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We are covering the launch of the Liberal Democrat manifesto. A | :00:07. | :00:20. | |
referendum on any final Brexit deal will be at the heart of that | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
manifesto campaign. The British people, you, | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
should have the final say. And if you don't like | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
what Theresa May comes back with, you should have the | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
right to vote remain. The Lib Dems are making a pitch | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
for younger voters - With promises of cheap bus passes | :00:32. | :00:43. | |
and help to Buy home. I think many things need to be changed, tuition, | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
health care, is only to be different. I will be live in Bethnal | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
Green in east London where the Lib Dems are launching their general | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
election manifesto this evening and we will hear from the reader Tim | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Farron on the stage behind me in just a few minutes. | :01:02. | :01:29. | |
Good evening from Bethnal Green in east London where the Liberal | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
Democrats are launching their general election manifesto this | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
evening. If you want to watch 100 days that is over on BBC Four. The | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Liberal Democrats have chosen this nightclub in Bethnal Green to launch | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
their manifesto and in about ten minutes Tim Farron will be on the | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
stage behind me launching that and making a speech. He will say that at | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
the heart of this manifesto is the promise of the Liberal Democrats to | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
hold a second referendum on Brexit. Many other promises as well, | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
including a promise to legalise cannabis and tax the sale of that. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
This report on the Lib Dem manifesto from Vicki Young. | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
He says his policies offer young people a brighter future. | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
And Tim Farron has put Brexit at the heart of his campaign. | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
The Lib Dems hope the promise of a referendum on any Brexit deal | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
the government negotiates will persuade Remain voters | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
But the polls suggest the message isn't having much impact. | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
Certainly there are many people in this country lacking hope. | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
They think that the only thing on the table is Theresa May's bleak | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
vision of us leaving the European Union | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
But there are also many people who voted Remain | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
And they feel, actually, we have just got to get on with it now, | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
and many of them think Theresa May is the person to do that. | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
So what there is out there are many people who feel | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
And what I'm saying to people is that I haven't and if you believe | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
that Britain's future is better alongside our neighbours in Europe, | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
you should not be forced to accept a stitch up between Brussels | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
and London, you should have the final say. | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
As well as a referendum on the Brexit deal, | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
the Liberal Democrat manifesto promises ?7 billion of extra | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
A penny rise in income tax to fund more spending | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
on the NHS and social care, an end to the freeze | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
And the party wants to legalise and regulate cannabis. | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
There's no mention, though, of abolishing tuition fees, | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
a policy the Lib Dems abandoned when they went into coalition | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Would you now accept tuition fees were the right thing to do, | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Well, you know, I voted against the rise in tuition fees. | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
I think it is critically important that people keep their word. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
And that is why my advice to others is do not make | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Would you now put reversing it on your manifesto? | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
We have said we would put in significant additional money | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
to return grants to students to make sure it is affordable. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Here in south-west London the Lib Dems are hoping for a comeback. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
The area voted overwhelmingly against Brexit. | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
So how is their promise of another referendum | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
It is very childish to think just because you do not like a decision | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
that has been made and has been voted for, that you can go | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
This is a democracy, this is the country that we live | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
in and I think we should support that and stand by that. | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Even though the decision wasn't one that I liked. | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
I do not think that the fight should ever stop. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
I think it affects far too many lives. | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
And yes, we should carry on fighting until we have, you know, | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
I was disappointed with the news about a potential referendum | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
because I think that ship has sailed now. | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
And it is about trying to get the best kind of Brexit. | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
And so how many seats do you need to gain? | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
My sense is that we need to increase our number of seats, | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
increase our vote share, but what we need above all else | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
is to offer the British people this one chance. | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
This is the last chance saloon for Britain. | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
If you believe Britain is open, tolerant and united, | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
if you reject the extreme version of Brexit that Theresa May, | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
Jeremy Corbyn and Ukip have pushed through the House of Commons, | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
if you reject that and want a better future, | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
the Liberal Democrats are the only party that is offering new hope. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Two years ago the Lib Dems narrowly avoided election wipe-out. | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
They're hoping Brexit thrown them a political lifeline. | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
Tim Farron is going to be taking to the stage quite soon in Bethnal | :05:42. | :05:55. | |
Green. Our Political Correspondent, | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
Sima Kotecha is with me. She's been following | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
the Liberal Democrats campaign. Choosing a nightclub for the launch, | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
is that part of the message that they want to target the young | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
voters? Absolutely. At the heart of the manifesto that has been launched | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
our young people. We heard about things like housing, the | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
legalisation of cannabis, some liberal views that would appeal to | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
young people. They're playing loud music Mall, and you may remember in | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
2010 the Liberal Democrats did well but young people, winning 30% of the | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
vote of those aged 18 to 24. But then the figure plummeted in the | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
following election and they won just 5% of the vote. So this time around | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
there trying to win over at that demographic again which could lead | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
to some significant seats around the country. We all know they did pretty | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
badly in the last election. They lost almost 50 seats and ended up | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
with just eight seats in the House of Commons. Obviously they're hoping | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
to turn that around but the opinion polls are not brilliant for them at | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
the moment. We must look opinion polls with caution but the most | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
recent shows that there are are around 10%. Just talking to people, | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
we have been falling Tim Farron for the last couple of weeks and just | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
talking to people about him some people just feel that he is not | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
quite cutting through. That his message is not delivering the impact | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
that the other parties might be doing. So he has to do something | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
significantly different I think in the next few weeks if he wants to | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
win those folks. We will be listening carefully to what he's | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
about to say and he is also taking part in live debate tomorrow. Nick | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
Clegg in 2010 did well in the leaders debate and that led to many | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
young people coming out. Even labelled by some as the Barack Obama | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
of the UK election in 2010. So we will watch Tim Barron again closely | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
tomorrow as it is a chance for him to show really what he's capable of. | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
Thank you very much. So if Liberal Democrats have | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
promised to help young people get on the housing ladder and discount | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
bus passes - how will The BBC's Chris Morris has been | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
giving the figures a Reality Check. The biggest revenue raising proposal | :08:21. | :08:36. | |
is to add 1p to income tax across the board. The estimate that would | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
raise ?6.3 billion per year. Money that they would spend exclusively on | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
the NHS, care services and Public health. Then they want to reverse | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
cuts in corporation tax. Back up to 20%, raising ?3.6 billion annually | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
they say. There's also an eye-catching proposal to legalise | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
and tax cannabis. The Lib Dems say it would raise another 1 billion per | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
year. Overall this is a manifesto that will cost the country war. By | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
2020 the Lib Dems will spend 14.1 billion more in new day-to-day | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
spending than they would raise in taxes. That would mean a small rise | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
in the budget deficit by the end of the decade. But if you strip out the | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
money going into longer term investments in things like hospitals | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
and roads they said they would still balance the | :09:30. | :09:51. | |
books. They also want to launch a package of | :09:52. | :09:52. | |
to build 300,000 new homes per year. to build 300,000 new homes per year. | :09:53. | :09:52. | |
But the big thing in this manifesto, something that sets them apart from | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
the Conservatives and Labour, want to hold another referendum on | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
Brexit. This would be a vote on whether to accept the terms on | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
offer. They also put the option of staying in the EU on the ballot | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
paper. Over the next Parliament the biggest factor in determining the | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
health of the British economy and spending will be the outcome of the | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Brexit negotiations. The Lib Dems said they oppose a high Brexit. | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
There will be a vote in parliament on a proposed deal but in this | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
manifesto the Lib Dems argue it is the British people who should have | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
the final say. Back here in Bethnal Green and you | :10:29. | :10:39. | |
can see on the stage some of the Liberal Democrats, members and | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
supporters, holding placards saying, a brighter future. All that remains | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
is for the Liberal Democrat leader himself Tim Farron to take to the | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
stage and make his address to the party faithful as he launches the | :11:01. | :11:09. | |
party manifesto. Our correspondent is with me, he needs to make a | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
speech appealing to the party faithful tonight but also to the | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
wider electorate. In order to climb up the opinion polls and try to put | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
in a good performance. But he has accepted they're not going to be in | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
government. Absolutely, that is incredibly interesting. From day one | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
he said that the party is not going to win the election and talking to | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
people on the campaign trail some are saying why is he admitting | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
defeat. I put that to Tim Farron when I spoke to him earlier and he | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
said it is not about admitting defeat but being realistic. But the | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
goal is to is to present a strong | :11:46. | :12:00. | |
opposition, they want to change the debate and hold the government | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
accountable. He said the election is more like a coronation for Theresa | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
May rather than an election. He said what is required is a credible | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
opposition. The message is if you voted remain in the referendum you | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
should vote Lib Dem. What is interesting is even those who have | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
voted remain, some are actually still wanting to vote for the | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
government and still want to vote for Theresa May. A subgroup has been | :12:26. | :12:34. | |
created, so people who voted to remain but actually now are quite | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
happy with the fact that the UK is leaving the EU. I think he has to | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
win back those people on his side win back those people on his side | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
and I think that message, he has to reiterate the message, show a bit of | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
charisma and gravitas, that is appealing to that tough demographic. | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
You have been following him around, they are targeting constituencies | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
they think they can win or win back from the last election. Many of the | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
constituencies they are targeting didn't bode remain. The south-west | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
is crucial, just to be a Lib Dem battle ground but we were there at | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
the other day in Somerset, North Norfolk, and many voted to leave, | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
the area as a whole voted to leave. So he has an uphill struggle to | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
convince those people to get them onside. And to actually vote for | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
someone who is still going on about wanting to stay in the EU. And that | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
is tough. Just to remind you, we're just waiting for the Liberal | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
Democrat leader Tim Farron to take to the stage. We have live special | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
coverage from here in East London on this Lib Dem manifesto launch. We | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
had the Labour Party manifesto launch yesterday of course in | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Bradford and today is the turn of the Lib Dems. And very much of the | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
heart of the manifesto is the promise to hold a second referendum. | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
The Lib Dems saying the British people should have the final say on | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
whether we stay in Europe or leave. Of course a very controversial call | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
for a second referendum but one that Ted dashed Tim Farron and the | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
leadership are campaigning on and campaigning hard. They did not do | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
well in the last election, they lost almost 50 seats. Really a | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
devastating loss in that election. And they were left with just eight | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
seats in the House of Commons. They have since added one was a | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
by-election so they now have nine. But there is the stage, there are | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
the supporters. They will stand behind Tim Farron when he makes a | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
speech. And obviously the party faithful love their leader. How does | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
he compare dizzy with his predecessor Nick Clegg? A lot of | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
people have said over the last couple of weeks that he is not so | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
charismatic, that he is likeable and honest. They feel he has those | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
values that they want the parties represent. But it is about whether | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
he can have the same impact as Nick Clegg over the next few weeks. We | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
know in 2010 Nick Clegg appealed to the younger demographic. Which the | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
party is aiming for. But can he be as highly impactful as Nick Clegg? | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
We will see over the next few weeks. At the moment the polls are showing. | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
Here he is. He appears, the leader of the Lib Dems, Tim Farron. Let's | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
listen as he launches the party to the election manifesto. | :15:48. | :16:08. | |
A couple of weeks ago in Kidlington near Oxford I met a bloke called | :16:09. | :16:21. | |
Malcolm. He came up to me in the street and he started shouting at | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
me. You might have seen it on the news or the intranet. In the end we | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
got along. But he was angry at me for not getting behind Theresa May | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
and backing Brexit. I think I count down a bit when we spoke but I'm | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
fairly sure I did not change mind. And that is fine. When the | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
referendum took place last year I campaigned harder than anyone else | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
to remain. I believed passionately that our children would have a | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
brighter future in Britain if we remained in the EU. But we lost and | :17:01. | :17:13. | |
I accept that. But that does not mean that I have changed what I | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
believe. I believe that our children will have a brighter future if we | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
are inside the European Union, that they will be safer and better off, | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
that our economy will be stronger and our country will have more | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
influence in the world. But just because I believe that does not mean | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
that I think people who voted to leave are bad people. Of course | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
they're not. We just disagree. I grew up in Preston in Lancashire and | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
most folks in Preston voted to leave. Parts of Lancashire, two | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
thirds of the people voted to leave. Friends of mine did, members of my | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
family did. They do not all admit to it to my face! But I know that they | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
did. Because you told my sister! Pretend otherwise! These people, | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
they are my people and I love those people. There are good people. There | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
are decent people. And as it happens, I liked Malcolm as well | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
once he's stopped shouting at me. But here's the difference between me | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
and Theresa May. I want Malcolm, everyone here, everyone in Preston, | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
every single one of you, to have your say over what comes next. | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
Nobody knows what Brexit will look like, the choice is -- the choices | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
Theresa May will make will affect your life and our country for | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
decades. Your weekly shop, your job, your environment, your safety, where | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
you can travel to and where you can live. And already she is making | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
choices that will affect those things including the most profound | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
choice she could make, taking the UK out of the single market. That | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
decision alone is a time bomb under our economy and when it blows up it | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
will take down our NHS and schools with it. It will wreck our | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
children's future for decades to come and it is a choice, her choice, | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
plain and simple. It was not inevitable, there was nothing on the | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
ballot paper last June that said we were choosing to pull out of the | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
single market. Other countries are outside the EU and inside the single | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
market. Just look at Norway, Switzerland. There was nothing on | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
the ballot paper that said people and families from Europe who have | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
made this country their home will be left in limbo not knowing if they | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
can stay in the country they have raised their kids in. And definitely | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
nothing on the ballot paper that said we would turn our friends and | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
neighbours, our allies, into enemies. And yet here we are with | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
our government making accusations of our | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
neighbours and even threatening war with Spain. The choices Theresa May | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
makes and the compromises she negotiates with the bureaucrats in | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
Brussels will affect our children's future for decades to come. My | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
children, your children. In June last year we voted for a departure | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
but we did not vote for a destination. So I want you to have | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
your choice over your future. APPLAUSE. | :20:25. | :20:39. | |
Someone... Maybe it is obvious when you think about it, someone is going | :20:40. | :20:49. | |
to have the final say over the final Brexit deal. It could be the | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
politicians or it could be the people. I believe it must be the | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
people. APPLAUSE. You should have the say over whether Theresa May and | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
her Brexit deal is right for you and your family in a referendum. If you | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
do not like the deal you should have the choice to remain in the European | :21:14. | :21:26. | |
Union. Giving you the choice and giving you the choice of your future | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
is exactly what our manifesto is all about. I want you to change the | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
future of Britain and imagine a brighter future, imagine a future | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
where our children can grow up in a country where people are decent to | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
each other, where we have good schools and hospitals, where we take | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
the challenge of climate change seriously. Where we give our | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
teachers and nurses and soldiers the pay rise they deserve for the | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
service they give to our country. While we have an open innovative | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
economy, where we treat the poorest and the most vulnerable with | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
compassion. Where we do not turn our backs on desperate refugees. That is | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
the Britain I love and the Britain I want to lead. | :22:12. | :22:26. | |
APPLAUSE. But that is not the Britain that is | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
not the future that Theresa May is offering you. If you want to know | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
the most revealing thing that has been said during this election, just | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
look at Nigel Farage and his Twitter account. Not too often, but look at | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
it just this once. In his very words Theresa May is using the exact words | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
and phrases I have been using for 20 years. Think about that for a | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
minute. Nigel Farage says the exact words and phrases, the Prime | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
Minister of our great country saying the same things that Nigel Farage | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
has been saying for 20 years. And not just the words and the phrases, | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
the policies as well. That is what Ukip MEP Patrick Flynn said just | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
this week. Brexit never did just mean Brexit, for Nigel Farage Brexit | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
was always part of a package. Part of a worldview. It is a worldview | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
that includes shunning climate change, shrinking the state by | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
starving our schools and NHS of the funding that they need, turning our | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
backs on some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
as Theresa May did when she shamefully closed the door on | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
desperate child refugees. That is Nigel Farage's worldview, the same | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
that leads to Donald Trump banning Muslims and building a wall. The | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
same one that Marine Le Pen try to impose on the decent people of | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
France. Nigel Farage his vision for Britain is now that of Theresa May. | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
He has taken over the Conservative Party. Anti-Europe, and to refugee, | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
slashing funding to schools and hospitals. No wonder Ukip is | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
standing candidates down to support the Tories. After all who needs Ukip | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
if the Tory government is doing what they want anyway. Somebody has to | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
stand up to them. Someone has to bite -- to fight for the decent, | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
compassionate Britain we love. But it will not be Jeremy Corbyn. On the | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
biggest issue facing us all for a generation when all of this is at | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
stake Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party has not even shown up. Jeremy | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
Corbyn ordered his MPs and his Lords to go into the lobbies and vote with | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
the Tories and Ukip, not against them but with them. Before the vote | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
on Article 50. He said he would order his party to vote in favour, | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
even if the government made no concessions, whatsoever. So surprise | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
surprise, they made no concessions, whatsoever. Jeremy Corbyn did not | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
need to do that he could have voted with us to stay in the single market | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
or to give European citizens living here at the right to stay. He chose | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
not to. Jeremy Corbyn and Labour chose not to. Jeremy Corbyn has | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
always been pro-Brexit, he campaigned against Europe for years | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
so we should not be surprised. But we should be bitterly disappointed. | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
Labour are supposed to be... APPLAUSE. | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
Labour are supposed to be the opposition but they have not post | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
anything. They're supposed to stand up for working people but they have | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
not stood up to anyone. They're supposed to care about our | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
children's future but they're letting the Conservatives wreck it. | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
They have lost the right to call themselves the opposition. | :26:06. | :26:19. | |
Labour has lost its purpose. But we have found our purpose. The brighter | :26:20. | :26:30. | |
future we want for all our children is at stake. Our economy is at | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
stake, our schools and hospitals. This is about the future of the | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
open, tolerant, united country that we love. I'm here tonight to tell | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
you that we will not roll over. A few weeks ago in France the two | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
parties that had run the country together for decades came third and | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
fifth. The decent people of France decided they did not want to simply | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
accept one of the two tired old parties so they rejected them. And | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
when the two old establishment parties have been eliminated, the | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
decent people of France faced a stark choice. A liberal, | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
pro-European candidate who believes in an open, tolerant and unite | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
France, versus the leader of the National front. Hope versus fear. A | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
brighter future versus a cold, mean-spirited one. Nigel Farage | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
pinned his colours to the mast, just as when he backed Donald Trump in | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
America, he backed the candidate who represented his worldview. | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
Anti-Europe, anti-refugee, he backed the National front. For the decent | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
people of chance -- France, they've chosen hope over fear and the | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
National front loss. Do not let anyone tell you the only choice you | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
have in this election is between Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May. The | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
selection is a your choice about your future, it is about your future | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
and you can choose a brighter future where our children grow up in a | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
country where people are decent to each other. Where we have good | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
schools and hospitals so our children have a fair chance in life | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
and the elderly are treated with dignity. Where we have a clean | :28:16. | :28:23. | |
environment and innovative economy, the more Liberal Democrat MPs unite | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
the better deal we will get on Europe. The more jobs, the more | :28:26. | :28:34. | |
money for our NHS and schools. The more and brighter the future for our | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
children. Theresa May and Nigel Farage, their cold, mean-spirited | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
Britain, is not the Britain that I love. The Britain I love is | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
generous, and it is compassionate. It is one where we are decent to | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
each other, it is open, tolerant and united. If that is the Britain that | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
you love as well then this is the moment to stand up, this is your | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
chance to change Britain's future. I'm here tonight because when my | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
children are my age I want to be able to look them in the eye and | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
tell them honestly that when the moment came to stand up for their | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
future, I stood up. I'm determined that our children will grow up in a | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
country where people are decent to each other. I'm here tonight because | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
the Britain but I love is not lost yet. That is the country that I want | :29:31. | :29:31. | |
to leave. Thank you. -- to lead. There we are, the speech from Tim | :29:32. | :30:02. | |
Farron followed by a lot of noisy music. I'm joined by a prominent Lib | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
Dem, Vince Cable. to own the speech was great. | :30:09. | :30:17. | |
It was a very clear speech with clear definition. It started and | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
finished with the issue of Europe. Giving people the choice of the | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
destination, not just the departure. That is clear. The way in which the | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
Tory party has morphed into Ukip. A lot of Tory voters will be alarmed | :30:33. | :30:35. | |
when they realise what they are signing up to. But your message | :30:36. | :30:37. | |
doesn't seem to be cutting through to the voters, if you believe the | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
opinion polls. Well, it is a very long campaign. Three weeks ago. Our | :30:43. | :30:49. | |
manifesto is only out today. I think it is up from here. And really, you | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
need to do so much better than the last election, when you really lost | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
almost 50 seats. Can you do that? I was one of the victims in that but I | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
am fighting again, as many of my colleagues are. Because of the | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
British footing system, we have got to win seats will stop thoughts are | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
important but we have to win seats. I am optimistic we will have | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
substantial improvement and a real impact on the next Parliament. The | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
message of this manifesto is really that the Liberal Democrats will not | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
be in Government but want to be strong in opposition. Exactly. It is | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
very clear that the Conservatives are going to win. They are probably | :31:31. | :31:38. | |
going to win big. The Labour Party will be defeated. But we need a | :31:39. | :31:41. | |
substantial amount of Lib Dem MPs in the next Parliament to hold the | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
Government to account and form the nucleus of an effective opposition. | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
Lot of condemnation of the Labour Party and Conservative Party from | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
Tim Farron. He topped about a cold, mean-spirited Britain. Well, that is | :31:57. | :32:01. | |
what hard Brexit leads to. It is also what we are beginning to see. | :32:02. | :32:04. | |
They have been in power for two years. In many parts of the country, | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
we are already seeing school budgets, hospitals and social care | :32:11. | :32:17. | |
severely cut. If they get a big majority, continuing Government, | :32:18. | :32:19. | |
that will be extended over a long period of time. It could get very | :32:20. | :32:26. | |
nasty. Howdy explain to people who voted in the referendum that there | :32:27. | :32:28. | |
should be a second referendum? People have had their say on Europe. | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
They had their say on leaving. They do not know what the destination is. | :32:33. | :32:35. | |
It could turn out well. It could turn out very badly. We can get no | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
agreement at all. What we're seeing is when we get at that point, people | :32:42. | :32:46. | |
will have the opportunity to say if they accepted the knot. But some | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
people will say... You want a second referendum because you do not think | :32:52. | :32:53. | |
the British people give the correct answer. The first time around. We do | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
not disrespect the majority, the small majority. We accept that vote. | :33:00. | :33:06. | |
The processors that but we do not know where we're going. It is one | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
thing with people deciding to move house, that is fine, but they don't | :33:12. | :33:14. | |
know where they are going to live. And if the houses to try rotten | :33:15. | :33:21. | |
rising damp, they would decide to stay well they are. Do you have a | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
problem with your leader? You're not cutting through. 9% in the opinion | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
polls. Actually, I think it is a bit higher. But nonetheless, this is a | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
want of a manifesto tonight. There is tremendous enthusiasm. He has | :33:36. | :33:43. | |
already got the party going with the largest membership we have ever had. | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
We will keep going from here. Vince Cable, thank you for your time. That | :33:48. | :33:52. | |
is his reaction to the launch of the party's manifesto in Bethnal Green | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
in east London. Tim Farron really launching an attack on both Theresa | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
May and Jeremy Corbyn, saying that they wanted a cold, mean-spirited | :34:01. | :34:07. | |
Britain. He said it hard Brexit, including leading the single market, | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
would be a time bomb under economy which would wreck the lives of young | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
people for decades to come. That is the launch of the Liberal Democrats' | :34:19. | :34:25. | |
manifesto in this very noisy nightclub Udinese London. For the | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
moment, back to you, Clive. In the quiet of this to do. It is very | :34:32. | :34:40. | |
quiet here. And warm. The Liberal Democrats, as Ben said, | :34:41. | :34:42. | |
hope to attract young | :34:43. | :34:43. |