The forthcoming election is not one like any other because it is giving people the opportunity to close an era which had transformed into one of cliques and move into one where everyone has a chance, Opposition leader Joseph Muscat said this morning.
Closing the party's general conference he said:"I am ready to decide, I am ready to unite, I am ready to serve, I am ready to lead."
Dr Muscat said that four years ago Labour went to the electorate with a fundamental flaw, thinking only of an election which it believed it had the right to win.
There were two lessons to be learnt from that experience - that elections come and go but the people remained and that no one had any obligation to choose Labour so the focus should be on being prepared to govern.
The Labour leader said that his mother came from a family of farmers with a Nationalist background while his father was a Mintoffjan who voted himself out of a job when he voted for the closure of the British base.
He said there were two significant moments which moulded his political identity.
The first was when father suffered a heart attack and he realised that his care was to be...
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