介绍： Thank you, everybody. I cannot tell you what a proud moment this is. I think this might be the best day of my life.
感谢各位。我难以言喻此刻心中的自豪，我认为今天或许是我人生中最美好的一天。
I’m not joking. I know you think I am, but I’m not. Things are just completely coming full circle here, for me to be ...

介绍： Thank you, everybody. I cannot tell you what a proud moment this is. I think this might be the best day of my life.
感谢各位。我难以言喻此刻心中的自豪，我认为今天或许是我人生中最美好的一天。
I’m not joking. I know you think I am, but I’m not. Things are just completely coming full circle here, for me to be here with you all in the heart of Manchester this Friday morning at the end of a fairly big week is just everything to me.
我绝非玩笑话。我知道大家觉得我在说笑，但我说的句句真心。往事兜兜转转，终得圆满。在这个周五清晨，在曼彻斯特市中心，与诸位相聚于此，为意义非凡的一周画上句点，对我而言意义深重。
Because it’s almost exactly 35 years since I left this city as a recently graduated young man, couldn’t find a job in the city. It was in a pretty bad place at that time, it’s fair to say. The ’80s turned into the ’90s. There wasn’t much.
整整三十五年前，我还是一名刚毕业的年轻人，离开了这座城市。彼时我在家乡找不到工作，坦白说，这座城市当年发展十分萧条。时值八十年代过渡到九十年代，这里几乎没有发展机遇。
And that really is an experience that I’ve never forgotten. My generation of people growing up here, and it’s true of places all over the country, to get on in life you had to leave where you were because things weren’t here.
这段经历我永生难忘。我们这一代人在这片土地长大，当年全国各处皆是如此：想要谋求发展，就只能背井离乡，因为家乡没有出路。
And the country’s always been a little like that, hasn’t it? Opportunity has not been evenly spread around the country and not all places have felt that they’re part of the national story and that is what this government is going to work every single day to change, and that is what No 10 North is all about: putting power in every postcode so that people can turn things around for themselves and make changes just as this great city has done and the other English cities are doing through devolution. Turning things round because of that ability to be able to do more for themselves.
我们国家长久以来都存在这样的问题，不是吗？发展机遇在全国各地分配不均，许多地区都无法感受到自己是国家发展蓝图的一份子。本届政府日复一日努力，就是要改变这一现状，而北方唐宁街10号设立的核心宗旨正在于此：将治理权限下放至每一片区域，让民众能够自主扭转自身处境、谋求改变。这座伟大的曼彻斯特城已经做到了，英格兰其他城市也依靠地方权力下放实现转型。地方拥有更多自主发展的权限，才能真正扭转发展颓势。
And it’s also about getting the whole country facing the same way and then pulling in the same direction. That I think is what No 10 North can achieve. It’s felt a little at times that local government’s just been a bit forgotten and places aren’t able to do what they want to do. But then at the sort of city level, or the regional level, sometimes it’s felt like an argument with people in the centre of government and people having a to and fro all of the time.
与此同时，北方唐宁街10号还能凝聚全国共识，让整个国家同心同向、携手共进，这便是它能够实现的目标。过去时常出现这样的状况：地方政府的诉求被忽视，各地区难以自主推进发展规划。在城市与区域层面，地方与中央政府部门之间，时常反复拉扯、争论不休。
Imagine, just imagine if we were all working together as one team, pulling the same way and making the change happen for people and places. I think we can do that. In fact, I feel we’ve got to do that. If we want to take Britain from where it is right now, and I think we all have a feeling that it’s not fully where it should be right now.
大家不妨设想，倘若我们所有人凝聚成一支队伍，朝着同一个方向发力，为各地民众带来切实改变，那该多好。我相信我们能够做到，事实上，我们必须做到。如今英国当下的发展状况，我们所有人心中都清楚，国家尚未达到本该拥有的发展高度。
If we want to get it back to where it should be, it’s got to be about that one team feeling. All of the places around the UK and all of our regions and all of our nations, because No 10 North is as much for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as it is for the regions of England.
如果我们想要让国家重回正轨，就必须树立举国一体、同心协作的意识。英国全境所有区域、所有构成国都应凝聚一心。北方唐宁街10号服务的不只是英格兰各地区，苏格兰、威尔士与北爱尔兰同样是它的服务对象。
If we get that feeling then I think so much is possible that doesn’t feel possible right now and we can really get the energy flowing right around the country. I’m really pleased, and he’s hiding but maybe he should come and join me if he doesn’t mind. I’m really pleased that our new Chancellor of the Exchequer is here today.
只要我们建立起这种举国同心的共识，许多当下看似遥不可及的目标都将成为现实，发展活力也将在全国范围内充分涌动。今天有一位重要嘉宾来到现场，他刚才在台下，若是不介意，不妨上台和我站在一起。我十分欣喜，新任财政大臣今日亲临此地。
I know it sounds like woe is me, we’ve had such a hard week, but we were in a pub together yesterday, weren’t we? Rating pub snacks. It did look like hard work. But it’s brilliant that you’re here, John. Next to John is our first Secretary of State, Louise Haigh. And that, I hope, is sending a message to everybody here who has come into No 10 North in its early days that you’ve got the full support of the government from the very top: Prime Minister, Chancellor, First Secretary of State. That’s a very powerful message that we’re sending today, that the political commitment is there.
我知道这话听着像是我在诉苦，这周我们所有人都十分忙碌，但昨天我们还一同去了酒馆，对吧？我们挨个品评酒馆小食，看着倒也算不上繁重工作。约翰，你能到场真的太好了。站在约翰身旁的是首席国务大臣路易丝・黑格。我希望，这一幕能向所有参与北方唐宁街10号初创工作的各位传递一个信号：你们拥有中央最高层的全力支持—— 首相、财政大臣、首席国务大臣齐聚于此。这是我们今天释放出的强有力信号，代表着政府层面坚定不移的政策承诺。
This isn’t about government working in its old way, it’s about the Treasury, No 10, close together, the heart of government, then driving the same mission from here right out into all parts of the country. And I’m delighted the Cabinet Secretary is here too today. Antonia, thank you for everything you have done to make today possible, because I also want to get the culture right, the relationship right between politicians and our brilliant civil servants and then everyone feeling that they’re all in the same game together and we’re all working together and we’re all working hard to support each other. That’s what this is all about.
我们不会沿用过去老旧的政务运作模式，而是让财政部与唐宁街十号紧密协作，以中央政务核心为依托，从曼彻斯特出发，向全国各个地区推行统一的发展目标。同时，我也十分欣喜内阁秘书今日也来到现场。安东尼娅，感谢你为筹备今天这场活动付出的所有心血。我也希望搭建良好的政务氛围，理顺政客与优秀公职人员之间的协作关系，让所有人都意识到，我们身处同一阵线，携手共事、彼此扶持、共同奋进。这便是设立北方唐宁街10号的全部意义。
I need to thank Caroline, former chief executive now of the Great Manchester Combined Authority, who’s done so much to make today possible. But what I already see as I look around and see sort of the faces from my old world, it does feel like the boundaries are breaking down a little and we’re sort of coming in together, and starting to kind of knit in together and then really get going and getting the growth going, the good growth going in every part of the country.
我要感谢大曼彻斯特联合管理局前首席执行官卡罗琳，她为筹备今日活动付出了巨大努力。环顾现场，我看到许多旧时相识的面孔。我能真切感受到，以往各方之间的隔阂壁垒正在消融，各方力量汇聚一堂、紧密联结，共同推动全国各地区实现高质量发展。
And I mean it when I say every postcode, everybody, that’s what we’ve got to do. Nowhere forgotten, everywhere feeling heard, everyone with a sense that their place can be more than it is today. High streets lifted around the country. Britain re-industrialised, getting those good jobs back into all of our regions. We’ve got such an opportunity, everybody, ahead of us.
我说覆盖每一片区域、每一位民众，绝非空谈，这是我们必须完成的目标。没有任何地区被遗忘，各地诉求都能得到倾听，让所有人都坚信，家乡的未来会比当下更加美好。振兴全国商业街，推动英国再工业化，让优质就业岗位重回全国各地。各位，我们眼前正迎来前所未有的发展机遇。
I said I wanted to get Britain believing again. Today is a day where we hopefully can really build that sense, get Britain hoping again. I think we can do that together if we carry on working in this way. So it is such an amazing moment for me. It’s everything I believe in, everything I’ve spent my whole life working towards, a country that really does feel together, feel that all parts are involved and making their contribution. No 10 is North is going to take that up to the next level.
我曾说过，我希望重燃全体英国人的信心。希望今天这场活动，能够凝聚全民共识，让英国民众重拾希望。只要我们持续保持这样同心协作的模式，我相信我们一定能够实现这个目标。于我而言，今天意义非凡。这里承载着我所有的信念，也是我毕生为之奋斗的理想：打造一个举国同心的国家，让各个地区都参与到国家建设之中，各尽其责、贡献力量。北方唐宁街10号，会将这一理想推向全新高度。
Make no mistake, I just want to finish on this point. There’ll be many voices out there. I can hear them all already, often London-based, but not exclusively. You know, they like to say, oh, this will just be another, the new Levelling Up or another sort of short-lived gimmick.
请大家务必记住我接下来这段话，以此收尾。外界会出现许多质疑的声音，我早已预料到。这些声音大多来自伦敦，但并非全部。他们会评价：“这不过是又一轮区域均衡发展政策，只是昙花一现的政治噱头。”
They’ll also say, what’s it going to cost? But I’m just going to say something now that I’m going to say in the meetings later. You know, what does it cost for everybody to troop down to London every time there’s a meeting when you need to make an argument about something? What does that cost?
同时他们还会质疑：“设立这个机构要耗费多少财政资金？” 接下来我要说的这番话，稍后的会议中我也会再次重申。大家不妨算一笔账：以往各地官员但凡需要商讨地区发展事务，都要长途奔赴伦敦开会，这其中耗费的人力、财力成本又该如何计算？这笔开销难道就不算成本吗？
So actually, isn’t it better that we have a North Pole that balances the South Pole of our country, where power will always be concentrated, but at least it creates that sense of a more balanced country. And the big things can be done from here.
因此，设立北方政务核心，平衡权力高度集中的南方伦敦，难道不是更好的选择吗？至少能够构建发展更为均衡的国家格局，许多重大发展规划都能从这里落地实施。
But this is the place where Whitehall meets the rest of the country. I’ve called it the nerve centre for a rewired Britain. Or if you think about it in terms of the day-to-day kind of challenge around growth, it will be the situation room for growth where we all get around the table, mayors with all of the team of the Whitehall departments, so we get those decisions made more quickly, we break through the logjams, and we get things done.
这里也是白厅中央政府与英国其他地区对接的枢纽。我将这里称作重塑英国发展脉络的神经中枢。若是从日常经济发展攻坚的角度来看，这里就是经济发展作战指挥室，各市市长与白厅各部门工作团队齐聚一堂、共商对策。以此加快政策决策效率，破除发展堵点，切实推进各项工作落地。
So it is much more profound, I think, than people have worked out so far. It’s not just a new office. Through this place, power is going to flow, energy is going to flow, new ideas are going to come through, the region’s going to play back their ambitions here and the team is then going to say, right, we’re behind you, we’re going to make things work.
我认为，北方唐宁街10号的深远意义，远不止外界目前所理解的那样。这里不只是一间新设的办公场所，治理权限、发展活力、创新思路都会从这里向全国流通。各地区可以在这里充分阐述自身发展愿景，我们的工作团队会给出答复：“我们全力支持，协助你们将发展蓝图变为现实。” 
That is a different way of running Britain. That is what I’m committed to do as Prime Minister and I’m so grateful to everybody for making this day happen at the end of my first week and now let’s get to work everybody. Thanks so much.
这是一种全新的英国治理模式。作为首相，我承诺会全力以赴推行这套治理模式。本周是我履职首周，十分感谢所有人促成今日这场活动。各位，现在，让我们携手实干。万分感谢大家。