North West Election 2017: Where You Live

Nine days from now, the power to choose who runs the country rests in

our hands. Each boat could count more than anywhere else here in the

North West, who will you trust to take charge? There are more marginal

seats than anywhere in the UK, whoever captures the north-west this

time will win the election. Is it all about Brexit, help for hospitals

and schools? With the region reeling from last weeks terror attack, is

security top of your list? Obviously, it has been brought to

the top of our minds. People are more concerned about schools, NHS.

It's not just about Brexit but 90% is. This is perhaps the most

dramatic contest we have seen in a generation. This evening, candidates

put their case for power. With us tonight are candidates

from five parties. John Bickley is the UKIP

candidate in Eddisbury. Lisa Smart is standing

for the Liberal Democrats in Hazel Grove, Nigel Evans

for the Conservatives in Ribble Valley and Lisa Nandy

for Labour in Wigan. And Stephanie Pitchers will be

contesting Liverpool Riverside Our panel is all welcome,

our audience is too. You are welcome to join

the debate at home on Twitter, use the hashtag #electionnw:

We will keep it up on the screen during the course of

the next 45 minutes. A number of questions to get

through, lots to talk about at the end of what has been

a week that most people here Our first question comes

from Dr Zahid Chauhan. What as a society can we do

to prevent the spread Obviously what happened

last Monday is shocking, and most of us are still trying

to come to terms with this. But in some respects

it wasn't a shock. Not least because those

people in the Muslim and in Islam who hate us,

who have told us quite clearly they want to destroy our way

of life, it isn't a shock to them, they have been planning

to do this for some time. And I think somehow,

we've got to connect with the Muslim community and say we're

all in this together. There is a problem in some elements

of the Muslim community, anybody who saw the Channel 4

programme last year fronted by Trevor Phillips,

What British Muslims Really Think, some of the things that

came out were shocking. 100,000 Muslims in this

country think it's OK And people who have

acts of terrorism. Half of them think there should be

a law against homosexuality, one in four want to live

under sharia law. We have all failed to find a way

to work together and we have, as Trevor Phillips said,

a nation within a nation. One in three people in this country

are likely to be Muslim, if we haven't integrated by then

we're going to have big problems. What would the Conservatives do

specifically to try and stop We were all appalled by the scenes

we witnessed last Monday and I myself had a constituent

who was killed and another The vast majority of

Muslims were as appalled as we all were by the scenes

that we witnessed in Manchester. And we have got to work together

to defeat the evil that Fortunately it is a relatively small

number but we have got to redouble our efforts to work

with the Muslim community to root out the people

who have been radicalised, who are trying to radicalise others,

to use the intelligence forces we have got to eradicate any access

via the Internet to the radicalisation that's taking

place there, and we have got to use the intelligence services far more

than is currently the case and use our schools,

bringing the communities together, bringing the religions together,

there is not a them and an us, it's all of us against this small

minority of people that we need Nigel Evans talked about trying

to do something with the Internet, would Labour support forcing

Internet companies like Facebook, Twitter, to crackdown on this

on their sites? I think there is undoubtedly more

that the Internet companies can do, some are leading the way in this

so there is no excuse But the other thing we need to think

about is we have 20,000 police officers cut from our forces over

the last seven years, since 2010, and a lot of those police officers

have been community police officers who are our eyes and ears

in our communities and so it's incredibly important now that every

political party sets out plans, my party has already done it,

to put more police officers back on our street and we should never

again be in a situation where a member of Greater Manchester

Police is saying to the Home Secretary, as happened two years

ago, that they simply do not have the resources they need to keep

people safe It's incredibly important

going forward after this horrific attack that we have the resources

we need to keep people safe and we need a root and branch review

as Andy Burnham said of the Prevent strategy, which started

in communities and has become toxic. The trouble with that is if you are

a young person in the north-west who is being groomed and targeted

by extremists, you are much more likely to disclose that

to a friend or family member than you are to disclose

that to a police officer and if the community doesn't believe

in the programme that is meant Do they regret the coalition

and those cuts that were made I agree very strongly with what Lisa

says about the importance of making sure our police and intelligence

services, our security services, have the resources they need

to do the job. We as Lib Dems would invest

?300 million specifically in community policing

in all our communities, le'ts not forget that there

are representatives of a number of communities

who commit terrorist attacks, The other thing we would do is make

sure our police force represents the communities that we all seek

to represent, Lisa made a really good point about Prevent,

we as Liberal Democrats would reform it to the Engage

strategy and make sure it was pulled from the bottom up from communities

who know the communities best, who know whether it's

in a far right community, whether it's in a radicalised

extremist Muslim community, make sure it's those communities

who are put in charge of working with police,

with broader communities, to stop these horrific

events we are seeing. Stephanie, from the Greens' point

of view, it's not your natural hinterland, however,

what would you do to prevent Absolutely the police

have been underfunded, we need more police

so that they can do their jobs. Something that hasn't been mentioned

is that Salman Abedi was known to the police and several

of his friends and family had reported him, he was banned

from his mosque but nothing was done and I feel this

was something that could have been prevented had we had enough

police on the ground. One of the major issues

that Muslim people face, that I've had with my neighbours,

is that there is discrimination against Muslim people

and against people of colour, So many people in my

community are fed up at not being able to get jobs

that are worthwhile, not being able to make a difference

in the way they would like, to have really good,

meaningful jobs that give back to society,

and if we address these issues of inequality and fairness,

that is a great step forward to stopping terrorism

and radicalisation. What is the panel's reaction

to the news that Jeremy Corbyn laid a wreath at the grave

of the mastermind of the Munich A little bit off-topic, Lisa,

you could answer it quickly? It was right that Jeremy has

been asked questions about this and his views

on terrorism over the weekend and he has been very robust

in his response in saying that he doesn't support any form

of terrorism, he also condemned the bombings

and atrocities by the IRA. I think it's fair for the people

to ask our politicians questions like this and I was glad

to hear him give a very I would also like to hear

Theresa May see some questions levelled at her and some real

answers about the cuts to the police service,

because I do think just a few days out from a general election,

we are entitled to hear... Lisa is trying to deflect attention

away from the core of that question. We were all appalled

by what we have read about what Jeremy Corbyn

did a year before he became leader Diane Abbott herself

four times was asked to condemn the IRA atrocities

when she was on The Record... Please don't try and score

party political points So address the issue of police cuts,

there are now 1000 fewer police on the streets

than there were in 2010 Our Home Secretary said we will work

to ensure there will be sufficient numbers to ensure

that there are sufficient She said the opposite

a few weeks ago. This is not using Diane Abbott

economics, we would be funding You have cut and you have cut,

voted every time to cut... I hate to break up the fight

but the fact is the Tory party cut police numbers by 20,000,

we would reinstate that. Want to impose multiculturalism

on this country without asking One of the problems we have today

is we don't get asked what sort of country we want to live in,

it's imposed on us by the Labour The gentleman who has

had his hand up for a while. I think sometimes the party conflate

a couple of issues here, I spent over 30 years in law

enforcement and what we don't need is necessarily ten or 20,000

more police officers, a lot of that is to placate Joe

Public. What we really need are intelligence

service officers and unfortunately they take a long time to train

up so in many cases, particularly in France recently,

many of the people following this atrocities were found

by a guy or a girl sitting Some of the Green party's policies

are poor a basic income so that would mean every citizen gets

an equal footing to start off with, so you wouldn't have people

who are in a poverty trap and can't get into meaningful

employment and can't get the They thought it was a great idea

to go and kill lots of young girls last Monday night,

giving them a nice job seekers allowance, they don't want that,

they want to destroy our society. I want to know how many Muslim

people you have spoken to divide I'm sure the majority of them

are feeling pretty bad. The problem is coming from Islam

and parts of Islam... It's not coming from

the Christian community. There is a realistic point here,

the people who have claimed responsibility for this horrendous

attack on mainly women and children in Manchester just over a week ago

have also been involved in committing horrendous

atrocities against the Muslim They are not just attacking us,

they are attacking decent people from different backgrounds

all over the world. Until we start to address the root

causes, we will never deal with it. They've got to stop

killing us first. Final thought from you

on what you have heard. How come everyone missed

the point, I said How can you started getting

us all these numbers Jo Cox's murder was unacceptable,

but terrorism throughout Europe is being committed by people

who align themselves with the Muslim nation, if you will,

and align themselves with Islamabad. It has been highlighted

by a small number of people. We have a second question

from Astrid Johnson. I am an EU national,

have been living here for 20 years, I am bringing up an English

stepdaughter, I'm volunteering, I came to England because

I love this country. Why am

I a bargaining chip? I agree, it is desperately

unfair that you people like you who've contributed

massively to our community over many decades of being as bargaining chips

in the extreme Tory Brexit world What we as Liberal Democrats

would do is guarantee your rights to stay here, you're contributed,

so many are contributing, Isn't that what is likely to happen

in this particular element There are some in the UK

Nationals who live in the EU, who live here, it should be

a straightforward trade-off? Not necessarily, if we face a hard

Brexit, a hard Theresa May Brexit, we could face potentially

EU citizens who don't know where they stand and who are

facing lots of uncertainty. We don't need to leave

the single market. The north-west, 52%

of things that are produced in the north-west go to the single

market, EU countries, so it would be in our best countries

to remain in the single market That is something the Green Party

will be fighting tooth It's not just about people

who are from Europe, living here now, and British people

living abroad, it's also If we have a hard Brexit

and all ties are cut, like so many of the other parties

seem to want, we do face a real dilemma where our children

won't have the same opportunities that we have had, and I just think

that grossly unfair. You can say that,

I couldn't comment! Do you fear a hard Brexit,

or do you think we can find Astrid should know that before

the general election I was joint chair of a party group in the

House of Commons called Brexpats, and it is to look after the rights

of the 3.5 million EU citizens who live and work in

the United Kingdom, but also the 1.5 million British people

who happen to live and work We want them to enjoy

the life they have got here. It's common sense to say

everybody should stay, live and work exactly

where they are, it makes I was just saying to Nigel,

why hasn't she said it? She has said that, she has been

clear in the White Paper. Theresa May probably won't be

able to guarantee that until she knows she has got

the opposite coming back. Let me respond to that, because

truth is it's not only shameful that we are treating people

who have been in this country and contributed for

a long time like this. It's also disastrous

for our public services, the NHS in particular,

it attracts a huge number of nurses and doctors from the EU,

and applications have now dropped off, it's also the worst possible

way to go about a negotiation. To show no leadership and

no goodwill towards those other member states,

the people you are seeking to reach an agreement

with from the very beginning, and the reason for this,

you asked why you're being treated as a bargaining chip,

because I have watched the way the Tories have approached

this from the beginning, Cameron led us into a referendum

with no thought and planning for what comes next,

because of pressure about his own position in the Tory

party above the interests of the country, they had

no plan at all board would And Theresa May is still at it.

Jeremy Corbyn sitting around the negotiating table... That is

absolutely outrageous. I think it's disgraceful. John Bickley, what you

keep going to do to help? We want to see Brexit delivered. It was a

simple choice people were given last year. Remain, or leave. All this

nonsense with hard Brexit, extreme Brexit, Theresa May's Brexit, but is

politicking. The British people said

we want to leave the EU, and that means leave

the EU full stop. Not stay in the EU Monday,

Tuesday, Wednesday, leave on Thursday, Friday,

Saturday. The lady at the end

from the Green Party talks about 52% of trade from the north-west

going to the EU. 88% of the wealth we generate

each year has absolutely The EU is becoming a diminishing

part of world trade. The British people made a very good

decision to leave last year, And all those people that are still

here from the EU, please stay. That has been Ukip's

position all along. And we think it's quite

sensible to sit down, as the Tory party will be doing

this, no doubt, after June the 8th, with the EU Commission and say,

we want be 3.2 million EU We assume, if you're being sensible,

that you want the 1.2 million Brits Lisa Smart, one thing that a number

of people have said to us anecdotally in the 12 month

since we voted Out is, the decision has been made,

should now everybody fall behind it and make the best possible

Brexit we can have? Are the Lib Dems

full square behind that? You asked before,

where is Nigel Farage? He doesn't need to be on the stage

any more because Theresa May is spouting all the words he's been

banging on about for decades, You asked about the vote we had last

year, absolutely we had a vote. That was to a departure,

it wasn't about the destination. In 18 months, two years' time,

when the negotiations have been concluded,

we are saying that it should be the people that have a say on those

details and on the tones of that That would weaken our

negotiation, Roger. Could you imagine sitting

opposite Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk and saying,

if we have a bad deal, where going to put it back

to the British people. And if it's not a good deal,

they'll vote to stay You're actually pushing

the negotiation. You're weakening Britain's

negotiating position. Where is the detail of your Brexit

position in your manifesto? No, Lisa, it means we're

leaving the European Union. Your leader can't even accept

the views of the British I think the Lib Dem party

are typical of what's gone You're ganging up them

from either side here. They don't accept

the people's result. A bit like the EU, they keep

getting you to vote to give Nigel could do a very good

thing here, because he's so keen that we leave,

he could get Theresa to say categorically that when we do

leave we will get back control of all our own laws,

of our fishing grounds out to the 200 mile exclusion zone,

to make our own trade deals. No one can guarantee anything

because we haven't sat down I trust Theresa May,

and the negotiation... In ten days' time,

Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott Let's have a quick thought

from the audience. Lots of people have

got their hands up. The gentleman over

there in the T-shirt, you've been waiting very

patiently, thank you. Lisa did touch on the NHS before,

and this seems to be a running theme They seem to be using

this as a scare tactic. Always threatening

destruction of the NHS. We will talk about

the NHS in a minute. That is to do with immigration,

because what you're basically saying is it's under threat without

people coming into the EU. It's actually under threat

with people coming in. No government here can promise

to sort the NHS, sort the education, There is a reality here

about the National Health Service, we have 20,000 nurses,

10,000 doctors who come Since we voted to leave

the European Union, a result that I accept,

those applications to come and work We've got 24,000 nursing positions

that cannot be filled. Our nurses haven't had a pay rise

under these Tories for seven years. We've driven down the terms and

conditions of pay of our NHS staff. We need to bring back the

nursing bursary, and make sure we stabilise our public

services in the interim. Let's move it on, because our next

question is going to take us Don't forget of course if

you're at home you can join in, the hashtag's on the screen,

hashtag "ElectionNW". Becky Forest, you've got a question

for us on the health service? The NHS has struggled

to cope with acute changes Isn't it time it was managed

by a cross-party commission to improve its resilience

and continuity? It's a great idea, but that means

getting people like this Well, as a Green Party politician,

I know that we're not going to get a majority government at

the election, if we are realistic, because of the first

past the post system. However, we are willing to work

with other parties so that we can come to agreements on things

like the NHS. I mean, we are more than happy

to form a coalition with certain parties who share

some of our ideals. A cross-party commission,

would that work? Because I believe that

the government of the day is the one that's in charge

of the National Health Service. And at the end of the period,

people would make a judgment That's your problem, isn't it,

because you'd been in charge of it for seven years,

and many people would say it's not The vast majority of people who get

service from the NHS think they get I've got two members of my own

family who are currently receiving treatment from the

National Health Service. But the fact is that the demands

of it have increased dramatically We've got more people

living in this country. We're talking about

?8 billion extra. In real terms, that's above the rate

of inflation to ensure that we've Listen, all Jeremy Corbyn

wants to do is... A lot of doctors would be

hit by his taxation. Mental health care is seen

as the Cinderella condition. And I can tell you on many

of the surgeries that I've held over 25 years as a member of Parliament,

it's an increasing problem. And it needs to be

properly addressed. That's why we want to see

10,000 mental health care professionals introduced

into the National Health Service in order to deal with the problem

that quite frankly is a ticking time John, is ?8 billion a year extra

enough from the Conservatives? We will put 11 billion by the end

of the next Parliament, per year, We would want another

10,000 GPs by 2025. We would want to lift the cap

on medical training places. We would want to see another

20,000 nurses and 3500 midwives. You can see where

the money comes from. ?350 million a week extra for

the NHS is 18.2 billion over a year. You need to speak to the Tory party

who put that slogan out So why only eight when

it's not 18, Nigel? 8 billion in real terms, so there

will be extra money going in. There is an additional

one billion and mental The problem with the Labour Party

is that they can trot out figures because there is a ?20 billion hole

in the costings of their manifesto. They haven't got the faintest idea

where this money is going to come. They can't keep hitting the top 5%

or 26% on corporation tax for. Let's get a thought from this

gentleman here in the back row. I get sick and tired of people

bandying these figures out, like 10,000 additional

mental health professionals. What is a mental

health professional? Is he a fully trained

mental health nurse? Or is it somebody with

a bit of qualification? What is a qualified

nurse, can you tell me? It'll be a properly

professional person. There's an extra

?1 billion going in. To tackle the mental

health ticking time bomb. We are the only party

talking about mental health You can't say where

the money's coming from. I am extremely happy to share my

copy of the manifesto with you. We have been banging on about mental

health for a good number of years and I'm delighted that the Tories'

party polling has handed sufficient Your party's policy is going

to make it worse, Lisa. To address Becky's question

about cross-party working groups to look at the health service,

because it is too important to be this political football

which is the basis of your question, I think, that is long-term

Lib Dem health policy. In the short term, though,

the health services in crisis. Nearly two thirds of NHS trusts

finished the last financial year in deficit and something needs to be

done more quickly What we as Liberal Democrats

would do would be to add And ring fence the money

that we spend specifically on the health service and mental

health, public health and on primary The point that was made

about needing to spend more on social care

is absolutely spot on. We are living longer

as a nation, which is great. But we're living longer

with conditions like I'm not sure the dementia

tax is going to be would be as Tories when you first

announced that, but it is such an important thing and I absolutely

agree with the basis On the one hand, I absolutely agree

that we should try and take the political mudslinging out

of discussions about how we fund and care for people in health

needs in this country. I've been working with

the Liberal Democrats and other political parties in parliament

to try and do precisely And I think that is incredibly

important to do that where we can. But the truth is in answer

to your question, politics And that is deeply political,

that is about the choices that we make, the different choices

that we've all made as political When I look around

the north-west and I see of hospitals and I see nurses

who haven't had a pay rise for seven years,

some of whom are now visiting food banks, I see huge shortages

in the NHS, ?3 billion a year roughly spent on agency staff

to plug that gap, when I see those huge pressing needs,

I know exactly what this is because I saw it before

growing up in this region The political choices

of the Tory party... I see this every time

with the Labour Party. Without it, they're

dead in the water. If you haven't loaded up the NHS

with so much PFI debt, which big fund managers and city fat

cats are making millions out of, thanks to the Labour Party,

they would have more money And if you haven't let in millions

of people, if you haven't let in millions of people

with uncontrolled immigration, With regards to mental health,

I think a huge concern. Not just for this region,

but also national. How much investment will any party

investor mental health services? This is what the population doesn't

like about politics. Every five years you tear down

the education system, you tear down the health system

and you try and rebuild them from the ground

up, every five years. I don't think that helps

the population as a whole. I think that's using the whole

country as a political football. Can I just respond to this

gentleman's question. It is right to say that we've got

to think seriously about how we fund mental health services

in this country. There is also another issue

which is that money for mental One of the things that we're

promising to do in our manifesto is to ring fence that funding so it

actually reaches people. The Green Party is promising

to bring mental health waiting times Currently in Liverpool you can

wait up to six months if you are diagnosed with depression

to see anyone. We want to give the NHS

is ?20 billion. We're going to scrap Trident

and we're going to claim back The NHS is so important

that we can't let it go down the way that the Tories seem to be wanting

it to go. The Tories have been looking

after it for the last seven years, The Tories have been breaking it

down, selling it off, The Green Party wants

to take the NHS out of privatisation and back

into public hands. Don't forget you can join

in at home, hashtag #ElectionNW The gentleman over there

mentioned primary schools. I would like to ask what you will do

to ensure the educational system equips our young people to enter

into industry with the appropriate Yeah, there is a massive section

in the Conservative manifesto that addresses education,

particularly on technical education, and technology education,

and we are talking about investing This is an actual real terms

increase in education of our young people to make sure that they've got

the right skills - whether it is in the new Internet

technologies that are available, or it is technical education so it's

not just the academic aspects of education,

which is important. Are you in danger of

creating a two tier system? And the reason why, Roger,

and the important thing is that we've got the fastest-growing

economy in the G7. We are the fifth largest

economy in the world. If we want to see that continue,

we've got to make absolutely certain that we've got the right skills

in our workforce for the future, and for that to happen we've got

to make sure that people have got That's exactly what

were going to do. I go back to when I was

a kid in Wythenshawe. I didn't make it to the grammar

school, which was actually But grammar schools and technical

schools in those days, 65% of those Grammar schools were a great leg up

for working-class people, and the labour and Tory party

decided to destroy that system If you look at the programme

for student assessment, Pisa, We are supposed to be,

we used to have the greatest The other problem is Labour

is education, education, education. They told a lot of kids that

if you went to university you'd make We now find out from the office

for national statistics almost half our graduates,

with 40 grand's worth of debt and having stayed out of the job

market for five years, I think anyone who's been

through the education system in the last 25 years,

or has worked on it, will know that you're

talking absolute rubbish, So I don't think I really

need to deal with that. There are lots of graduates

who can't get a job these days, because they were promised this

wonderful ideal that they could get There are lots of non-graduates

who can't get a job as well. And I think the question

is absolutely spot on. The truth is we have young

people in this region who are unemployed in areas

where there are vacancies for jobs. The question about how you bring

those two things back together And the answer,

I think, has two parts. The first is that we have

to invest in young people. Schools have been cut,

they will continue to be cut. But the flip side, of course,

is that there has to be somewhere good for young people

to go and work. And that is the real vandalism

of what the Tories have done In the last couple of years,

they have destroyed industries like clean energies,

which were growing six times faster. In other countries, young people

are being given the opportunity not just to build solar panels,

but actually to design that You address the green

economy, and then I'm The Green Party has a really great

vision for schools for our future. First of all we want to take away

Ofsted, because we find that it basically gets the government to go

into schools and impose these really stressful situations and teachers

that they don't need. How are you going to measure

standards if you don't have Ofsted? We believe teachers know what's

best for their students. We trust that teachers can

teach their students, We also going to take

all schools out of the free school and academy system,

and put them under local Because every time a new free

school or academy opens, it's taking money away

from local authority schools. I think every child deserves

to have an equal education, no matter where they live

or which school they go to. The thing with the green economy

is such an important thing. I mean, we need to be focusing

on careers for the future. We need to be looking to the future

and we need to realise that, that also care work is something

that would be automated. You can't really have a robot

give somebody the same So we need to value those

sorts of jobs more highly Many of the jobs of

the future probably haven't On the subject of education,

Lisa Smart, can the Liberal Democrats be trusted after

what happened over tuition fees? One of the things that we're saying

about schooling is that we need What with the aim, as has

been mentioned by Lisa, I've been a school governor

for the last 13 years and I see our budget

forecast doing this. We're going to have

to get rid of some staff. That is not how you improve

learning for young people. We also need to remember that

schools and education, it's not just It's about well-being and I think

some of the points that have been made about mental health

and about children's mental health One of the things I'm going to give

credit to the Conservatives for is a saying that sex

and relationship education should That's a positive step

forward, I think. It's something Liberal Democrats

have been talking about One of the things I'm really keen

for it to be is that it's LGBT inclusive across all schools,

not just some schools. Let's hear from some

of the people over here. It's really positive that we have

12.1% youth unemployment in the UK aged 18-25 years old,

that's really good. So I think we need to applaud

the fact that we're doing incredibly well in our education

system as well. Can I just say that it's great

that we are supposedly educating But where I'm from in Pendle,

not Pendleton, but close by, we have one in four children

living in poverty. The majority of these

people are working. If we're on zero hours contracts,

you know, it's not going Getting people into work

is an absolute start, and having the national living wage

is very important, too. As I said, we've got 2.9 million

more people in work now And part of the problem,

and I know Lisa is not a great fan of Jeremy Corbyn,

but I have to talk about Corbyn I'm not a great fan

of you now, either. But Jeremy Corbyn is the leader

leader of your party. Why don't you want to talk

about child poverty? Nigel, the point the lady made

was about families who are working The national living wage

is helping to correct that. But the only way we can do

that is by having a strong economy. And Jeremy Corbyn is attacking

the very basis of those firms, 1 million children lifted out

of poverty and labour, The lady from Pendle,

she was rightly concerned about the inability of people

at the bottom of our society, the working class, not being

able to get a decent wage. Companies, if they are given

the choice to employ cheap labour, guess what they're going to do -

employ cheap labour. We would have a moratorium

on unskilled immigration Very briefly, we are a very divided

country, aren't we, Stephanie? I think Tory policies are making

us even more divided. And I also think that how we handle

post-Brexit Britain is going to be The country was split

about the direction that we wanted to take, and we have to listen

to both sides as we seek to leave the EU and get

the best deal for Britain. The Labour Party's slogan

"For the many, not the few". "For the many" were many

MPs who tried to get "The few" were those who were left,

who served in his Shadow Cabinet. Lisa doesn't want to talk

about Jeremy Corbyn. I'd like to talk

about child poverty. A lot of candidates don't mention

Jeremy Corbyn on their leaflets. On June the 8th it's either

going to be Theresa May You mention that the

polls have narrowed. What they've narrowed from is a

200 seat majority from the Tories to about a 100 seat

majority for the Tories. Everybody, the gentleman over there,

is fighting for their local MP, for their local champion

for their area. As he rightly said, neither

Theresa May nor Jeremy Corbyn is standing for election

in the north west. It's up to everybody

to decide who is the best MP I've got hope that tomorrow can be

better than yesterday, or today. Taking us back with grammar schools

I think takes us backwards, I think the more we see of Theresa

May, the less we can trust her. She told us she was going to

bring immigration down to the tens of thousands, and it's

still in the hundreds of thousands. However, she will win because

the Labour Party is so awful! Thank you, too, to Lisa Smart,

to Nigel Evans, to Lisa Nandy, and to Stephanie Pitchers

- our panel. Thank you also to you,

our audience, and to you at home. We go to the polls a week on

Thursday for the general election. It remains to be seen

what the outcome is. Thank you very much

indeed for watching. You can join in using

the hashtag "ElectionNW". The proof of the pudding will be

decided in nine days' time. No one was talking of homelessness

which is a massive problem. We drifted into fantasy economics, as a

small-business owner want be inspired. We have two options, we

all want to spend money on our public services. I believe this

election is a Brexit election. There's this want to make sure we

have the best possible out from Europe. I'm not worried about my own

personal status as an EU national but my stepdaughter, she will be

deprived of a future where she can work and be together with other EU

national is. Hear the arguments

from the politicians themselves.