the beginning of Genesis when Abraham is visited by the three Angels, they are not the Magi, yet, with the news that his wife Sarah, who was 98, would give birth to a son who would be inheritor of the eternal covenant. Isaac. As he says goodbye to them, on their way to take out Sodom and Gomorrah, God is heard mulling over whether to tell Abraham about h

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