It's a significant achievement to speak for more than an hour without an autocue or notes, to write the speech yourself, to bring some of your audience to tears, to have most of your audience on their feet several times, and to cry and recover. I am in no doubt that he is fully behind every word and I love his willingness to be straight with people, especially on Europe. I loved the way he named our contributions to the world - trades unions, the co-operative movemen - patriotism based on achievements, not the shallow 'we are the best' we hear too often.
As a lifelong Labour voter from a Conservative-voting family, I am currently at logger heads with Labour over the trans rights issue. But lots in his speech is what I would wish to see - publicly owned utilities, polling reform, moving closer to Europe, fully funded social care, devolution.
Had I not been brought up in a northern industrial city in the 1970s, I don't think I would understand the rejection of neo-liberalism. I headed to London in 1979 and watched the decline in my home city during the 1980s while I thrived in the capital. Whole areas of my city have been in poverty ever since, with little well-rewarded work available. There has been no recovery from deindustrialisation.
Funding his vision is going to be a challenge though. And, while intellectually I may be Labour, instinctively I want a small state, prize entreprenneurialism, laud hard work and self-reliance, and respect wealth generation. So I have reservations about his vision but think it is right for the times.