Boris Johnson Election 2017

Good morning. Thank you very much. Good morning, everybody. Great to be

here with you. Thank you all very much for coming. Great to be here in

chill done. It is absolutely right that we all decided to continue with

this campaign in spite of the appalling events in London. We

cannot let our democracy be halted by terrorism. And that is because

the decision we face is too important and the decision is about

democracy itself. I believe there's 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

truly believes in that people and in our ability to make a fantastic

future for ourselves. And that is Theresa May and the Conservatives.

APPLAUSE Last year this country astounded the world by taking a

decision we had delayed for perhaps too long. In the biggest popular

mandate delivered ever in our history, the British people voted to

leave the European Union. And we voted to take back control of our

cash and our borders and, above all, of our law-making system, to put the

British people back in the driving seat of their country. To give us

the freedom, once again, to negotiate our own trade deals. To

take back control of our economic destiny and to build on the

extraordinary traditions of that country as a global Britain. A

trading nation that looks not just to our friends in Europe but around

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

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

country, who have spent night and day since June 23rd dream, hoping,

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 of last year? Do

we want them to frustrate Brexit? I don't think we do. In the last year,

I've seen levers and Remainers across this country coming together

overwhelmingly resolved to get it done and to get the best deal in the

interests of Britain and the rest of Europe. I'm frayed in Brussels, they

don't yet see it that way. There are plenty of people who secretly think

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

at what happened in France, Denmark, Ireland. I've studied the history of

the EU intimately over the last 25 or 30 years or so. Whenever a

population is so temerarious as to revolt against the EU system,

whenever it is ridden up and takes them further into the architecture

of a federal superstart, they find the EU establishment, that great

conglomerate of privileged interests somehow require aclousely pervades

them to have another go. Have another referendum. This time, come

up with the answer that the EU wants.

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

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.

He doesn't know if he wats to be 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

As for taking back control of our cash, can you imagine

Jeremy Corbyn having the grip and the determination to take 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,

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

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,

he has taken the side of just about every anniversary this country

From the IRA to Hamas, 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

It is worse than that, his negotiating team would not just

consist of the Labour Party, that 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 anD Tim Farron going telling him

to do what Brussels wants because both are 100% committed

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

with that pair on his back, how could he get

it done, the answer is 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 May.

out her visions that was instantly understood around Europe,

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

fulfilling the mandate of the British people and leaving

the federalising legal order of the EU but not leaving Europe.

We want to build a special partnership, a strong Britain

and a strong EU connected by a frictionless

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 loved

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 engage our friends and partners

that have the whole of the rest of the 93% of humanity that does not

If we are to make most of that opportunity then removed the right

If we are to make most of that opportunity then we need 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

complet with 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

We are making colossal investments, more than at 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

A strong NHS, great schools and great infrastructure.

That is the symmetry at the heart of our one nation Conservativism.

Great public services, a culture made possible by public services.

Many have forecast that the UK will become the most powerful

economy bar none in Europe, in the whole of the European

continent, and of course we have challenges but we can

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

But we can only do it if we back ourselves and if we're

It is absolutely vital that we elect a government

that will negotiate with courage, determinism and optimism,

Friends we have a couple of days to get this right,

Have been out pounding the streets. Busy in this rain this morning to

make sure we get elected here in Newcastle in Stoke-on-Trent. Our

candidates. We have Owen Meredith from Newcastle. We have Dan from

stroke on Trent Central. We've got... INAUDIBLE

And Ben Adams from Stoke-on-Trent North. They are all excellent local

candidates and they all deserve your vote. The reason they deserve your

vote in two days' time is because we face the most important