In an exclusive interview with The Argus ahead of this week’s Labour Party Conference, Prime Minister Gordon Brown fires a defiant salvo at the Conservatives and Greens eyeing Labour’s Sussex seats and speaks fondly of the rising Falmer stadium.

Parliamentary correspondent ANDY TATE reports.

Gordon Brown arrived in Brighton yesterday with a huge amount at stake.

Labour’s last annual conference before the next general election has started with his party under pressure nationally and locally.

It will need to make a deep impression if Mr Brown is to have any hope of staving off the onslaught of David Cameron and the Conservatives, or of clinging to Labour’s five seats in Sussex.

But the Prime Minister remains defiant in the face of bad news and bad poll ratings – and even claims to be relishing the party’s trip to the South Coast for the last conference it will hold in Brighton for five years.

He said: “We’re looking forward to Brighton. I always enjoy being in the city because it’s a great place and everybody loves being there.

“Everybody likes the friendliness of people and I think everybody likes the seafront and the conference facilities.”

Boasting of Labour’s environmental credentials, he said: “We are a Government which brought in the first climate change act that statutorily required us to cut carbon emissions.

“We are the country that is working hardest to lead the way towards a climate change treaty.”

Mr Brown also suggested Brighton had a role as a centre for green technologies.

He said: “Now what does [tackling climate change] mean to local people in Brighton? It means supporting low-carbon industries. It means wind power, wave power, green cars, green buses, green trains, eco towns and eco streets where we invest in energy efficiency and environmental care. Brighton benefits from that.”

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