Boris Johnson Election 2017

... You will agree it's absolutely right that we all decided to

continue with this campaign in spite of the appalling events in London.

That is because the decision we face is too important and the decision is

about democracy itself because I believe there is only one party at

this election and only one potential Prime Minister that is willing to

stick up for the democratic will of the British people and only one

party that she really believes in our ability to believe in ourselves

and letters Theresa May and the Conservatives. Last year this

country style of the world by taking a suit decision that we had a load

for too long in the biggest mandate ever, the British people voted third

to leave the European Union and we took back control of our cash and

our borders and above all our lawmaking system to put the British

people back there in our freedom to take back our economic destiny and

the traditions of this country is a global Britain in a trading nation

that does not just look to our friends in Europe but around the

world. It is a moment of hope and opportunity and I can assure you

there are plenty of people in Brussels and indeed some in this

country who have spent the night and day since June the 23rd scheming and

plotting that they will be able to reverse that decision. I ask you, do

we want them to frustrate the will of the people? Do we want them to

overturn our democratic decision and frustrates Brexit. In the last year

I have seen levers and remain is coming together overwhelmingly

resolved to get it done and to get the best deal in the interests of

Britain and the rest of Europe. And I'm afraid in Brussels, they don't

yet see it that way. There are plenty of people who secretly think

that they can turn this thing around because they've done it before. Look

at what happened in France, in Denmark, in Ireland, I've studied

the history of the EU intimately over the last 30 years or so and I

can tell you whenever a population is so Tamil areas as to revolt

against the EU system, never people have risen up and said no to some EU

treaty that takes an further into the architecture of a federal

superstate, they find that the EU establishment, the great glutinous

conglomerate are privileged interest somehow miraculously persuades them

to have another go, have another referendum and this time, but the

answer that the EU wants and I'm afraid to say it has worked every

time. And this time in the UK they have I'm afraid another advantage

and that is the Labour Party and a Jeremy Corbyn, the only other

possible Prime Minister on Friday and I don't know what Mr Corbyn

personally thinks about the EU and I'm not sure which were devoted, but

I do know he is in no way in the position to lead this country in the

negotiations and they begin an 11 days of Thursday, just imagine the

scene in Brussels if Jeremy Corbyn were to mosey in to take his seat

opposite Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Junker, macron, all of

the rest of them, they would look at him with what is called wild

surmise. Not just because they don't know what his position is that

because he doesn't know what he really wants. He doesn't know

whether he wants to be in the single market or not. Diane Abbott, the

Oracle, says yes. Emily Thornbury says no. He doesn't know if he was

city in the customs union or not even no clarity on that is crucial

for free trade around the world. He is not even sure he wants to reduce

immigration, even though you would think that is a key advantage of

taking back control of our borders. As for taking back control of our

cash, can you imagine Jeremy Corbyn having the grip and the

determination to two back control of the 20 billion gross that we said to

Brussels every year, do you think he has the firmness of purpose to do it

is, who sends out a signal to all would-be terrorists that he

disapproves of shoot to kill. Even when those terrorists are

threatening unarmed civilians, a guy who pre-emptively informs any power

to engage in nuclear blackmail that as our Prime Minister he would not

under any circumstances deploy Trident so making a nonsense of our

nuclear deterrent. For 30 years he has been soft and muddleheaded on

terror, soft and muddleheaded on defence and he has taken the side of

just about every anniversary this country has had in my lifetime. From

the IRA to harm us, from Soviet communism to General Galtieri and of

course I don't mean to compare our European friends to any of those

people but it is psychologically impossible to imagine him having the

firmness to get the right Brexit deal. A Corbyn negotiating team

would arrive like a family of herbivores arriving at the water

hole of lions, they would be eaten for breakfast. It is worse than

that, his negotiating team would not just consist of the Labour Party,

that's group of ex-loonie London left that have captured the Labour

Party... We know he couldn't govern by himself and would go in a

coalition said he would would appear in Brussels as a monster with Nicola

Sturgeon jabbering on an Tim Farron going telling him to do what

Brussels wants because both are 100% committed to reverse the decision.

How on earth word Corbyn be able to construct a negotiating position

with that pair on his back, how could get it done, the answers he

couldn't and he wouldn't. The answer on Brexit would dissolve into a

puddle of incoherence. There is only one person who has the resolve to

get this done and get this done well and that is Theresa

rare Theresa May set out her visions that was instantly understood around

Europe, taking back control of money, our borders, our laws, the

filling the mandate of the British people and leaving the federalising

the legal order of the EU but not leaving Europe. We want to code a

special partnership, a strong Britain and a strong EU connected

via a frictionless free-trade agreement.

There is so much we can do together and we will continue. We

Conservatives took Britain into what was called the Common Market, not

because we had to lose our sovereignty, we were always anxious

about that but because we have been true internationalists, it felt as

if being international fell like being in it's time to look towards a

horizon and it is our country's destiny to nudge us to gauge his

friends and partners that have the whole of the rest of the 93% of

humanity that does not live in as well so is that though. If we are to

make most of that opportunity then removed the right policies and it

makes me shudder to think that we could seriously be about to elect a

Corbyn led administration that would put destructive tax on businesses

and homes at the very moment when we should be about to go forward with a

great new global Britain, Jeremy Corbyn take us back the 1970s

completed the loony left and union control. This is the moment to

believe in the potential of Brexit Britain, we have so much to be proud

of in this country, so many ways we knock spots off our competitors, not

just in Europe but around the world, we lead the way in so many areas of

enterprise. It's a fantastic country, we are no slouch is that

manufacturers, there is a factory here in the north-east that produces

more cars than some G-7 countries which I will not name for diplomatic

reasons. You're making colossal investments, more than any time in

the last century, taking it forward, new clean power, high speed rail,

new battery technologies, we are transforming the opportunities of

our kids in our educational systems, creating the bedrock, the bedrock of

investments, public investment on which business can flourish and grow

because we are utterly unlike Jeremy Corbyn in this crucial respect in

that we understand the importance of business. Not just in producing the

innovation that improves our lives and environment but producing the

tax revenues that enable us to pay the great public services.

A strong NHS, great schools and great infrastructure. That is the

symmetry at the heart of our one nation conservativism. Great public

services, culture made possible by public services. We have so much

look forward to. We have forecast that the UK will become the most

powerful economy by man in Europe and in the whole of the European

continent and of course we have challenges that we can meet those

challenges. We are a fantastic country and we can get it right, we

can make a huge success of Brexit and the global role and identity

that we now want to forge. That we can only do it if Reback ourselves

and if we're believing ourselves. It is absolutely vital that we elect a

government and we negotiate with courage, determinism and optimism,

my friends we have a couple of days to get this right, let's get Brexit

done, let's get Brexit writes, let's believe in Britain bans let's work

for the next 48 hours to make sure our negotiations are led by Theresa

May and the Conservatives. Thank you all for coming.

Thank you everybody, I have questions, either list of people who

want to answer questions so I will obey my instructions and go to ITV.

Siddique Khan says London's police are in the middle of the billion

pound worth of cuts and you as may cut the police funding last year,

how is that making anyone safer? As everybody knows full well, not only

did we can delete -- keep police numbers higher for every year, we

kept police numbers at around 32000 and indeed they were higher in our

period of our office in virtually every year in which Labour was in

office in the last 13 years before them and we are investing in

counterterrorism and putting 1900 more into those operations as well

as putting more armed police Toby Harris, the Labour peer by the

way confirmed in his report that he did not think more armed officers

were an essential part of the mix. I think most people would pay tribute

to the fantastic work of the armed officers on Saturday night. They

dealt with an appalling situation with extraordinary speed and

despatch and I think within eight minutes they had neutralised three

murderers. All I would say is, I want a Government that supports

those people, that believes in what they do, they'll give them the

backing they need against some very clever lawyers who'll be looking for

all sorts of opportunities to undermine what they do. That really

concerns me that Jeremy Corbyn the only guy who could be Prime Minister

apart from Theresa May on Friday, until very recently was saying he

did not support shoot-to-kill which was absolutely indispensable in

protecting innocent life on Saturday.

The BBC next. REPORTER: The third attacker has

just been named. Apparently he is an Italian Moroccan who tried to travel

from Italy to Syria and the Italian authorities told the UK authorities

about this last year. Were you, as Foreign Secretary, aware of that,

and given the red flags apparently emerging about these attackers, have

the police and Security Services failed? Well, EU am not familiar

with the details of the investigation you have just

announced. We and MI5 will be looking at exactly who these

characters were, what we knew about them earlier on and I've worked with

the security loch services and they do a fantastic job. If there are

lessons to be learnt from this event, of course we'll learn them,

but it's vital that they are allowed to get on with their work, that they

are properly supported and, let me just remind you and forgive me for

labouring this point, but a lot of people have attacked policing,

so-called cuts in policing and we heard earlier from the gentleman

from ITV making that point. Actually, it is this Government

under Theresa May that has pushed through measures to deal with

terrorists and the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, I do not have

any confidence they'd do the same. This is a guy who actually voted

against the formal establishment of MI5 in 1989 who boasts that he's

voted against every piece of Counter-Terrorism legislation that's

been brought before Parliament. You have Diane Abbott who does not think

that Al-Qaeda should be a prescribed organisation and who voted against

that. It beggars belief these people should be running our country from

Friday. I hope everybody will vote for a solid Conservative approach to

tackle this problem and deal with the scourge of terrorism in the

multiple ways that the Prime Minister outlined on Sunday in her

excellent speech. Robert? REPORTER: Robert of Sky is not with

us I'm sorry to say. Never mind, I did a lot on Sky earlier on so Sky

had bags of me. Let's go to Nick from Newsnight.

REPORTER: Thank you, Foreign Secretary. We were told at the

beginning of this campaign that it would be a presidential tour by

Theresa May with you only playing a minor role. Now with 48-hours to go

and after a faltering campaign by Theresa May, you are playing a

prominent role. So is the Prime Minister so alarmed by the success

of Jeremy Corbyn, the man you described as a mug wump, that she's

hoping... Wholly accurately, by the way...

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hind keep effect is going to reach out to voters in part of this

country where she's struggling? Nick, I've been engaging with you,

with the voters of this country for the last five weeks but there is one

choice, that is the point, there is one choice for the people on

Thursday, as you rightly say. In 48-hour, it boils down to a clear

and simple choice between a strong and determined woman in the form of

Theresa May who has a fantastic plan for Brexit, understands who we need

to take this country forward and Jeremy Corbyn who is at very best

weak and vacillated. He now says he's in favour of shoot-to-kill and

wasn't until the weekend, I don't see how we can trust him with our

safety. He's wobbled all over the place. ?31 billion on Trident. What

is the point if he doesn't want nuke support and we'd be firing blanks.

It's not just the safety and security of our country, but the

people in this one terrorism I don't think people around Britain realise

how much other countries look to us and depend on us. We are one of the

great nuclear powers of the world, we are the second biggest NATO

contributor. We have a huge military presence around the world, we do a

massive amount to defend our values. They would be appalled if Britain,

with all the good things that we do were suddenly abstracted, taken away

from the defence of Europe and of the world. That would be the real

tragedy in my view of a Jeremy Corbyn premiership. To say nothing

of the catastrophic damage that he threatens to to to the economy,

whacking up taxes on business to pay for his pie-in-the-sky plans to

renationalise it. The trouble is, young people these days, and I don't

want to sound like I'm 52, but I realise now people do not remember

nationalisation. They don't remember what it was. They don't remember

Soviet communism. They barely remember socialism. I do. We don't

want it back. It would be a disaster. Let's spend the next

48-hours fighting, fighting, fighting for the moderate One

Nation. The assemblith symmetry of that is the strong dynamic economy

that pays for fantastic Public Services. That is what we want. It's

very simple. I think we'll be put at risk by what over-Ben is proposing

to do -- Jeremy Corbyn is proposing to do. I've never seen such a

left-wing approach. It would undermine the negotiations and would

mean disaster for delivering our Brexit talks. An absolute disaster,

many my view, it would lead to the frustration of the people.

I'm going to go to Channel 4 now. REPORTER: Why is your Government

suppressed and point the finger at the Saudis. Isn't it better to

confront them about this rather than cosying unto them? You are making a

valid point about the funding and I can't comment on any confidential

book but you are making a valid point about the role of the other

countries, their Governments or not, in funding wittingly or not, funding

groups that may be responsible for terrorism and in funding mosques

where all sorts of hate-filled nonsense is being spout and we've

got to stop that. We have got to cut the funding for terrorism, just as

Theresa May rightly says, we need to stop this stuff being transmitted

over the Internet and we need to work with the great Internet

companies, principally the American companies, to get them to stop it.

But Michael, if I could say, yes we need to focus on that. But that

should in no way ex-cull pay the people who have -- ex-cull pay the

criminals who've done this terrible atrocities around the world. We need

to tackle them with strong security measures of the find that I've

described, intensifying the role of our Security Services and looking at

longer periods of detention as the Prime Minister has rightly said.

Ackle them with strong security measures of the find that I've

described, intensifying the role of our Security Services and looking at

longer periods of detention as the Prime Minister has rightly said. I

won't comment on confidential reports. We have plenty of stuff

that we don't publish. I'll dig it out and have a look at it if that's

what you would like me to do, Michael, but as far as I know, we do

not have a confidential report of the kind that you describe. So yes,

you are right to focus on the role of other countries in funding

terror, wittingly or unwittingly. Yes you've got to look at all sorts

of factors that are helping this problem to breed. But you need a

strong and dynamic security response and that cannot be led by somebody

who's opposed to shoot-to-kill and a Home Secretary, as I say, and I

labour the point in the form of Diane Abbott who's tried to block

every piece of counterterrorist legislation for the last 35 years.

That's why we are a stronger Government under Theresa May and the

Conservatives. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you for your time.

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