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It is very important the process of Brexit | :05:15. | :11:07. | |
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the West Riding. We are | :11:08. | :13:29. | |
three weeks away from the most important general election any of us | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
had faced. Our country's future prosperity is at stake. Get it | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
correct, and great opportunities await. A stronger economy, a fairer | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
society, a global Britain. But all that depends on getting the right | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
Brexit to deal. And for that, we need strong and stable leadership. | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
When negotiations are about to begin with the European Union won't be | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
easy. They will be challenging. At times, they will be tough. In | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
Theresa May, Britain has a Prime Minister with the strength to lead | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Britain through these negotiations and make a success of the future. To | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
see that, you only need to look at her record. As Home Secretary, | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
reforming the police, cutting crime, protecting our borders and deporting | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
terrorism is. And as Prime Minister, sitting at a clear vision for our | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
new future with Europe. Leading our country were strength and purpose in | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
tackling the burning injustices that hold too many people back. She has a | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
clear plan for Brexit and for a better future for our country. And | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
she has a strength and ability needed to see that plan through. | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Prime Minister, Theresa May. | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
APPLAUSE Thank you very much. Today, as we | :15:02. | :15:35. | |
face this critical election for our country, I launch my manifesto for | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
Britain's future. A manifesto to see us through Brexit and beyond. A plan | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
for a stronger, fairer, more prosperous Britain. A plan to seize | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
the opportunities ahead and to build a country that our children and | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
grandchildren are proud to call home. It is a detailed programme for | :15:56. | :16:05. | |
Government, rooted in the hopes and aspirations of ordinary working | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
people across the land. But it's more than that. It is a vision for | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
Britain. A portrait of the kind of country I want this nation to be | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
after Brexit, as we chart our own way in the world. For, at this | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
defining moment for the United Kingdom, as we embark on this | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
momentous journey for our nation, we had a chance to step back and ask | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
ourselves what kind of country we want to build together. I believe | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
that our United Kingdom can emerge from this period of national change | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
stronger, fairer and more prosperous than ever before. I believe we can | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
be a country that stands tall in the wilds, and provide leadership on | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
some of the greatest challenges of our time. -- stands tall in the | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
world. And I believe we can and must take this opportunity to build a | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
great meritocracy here in Britain. Now let me be clear about what that | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
means. It means making Britain a country where everyone, of whatever | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
background, has the chance to go as far as their talents and their hard | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
work will take them. A country that asks not where you have come from, | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
but where you going to. It means making Britain a country that works | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
not for the privileged few, but for everyone. A country where it doesn't | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
matter where you were born, who your parents are, where he went to | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
school, what your accent sounds like, what got you worship will stop | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
whether you are a man or woman, gay or straight, black or white. A | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
country where all that matters is the talent you have and how hard | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
you're prepared to work. And that is the kind of Britain I want us to | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
build together. Because, as we leave the European Union and set ourselves | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
a new course, we need to make the best of all the talent in this | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
country. Britain to succeed, we need to at least the ability of every | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
person, harness the creativity of every business, support the | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
ambitions and entrepreneurialism of every sector. We need to embrace the | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
opportunities before it asked as with confidence. Leading in Britain | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
and the enduring power of the British spirit. And we need to look | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
forward, not back. Believing that despite our great heritage, we have | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
an even greater future. And that we can build that brighter future | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
together. Let us be in no doubt, it will not be easy. There will be | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
obstacles in our way. There will be some who wish us to fall short. | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
Others who wish to hold us back. Many who will us to fail. But with | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
discipline and focus, effort and hard work, and, above all, a unity | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
of purpose, stretching across this precious union of nations, from | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
North to South, East do West, I believe we can and must go forward | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
together. To do that, we need a new contract between Government and | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
people. We need a Government that a strong enough to act, and humble | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
enough to listen. Response of enough to people's needs, and stable enough | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
to get on with the job and deliver. And we need to unite behind a clear | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
plan to make the most of the opportunities ahead. That is what | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
this manifesto offers. A clear plan to meet the big challenges we face | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
together. A credible, deliverable programme for governments, around | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
which the country can unite. A plan that, unlike the offerings of other | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
parties, is upfront and honest about the scale of the task we face. What | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
we say in it, we will do. And the scale of our ambition is clear. | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
Because it is the responsibility of leadership to be upfront and | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
straight with people about the challenges ahead. About the | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
difficult decisions and trade-offs they need to be made. And the hard | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
work required to overcome the obstacles in our way. And that is | :20:33. | :20:41. | |
what this manifesto does. It identifies the five great, giant | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
challenges that we face as a country. One, the need for a strong | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
economy. Two, responding to Brexit and a changing world. Three, | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
tackling enduring social divisions. Four, responding to an ageing | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
society. And five, facing up to fast changing technology. And it sets out | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
what we will do to address each one. And in doing so, it offers a vision | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
for Britain, not just for the next five years, but for the years and | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
decades ahead. A stronger Britain, where everyone has the economic | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
security they need and the chance to live a secure and full life. A more | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
prosperous Britain, where each generation can do better than the | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
last. What's all of this depends on getting the next five years right. | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
The challenge we face is getting the best for Britain in Europe. Our | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
place in the world, the standard of living, what we want for our | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
children and children's children, each and everyone depends on having | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
the strongest possible hand as we those negotiations in order to get | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
the best Brexit deal for families across the country. If we fail, the | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
consequences for Britain and economic security of ordinary | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
working people will be dire. If we succeed, the opportunities ahead of | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
those are great. I have negotiated the Britain in Europe and I know | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
that the best place to start is to be clear about where you stand on | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
what you want. That is why I have been clear that we do not seek to | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
forge this issue, to be half in and half out of the. The British people | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
made their choice, I respect that. I respect the view of the other | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
European leaders who agree that we cannot be half and half out either. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
So, we will leave the European Union and take control of our money, our | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
borders, our laws. We will forge a new deep and special partnership | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
with Europe and reach out beyond Europe to strike new trade deals for | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
our goods and services with old allies and new friends around the | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
world, as well. We will make the decisions that matter to Britain | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
here in Britain. We will be a great global trading nation that stands | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
tall in the world once again. And, if we get Brexit right we can use | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
this moment of change to build a stronger, fairer, more prosperous | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
Britain here at home. That is the real prize, the goal to which we | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
must work. The cars, the too many people in Britain today, life is | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
simply much harder than many seem to think all realise. They are not | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
ideological, they don't buy into grand visions, they'll full by | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
politicians who promise the earth and claim no tough choices are | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
required, they make those choices every day in their own lives and | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
understand that politicians who aspire to lead must do the same. | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
They do not ask for much, they just want to get on with their lives, to | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
do the best for their children and to be given a fair chance. They look | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
to the government the help and support. This party, the | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
Conservative and Unionist party will be that government. For while it is | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
never true that the government has all the answers, government put | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
squarely at the service of ordinary working people can, and should be a | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
force for good. A force that steps up and ask in the interests of | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
ordinary working people, but does not ignore them and walk on by on | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
the other side but serves the interest of the mainstream of the | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
British public. With the right Brexit deal secured my mainstream | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
government will deliver for mainstream Britain. All those who | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
work hard and make this country what it is, people who have a job but | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
don't always have job security, people you own a home but worry | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
about paying the mortgage, people who can just about manage but worry | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
about the cost of living and getting their children into a good school. | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
And that is why the government I lead will ensure that every area of | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
this United Kingdom is able to prosper with a modern industrial | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
strategy to spread opportunity across the whole country. Why the | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
government I leave will build the Britain in which work pays with a | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
higher national living wage and proper rights and protections at | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
work, why the government I lead will keep taxes low, and cap rip-off | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
energy Paris to help families were working all the hours they can to | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
pay the bills. White we will help those struggling to afford a home of | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
their own. It is why the government I lead will build a Britain in which | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
the economy is strong to support world-class public services with the | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
most ambitious programme of investment in technology and | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
buildings that the NHS has ever seen. Record and fair funding is the | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
schools, real technical education for young people and the first ever | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
proper plan to pay for and provide social care. Because strong public | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
services do not just provide security and enhance opportunity, | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
they are vital, local and national ins to gins that bring us all | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
together and it is why the government I lead will be relentless | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
in tackling burning injustices. Like discrimination on the basis of race, | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
gender, mental health or disability. Injustices the scar on the soul of | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
our nation and I will fight it where ever it is spam. So, for example, we | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
will introduce the first new mental health Bill for 30 years, to put | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
parity of esteem at the heart of treatment and end the stigma of | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
mental illness once and for all. But, most important of all, the | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
government I lead will provide strong and stable leadership to see | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
us through Brexit and beyond. Tackling the long-term challenges we | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
face and ensuring everyone in our country has the chance to get on in | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
life. We need that strong and stable leadership now, more than ever. For | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
the next five years will be among the most challenging in our | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
lifetime. A defining period for our nation, a turning point for Britain | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
that will determine the kind of country we are and the kind of | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
future generations that come after others will see. That is why, now | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
more than ever, Britain need strong and stable government, why now more | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
than ever Britain need strong leadership to make the most of the | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
opportunities Brexit will bring, now more than ever Britain needs more | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
clear plan and determination and will to see it through and it is why | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
in this election more than in any before it is time to put the old | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
tribal politics behind ours and to come together in the national | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
interest united in our desire to make a success of Brexit, united in | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
our desire to get the right result but Britain, because every vote for | :28:36. | :28:42. | |
me and my team in this election will strengthen my hand in the | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
negotiations to come, every vote for me and my team will be about to get | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
on with the vote of -- get on with the job of delivering Brexit and | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
delivering a stronger and more secure future for all. It will be a | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
vote for a stronger, fairer more prosperous Britain and after all | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
that is passed that is a vision of the future that can bring us | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
together. So, I offer myself as your Prime Minister with a resolute | :29:13. | :29:14. | |
determination to get on with the job of delivering Brexit, optimism that | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
I can get a deal that works for all and confident in the belief that we | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
have division, the plan and the will to use this moment to build a better | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
Britain. With the right deal for Britain abroad, taking back control | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
of our borders, money and laws and a better deal ordinary working people | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
at home. A modern industrial strategy to spread prosperity and | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
opportunity around the country exploiting the opportunities of | :29:50. | :29:51. | |
technology to attract the jobs of the future to Britain, relieve an | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
family energy bills and the cost of living, more secure well-paid jobs | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
and new protections for workers. The chance to own a home and more | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
affordable housing, a good school place for every child, with more | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
money for schools every year, is stronger economy to fund our NHS and | :30:13. | :30:20. | |
give you the security you need, a stronger, fairer, more prosperous | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
Britain that works for everyone not just a privileged few, that is the | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
gold, that is the plan and now is the time. So, join me on this | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
journey come with me as I lead Britain, strengthen my hand as I | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
like the Britain and stand with me as I deliver for Britain. With | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
confidence in ourselves and the unity of purpose in our country | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
letters all go forwards together. APPLAUSE | :30:49. | :31:09. | |
Now, I apologise because I see the media at the back of the room. | :31:10. | :31:56. | |
Laura? Thank you, Prime Minister. You are ditching much of the | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
manifesto that you and your party stood on just two years ago. More | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
families, including traditional Tory voters, will need to pay more for | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
elderly care. Many families will lose hot meals for their children at | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
school, just at a time when people are feeling the pinch. You are | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
pushing back balancing the books again. And your immigration | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
proposals may cost billions to the economy. When you put that | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
altogether, with some voters be quite entitled to conclude that adds | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
up to quite a bleak picture that you are putting forward? No, not at all. | :32:30. | :32:35. | |
I am fitting forward a vision for opportunity and prosperity across | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
the whole of the country for the future. I have been clear that there | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
some hard choices that need to be taken but that is what strong and | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
stable government, and leadership, is about. Making sure that we are | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
honest with the public about the hard choices. If you look at what we | :32:51. | :32:55. | |
are doing, the first time ever, a proper long-term plan for social | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
care, to ensure that there is dignity in old age. A plan that is | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
fair across the generations. Ensuring that we are putting more | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
money into our schools and giving every primary school child a | :33:10. | :33:11. | |
breakfast before they start their school day, to set the school day | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
off well. Ensuring that we are putting more money into our NHS, as | :33:17. | :33:22. | |
the biggest ever investment in technology in buildings in our | :33:23. | :33:24. | |
National Health Service. But you can only do that if you have a strong | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
economy and having that strong economy is central to what we, as | :33:30. | :33:35. | |
conservatives, do in government. To do that, we also need to make sure | :33:36. | :33:38. | |
we get the Brexit negotiations right. Having that right leadership | :33:39. | :33:44. | |
to take us in with a strong hand in the negotiations is so important and | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
that is why I say every vote for me and my team will strengthen my hand | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
in Brexit negotiations, to get the best deal for Britain. Did I see | :33:52. | :33:53. | |
fires on You said you continue to believe | :33:54. | :34:12. | |
that a bad deal is better than no deal. -- that no deal is better than | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
a bad deal. Up people that vote for you except in the possibility that | :34:19. | :34:22. | |
there could be no deal and that is the definition of Chaos? This | :34:23. | :34:28. | |
manifesto is a mandate. I want to give a mandate for a strong hand to | :34:29. | :34:34. | |
get the best possible deal in negotiations, and the best possible | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
deal for every part of the United Kingdom. To do that, we need a | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
strong hand in negotiations, and that's why, as adjusted, every vote | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
for me and my team is a vote that will strengthen our hand in this | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
negotiations. We want to get the best deal, a deal that works every | :34:51. | :34:54. | |
part of the United Kingdom, and that's what we're determined to do. | :34:55. | :35:05. | |
Did I see Andy Bell? Prime Minister, deuce except under your social care | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
plan that the majority of people receiving care in their own homes | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
will actually end up worse off in your clan? Isn't that symptomatic of | :35:14. | :35:20. | |
much of this manifesto, that you are turning your back on the traditional | :35:21. | :35:23. | |
Middle England but the Conservatives into Tower, because you think you | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
can find votes elsewhere? This is the first time we have seen a | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
proper, long-term plan for the sustainability and social care in | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
this country. This is one of the great challenges we face with an | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
ageing population, and that's corrector that anyone who wants to | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
be Prime Minister bases but said that challenge and sets out clearly | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
for people. What we will see clearly as a result of the proposals we're | :35:49. | :35:53. | |
making. We will see that those people have been worried about | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
paying for care in their home won't have to worry about that in future. | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
They won't have to pay while they're still alive, they won't have too | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
sell their home while they're living in it. What we also see is that | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
those people who are worried that their savings, that have saved, done | :36:09. | :36:15. | |
the right thing, and have seen their savings 20 oh two nothing, we are | :36:16. | :36:25. | |
quadrupling their threshold to... I expect to see action and improvement | :36:26. | :36:28. | |
in the quality of social care that is available to people. I expect | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
people to be able to stay in their homes longer, and that means less | :36:35. | :36:44. | |
pressure on the NHS. You said you wanted to be straight, can I ask | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
you, following from the previous question, everyone says there is a | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
cost to getting net migration down. Have you costed it, what is the | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
cost, is it in billions? Throughout the manifesto, you say you want to | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
close in justice gaps, isn't there a danger you're creating a whole new | :37:03. | :37:09. | |
one between children of better of parents who maybe have a heart | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
attack retreated for a certain type of medical condition and better off | :37:13. | :37:20. | |
children of people who, say, have dementia. It looks as though they | :37:21. | :37:23. | |
get very different treatment under make governments. Also you seem to | :37:24. | :37:28. | |
be giving business quite a hard time. Energy companies with big | :37:29. | :37:35. | |
names are slightly conned their customers, house-builders had been | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
building pretty grotty houses, you say - | :37:40. | :37:42. | |
do you think the Conservatives over the years have got too closely with | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
business and business has been too greedy? First of all, you put quite | :37:47. | :37:52. | |
a few issues into that question, I have to say. I think that is rather | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
more than one question, which most people are asking. On the | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
immigration issue, I think it's right we want to bring net migration | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
to sustainable levels. Because of the impact that uncontrolled | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
migration has on people, particularly at the lower end of the | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
income scale, because it can hold down peoples wages. It can mean | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
displacement of jobs and pressure on public services. So what we are | :38:20. | :38:26. | |
saying is, yes, we want to increase the immigration skills charge, but | :38:27. | :38:29. | |
that is because that money can then be put into ensuring that people | :38:30. | :38:32. | |
here are being trained up to then take the jobs. I want to see people | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
here having the skills to take on these jobs while we still have a | :38:39. | :38:41. | |
system that brings the brightest and best into the United Kingdom. That's | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
exactly what we will be doing. In terms of the question of business, I | :38:47. | :38:53. | |
think we absolutely clearly set out in this manifesto the key thing that | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
we want to do the business, which is to ensure we have a strong economy | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
and we want to be the best place for businesses to be set up, to grow, | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
and to provide those jobs and investment here in the United | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
Kingdom. We do believe in responsible business. If you talk to | :39:12. | :39:16. | |
business people, they will also say it's better to have an engaged | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
workforce, that is a content workforce, that increases and | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
improves productivity. I think it's right to say that we need to ensure | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
workers have proper protections. We also need to make sure we have the | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
economic framework that increases jobs. Millions of jobs have been | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
created, we seek employment at record levels, higher now than it | :39:39. | :39:45. | |
has been since records began. And unemployment is lower than it has | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
been since the mid-19 70s. That's what a strong economy can do, and we | :39:50. | :39:53. | |
need to build on that for the future. Is DoE? Are you trying to | :39:54. | :40:02. | |
redefine what it means to be a conservative Byrom, and for those | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
critics train to say that you are trying to implement a death tax, | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
what would you say to them? What we're proposing on social care is | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
the first ever opera plan to ensure the sustainability of social care. | :40:18. | :40:24. | |
This is a challenge that faces us, challenge that has been docked by | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
governments for too long. We are proud to stand up to that challenge | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
and put forward this plan, which is, as I say, will take a higher level | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
of assets than is currently protected for individuals. To take | :40:38. | :40:44. | |
away the worry from people about how they are going to pay and their | :40:45. | :40:47. | |
savings are going to be depleted to nothing. I think it will lead to an | :40:48. | :40:51. | |
improvement in social care. What we believe in is, yes, we are providing | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
a system that provides people with dignity in their old age, but doing | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
it in a way that is there across the generations. I think the Guardian's | :41:02. | :41:09. | |
here. It has here? -- is Heather here? Hi there. Nil going to means | :41:10. | :41:19. | |
test the winter fuel allowance, you are going to... Wealthy pensioners a | :41:20. | :41:27. | |
quintet of pay more for their care, including care homes. You talked | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
about being upfront about the challenges, are you being upfront | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
with older people, at pensions have done quite well out of over the last | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
decade or so, that they are going to have to bear more of the costs of | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
the fair society you're talking about? When you look at the | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
manifesto, when we talk about the pensions triple lock, that was | :41:48. | :41:50. | |
introduced at the time when there is a significant disparity in relation | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
to pensioners' incomes. What we see now as a result of the changes that | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
have been made, in relation to the basic state pension, there is an | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
increase. What some other people worry about is actually now | :42:05. | :42:07. | |
disparity for the younger generation and will they be better off in the | :42:08. | :42:14. | |
future? Entrance will continue to go up under a Conservative Government. | :42:15. | :42:17. | |
We will have a double lock which ensures pensions will go up either | :42:18. | :42:21. | |
at the rate of average earnings or inflation, whichever is the higher, | :42:22. | :42:24. | |
so that pensioners will continue to be protected against rising prices. | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
I think it is important that we ensure that changes we bring in our | :42:30. | :42:33. | |
changes that are fair across the generations. Tom? You're taking | :42:34. | :42:48. | |
money off Bridge pensioners and giving it to very younger families. | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
You're delighting in using the power of Government to beat up on rip-off | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
businesses, this is the sort of stuff that might horrify some of | :43:00. | :43:03. | |
your Cabinet sitting there in front of you privately. The avatar that | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
your moving to the political centre grounds, and are you proud of your | :43:08. | :43:16. | |
new moniker, the rating Tory? The Conservative Party has always been | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
on the centre ground. -- the red team Tory. We believe in encouraging | :43:21. | :43:29. | |
investment that will create high-paid jobs. Want to see a school | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
place every child, so young people get the best possible in life. We | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
want to make sure we have the economy seek to fund the support in | :43:38. | :43:40. | |
public services that people need through the NHS and other services. | :43:41. | :43:45. | |
These are all good principles that have underpinned conservatism and | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
continue to underpin conservatism. Crucially, we want to get people | :43:52. | :43:55. | |
opportunity, we want to encourage aspiration, we want people to know | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
that in Britain, under a Conservative governments, how far | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
you go in life depends on you, your talents and hard work. Not where you | :44:04. | :44:06. | |
came from. APPLAUSE | :44:07. | :44:21. | |
You put leaving the single market in your manifesto. Would you those | :44:22. | :44:44. | |
people in your party to -- who oppose that to drop their opposition | :44:45. | :44:50. | |
if you win? On the theme of the day, do you consider yourself a | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
Thatcherite? On the question of this indoor market, what we want is to | :44:57. | :44:59. | |
have become friends of free trade agreement with the European Union, | :45:00. | :45:05. | |
which is about having as good, tariff hike in free and frictionless | :45:06. | :45:08. | |
access as possible to the single market. But you can speak a member | :45:09. | :45:16. | |
of the European Union. The British bee pub include that we will leave. | :45:17. | :45:20. | |
So we will be leaving the EU, but will be negotiating the best deal we | :45:21. | :45:30. | |
can, where we will corporate on issues like security and justice and | :45:31. | :45:37. | |
home affairs. We want an agreement that will be given a businesses here | :45:38. | :45:41. | |
in the United Kingdom, and good for jobs and ought reworking families | :45:42. | :45:44. | |
here in the United Kingdom. Margaret thatcher was a Conservative,, I am a | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
conservative, this is a Conservative manifesto. | :45:50. | :46:00. | |
APPLAUSE I think I saw Ben? You were elected | :46:01. | :46:11. | |
in 2010 and 2015 on a promise to reduce net migration to the tens of | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
thousands. Pages in a again today. The Home Secretary between 2010-16, | :46:16. | :46:22. | |
and you didn't meet that pledge, why should people believe you today? I | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
was working on this for six years, the figures went down, up again and | :46:29. | :46:31. | |
they have started to come down again. There is no single thing you | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
can do in relation to these figures which is going to make all the | :46:36. | :46:38. | |
difference. What you need to do is be working at this issue constantly. | :46:39. | :46:43. | |
Of course, what we will have when we leave the EU is the ability to put | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
rules in that part of the migration system that we haven't had the | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
opportunity to control before, IEEE, people coming from the European | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
Union into the UK. I expect why think it's important that people... | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
Uncontrolled immigration has an impact on people, public services | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
and people at the lower end of the income scale and depressing wages | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
and, sometimes interfacing jobs. -- displacing jobs. I think that is | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
important that we continue to work on that. Our hands went up at the | :47:18. | :47:30. | |
back there? I wanted to ask you what this manifesto tells us about you, | :47:31. | :47:33. | |
personally, and your political gloss of the? I think it tells you I'm a | :47:34. | :47:40. | |
good Conservative. It tells you I believe in making sure we have a | :47:41. | :47:46. | |
good economy, public services funded from a strong economy, that we have | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
opportunity for all. Chris, I think that's the important thing here, I | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
want to see Britain as a global Britain, standing tall and trading | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
around the world. But also a Britain that people in this country know, | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
how far they go depends on them and their hard work and talents. Was | :48:05. | :48:06. | |
that Paul I saw? Prime Minister, Halifax voted 35% | :48:07. | :48:27. | |
Leave. Like many Labour seats you are targeting in a selection, it | :48:28. | :48:30. | |
went to be the case if you do win the seat that MPs and voters who | :48:31. | :48:33. | |
will want to hold your feet to the fire to get a firm Brexit. In that | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
case, isn't David Cameron deluded to say the greater of your majority, | :48:40. | :48:42. | |
the greater the chance of a soft Brexit? I don't talk in terms of a | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
hard or soft Brexit, one want I want is the right deal for Britain. And | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
that's what we're going to do. APPLAUSE | :48:53. | :49:01. | |
I don't know if we can get a microphone thing on Nick? You've | :49:02. | :49:11. | |
been asked repeatedly throughout the campaign about taxes on higher | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
earners. You've always answered, wait other manifesto. The manifesto | :49:17. | :49:19. | |
doesn't really have any details about what tax increases earners | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
might face, or if they might face increases in National Insurance. | :49:25. | :49:28. | |
You're asking higher and is to vote for you without knowing what sort of | :49:29. | :49:32. | |
tax rates they might be paying. So what might you say to them now that | :49:33. | :49:36. | |
the manifesto is out and doesn't tell them what they're going to be | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
paying in tax? What I would be saying to earners across the board, | :49:42. | :49:43. | |
is that when they come to vote they have a very clear choice. And the | :49:44. | :49:49. | |
choice is between a Conservative Party which always has been and | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
always will be a low-tax party, his intention in Government is to reduce | :49:55. | :49:57. | |
taxes on businesses and working families. And a Labour Party whose | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
natural instinct is to increase taxes. And what was from the Labour | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
manifesto this week, with costings that don't appear to be worth the | :50:08. | :50:15. | |
paper they're written on it that back... They will pay through higher | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
taxes, lower wages and higher prices and fewer jobs. Audrey, working | :50:20. | :50:25. | |
people will pay the price of Labour. -- ordinary, working people. Just | :50:26. | :50:33. | |
picking up and Jason's questions, it is occasionally difficult to define | :50:34. | :50:43. | |
what is meant by Mayism, but in your manifesto you see you reject the | :50:44. | :50:48. | |
cult of individualism as dangerous. That's as like a rejection of | :50:49. | :50:53. | |
Thatcherism. So is Mayism a rejection of Thatcherism, and IQ | :50:54. | :50:56. | |
personally rejecting the many comparisons between you and Margaret | :50:57. | :51:04. | |
Thatcher? There is no Mayism. I know you journalists like to write about | :51:05. | :51:05. | |
it. APPLAUSE | :51:06. | :51:14. | |
There is good, solid conservatism, which puts the interests of the | :51:15. | :51:18. | |
country and the interest of Audrey, working people at the heart of | :51:19. | :51:21. | |
everything we do in Government. Thank you. | :51:22. | :51:27. |