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Welcome to Manchester, where Ed Miliband it about to make his last | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
big conference speech his last before next year's General Election. | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
The Labour Leader will get to his feet in about 20 minutes - | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
we'll bring it to you live and uninterrupted. | :00:24. | :00:56. | |
Afternoon folks, and welcome to this Daily Politics. | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
It's only a short walk for Ed Miliband and his wife, Justine, from | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
the Midland Hotel to the Conference Centre here in Manchester which we | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
are waiting for in the next few minutes. We're told the NHS will | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
figure strongly in his speech and that taxes on houses worth over ?2 | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
million, on hedge funds and tobacco companies, will be used to bolster | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
NHS finances. That suggests a core vote strategy rather than anything | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
too radical. We'll have the speech, interviews and analysis here and Jo | :01:42. | :01:59. | |
Coburn, who's out and about in the Conference centre. So we're on air | :02:00. | :02:12. | |
Until 3:45pm this afternoon, and maybe later. With me is the former | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
Minister Charlie Falconer and the BBC's political Editor Nick | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
Robinson. Labour Cabinet his speech will be 80 | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
minutes, is that wise? I think people are willing to hear it, | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
particularly at a party conference. Taxing things that Labour may regard | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
as bad, like big houses over ?2 million, hedge funds, tobacco | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
companies to pay for the NHS, that is pretty much the core strategy, | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
isn't it? Remember in 1997 Tony Blair introduced attacks on the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
banks to introduce a variety of employment programmes... He had a | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
windfall tax on utilities. That's right, but it was not regarded as | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
being a core strategy. He didn't campaign on that. Economic | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
responsibility was a vital part of the package. I think what Ed is | :03:22. | :03:36. | |
doing is saying that he can properly fund it. I think the wider public | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
would regard these as reasonable choices to make. The problem is that | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
none of these things may bring in very much money. The Office for | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Budget Responsibility will look at these proposals and it will be | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
possible for the public to have an independent verification or not is | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
the case may be if the sums add up. At the moment we don't really know | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
how much a mansion tax would bring in, and would it just be the hedge | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
funds or all asset management? We don't what they mean by attacks on | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
the tobacco companies. And nobody can properly say what the details | :04:19. | :04:33. | |
are. I'm sure if you know the broad and bit you can work out whether it | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
will work or not. Why does this not feel like a conference that is on | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
the brink of power? I think it does feel like a conference on the brink | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
of power. I think there is a real sense we must be disciplined and | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
determined. It is also a conference sandwiched between two other great | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
events, the referendum, which is an event of such great electricity that | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
it is difficult to compete with that, and the issues in relation to | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
the Middle East and in particular the use of force, the prospective | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
use of force by the UK Government, they are making people see things in | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
a different way than normal. It is a problem when you are a politician, | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
you can get overshadowed by events, whether it is the Scottish | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
referendum or now the bombing is not just of Iraq but also Syria, and we | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
understand that at three o'clock this afternoon the president will | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
make a speech, British time. Obviously the Labour Party | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
conference is one thing going on in the world but I don't think that in | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
any way detracts from the mood here. It does make it less... It makes it | :05:46. | :05:56. | |
less excited because there is more focus going on in Scotland. You are | :05:57. | :06:09. | |
ahead in the polls at the moment. For a while. Three years. But Ed | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
Miliband himself has not been ahead in the polls. He is yet to convince | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
the British voter that he is prime ministerial. And that in some | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
respects will be determined by the prospectus he makes to the British | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
people, and today is plainly about what the prospectus is. I think it | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
is interesting that one of the things that came out of the Scottish | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
referendum was that the public do want change. A prospectus for change | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
has got to be laid out by the opposition leader. What also came | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
out of the Scottish referendum was that Ed Miliband was almost of no | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
importance whatsoever. I think the choice being given to the Scottish | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
people was in a sense either stick with politics as it is, or abandon | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
politics as it is, and I think Alex Salmond tucked into the sort of | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
insurgency that UKIP has done here. Can you remember Labour leader who | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
has had less cut through in Scotland than Ed Miliband? Labour leaders | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
have obtained the loyalty of Scottish voters. For a period of | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
time Tony Blair was not popular in Scotland. No, but he won landslides | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
in Scotland. Because people were voting Labour. I think the issues in | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
the Scottish rent -- referendum were not about Labour. But you could be | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
pretty sure Tony Blair would have played a major role in the | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
referendum campaign. I think he would have done, yes. Whereas Ed | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
Miliband didn't. He played more of a role than David Cameron. Partly | :07:56. | :08:08. | |
because Gordon Brown at the end... He was called in desperation! He had | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
a particular authority, and also Gordon represented the voice of | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
Scotland... He obviously is Labour but it was very much a Scottish | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
voice he was talking with. It is unavoidable that what was happening | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
in Scotland was a rejection of British politicians, including | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
Labour. Let's just go back and have a look at the pictures outside the | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
conference hall. They are still waiting for Ed Miliband to appear. | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
If he is running late and planning an 80 minute speech, we could be on | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
for a long while today. Apparently they were rewriting parts of the | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
speech up until the last minute, but I think that was probably to take | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
account of the moving events in the Middle East. Because he has to say | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
something with authority on what is happening in the Middle East at the | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
moment. I agree, and I think the role of the opposition in relation | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
to whether force is used is extremely important. What is the | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
mood of the party? Is it ready for... I put this in quotes... | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
Another war in the Middle East? Hold that thought. Here we have the | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Labour leader getting a hearty welcome from his own supporters, | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
along with Justine Greening his wife, who is a lawyer. -- Justine, | :09:41. | :09:53. | |
his wife. This is always a big occasion in the calendar of any | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
leader of any of the major parties, the conference speech. You are | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
speaking to the converted, to the party faithful, you know you will | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
always get a great welcome. On the other hand expectations are high, | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
you have got to perform well, not just to reach out to the wider | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
public but also to send the party faithful away with a spring in their | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
step as they go knocking on the doors and doing the rounds. He has | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
disappeared into the conference hall. But not just for the faithful, | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
because you get huge media coverage. No speech is more | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
important than the one just before the general election. This is the | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
trampoline, the jumping off point for the campaign for the general | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
election, which we know will take place in 2015. It is a very | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
important speech anyway but particularly important. He has a | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
reputation for giving strong speeches at these conferences. Last | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
year he set the weather for a long time with his talk of price freezes | :11:04. | :11:13. | |
on electric companies. Whether the impact is lasting is another matter. | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
In a sense, because this is the one before the election, the pressure to | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
do something important is even bigger. One of the things about Ed | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
Miliband is that he is a very thoughtful politician. He puts huge | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
amounts of thought into the conference speech. A lot of time | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
goes into it so I think he will deliver on the expectations because | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
the problems facing the leader of the opposition or indeed any leader | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
at the moment are difficult and complex. Expect something good and | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
well thought out because that is what Ed is very good at. Let's go to | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
Jo, because she has been talking to delegates outside the conference | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
hall. Just about an hour to go until Ed | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
Miliband delivers his speech. Let's find out what delegates are | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
expecting. They are queueing up diligently and patiently waiting. | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
The queue goes almost out of the exhibition hall. Let's ask people | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
what they are expecting. Are you excited about the speech? Yes, it is | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
a great occasion and we are waiting to hear what the leader has to say. | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
Are you excited? Yes, I want to see a firm commitment to what the | :12:36. | :12:52. | |
changes will be when we come into power in 2015 so I am looking | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
forward to an inspirational speech. What about you? What do we want to | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
hear from Ed Miliband? I am excited to hear from Ed Miliband, what he | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
will do for us when he comes back into power. What do you want him to | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
do? Freezing the electricity bills and making school dinners free for | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
children from four years old until 11 years old. Let's move slightly | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
further up the line and ask these people here. Do you like Ed | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
Miliband? Yes, I think he is absolutely superb. He stands for the | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
values of grass roots Labour Party, and he is a strong leader without | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
falling for the slickness and nonsense that we see from the | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
Tories. Why is everyone round here saying the conference has been flat? | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
No, not at all! I think it was him! It was Stephen Pound! It has been | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
fizzing, this is the champagne conference. Let's come back, so you | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
don't think it has been flat? No, it has been exciting. I like the fact | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
they are getting rid of the bedroom tax and also getting rid of zero | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
contracts. What about if you are looking to the future, can you see | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Ed Miliband as a future prime minister? Of course, he is an | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
intellectual, he is serious and brilliant, I love him. Will that | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
appealed to blue-collar workers, people with UKIP chomping at the | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
bit? If they listen to the policies, yes. We have got the policies. We | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
will stop the privatisation of the NHS, repeal the social care act, get | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
rid of bedroom tax, all of these policies which will appeal to people | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
throughout the land. Let's move along here. What about you, madam, | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
why is it that Ed Miliband's poll ratings are so low? I am a member of | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
Parliament in north Wales and people in my constituency want to see the | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
introduction of a higher minimum wage, they want to get rid of the | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
bedroom tax. With no disrespect to yourselves all the Westminster | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
bubble. So that is a snapshot of the delegates' views. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
We welcome viewers from the BBC News Channel to this special on the | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
Labour Party conference live from Manchester where Ed Miliband is | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
about to make the leaders address. We're now going to be on air until | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
4pm this afternoon to accommodate our briefing that Ed Miliband plans | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
to speak for 80 minutes for the long, even by modern standards, but | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
there we go. You will get it all here on the BBC News Channel. Maybe | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
we can go back to the hall. People have been queueing up for ages to | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
get in there. You can see it's now filled up. It is an enormous | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
conference Hall in Manchester. We are sitting in the middle of what | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
used to be a railway station, the central Manchester railway station, | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
the huge railway hotel known as the Midland, just across from here, I | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
can see it through the window. A beautiful big red brick building. | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
Right in the heart of Manchester. This new world-class conference | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
facility in the centre of the city. A big crowd for Mr Miliband today. | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
Of course, that will help the atmosphere because the reason the | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
conferences have been queueing people, they have been building the | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
stages, adding to the middle of the hall, to take away people. This is | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
more like an old-time conference call. And it feels very full. The | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
conference looks like it's been very, very busy. It's looking great. | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
An issue which will determine the election, I would suggest, will be | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
the economy. It usually does. This is another problem for Mr Miliband | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
because labours economic credibility, even if they are ahead | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
in the polls, is 25% behind the Conservatives. That polls show but | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
you can see very significant efforts have been made to make it clear we | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
are fiscally responsible. The speech by Ed Balls was not going to delight | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
many Labour activists, and some paper suggested there was some | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
boring. Bash one of the things we have been | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
discussing is how you cost out proposals you're going to make in | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
preserving the National Health Service, you have got to be able to | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
fund that, so it's going to be careful series speeches. Which | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
indicate economic responsibility. There seems to be a problem, not | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
just an economic message but who is delivering it, Ed Balls, and lots of | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
people see him as part of the regime which reminds them of days where | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
things went wrong and Labour would rather forget. The Conservative | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
Party very effectively spent a lot of time in the aftermath of the last | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
election saying Labour were responsible for the economic crash. | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
Of course they went, it was a worldwide rush brought about by | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
banking, which affected the whole world, but I think many people | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
associate Labour because of that effective campaign by the Tories | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
with the crash full speed was not our responsibility for them are the | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
days when Labour could win,... I'm sure you're going to admit it's not | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
going to be a landslide for all parties. I do think Labour will | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
win. I don't think landslides are necessarily a thing of the past. I | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
think establishing a convincing economic narrative and delivering it | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
to people will deliver for one party or another possibility of some | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
substantial majorities that, at the moment, the public have yet to up | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
their mind. We are a four party system in the UK now. UKIP is turned | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
England into a four party system, like Northern Ireland, Scotland and | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
Wales. It remains to be seen whether you click on translate their | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
successes into the general election success. I'm not sure the public | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
think you are serious as an alternative. We don't know whether | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
their share of the vote will find their way. Ed Miliband will take to | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
the stage in just a few minutes. We came into the hall to show you that | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
and as we wait for him to speak, let's remind ourselves of the events | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
of the last 12 months in Labour politics. If we win that election in | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
2015, the next Labour Government will freeze gas and delicacy prices | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
until the start of 2017. At the next election we will present | :20:10. | :20:27. | |
a manifesto that explains how we can make the living wage a central part | :20:28. | :20:28. | |
of our strategy. We need a reckoning with our banks, | :20:29. | :20:37. | |
not for retribution but for reform. Today I asked to agree the biggest | :20:38. | :20:49. | |
changes to our party since 1918. Selfie. Would you like a chip? Can I | :20:50. | :21:37. | |
say to her, she's looking for new challenge, she should try wrestling | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
a bacon sandwich. This is everyone's flag, everyone's | :21:40. | :21:56. | |
country, and everyone. Full. A reminder of some of the highlights | :21:57. | :22:19. | |
of labour's year. A few minutes until Ed Miliband gets to his feet. | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
There you can see inside the hall, it looks like there's barely a spare | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
seat. Everybody has grabbed them. You can see behind, Labour's plan | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
for Britain's future. We're going to hear a lot about plans and we're | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
told Mr Miliband has a ten year plan in mind and six major parts to this | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
ten year plan he's going to spell out though I'm sure he's also kept | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
something up his sleeve. Just to keep us in suspense and to add an | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
element of novelty to these things. Stalin had a five-year plan so why | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
does he need a 10-year one? 80 minute speech, 10-year plan, it took | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
the eight hours. -- Castro. A 10-year plan because there's no | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
quick fix in relation to the economic issues and maybe with the | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
alienation issues as well. We have to move fast in Government but the | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
idea that these things can be fixed quickly is not right, like | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
reskilling the workforce. It does not happen quickly. This is a | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
crucial election for Labour to win because of the polls were to be | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
wrong and against a lot of the wisdom, the Tories were to win an | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
overall majority, not just coalition, would quickly put through | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
the boundary changes, 30 or 40 seats to them, English votes for English | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
laws, and they could be there for quite a while. So you need to win. | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
If we don't win, they will be those points, but there will also be the | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
point that we haven't won in the context of a recovery that wasn't | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
affecting very many people. There has been a long flat-lining period. | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
Also, we have been along time had in the period polls but not one. Joined | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
by Nick Robinson, a little late but I may put you into detention later | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
but not at the moment because we need you. What have we got in store? | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
More of what we said yesterday, the promised to spend a lot more | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
annually on the NHS, the talk is it might involve recruiting a lot of | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
new staff, possibly 34,000 new staff. Not straight away, but by the | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
end of the first Labour term, if the more one. The idea seems to be to | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
deal with shortages that everyone has been reading it, in terms of | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
nurses on wards, GPs, leading to people having to go to the A, | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
midwives and home care. That seems to be the centrepiece. Partly paid | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
for by the mansion tax, as I revealed yesterday, and partly by a | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
new tax on tobacco firms. Attacks on their market share, as I understand | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
it, and partly paid for by some tax avoidance measures but the detail, | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
we will have to wait for it for the and hedge funds is? Maybe that's tax | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
avoidance? There are a series of measures. If you are a Labour spin | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
doctor, you say you're taxing the bad things, to raise money for the | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
good things. The NHS. The message they want, tax the rich, tax the tax | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
avoidance, the people who make us sick rather than make as well, to | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
pay for the NHS. It may be a very good idea, it may help, but you have | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
to remember when you hear politicians of any party present | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
things in these ways, whatever they describe, whatever form of words | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
they use, it's just public spending and taxes. If you spend ?2.5 billion | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
extra, that is just a little bit over the NHS budget, 3% annually, on | :26:15. | :26:24. | |
that budget. What really matters is the baseline. The baseline depends | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
on the growth of the economy, the size of the deficit, and so on and | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
so forth, and you also have to remember, which is least been | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
discussed at this conference, the thing which allows Labour to promise | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
more spending is not simply new tax measures, though they are important, | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
but that they have looser borrowing rules for the next parliament than | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
George Osborne would have and according to the Institute for | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
Fiscal Studies, it allows them to raise many billions of pounds a year | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
extra compared with a Tory Government. They would say because | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
they are behaving more sensibly in the way they manage the public | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
finances. People will wonder how Labour can have looser borrowing | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
rules than the Government. It's a question of what you have is your | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
objective. How worried about debt and the deficit are you? And Labour | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
politicians I think would argue that yes, you should be worried, but | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
there is a balance between that and what is necessary to pay for public | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
services and ensuring you don't shrink the economy because you are | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
taking so much demand out. These are raw judgements in the end. Not | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
black-and-white decisions. George Osborne's policy is to try to end | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
the deficit by 2018, and Labour politicians will be able to tell you | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
again and again, he would've ended it by now so he is off target now, | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
already borrowing billions of pounds more than he planned to but that it | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
is objective to do it. They are taking a different objective. The | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
politics of this, if the NHS are taking centre stage in this speech, | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
and ways of raising money is for the NHS, does that suggest a | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
reinforcement of what has been known as the core strategy? Get out the | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
35% of the Labour vote, because of the electoral arithmetic, could give | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
you an overall majority? It will motivate the call voters but hard to | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
argue most voters don't care about the NHS. In that sense, I'm nervous | :28:25. | :28:31. | |
of this description of things as call vote strategies. I challenge | :28:32. | :28:33. | |
you to go into Manchester and find someone to say, who don't care about | :28:34. | :28:43. | |
the NHS. Even people with private health-insurance find themselves | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
dependent on the health service for the urgent treatment, long-term | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
care, when they are close to death for example. There is not money | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
people in this country don't care about the NHS. Also does not money | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
people who know that for the NHS, that is part of the Labour Party's | :29:02. | :29:10. | |
reason to exist. Why the need to make that a centrestage appeal? | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
Labour is way ahead in the public opinion polls on the NHS also | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
arguably, they have sorted that issue. Their problem is they are | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
behind on economic credibility and immigration. Ed Miliband is looking | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
for some weight to say to people Labour would make a difference to | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
your lives. At the same time as Ed Balls is saying, don't promise to | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
spend this and that. We haven't got the money. It's going to be | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
difficult, we have to make cuts, and the NHS allows them to square that | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
circle. If the money was being promised for other measures, albeit | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
good schemes, potentially, I think they would be walking into a trap | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
with the Tories could say, same old Labour, spend, tax and borrow. The | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
Tories who have difficulty with this policy. It is neatly packaged, tax | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
the wealthy to pay for the health service. Frankly, if the thought of | :30:07. | :30:13. | |
political conjuring, if you like, that George Osborne likes for the | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
remember when he said I'm going to cut inheritance tax that get the | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
non-dons, the Melfi to paper that. This is what opposition does, | :30:22. | :30:23. | |
symbolism. -- the wealthy. The problem is that oppositions | :30:24. | :30:35. | |
don't make the weather, the Government is in charge, and I would | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
not rule out that at some stage between now and the next Budget or | :30:41. | :30:49. | |
-- in March next year, George Osborne might well find two or 3 | :30:50. | :30:55. | |
million that he will put into the NHS. I agree, but the announcement | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
of the mansion tax that George Osborne made, what about the energy | :31:02. | :31:10. | |
that made. And I suspect NHS announcements will make the weather | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
coming out of this stage, there is a sense that delays are increasing in | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
the NHS, there is an issue about whether there will be a winter | :31:19. | :31:25. | |
crisis in 2016, and to be addressing that now and funding it in taxing | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
things that most people would regard as being sensibly taxed like the | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
tobacco companies, it is a good personification of the choices they | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
will make. You can probably hear the noise coming from the hall. Mr | :31:39. | :31:57. | |
Miller -- Miliband has appeared. You can almost hear them willing band | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
leader to give a barnstorming speech to set them on the road to the next | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
general election. The campaign will begin in the middle of October, it | :32:08. | :32:13. | |
takes us through to May. It used to be only the Americans that have long | :32:14. | :32:21. | |
campaigns, now the British do too. Let's hear from the Labour leader, | :32:22. | :32:30. | |
Ed Miliband. I have just been speaking to Alan Henning, a British | :32:31. | :32:36. | |
hostage taken by ISIS. His wife, Barbara, maiden -- made a moving | :32:37. | :32:44. | |
appeal for his release over the weekend. Alan Henning is simply an | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
aid worker trying to make life better for victims of conflict. I | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
think it should tell us everything we need to know about ISIS and their | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
murderous ways that they take a decent British man like Alan Henning | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
hostage. It is not just British people that they are targeting. It | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
is people of all nationalities and all religions. That is why we have | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
supported the Coalition not simply based on military action but a | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
coalition based on humanitarian, political, and diplomatic action to | :33:21. | :33:28. | |
counter the threat of ISIS. This week the president of the United | :33:29. | :33:32. | |
States and the British prime minister are both at the United | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
Nations. We support the overnight action against ISIS. What needs to | :33:39. | :33:44. | |
happen now is that the UN needs to play its part. A UN Security Council | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
resolution to win the international support to counter that threat of | :33:50. | :34:06. | |
ISIL. Friends, this country will never turn our back on the world and | :34:07. | :34:13. | |
never turn our back on the principles of internationalism. And | :34:14. | :34:24. | |
those values, they are reflected not just in our country but in this | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
party, in this hall, and in this great city of Manchester. Friends, | :34:30. | :34:40. | |
it is great to be with you in Manchester. A fantastic city, a city | :34:41. | :34:46. | |
with a great Labour Council leading the way, and a city that after this | :34:47. | :34:53. | |
year's local elections is not just a Tory free zone but Liberal Democrat | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
free zone as well. APPLAUSE Manchester has special memories for | :35:00. | :35:14. | |
me because four years ago I was elected your leader here in | :35:15. | :35:20. | |
Manchester. For years on, I feel wiser, I feel older, I feel much | :35:21. | :35:25. | |
older actually! But hang on a minute, some of you look quite a lot | :35:26. | :35:32. | |
older as well. At least I've got an excuse! But I am prouder than ever | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
to be the leader of your party and I thank you for your support. | :35:38. | :35:51. | |
APPLAUSE We meet here in serious times. Not just for our world but | :35:52. | :35:58. | |
for our country too. Our country nearly broke up. A country that | :35:59. | :36:03. | |
nearly splits apart is not a country in good health. I want to start by | :36:04. | :36:10. | |
thanking all of Labour's Team Scotland for the part they played in | :36:11. | :36:25. | |
keeping our country together. Let us thank them all - Gordon Brown, | :36:26. | :36:32. | |
Alistair Darling, Margaret Curran, Douglas Alexander, Jim Murphy, JoAnn | :36:33. | :36:42. | |
Lamont. Let us thank them all because they helped save our | :36:43. | :36:43. | |
country! And I want to say to the people of | :36:44. | :37:00. | |
Scotland directly, this Labour Party will show you over the coming years | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
you made the right choice because we are better together. Here is the | :37:05. | :37:20. | |
thing. All of us, all political leaders, everyone in this hall has a | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
responsibility to try to explain why 45% of people voted yes. 45% of | :37:26. | :37:32. | |
people wanted to break up our country. We have got to explain why | :37:33. | :37:36. | |
the feeling we saw in Scotland is not just in Scotland but it is | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
reflected across the country. My story starts six days from the end | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
of the referendum campaign. I was on my way to a public meeting, I was | :37:47. | :37:51. | |
late, as politicians tend to be. Just outside the meeting I met a | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
woman, and I was supposed to go into the meeting but I wanted to stop and | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
ask her how she was voting. I did that to everyone on the street. One | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
vote at a time. She said she hadn't decided how she was going to vote | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
yet. Her name was Josephine and she worked as a cleaner in the building. | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
She said the company she worked for was decent but the wages were | :38:19. | :38:23. | |
rubbish. She hadn't decided because life was so incredibly tough for | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
her. She didn't want to leave but she thought it might be the best | :38:28. | :38:31. | |
thing to do. I don't know how Josephine voted in the referendum | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
but I do know the question she was asking - is anyone going to make | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
life better for me and my family? Here is the thing. It isn't just | :38:42. | :38:49. | |
Josephine's question, it is the question people are asking right | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
across Britain. Is anyone going to build a better life for the working | :38:54. | :38:59. | |
people of our country? That wasn't just the referendum question, that | :39:00. | :39:02. | |
is the general election question. I'm not talking about the powerful | :39:03. | :39:19. | |
and the privileged, those who do well whatever the weather, I'm | :39:20. | :39:27. | |
talking about families who work harder and harder just to stay | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
afloat. This general election is about you. You have made sacrifices, | :39:33. | :39:39. | |
taken home lower wages, you have seen your energy bills rise and your | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
NHS decline. You know this country doesn't work. My answer is that we | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
can build a better future for you and your family, and this speech is | :39:50. | :39:56. | |
about Labour's plans to do it, Labour's plan for Britain's future. | :39:57. | :40:07. | |
So, what do we need to have that planned for the future? We have got | :40:08. | :40:16. | |
to understand what people are saying to us across the UK. I think there | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
is a silent majority who wanted our country to endure but they are | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
telling us that things must change. They come from every walk of life, | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
like a young woman who works in a pub near where I live. She lives at | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
the opposite end of the country from Josephine, separated by at least a | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
generation, but they share a common experience. Because Ziamara has | :40:42. | :40:53. | |
worked hard, she has worked her way up to become a chef, but like | :40:54. | :40:59. | |
Josephine, life for her is incredibly tough. And by the way, | :41:00. | :41:06. | |
she thinks politics is rubbish. And let's not pretend we don't hear that | :41:07. | :41:12. | |
a lot on the doorsteps. What does she see in politics? She sees drift. | :41:13. | :41:21. | |
She doesn't think we have a solution to her problem, we have got to prove | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
her wrong. I think there is something almost even more important | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
about our country. People have lost faith in the future. The other day I | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
was in the park, I was trying to work on my speech and I wasn't | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
getting anywhere so I went to the park and there were two young women | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
in the park. They seemed excited to see me and they came over. It's not | :41:46. | :41:58. | |
that funny! And one of them actually said, so it is true, you do meet | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
famous people in this park. And the other one said, yes, it is. The | :42:04. | :42:10. | |
other one said, no offence, we were hoping for Benedict Cumberbatch. | :42:11. | :42:13. | |
Anyway one of them said something that really stuck with me. She | :42:14. | :42:19. | |
said, my generation is falling into a black hole. She said about her | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
parents' generation, they have had it so good and now there is nothing | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
left for us. She was speaking from millions of people across our | :42:32. | :42:35. | |
country who have lost faith in the future. Like Gareth, who is high up | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
in a software company. He has a five-year-old daughter, he is | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
earning a decent wage, he can't afford to buy a home. He is priced | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
out by the richest. He thinks that unless you are one of the privileged | :42:51. | :42:58. | |
few in Britain, the country is not going to work for you and your kids | :42:59. | :43:01. | |
will have a worse life anew. So many people across our country feel this | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
way. They feel the country doesn't work for them and they have lost | :43:06. | :43:11. | |
that faith in the future. Our task is to restore people's faith in the | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
future, not by breaking our country but by breaking with the old way of | :43:17. | :43:24. | |
doing things, by breaking the past. I'm not talking about a different | :43:25. | :43:28. | |
policy or a different programme, I'm talking about something much bigger. | :43:29. | :43:32. | |
I'm talking about a different idea, a different ethic for the way our | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
country succeeds. For all the sound and fury in England, Scotland and | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
Wales, what people are actually saying to us is that this country | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
does not care about me. Our economy does not work, and they are not | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
wrong, they are right, and this Labour Party is going to put it | :43:55. | :44:07. | |
right. Friends, to do that, we have got to go back to the very | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
foundations of who we are and how we run things. We just cannot carry on | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
with the belief that we can succeed as a country with a tiny minority at | :44:18. | :44:24. | |
the top doing well. Prosperity in one part of Britain amongst a small | :44:25. | :44:30. | |
elite, a circle that is closed to most, blind to the concerns of | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
people. Sending the message to everyone but a few, you are on your | :44:35. | :44:43. | |
own. Think about it for a minute. In our economy, it is working people | :44:44. | :44:46. | |
who are made to bear the burden of anxiety, precariousness and | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
insecurity. They have been told you are on your own. So many young | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
people think their life will be worse than their parents'. | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
So many small businesses are struggling against forces more | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
powerful than themselves. And the most vulnerable have been thrown on | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
the scrapheap cast aside not listen to, even when they have a case. They | :45:12. | :45:19. | |
have been told you are on your own. And, to cap it all, in our politics, | :45:20. | :45:23. | |
a few have access while everyone else is locked out. They have been | :45:24. | :45:31. | |
told, you are on your own. No wonder people have lost faith in the | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
future. That is why so many people voted to break up our country. Is it | :45:36. | :45:43. | |
any wonder the deck is stark, the game is rigged in favour of those | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
who have all the power? Friends, in eight months time, we are going to | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
call time on this way of running the country. Because you are on your | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
own. APPLAUSE | :45:59. | :46:06. | |
Because you are on your own doesn't work for you, doesn't work for your | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
family. It does not work for Britain. | :46:12. | :46:12. | |
APPLAUSE Can be build a different future for | :46:13. | :46:22. | |
our country? Of course we can. But with a | :46:23. | :46:29. | |
different idea of how we succeed. An idea that, in the end, won the | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
referendum, an idea I love because it says so much about who we are and | :46:35. | :46:40. | |
who we have in ourselves to become. An idea rooted in this party's | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
character and in our country 's history. An idea that build our | :46:45. | :46:50. | |
greatest institutions and got us through our darkest moments. An idea | :46:51. | :46:57. | |
that is just one simple word. Together. Together. Together we can | :46:58. | :47:04. | |
restore faith in the future. Together we can build a better | :47:05. | :47:07. | |
future for the working people of Britain. Together we can rebuild | :47:08. | :47:17. | |
Britain. Friends, together we can. APPLAUSE | :47:18. | :47:26. | |
together said is not just a powerful through the top whose voices should | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
be heard. It should be everyone. It's not just | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
a few wealthy people who create the wealth of our country. It's every | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
working person. Together says we can't just succeed with a country | :47:40. | :47:42. | |
with the talents of a few, but we must use the talents of all. We | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
can't have some people breaking the rules. Everyone has got to play | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
under the same rules and together says we have a duty to look after | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
each other when times are hard. Together, the way we restore faith | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
in the future, together, a different idea for Britain. | :48:01. | :48:11. | |
You might be thinking this sounds like a pretty big undertaking. | :48:12. | :48:18. | |
Changing the way our country is run. A totally different idea. That's | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
quite a big task. Is it really going to be possible? Can we do it? I | :48:24. | :48:30. | |
mean, if the 21st-century. Is that going backwards? It isn't. The | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
reason it isn't, is because that idea is everywhere around us to see. | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
In every walk of life. The inspiration is everywhere. The | :48:43. | :48:48. | |
different way of doing things. Early on I mentioned Gareth, who works as | :48:49. | :48:52. | |
a software company, worried about his daughter and the future. I | :48:53. | :48:55. | |
didn't just meet him but his colleagues as well and that software | :48:56. | :49:00. | |
company, the thing which shines through, it's full of bright young | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
people full of great enthusiasm but it isn't about the boss at the top, | :49:05. | :49:11. | |
each individual on their own, go to every person about company and they | :49:12. | :49:14. | |
say the same thing. You need to use the talents of every single person, | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
not just for software engineers, but the customer service, the accounts, | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
and go to ceremony great businesses across our country and they will say | :49:26. | :49:30. | |
the same thing to you. That is the ethic of the 21st-century in | :49:31. | :49:34. | |
business. We need great entrepreneurs. Britain needs great | :49:35. | :49:40. | |
entrepreneurs, but the greatest entrepreneurs recognised that there | :49:41. | :49:47. | |
are only as strong as their team. It's not just true in business. | :49:48. | :49:51. | |
There will be people who work in our brilliant National Health Service, | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
our brilliant National Health Service, friends. | :49:56. | :50:06. | |
Earlier this year, I spent a couple of days at an NHS hospital in | :50:07. | :50:12. | |
Watford. I wanted to go there to see how things look from the front | :50:13. | :50:16. | |
line, mainly I got in the way, really, but that's what politicians | :50:17. | :50:20. | |
tend to do. And I remember one evening I was in A at 9pm watching | :50:21. | :50:26. | |
nurses from different backgrounds, different walks of life, coming | :50:27. | :50:34. | |
together. I was incredibly moved, incredibly inspired by their | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
teamwork, so proud of our National Health Service. | :50:39. | :50:49. | |
Go to any great hospital, go to any great school, it is the team that | :50:50. | :50:57. | |
makes it strong and then think of our bread Armed Forces and that's | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
paid tribute to them today, friends. -- brilliant Armed Forces. Our | :51:03. | :51:11. | |
brilliant heretic troops are serving our country in the most dangerous | :51:12. | :51:17. | |
places. They will talk about the team and the team which makes it | :51:18. | :51:22. | |
strong. It is true of business, of public services, of the Armed | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
Forces, in so many walks of life, if the ethic of the 20th century was | :51:28. | :51:34. | |
hierarchy, order, planning, control the talents of the 21st-century 's | :51:35. | :51:41. | |
cooperation, everybody playing their part, sharing the rewards, the | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
talents of all together. Friends, it is time we ran the country like we | :51:48. | :51:49. | |
know it can be run. Here is a question for you. If the | :51:50. | :52:06. | |
challenge to run the country on this printable of together, can the | :52:07. | :52:13. | |
Tories be the answer? Can the Tories be the answer? That's better. I will | :52:14. | :52:22. | |
tell you why they can't be the answer because if you want the best | :52:23. | :52:26. | |
example of you are on your own, rigged the system for the powerful | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
view, insecure, throwback dogma, just look at this Government. | :52:32. | :52:41. | |
If you are a low paid worker, struggling to make ends meet, | :52:42. | :52:46. | |
working harder for longer for less, on your own, if you are in the | :52:47. | :52:51. | |
squeezed middle, you feel like you're treading water and you are on | :52:52. | :52:55. | |
your own. If you're on a zero hours contract getting up at 5am every | :52:56. | :52:59. | |
morning, to find out whether you have got work, they will tell you | :53:00. | :53:03. | |
that's how an economy succeeds and you are your own. If you are worried | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
about the railway companies, the payday lenders, they don't want to | :53:10. | :53:12. | |
do anything to help you. You are on your own. If you're one of the 9 | :53:13. | :53:16. | |
million people who rent your home in the private sector they are | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
certainly not going to do anything for you. They will tell you you are | :53:21. | :53:26. | |
on your own and why? Because they say intervening would be like | :53:27. | :53:33. | |
Venezuela. That's what they say. They say they don't believe in | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
Government intervention. Really? Of course they do. Because if you are a | :53:39. | :53:45. | |
millionaire who wants a tax cut, they are certainly going to | :53:46. | :53:48. | |
intervene to support you. You are not going to be on your own. | :53:49. | :53:59. | |
If you are a banker, who is worried about your bonus, it's good news for | :54:00. | :54:05. | |
you because George Osborne is going to go all the way to Europe to fight | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
tooth and nail to try to protect it. You certainly won't be on your | :54:10. | :54:21. | |
own. If you are an energy company whose prices and profits are | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
soaring, good news again, you have got a Prime Minister who will be | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
your own PR man. You won't be on your own. And, by the way, if you | :54:31. | :54:41. | |
are a Conservative supporting, gold mining, luxury hotel owning, Putin | :54:42. | :54:51. | |
's award-winning Russian oligarch, and you have ?160,000 to spare, to | :54:52. | :54:57. | |
bid in an auction, you won't be on your own. You will be on a tennis | :54:58. | :55:02. | |
court saying doubles with David Cameron. That tells you all you need | :55:03. | :55:09. | |
to know about this Government. -- playing doubles. | :55:10. | :55:17. | |
Now, look, we know we have a fight and in the next eight months David | :55:18. | :55:26. | |
Cameron will talk about the past and not going to talk that much about | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
the present and the future. Why? He is going to tell you, the British | :55:32. | :55:37. | |
public, that none of the problems in our country are anything to do with | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
him. He has done a really outstanding, tremendous job and he | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
really deserves a lot of congratulation and thanks. For | :55:46. | :55:50. | |
Britain. You've done a great job, all the problems are nothing to do | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
with him, and if you just hang on till after the general election, | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
things are about to turn the corner for your family. The British people | :55:59. | :56:04. | |
will have to be the judge of this. And I think there are some things to | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
bear in mind. The record of this Government, friends, is not just | :56:10. | :56:13. | |
mediocre, it is one of the worst ever. | :56:14. | :56:24. | |
The longest fall in living standards since 1870. Wages rising slower than | :56:25. | :56:37. | |
prices for 50 out of 51 months. For your family, five years of this | :56:38. | :56:41. | |
Government, five years of sacrifice, zero years of success. | :56:42. | :56:48. | |
Now, you might think that David Cameron is right and things are | :56:49. | :56:53. | |
about to turn around for you and your family full as I say, the | :56:54. | :56:56. | |
British people will have to be the judge of this. But isn't there a | :56:57. | :56:59. | |
second more plausible explanation for their record? A Tory economy is | :57:00. | :57:06. | |
always an economy for the few. Because that is who they care about. | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
That is the basis on which they think a country succeeds. And so the | :57:12. | :57:16. | |
past with this Government is a good guide to the future. Your family | :57:17. | :57:23. | |
worse off. You can't afford to take that risk. The British people can't | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
afford another five years of David Cameron. | :57:30. | :57:45. | |
Now, I have got an idea for our Prime Minister. He likes surfing. He | :57:46. | :57:58. | |
likes playing that game Angry Birdss Andy likes tennis with | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
Russian oligarchs. I've got a great idea. Why don't we give him all the | :58:03. | :58:07. | |
time in the world to do all those things next May, and let's send him | :58:08. | :58:09. | |
into opposition. It's up to us. We have to build a | :58:10. | :58:26. | |
future for you and your family. That is what Labour's plan for Britain's | :58:27. | :58:32. | |
future is all about and today I want to lay out six national goals, not | :58:33. | :58:37. | |
just for one term of office, or one year, but a plan for the next ten | :58:38. | :58:45. | |
years. Britain 2025. The day one of me as Prime Minister. This is the | :58:46. | :58:49. | |
plan and these are the goals I want us to pursue. You might ask why ten | :58:50. | :58:54. | |
years? I will tell you one of the reasons. People are fed up with | :58:55. | :58:59. | |
politicians who come along and say vote for me on day one, everything | :59:00. | :59:04. | |
will be transformed. Friends, the British people won't believe it. It | :59:05. | :59:06. | |
is what I call doing a Nick Clegg. When Nick Clegg broke that promise | :59:07. | :59:22. | |
on tuition fees, he didn't just destroy trust in himself and the | :59:23. | :59:28. | |
Liberal Democrats, he did something else. He destroyed trust in politics | :59:29. | :59:32. | |
for them every time a promise is broken, every time a false promises | :59:33. | :59:38. | |
made, every Time we say vote for us and tomorrow everything will be | :59:39. | :59:41. | |
totally different, people get more and more cynical, more and more | :59:42. | :59:45. | |
turned off, people think politics is more and more a game and all we are | :59:46. | :59:51. | |
in it for is ourselves for the that's why I plan for the next ten | :59:52. | :59:55. | |
years, not a plan which says nothing changes, but a map for the country, | :59:56. | :00:00. | |
for people like Gareth who I talked about earlier. For the young woman | :00:01. | :00:04. | |
who wanted as he Benedict Cumberbatch and ended up with me and | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
said, my generation is falling into a black hole. I want to know there's | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
a future for me. That's what this plan is about and our plan starts | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
with rewarding hard work once again because that's what we're got to do | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
with country. One in five of the men and women who go out to work in our | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
country do their bit, make their contribution, put in hours and find | :00:28. | :00:28. | |
in low pay. Appeal with Britain's traditions, | :00:29. | :00:41. | |
that should shame us all. Our first national goal is that we halve the | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
number of people in low pay by 2025, transforming the lives of 2 million | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
people in our country. The principle of together says we | :00:50. | :01:05. | |
don't just use the talents of everyone, we reward the talents of | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
everyone and the minimum wage has got to be a route to bringing up the | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
family with dignity so we will raise the minimum wage by ?1 50 per hour | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
by 2020, a rise in pay of ?60 per week for a work on the minimum wage, | :01:22. | :01:35. | |
or ?3000 per year. The Tories are the party of wealth and privilege, | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
Labour is the party of hard work fairly paid. It is all working | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
people who should have their talents rewarded so our second national goal | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
is that all working people should share fairly in the growing wealth | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
of the country. That means as the economy grows, the wages of everyday | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
working people grow at the same rate. You know what is amazing is | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
that that statement, that goal is even controversial. It used to be | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
taken for granted in our country that that is what would happen. That | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
is what the cost of living crisis, which the Tories don't understand, | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
is all about. We need a government with a single focus on tackling it, | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
and key to this is transforming our economy so we create good jobs at | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
decent wages. That requires a massive national effort, the | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
principle of together, everyone playing their part. For the | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Government it means no vested interest, no stale mindset should | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
stand in the way of restoring this. It means reforming our banks, | :02:44. | :03:00. | |
breaking up the big banks. So that we have the competition we need in | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
our banking system. It means getting power out of Whitehall. We are far | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
too centralised country, it is time we did something about it, it is | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
time we transferred power out of Whitehall to our businesses, towns | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
and cities so that they can create the jobs, the prosperity, the wealth | :03:20. | :03:33. | |
that they need. It is about businesses and trade unions engaging | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
in cooperation, not confrontation, and it is also about something else | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
- it is using our historic values to fight for those at the front line of | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
the modern workforce. I'm talking about a group of people that we in | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
the Labour Party haven't talked about that much, and we need to talk | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
about them a lot more, the growing army of self-employed. 5 million | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
people in our country, often the most entrepreneurial go getting | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
people who have a difficult, insecure life very often. Because of | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
the jobs they do, two out of three don't have a pension. One in five | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
cannot get a mortgage. They don't want special treatment, they just | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
want a fair shot. The task for this Labour Party is to end this | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
21st-century modern discrimination and it is to fight and deliver equal | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
rights for the self-employed in Britain. | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
I said earlier that we need to create good jobs at decent wages to | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
transform our economy. Those jobs are the future so our third national | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
goal is that by 2025, Britain becomes truly a world leader in the | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
green economy, creating 1 million new jobs as we do. Under this | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Government, we are falling behind Germany, Japan, the United States, | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
even India and China when it comes to green technology and services. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
There are so many brilliant businesses who are desperate to do | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
their part but the Government is not playing its part. With our plan, we | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
will. We are going to commit to taking all of the carbon out of | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
electricity by 2030. We are going to have a green investment bank with | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
powers to borrow and attract new investment, and as Caroline Flint | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
will announce tomorrow, we will devolve power and resources to | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
communities so we can insulate 5 million homes over the next ten | :05:49. | :06:06. | |
years. The environment is that fashionable any more in politics, as | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
you may have noticed with David Cameron, but it matters. It is | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
incredibly important for our economy and there is no more important issue | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
for me when I think about my children's generation and what I can | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
do in politics than tackling global climate change. We need a plan for | :06:27. | :06:46. | |
jobs, we need a plan for wages. We need a plan that can actually help | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
the working families of our country. At the heart of our plan for our | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
country and your family is also a future for all of our young people. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
I met somebody called Elizabeth the other day, where is she? She is | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
here. Why don't you stand up for one second. Elizabeth is an apprentice. | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
APPLAUSE Elizabeth is an apprentice, and auto | :07:15. | :07:25. | |
electrician. I think it is fair to say you are breaking through what | :07:26. | :07:34. | |
has been up until now pretty much a man's world. Let's have a round of | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
applause for what she is doing. She is one of the lucky few. Actually | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
Elizabeth's school, because I met her yesterday, her school helped her | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
to get an apprenticeship but so many other schools don't do that. Lots of | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
the young people I meet on apprenticeships say, my school said | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
apprenticeships were rubbish and they wouldn't help me, but now I am | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
doing it, it is really great for me. Frankly there are not enough and | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
they are not high-quality enough so our fourth national goal is that by | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
2025, as many young people will be leaving school or college to go onto | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
an apprenticeship as currently go to university. I have got to tell you, | :08:17. | :08:31. | |
this is an absolutely huge undertaking. We are such a long way | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
from this as a country. It will require a massive national effort. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
It will require young people to show the ambition to do well and to get | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
on. It will require schools to lead a dramatic change in education, with | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
new gold standard technical qualifications, and it will need | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
business and government to lead a revolution in apprenticeships. | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
Government is good at preaching to business about what it should be | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
doing. Let me tell you, government is absolutely useless when it comes | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
to apprenticeships, and it is true of governments of both parties. In | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
Germany they do a fantastic job of giving apprenticeships to the next | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
generation. We don't do that in this country so first we have got to | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
tackle the failure by government, then we say to business that you | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
have got to play your part. If you want to bring in a worker from | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
outside the European Union, that is OK, but you must provide an | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
apprenticeship to the next generation. We cannot have what is | :09:34. | :09:43. | |
happening at the moment in IT where you have got more and more people | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
coming in but the amount of apprenticeships falling in IT. We | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
have got to say to business that we are going to give you control of the | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
money for apprenticeships for the first time but in exchange, if you | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
want a major government contract, you must provide apprenticeships to | :10:01. | :10:16. | |
our young people. The plan for jobs, for wages, for education, but what | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
is it, what are the things that give confidence and security in life? It | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
is the love of people we care most about, decent work properly | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
rewarded, but also the security of having a home of your own. That | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
British dream of home ownership is fading for so many people. Under | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
this Government we are building fewer homes than at any time since | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
the 1920s, so our fifth national goal is that by 2025, for the first | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
time in 50 years, this country will be building as many homes as we | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
need, doubling the number of first-time buyers in our country. | :11:00. | :11:11. | |
Again, it will require a massive national effort. We won't let large | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
developers sit on land. We will say to small developers of construction | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
companies that we will help them to build homes again in our country. We | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
will build a new generation of towns, garden cities and suburbs, | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
creating over half a million new homes, and we will also make housing | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
the top priority for additional capital investment in the next | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Parliament. This party will get Britain building again. Your family | :11:41. | :12:00. | |
also needs public services you can rely on. Education, policing, | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
transport. Nowhere is that more true than for the national health | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
service. I mentioned earlier that I spent a couple of days at a hospital | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
in Watford earlier this year. I met an amazing man called Colin in his | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
80s who sadly died a few weeks later, but I will always remember my | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
conversation with him. He remembered the foundation of the NHS. He | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
remembered what life was like before the National Health Service. I | :12:32. | :12:40. | |
remember him saying to me, Ed, the problem then was you were on your | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
own, on your own having to pay for medical treatment. Friends, we are | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
so proud of our National Health Service and I know my duty to Colin | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
and the British people is to make sure our NHS is there when we need | :12:55. | :13:11. | |
it. So our sixth national goal is that we create a truly world-class | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
21st-century health and care service, because the hospital is | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
only as good as the services in the community. That is the biggest | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
lesson I learned in Watford. If people cannot get to see their GP, | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
if elderly people cannot get the visit they need, they end up in | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
hospital when it could have been avoided. That is bad for them and | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
bad for the taxpayer. It costs billions of pounds. Let's face it, | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
those services are creaking. One in four people cannot get to see their | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
GP within a week. We have had the scandal of home care visits for the | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
elderly restricted to just 15 minutes. In this day and age. The | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
NHS faces huge challenges over the coming years. We will transform our | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
NHS. It is time to care about our NHS. We need doctors, nurses, | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
midwives, care workers who are able to spend proper time with us, not | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
rushed off their feet. So we will set aside resources so we can have | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
3000 more midwives, 5000 more care workers, 8000 more GPs and 20,000 | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
more nurses. And NHS with time to care. | :14:41. | :15:12. | |
In order to pay for it, we won't borrow an extra penny. Or raise | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
taxes on ordinary working families. We will clamp down on tax | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
avoidance, including tax loopholes by the hedge funds, to raise over ?1 | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
billion. We will use the proceeds of a | :15:31. | :15:43. | |
mansion tax on homes above ?2 million. And we will raise extra | :15:44. | :15:55. | |
resources from the tobacco companies who make soaring profits on the back | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
of ill health. Because, friends, the principle of | :15:58. | :16:12. | |
building it together means everyone playing our part in making our NHS | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
what it needs to be. In total, we will set aside ?2.5 | :16:17. | :16:35. | |
billion in an NHS time to care fund and tomorrow, Andy Burnham will set | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
out our integrated plan for physical health, mental health and care for | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
the elderly. Truly a 21st-century National Health Service. | :16:44. | :16:55. | |
The stakes are incredibly high at the selection and nowhere more so | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
than on the National Health Service because we know the NHS is sliding | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
backwards under this Government. We know they are privatising and | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
fragmenting it. Just imagine what another five years of David Cameron | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
would mean for our national health service, friends. We are not going | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
to let it happen. Our NHS is too precious, too important, and we will | :17:21. | :17:21. | |
not let it happen. Friends, we built the NHS, we saved | :17:22. | :17:36. | |
the NHS, we are going to repeal the health and social care bill and we | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
are going to transform our NHS for the future. That is what the next | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Labour Government will do and, friends, we will do it together! | :17:47. | :18:15. | |
Six national goals, friends. To transform our country. Not a false | :18:16. | :18:25. | |
promise on day one. Not some pie in the sky idea that can't be | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
delivered. Real concrete ideas that can transform our country. That can | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
restore faith in the future. A plan for Britain's future. Labour's plan | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
for Britain's future. But to make that happen, we also have to do | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
something else. And transform who has power in our country. So that | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
those who feel locked out feel let back in. You know people think | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
Westminster politics is out of touch, irrelevant, and often | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
disconnected from their lives. As someone who stands at Prime | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
Minister's Questions each Wednesday, I often know what they | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
mean. We might as well say it. It's what people think about politics. | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
They think it's not about them, and we have got to change it for that we | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
don't need to just restore people 's faith in the future, with the | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
economic and social plan, we need to change the way politics works in | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
this country. What does that mean? First of all, it's time to hear | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
young people in politics so we will give the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
in general elections. It's time to complete the unfinished | :19:38. | :19:59. | |
business of the reform of the House of Lords so we have a true senate of | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
the nations and regions. And it's time to devolve power in England. | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
And I'm incredibly proud of our proposals, ambitious proposals, to | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
reverse a century of centralisation and there can be no better place to | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
be talking about this than here in Manchester, devolving power to local | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
Government, bringing power closer to people right across England. | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
And we need bigger reform of our Constitution full here is the thing, | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
friends also given Everton and about what people think about Westminster | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
politics, it has got to be led by the people for the bid can't be some | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
Westminster stitch up. That is why we need a proper constitutional | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
convention harnessing the civic energy and spirit are people right | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
across our land. England, Scotland, Wales, every part of United Kingdom. | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
But you know I've realised something else. Giving people voices is also | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
about recognising who we are as a nation. We are more than ever four | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
countries and one. England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
and Britain, too. Each nation making its contribution. We're not just a | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
better together, we are greater together. And that's not something | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
to fear. That is something to be proud of. I learned something really | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
important, as I'm sure we all did, in this referendum campaign. All of | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
those people who are proud to be Scottish and proud to be British, | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
just like you are so many people who are proud to be Welsh and proud to | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
be British, no one more so than our brilliant First Minister of Wales, | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
Carwyn Jones. Let's hear it for him today, ladies and gentlemen. | :22:09. | :22:19. | |
And so to we can be proud to be English and proud to be British. And | :22:20. | :22:29. | |
I say to this party, we must fight for these traditions and not see | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
them to others. Englishness, a history of solidarity, from the | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
Battle of cable Street against Oswald Mosley and the Blackshirts, | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
to the spirit of the Blitz, Englishness, traditions of fairness, | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
from the Ford workers at Dagenham who fought for equal pay, to | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
today's campaigners for the living wage. Englishness, a spirit of | :22:59. | :23:10. | |
international is, from those who fought in the Spanish Civil War to | :23:11. | :23:22. | |
our generosity to those overseas. Friends, there will be some people | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
who tell you that being English, Welsh or Scottish means dividing or | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
setting ourselves against each other. Rubbish. Why? Because here is | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
what we, the Labour Party, no. The injustices facing working people | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
face them right across the United Kingdom. And we can only tackle them | :23:43. | :23:55. | |
together. That is, after all, what we spent the last two years fighting | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
for and I am not going to let anyone, after the last two years, | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
drive us apart. And if David Cameron cares so much | :24:03. | :24:17. | |
about the union, why is he seeking to divide us? He is learning the | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
wrong lessons from Scotland. He is learning the wrong lessons from | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
Scotland because what he doesn't understand is that the lessons are, | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
of course, about the constitution, but they are not about playing | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
political tactics about England. And here is why he is doing it. David | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
Cameron doesn't lie awake at night thinking about the United Kingdom. | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
The lies awake at night thinking about the United Kingdom | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
Independence party, UKIP. That is why he is doing it, friends. And I | :25:00. | :25:10. | |
say, pandering to them as just one more reason why he is not set to be | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
the Prime Minister of this great country. | :25:16. | :25:35. | |
So, better together across United Kingdom but also better together | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
true to our traditions of internationalism, and nowhere is | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
that more true than when it comes to Europe and the European Union. | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
Friends, let me say it plainly, our future lies in the side, not | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
outside, the European Union. -- inside. | :25:59. | :26:10. | |
We need to reform Europe for that we need to reform Europe and the | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
economy on immigration, benefits, all of these big issues but here is | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
the question for Britain. How do we do that? Do we reform Europe by | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
building alliances or by burning them? What is really good as we've | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
had a recent test case by David Cameron of his strategy. I don't | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
know whether you missed it but about somebody called Jean-Claude Juncker. | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
In case you missed the score, it's not so good from his point of view, | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
because we lost by 26-2. Why did he lose? Because at the start people | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
thought he might win that a vote for such I will tell you why. Because | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
the problem for our country is that when David Cameron comes calling, | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
people don't think he's calling about the problems of Britain or | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
Europe, they think he is calling on the problems of the Conservative | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
Party. Here is a funny thing, friends. If you are elected | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
Chancellor of Germany, the Prime Minister of Italy, the President of | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
France, you don't really think you are a letter to solve the problems | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
of the Conservative Party. -- elected to solve the problems of the | :27:27. | :27:36. | |
Conservative Party. That's why he can't succeed for our country. What | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
we had over Jean-Claude Juncker is just a preview of what could be for | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
this country if David Cameron was back in power after 2015. Because he | :27:47. | :27:55. | |
lost 26-2 over that. He has to win 28-0 to get a reform of Europe, | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
unanimity. No chance for David Cameron. He has got no chance of | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
fighting for this country. People think he's got one hand on the exit | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
door and his strategy has failed. If you want to reform Europe, change | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
the way Europe works, if you want to keep Britain in the European Union, | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
and if you realise that the biggest threat to our prosperity is now the | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
Conservative Party, the right answer is a Labour Government. | :28:26. | :28:40. | |
I am determined, as Prime Minister, to promote our values all around the | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
world and one of the things that means, friends, is seeking a | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
solution to a problem that we know in our heart is one of the biggest | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
problem that we know in our hearts as one of the biggest problems our | :28:53. | :28:54. | |
world faces. And that is issues in the Middle East, Israel and | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
Palestine. I'd tell you, I will fight with every fibre of my being | :28:58. | :29:05. | |
to get the two state solution, Israel and Palestinian state living | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
side-by-side. That will be a very, very important task of the next | :29:11. | :29:12. | |
Labour Government, friends. There's one other thing I want to | :29:13. | :29:26. | |
say by what we need to do abroad. We have made extraordinary progress on | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
lesbian and gay rights. Over the last 20 years. When I think other | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
transformations I have seen growing up into adulthood, it's the biggest | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
transformation for that we have got such progress on the quality. But we | :29:43. | :29:45. | |
have to face the fact internationally, things are going | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
backwards. We can't just let that happen for that we can't just say | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
that's OK. This Labour Government will fight to make sure that we | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
fight for our values and for human rights all around the world so today | :30:01. | :30:07. | |
I can announce that I am appointing Michael Cashman, Lord Cashman, as | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
our envoy on LGB Teague writes all around the world. -- LGB | :30:13. | :30:34. | |
It is about a plan at home and abroad but it is also about | :30:35. | :30:41. | |
leadership. The next nine months represent my interview with the | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
British people for one of the most important jobs in our country. I | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
care about big ideas that can change our country, the principle of | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
together. I care about hearing the voices of people right across our | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
land and not shutting them out. I care about using the power of | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
government to stand up against powerful forces when we need to do | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
so. It came home to me the other day when I met Rosie, the doctor from | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
Devon, and she said to me that we need someone who can stand up for | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
working, everyday people, because you will have the power and we | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
won't. That's why I stood up to Rupert Murdoch over phone hacking, | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
that's why I stood up to the payday lenders over their exploitation of | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
the poorest people in our country, that's why I stood up to the energy | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
companies, and it's why I stood up to the Daily Mail when they set my | :31:38. | :31:45. | |
dad hated Britain because I know my dad loved Britain. APPLAUSE | :31:46. | :32:10. | |
That is me, but what about the other guy? | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
This isn't a conventional job interview so I get to say something | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
about him. He stands up for the principle of you are on your own, he | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
stands up for the privileged few. He really thinks a good photo | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
opportunity will fool people into thinking that he doesn't really | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
stand up for the rich and privileged, he stands up for you and | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
your family. In this day and age when people are so cynical about | :32:39. | :32:44. | |
politics, I think it adds to that cynicism. Here is the thing. He has | :32:45. | :32:55. | |
been found out, because he hugged is a husky before the election, then he | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
said cut the crap after an election. He was standing outside a hospital | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
before the election with a placard saying no hospital closures, and he | :33:06. | :33:13. | |
closed that very same A department after the election. He changed his | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
logo to the tree before the election, then tried to sell the | :33:17. | :33:28. | |
forest after the election! And he has been found out because he said | :33:29. | :33:33. | |
he was a compassionate Conservative before the election, and he imposed | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
the cruel, vindictive, the unfair bedroom tax after the election. And | :33:40. | :33:53. | |
you know what gets me even more? Even now, with all the tales of | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
misery, hardship, injustice, he thinks a bit of rebranding will get | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
him off the hook so he calls it the spare room subsidy as if that will | :34:04. | :34:09. | |
make the problem go away. Well, David Cameron, you have been found | :34:10. | :34:23. | |
out. Friends, there is a choice of leadership at this election, a real | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
stark choice of leadership. Leadership that stands for the | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
privileged few, or leadership that fight for you and your family. This | :34:33. | :34:40. | |
isn't just about leadership, the Government and Labour's plan for | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
Britain's future, it is also about all of you. We cannot build the | :34:45. | :34:53. | |
country we need without you, without mobilising every part of Britain. So | :34:54. | :35:01. | |
I say to young people, we need your hopes, your energy, your vitality. I | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
say to every older person, we respect your service and we need | :35:08. | :35:13. | |
your wisdom. I say to every business, you can be part of this. | :35:14. | :35:20. | |
We cannot do it without you. I say to every entrepreneur we need your | :35:21. | :35:27. | |
ideas, your enthusiasm. I say to every charity, we admire your spirit | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
and we want to hear your voice. I say to every nurse, every teacher, | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
every public service worker, we salute your dedication and we know | :35:39. | :35:53. | |
why you do what you do. I say to every person in our country who | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
believes that tomorrow can be better than today, we need you. Together we | :35:57. | :36:02. | |
bring up our families, together we look out for our neighbours, | :36:03. | :36:09. | |
together we care for our communities and we build great businesses, the | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
best in the world. We teach the young, heal the sick, care for the | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
cold, create keels for terrible diseases, so of course together we | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
can rebuild our country. We can reward hard work, we can make sure | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
the best generation does better than the last. Together we can make our | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
NHS greater than it has ever been before. Together we can make Britain | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
proud, stronger in the world, we can restore faith in the future. On our | :36:40. | :36:44. | |
own we cannot, but together we can. In the next eight months, the | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
British people face one of the biggest choices in generations, the | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
choice between carrying on as we are, on your own for the privileged | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
few, are different, better future for our country. We are ready. | :36:59. | :37:05. | |
Labour's plan for Britain's future, let's make it happen together. Thank | :37:06. | :37:12. | |
you very much. APPLAUSE | :37:13. | :37:28. | |
Ed Miliband finishes his speech to the Labour Party conference of | :37:29. | :37:36. | |
2014. It wasn't quite 80 minutes but it was almost 80 minutes. A lot of | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
use of the word together, sounding like the Pet Shop Boys, as the | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
conference rises to his feet. A kiss from the wife for a job well done. | :37:47. | :37:52. | |
He outlined his plan for Britain, covering housing, jobs, the NHS, and | :37:53. | :37:58. | |
it was only when he came to the NHS that the speech really came alive in | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
the conference hall. Ed Miliband outlined ways in which extra money | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
would be raised to increase the number of doctors, nurses and other | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
people in the health service. That was the centrepiece of what his | :38:13. | :38:15. | |
message was not just of the party faithful today, but to the wider | :38:16. | :38:22. | |
electorate watching at home. It is always a bit of an ordeal for the | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
party leaders, these speeches. Time now to relax and take the applause. | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
Let's hear about how they are reacting in the conference hall. | :38:33. | :38:49. | |
Ed Miliband began his speech with reference to the situation in Syria | :38:50. | :39:00. | |
and Iraq and indeed while Mr Miliband was speaking here in | :39:01. | :39:04. | |
Manchester, the president was making a speech in the United States in | :39:05. | :39:10. | |
which he said that this is not America's fight alone, referring to | :39:11. | :39:16. | |
the bombing attacks on Syria, as well as Iraq. What we didn't get | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
from the Labour leader was exactly what Labour's policy would be, | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
should Britain decide it wants to take part in these attacks as well. | :39:26. | :39:31. | |
That is something we may follow up with in a moment. The speech is | :39:32. | :39:35. | |
over. He is about to leave the hall, probably put his feet up for a | :39:36. | :39:41. | |
couple of minutes. It was a long speech, even by modern party | :39:42. | :39:47. | |
conference standards. Charlie Falconer is still with me, Nick | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
Robinson has just rushed back from the hall. What did you make of it? | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
He described the next eight months as a job interview but he didn't try | :39:57. | :40:01. | |
really hard to sell himself. He tried instead to sell an idea, | :40:02. | :40:07. | |
summed up in that word together. I didn't count, but well over 100 | :40:08. | :40:15. | |
times. He chose one simple policy to summarise that idea, the NHS. In a | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
way you could strip the entire speech down to two sentences, | :40:21. | :40:32. | |
believed Labour has, the symbol of that being investing in the NHS. | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
Lots more goals and policies, many of them familiar, but in its essence | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
that was it. I thought it was a meaty speech, well delivered. We | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
said before it started there was considerable pressure on him, he | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
rose to the occasion I thought. I don't agree that it is only about | :40:53. | :40:57. | |
the NHS, it is meaty because the six promises contained more policies, | :40:58. | :41:04. | |
and he talked about the extent to which people are bearing the burden | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
of the crisis, and he spoke about how to solve it. I don't agree with | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
you completely that it was as stripped down as you say. It was | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
really well delivered and there is real substance in it and there is a | :41:20. | :41:27. | |
speech that will repay a lot afterwards. I have just been told he | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
said the word together 51 times. What did he say about the economy? | :41:33. | :41:35. | |
He indicated the need for apprenticeships. He didn't speak in | :41:36. | :41:44. | |
any detail about macro economy policy but he was talking about the | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
future. He specified how he was going to paper the extra jobs in the | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
NHS that he identified. You cannot afford to do any of that unless you | :41:55. | :41:58. | |
preside over a strong, growing economy and he had nothing to say | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
the economy. Ed Balls dealt with that yesterday. He hopes to be the | :42:04. | :42:09. | |
prime minister, and also hopes to be the first Lord of the Treasury. It | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
is not incumbent on a man who would be our Prime Minister to talk about | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
his economic policy? That was done by the Shadow Chancellor. This is | :42:18. | :42:24. | |
the speech covered live on afternoon television, the one that is | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
dissected, and it is the economy that will determine the election, | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
and yet the leader of the opposition didn't outline his economic policy. | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
If you don't have economic policy, you don't have the health service. | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
You mean what we are going to do about the deficit, and that is what | :42:42. | :42:49. | |
Ed Balls dealt with yesterday. Why repeat it? What did he say about | :42:50. | :42:57. | |
growth? He indicated that we would be cutting the deficit. That is what | :42:58. | :43:03. | |
the Conservatives believed in. We believe in not so deep and not so | :43:04. | :43:09. | |
long. I think it is striking that this was more about the goals that | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
would be achieved if you could restructure the way the economy | :43:14. | :43:16. | |
delivers for ordinary people, that has been the key theme of the | :43:17. | :43:23. | |
Miliband leadership throughout. He spelt out with a series of long-term | :43:24. | :43:30. | |
goal how exactly that would be done. My point about the NHS being the | :43:31. | :43:37. | |
symbol is that Labour know that the ratings of Ed Miliband are not | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
high, he didn't try to change them in terms of telling a story about | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
himself. He spoke about policy and I think he did something else rather | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
interesting, and I think it works better on television than in the | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
hall. It was quite short on what the spin doctors call clap lines, there | :43:58. | :44:02. | |
was a deliberate effort to have a conversation with the country. At | :44:03. | :44:06. | |
times there were some people struggling to stay awake in there. | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
My instinct is that if you stuck with it, if you are interested in | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
what a Labour government would do, it was engaging. Enough of the | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
pundits and the politicians, let's find out what the Labour delegates | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
thought. Jo. Here I am in the midst of the | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
delegates as they come out of the conference hall. Your impressions of | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
the speech? I thought it was a strong speech, it has given us a lot | :44:38. | :44:42. | |
to work with and to sell on the doorstep this Saturday. I liked | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
particularly the announcement on more doctors and nurses. That got a | :44:47. | :44:53. | |
massive cheer. And the fact that was married up with closing tax | :44:54. | :44:54. | |
loopholes. What about votes for 16 and | :44:55. | :45:06. | |
17-year-olds? Did not appeal to you? I think it's a positive move for the | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
babe showing themselves to be engaged in the Scottish referendum. | :45:12. | :45:16. | |
Young people everywhere vote is more commonly when they vote at a younger | :45:17. | :45:20. | |
age, so it will engender democratic participation in younger people. | :45:21. | :45:25. | |
Something to take to the doorstep that lady said. What did you think? | :45:26. | :45:30. | |
Fairly solid waste it talk about opening up politics wider than the | :45:31. | :45:36. | |
Westminster bubble, I thought that build on the experiences of the | :45:37. | :45:38. | |
Scottish referendum over the last few months. It sounds not | :45:39. | :45:44. | |
inspirational. Was that Britain much what you expect it Britain Mark the | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
obvious they had a lot to do today and I thought he did it. You will | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
take it to the doorsteps? I probably will. What was the big thought from | :45:56. | :46:03. | |
that speech? The NHS is being crushed by the Conservatives and Ed | :46:04. | :46:06. | |
Miliband has a plan to get it back but the LGBT factor as well. The | :46:07. | :46:10. | |
Labour Party has said it is a problem across the world and I'm 26 | :46:11. | :46:16. | |
years old and I've seen it the natural in Britain now and it needs | :46:17. | :46:19. | |
to be across the world. The NHS, people might say, belongs to Labour | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
by what about things like cutting spending and balancing the books? | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
Did we hear enough about that? I think we have a proper planning | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
plays and Ed Miliband is the man to lead us. David Cameron has not done | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
enough in the last five years but Ed Miliband has said these are the | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
things we are going to do and he is not made promises he can't keep like | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
Nick Clegg did. No party can turn it around in five years and that's what | :46:48. | :46:52. | |
he's done for us today, I think. The 10-year plan, that's longer than | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
Stalin. No idea, but I hope it works. What about the slogan? What | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
did he say more times than anything else? Togetherness, we can achieve | :47:03. | :47:13. | |
more together. We can achieve 1945 again, where we created the NHS. We | :47:14. | :47:20. | |
can fund services and have the renationalisation of railways. This | :47:21. | :47:26. | |
is only the start. 1 have a socialist society, the next 10-year | :47:27. | :47:35. | |
plan, we can add even more great socialism in society. The 10-year | :47:36. | :47:38. | |
plan is brilliant. His speech was inspiring. He is going to number ten | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
Downing St for the birth of a man for the people. Together we stand. | :47:44. | :47:51. | |
This is the best for Britain. The lady has got my microphone. Back to | :47:52. | :47:57. | |
you, Andrew. Thanks, Jo. | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
While Ed Miliband was on his feet, President Obama was talking | :48:04. | :48:05. | |
about the US strategy to tackle Islamic State. | :48:06. | :48:07. | |
This comes after last night's strikes | :48:08. | :48:09. | |
against the Jihadis in Syria, where, previously, bombing has been | :48:10. | :48:11. | |
The Americans were joined by five Arab allies on their attack on | :48:12. | :48:21. | |
Islamic positions in Syria. This is what the American president had to | :48:22. | :48:26. | |
say. We are joined in this action by our friends and partners, Saudi | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain, and Qatar. America | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
is proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these nations on | :48:36. | :48:39. | |
behalf of our common security. The strength of this coalition makes it | :48:40. | :48:44. | |
clear to the world that this is not America's fight alone. Above all, | :48:45. | :48:48. | |
people in Government in the Middle East are rejecting Isis and standing | :48:49. | :48:52. | |
up for the peace and security the people in the region and the world | :48:53. | :48:58. | |
deserve. The president speaking a few moments ago. Let's talk to the | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham. Welcome. The president said | :49:03. | :49:10. | |
this is not America's fight alone. If Britain was to be asked to be | :49:11. | :49:13. | |
involved in the strikes, would Labour support them? Ed Miliband | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
said we will support the action being taken and play our part. | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
Anybody who went to the debate a decade ago think carefully about | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
taking this step. Of course we do. We'll Britain take part in air | :49:29. | :49:34. | |
strikes? That's not a decision which has been made. Parliament would have | :49:35. | :49:37. | |
to make that decision. And if it comes to Parliament, which way would | :49:38. | :49:43. | |
Labour vote? We would support the action taken. It's a decision for | :49:44. | :49:46. | |
Parliament and we would have to see what the Prime Minister and the | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
president agreed and put to Parliament. We can't prejudge that, | :49:51. | :49:57. | |
can we? It's a situation. When you hear about the situation with Alan | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
Henning, an appalling state of affairs, most people will say | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
something needs to be done to take on this brutal outfit. Ed Miliband | :50:07. | :50:13. | |
didn't spend much time on it. He said he wanted a UN resolution. | :50:14. | :50:20. | |
Would that be a precondition of British participation? He was very | :50:21. | :50:23. | |
clear on that and I think the art thinking about the debates of a | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
decade ago but it would be wrong if we didn't. That was an issue that, | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
in the end, fractured people and it's important we work hard to build | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
that international consensus about any action and that's why he was | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
right. He began his speech with it, Andrew. He didn't actually say it | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
would be a precondition and said he wanted one. Are you saying would be | :50:48. | :50:51. | |
a precondition of Labour support for British participation but they would | :50:52. | :50:56. | |
have to be a UN resolution? We are going to see what they agree in New | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
York tomorrow. Let's see what is discussed and what the Prime | :51:01. | :51:03. | |
Minister asks of us as a Labour Party. I can't prejudge that | :51:04. | :51:10. | |
discussion. It would be ridiculous of me to do that. You said it would | :51:11. | :51:14. | |
be a precondition of a UN resolution and I'm simply asking again, is that | :51:15. | :51:21. | |
right? Ed Miliband was very clear. No comedy wasn't. You quoted him. -- | :51:22. | :51:30. | |
no, he wasn't. I can't answer that right now. We can't see what the | :51:31. | :51:36. | |
postal primers double put to Parliament. Be fair, these are | :51:37. | :51:40. | |
serious matters. I can't speak without the detail being put to us. | :51:41. | :51:45. | |
Emphasis on the NHS, but of course, we can't have an NHS that is well | :51:46. | :51:51. | |
funded and works for all of us unless we have a growing and | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
prosperous economy. Why was this so little mentioned about the economy | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
in his speech? You are joking. There was not a single mention of the | :52:02. | :52:07. | |
deficit. An economy which works for everybody rather than a few of the | :52:08. | :52:14. | |
top. He didn't tell us anything. He was talk that people self-employed, | :52:15. | :52:17. | |
giving them the same support other people take the granted, talking | :52:18. | :52:23. | |
about a minimum wage that pays a decent wage to everybody. He was | :52:24. | :52:27. | |
talking about taking away that insecurity of low-paid work. I think | :52:28. | :52:30. | |
that is a lot of important statement on the economy. The deficit? Ed | :52:31. | :52:37. | |
Balls said we take a difficult decision about child benefit to show | :52:38. | :52:43. | |
its various. Ed said it would not be paid for by more borrowing, but by | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
asking those who can afford it and were not paying their share at the | :52:48. | :52:52. | |
moment, to that contribution. Let's look at a number of ways, the | :52:53. | :52:57. | |
mansion tax, so-called, how much will that race? We are being | :52:58. | :53:03. | |
cautious and we think it could raise at least ?1.2 billion. Let's | :53:04. | :53:08. | |
remember the Lib Dems for the last election said it could raise 1.7, so | :53:09. | :53:13. | |
we have aired on the side of caution. We know the cynicism out | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
there about people saying we will raise this much from that and | :53:18. | :53:20. | |
putting together a package which looks like it does make sense. The | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
NHS needs them where the money is coming from. So how will you raise | :53:25. | :53:32. | |
this ?1.2 billion from the mansion tax? How will you identify homes | :53:33. | :53:39. | |
worth more than ?2 million? We will use the figures which are there. The | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
property values collected by the land Registry office. But they | :53:45. | :53:51. | |
reflect the prices of when the price of the House was sold. There could | :53:52. | :53:59. | |
be a House is sold in 1990 on the land Registry for ?1 million now | :54:00. | :54:14. | |
worth ?5 million. How will you know? The valuation on properties is what | :54:15. | :54:16. | |
we will use. There is no current valuation. How will you identify the | :54:17. | :54:19. | |
homes which are over ?2 million? This is not my area. Your | :54:20. | :54:26. | |
department. I have not worked out all the details. You are promising | :54:27. | :54:33. | |
the doctors and nurses on the back of it. I and the Shadow Health | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
Secretary. You are promising doctors and nurses more on the back of | :54:40. | :54:42. | |
something you don't know how the money will be raised. The money is | :54:43. | :54:48. | |
there, at least ?1.2 billion, and mansion tax is worth more than ?2 | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
million, and actually, raising far more on the most expensive | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
properties. You're hoping for an extra ?1 billion on tax avoidance | :54:59. | :55:03. | |
and that's going to the NHS fund. Last year, Ed Miliband said that | :55:04. | :55:08. | |
that money from cracking down on tax avoidance, taking back ?150 million | :55:09. | :55:14. | |
from the hedge fund would go on the bedroom tax. Now it's going on the | :55:15. | :55:23. | |
NHS? I have got the document here. It's to prevent people avoiding tax | :55:24. | :55:26. | |
on hedge funds and closing the Eurobonds loophole. Used by large | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
companies to avoid paying their share of tax. Also talking about | :55:32. | :55:40. | |
umbrella organisations. I know that. This is a carefully worked out plan. | :55:41. | :55:44. | |
I know you are paid to pick holes in it but actually... No, I'm paid to | :55:45. | :55:50. | |
get answers to let me try again. Last day, all of these things he | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
said would go on the bedroom tax and now it's going on the NHS. You are | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
spending it twice. Not at all full is you haven't mentioned the money | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
from tobacco companies. That's nothing. A package put together | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
which means the ordinary people of this country is facing tough times | :56:12. | :56:17. | |
do not have to pay more for the NHS. We are asking those making money off | :56:18. | :56:21. | |
the back of ill-health, who are not paying their fair share, avoiding | :56:22. | :56:25. | |
tax, to transform the NHS into the service we wanted to be. You'll only | :56:26. | :56:31. | |
get 150 million from that. It was part of the package. The NHS budget | :56:32. | :56:40. | |
is ?113 billion. It faces a ?30 billion shortfall so ?150 million | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
from tobacco companies is neither here nor there. We're not just | :56:45. | :56:49. | |
throwing money into the black hole. We are planning this election | :56:50. | :56:56. | |
campaign for a national health care service, bringing social care into | :56:57. | :57:03. | |
the NHS for the first time. Why is this so important? Because it means | :57:04. | :57:06. | |
we can spend a few times and supporting people properly in their | :57:07. | :57:10. | |
own homes and not paying thousands of pounds with people in hospital | :57:11. | :57:14. | |
unnecessarily. If you make this change that we are describing, that | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
is the route to what is clinical and financial sustainability for the NHS | :57:20. | :57:25. | |
in an ageing society. If it is so easy to pick up tax avoidance from | :57:26. | :57:28. | |
those who can avoid it, why did you do that when you were in power? We | :57:29. | :57:33. | |
did lots of things when we're in power to the NHS back on its feet. | :57:34. | :57:38. | |
Read the blunder Labour were avoiding billions of pounds a year. | :57:39. | :57:44. | |
Increased, people 's awareness, how corporations movement around to | :57:45. | :57:52. | |
avoid obligations. People's understanding of those issues has | :57:53. | :57:55. | |
increased and it's right that politicians respond to that. I don't | :57:56. | :57:58. | |
think people would think that's the wrong thing to do. When we were in | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
government we put more money into the NHS and Ed Miliband said today | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
we're going to do that again to create world-class NHS we wanted to | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
be. You are trusted on the NHS. The polls show you are way ahead of the | :58:12. | :58:15. | |
Tories on the NHS. They show your way behind on the economy. Why | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
wasn't more done to increase trust on the economy? That is what was | :58:20. | :58:25. | |
done yesterday. Ed Balls put together a package which is about | :58:26. | :58:29. | |
saying Labour will get the deficit down, balance the books, and maybe | :58:30. | :58:33. | |
wouldn't have pleased everybody but he said we will take a tough | :58:34. | :58:38. | |
decision on child benefit. Thank you for rushing here from the speech and | :58:39. | :58:41. | |
we will see you tomorrow as well. Thanks for being with us. That's it | :58:42. | :58:47. | |
for today. Thanks to our guests. It will be back with more highlights | :58:48. | :58:51. | |
are today's conference tonight on BBC Two just after Newsnight. We | :58:52. | :58:59. | |
will be back tomorrow with Daily Politics at midday. Join us then. | :59:00. | :59:03. | |
From all of us in Manchester, bye bye. | :59:04. | :59:06. |