Richard Burgon

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:00:13. > :00:20.The election campaign was put on hold following the terrorist attack

:00:21. > :00:23.in Manchester on Monday, but now campaigning has resumed, it is

:00:24. > :00:28.hardly surprisingly security is now a primary concern. The Labour Party

:00:29. > :00:32.has said it would recruit more intelligence officers and thousands

:00:33. > :00:38.more pulleys. Jeremy Corbyn speaking on ITV News said previous cuts have

:00:39. > :00:44.undermined security. It seems that the courts in police numbers have

:00:45. > :00:48.led to some very dangerous situations emerging. It is also a

:00:49. > :00:53.question of a community response as well. So that where an imam for

:00:54. > :00:56.example alerts the police that he is concerned about somebody, I would

:00:57. > :01:01.hope they would act. And I hope they would have the resources to act as

:01:02. > :01:10.well. Joining me from Leeds is the Shadow Justice Secretary. Welcome.

:01:11. > :01:13.How are you? Very well. You have announced more security and

:01:14. > :01:17.intelligence agency staff. That is in line with what the Government has

:01:18. > :01:21.already announced, and the Shadow Home Secretary has said he will not

:01:22. > :01:27.spend more money. It does not amount to much, does it? That is just one

:01:28. > :01:32.of the parts of our pledge card on the safer communities. Also, there

:01:33. > :01:36.are 10,000 extra police because the Conservative torment has quit the

:01:37. > :01:42.police by 20,000, and 10,000 extra police would mean extra policemen in

:01:43. > :01:48.each neighbourhood. Also 3000 extra police and officers because the

:01:49. > :01:53.prison staff have been cut by 6000. That is the third since 2010, was by

:01:54. > :01:59.the Government, not helping the community stay safe. We're pledging

:02:00. > :02:03.more firefighters. Also 1000 extra security staff, but also 500 extra

:02:04. > :02:12.border guards as well because there have been 13 instances, 13 areas

:02:13. > :02:17.identified a... And that is the list of numbers you have given, but if we

:02:18. > :02:21.concentrate on security, because Jeremy Corbyn said there would be

:02:22. > :02:25.more police on the street under a Labour Government, and if they need

:02:26. > :02:30.more resources to keep track of those that murder and maim, they

:02:31. > :02:34.should get them. So why are giving them that? We are committing to

:02:35. > :02:38.extra... If you were going to do something over and above that, you

:02:39. > :02:45.are not doing so. The Government has not yet delivered on that promise.

:02:46. > :02:51.We will deliver on that promise. But with no more money? What Jeremy has

:02:52. > :02:56.said is you cannot do security on the cheap. Austerity has to stop at

:02:57. > :02:59.the police station door, it has to stop at the hospital door as well.

:03:00. > :03:10.But we will be giving resources required to keep communities safe.

:03:11. > :03:14.And more powers? The police need to be empowered, but when you talk to

:03:15. > :03:19.what the Police Federation are saying, they have spoke a long time

:03:20. > :03:25.about the danger caused by police courts. I'm talking not only about

:03:26. > :03:30.terrorism, not about acts of extreme violence, but also anything from

:03:31. > :03:35.anti-social behaviour to burglary to violent crime. You said more powers.

:03:36. > :03:42.What sort of powers are you thinking of giving the security services? We

:03:43. > :03:47.need to listen to the security services to intelligence community,

:03:48. > :03:52.and to the Armed Forces and the Police Federation and to the police

:03:53. > :03:58.about how they think our communities can be made safer. One thing is

:03:59. > :04:02.clear. Cutting the number of police by 20,000 makes communities less

:04:03. > :04:09.safe, not more safe. You said you are going to listen to the security

:04:10. > :04:13.services. Can they be reassured and guaranteed that Jeremy Corbyn will

:04:14. > :04:16.listen to the security services and the police in terms of more powers,

:04:17. > :04:22.if that is what they want. Because Jeremy Corbyn has voted against

:04:23. > :04:28.measures to tackle home-grown and international terrorism. Jeremy

:04:29. > :04:35.Corbyn's speech on safer communities earlier this week made clear he is

:04:36. > :04:45.listening to the security services. So he would grant those new powers?

:04:46. > :04:49., the terrorism act in 2006, and in 2014, the data retention and

:04:50. > :04:57.investigatory Powers act. So what new powers will be be happy to

:04:58. > :05:02.enact? Jammy cabin, -- Jeremy Corbyn and many other MPs voted against

:05:03. > :05:07.legislation, they thought it would be ill-advised or

:05:08. > :05:12.counter-productive. It is a complex situation. What we do not want to do

:05:13. > :05:17.is introduce hastily prepared laws with one eye to the newspaper

:05:18. > :05:23.headline which could act as recruiting sergeants for terrorism.

:05:24. > :05:30.What Jeremy Corbyn has said is either listening to the security

:05:31. > :05:36.area, this has also been said by the ex-head of the MI5 and her

:05:37. > :05:40.predecessor as well as President Obama. Can we look at the powers you

:05:41. > :05:46.might want to introduce? You say you will give the police and security

:05:47. > :05:51.sorrows the powers they need. If we look at some of the legislation that

:05:52. > :05:55.Jeremy Corbyn and others voted against in 2000, for example, you

:05:56. > :05:58.gave the Secretary of State to prescribe terrorist organisations

:05:59. > :06:02.and illegal to finance terrorist organisations. Disease still think

:06:03. > :06:08.that would be a bad idea, you would not vote in favour of those sorts of

:06:09. > :06:14.measures? Jeremy Corbyn along with Theresa a... I'm interested in what

:06:15. > :06:19.Jeremy Corbyn is going to do when he says going to be smarter about

:06:20. > :06:24.fighting terrorism. If he's not prepared to vote in favour of those

:06:25. > :06:30.sorts of measures all others are trying to impose restrictions on

:06:31. > :06:34.suspects, people want to know, what is the going to do? It is complex.

:06:35. > :06:41.With this legislation, the devil is often in the detail. If it was

:06:42. > :06:44.simple in that you could stop terrorism through voting, then

:06:45. > :06:48.terrorism would have been stopped a long time ago. Sadly there are no

:06:49. > :06:52.easy answers, and that is not as recognised by Jeremy Corbyn, it is

:06:53. > :07:00.recognised by Barack Obama, Stella Remington, head of the MFI. Other

:07:01. > :07:05.Conservative MPs. What was made clear in Jeremy Corbyn's speech is

:07:06. > :07:10.that we have got to be tough on terrorism, tough on the unforgivable

:07:11. > :07:15.acts of murder, but also on the causes. But the sad truth is there

:07:16. > :07:19.are no easy answers. If there were, the problem would have been solved a

:07:20. > :07:23.long time ago. I think voters might want to ask the question that if you

:07:24. > :07:26.want to employ more security and intelligence, that their leader is

:07:27. > :07:30.still in comfortable with giving them the powers they need to do,

:07:31. > :07:33.because it is complicated legislation, they want to know how

:07:34. > :07:38.you will do it. I will give you an example. At another stop the war

:07:39. > :07:45.rally in 2014, Jeremy Corbyn said that the murder by ices of a

:07:46. > :07:52.correspondence that it was the price of jingoism, so according to Jeremy

:07:53. > :08:02.Copping, the beheading of a charity worker is an British legislation.

:08:03. > :08:08.What Jeremy Corbyn also made clear is that the responsibility for acts

:08:09. > :08:15.of terrorism and murder lies with the murderer, and something that is

:08:16. > :08:17.really disappointing is the Prime Minister at an international

:08:18. > :08:26.conference the other day said that in Jeremy Corbyn's speech on this

:08:27. > :08:31.issue that he was to blame for the heinous, unforgivable murder. She

:08:32. > :08:34.knows she did not say that. She knows the's whether she believes him

:08:35. > :08:41.are not, she knows he did not say that, which was widely accepted by

:08:42. > :08:45.his opponents. She sat down with her opponents early in idea, but I know

:08:46. > :08:51.she did not say that, but if we say she did, hey, we might win symbols.

:08:52. > :08:55.I think that is shameful. I think that shows the PM cannot be trusted.

:08:56. > :08:56.They should transcend party politics. We need to pull together

:08:57. > :09:29.on these issues. The past of Westminster, with its

:09:30. > :09:35.many stone figures, is the ultimate Gothic revival building. It was

:09:36. > :09:38.August it Puget, a genius in Gothic design, who signed this feast of

:09:39. > :09:46.stonework paraphernalia we see today. There are gargoyles, Angels,

:09:47. > :09:51.and Lions in all sorts of hideous creature is watching you from every

:09:52. > :09:55.corner. Lions appear frequently throughout the palace, a symbol of

:09:56. > :10:00.pride with links to royalty and honour. Dogs convey a symbol of

:10:01. > :10:01.faithfulness and intelligence, and the eagle is