The prime minister spoke for 55 minutes and won a four minute standing ovation but was twice interrupted by hecklers, first protesting about Iraq and second about hunting.

Iraq

• The prime minister began by expressing his "support and solidarity" for British hostage Ken Bigley and his family and sent his condolences to the latest British casualties in Iraq

• Mr Blair said problems of trust stemmed from decisions and judgements he had made since the 11 September terror attacks

• Saying he wanted to tackle the Iraq issue "head on", he said: "I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong but I can't sincerely apologise for removing Saddam"

• Terrorists in Iraq were not there to liberate the country and were not provoked by coalition actions, argued Mr Blair

• Whatever the differences over the war, Mr Blair urged delegates to unite by standing by Iraqis and being determined to see the job through

• The law should be changed to make religious discrimination unlawful as part of showing British Muslims they were being treated fairly

• Mr Blair promised to make a personal priority of reviving the Middle East peace process after November, when the US elections happen, saying it would do more to defeat terrorism than bullets ever could.

• "Here we are, facing the possibility, unique in our 100 year history of governing Britain for a third successive term," said Mr Blair.

• The "third term mission" had to be making Britain a country "where power, opportunity and wealth are in the hands of the many, not the few"

• He said he wanted the 21st century to be dominated by progressive politics, with conservatism only punctuation marks

• "With the courage of our convictions we can deliver the third term and the lasting change," he said

• He concluded: "I tell you conference, it is worth the fight now let's get out and do it."

The third term

• Mr Blair gave 10 pointers to what could be expected from another Labour government:

• Economy: Low mortgage rates, rising living standards, more jobs in every region of the UK, special help for the first time homebuyers and tax reliefs for the "many not the few"

• Skills: The same commitment to vocational training as given to academic education, including 300,000 modern apprenticeships

• Schools: A choice of a good specialist school for every parent; 200 new City Academies in inner city areas; new powers for head teachers to tackle school disruption; modern sports facilities as schools are rebuilt; working to bring the Olympics to Britain in 2012

• Health: Patients able to choose their hospital and book treatment times; waiting times down to 18 weeks; 100 new hospital schemes; 2,700 GP premises improved

• Families: Universal, affordable and flexible childcare for parents of all three to 14-year-olds

• Retirement: increased numbers moving off benefit and into work and using the savings to design a pension system with the basic state pension at its core, helping hard-working families

  Technology: An extra �1bn investment in science; more support for small business; broadband would be brought to every home that wants it by 2008 in an effort to end the "digital divide"

• New approach to law and order: dedicated policing teams for all communities; a radical extension of compulsory drug testing for offenders; doubling of investment in drug treatment; trial without jury for organised criminals trying to intimidate jurors

• Asylum: More asylum seekers to be removed from Britain than applied each month; electronic registration of all those who cross national borders; but welcome for lawful migrants

Successes

• Mr Blair pointed to key changes Labour had achieved: including record economic success; investment in health and education; drives against pensioner winter problems and Northern Ireland peace

• "Why is government so tough? Because for all the progress, life is still tough for not hard working families," he went on

• He saluted Gordon Brown as the country's best ever chancellor and John Prescott as "the strongest, most loyal, occasionally most outspoken deputy any leader would ever hope for"

• The prime minister said he could not take the Liberal Democrats seriously and Tory leader Michael Howard was no longer doing well because people had remembered him

• Mr Blair insisted "choice" was not a Tory word as long as it was done equally and not by wealth