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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all so much for that | :12:30. | :12:41. | |
amazing welcome. But I have to say, it's something that both Jeremy and | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
the whole team have been getting across the country, and we are so | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
grateful for that. Thank you all very much. Good morning and welcome, | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
I would love to say to a sunny Yorkshire but good morning and | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
welcome to Yorkshire and to this fantastic space. My name is Sarah | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
Champion. I am proud to be a member of Labour's Shadow Cabinet. | :13:03. | :13:15. | |
Firstly, I want to thank everyone from Bradford University involved in | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
organising this event, and also, thank you to all of you for coming. | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
APPLAUSE APPLAUSE today, you will hear in | :13:25. | :13:37. | |
detail about Labour's programme for Government. A government for the | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
many, not the few shortly you will be hearing from the leader the | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
Labour Party and Britain's next Prime Minister. | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
APPLAUSE APPLAUSE | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
But first, I think it is only right that we hear from two local | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
residents, who are going to share with us their personal stories, | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
about why they need a Labour Government elected on the 8th June. | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
So firstly, please give a warm welcome to Martin. | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
APPLAUSE My name is Martin Kilcullen. I was | :14:23. | :14:37. | |
born in Bradford Royal Infirmary in 1973. I am the father of five | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
children and the managing director of a planning business employing 40 | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
people. My eldest son has asthma and has been admitted to hospital eight | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
times in the last three months. In the past, he has suffered from | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
respiratory arrest. Each time we visit hospital, we with mayhem. The | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
A departments are understaffed, ambulances are queueing up and | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
doctors don't have time to explain what is going on. Two of my younger | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
sons have been diagnosed at the severe end of the autistic spectrum. | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Both are unable to speak. We use from an early age that he was | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
different, and asked for help. After much toing and froing, we were | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
referred to a paediatrician, who put him on an autism waiting lists. At | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
the time, that was three years long. We tried to make our case to the NHS | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
about the waiting list, but were met with the same apologies, there is no | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
money for this. In 2011, Freddie was born. By 2013, he was showing signs | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
of autism. Again, after a battle, we were added to another three-year | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
waiting list. Thanks to the intervention of the late Jo Cox, | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Freddie received his diagnosis in 2013. During this time, I would work | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
until 7pm or 8pm and, arriving home, the first thing I would do is open a | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
bottle of red wine. To a lot of people, a bottle of red wine each | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
night is not a lot. But I knew this was not for me and sought help from | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
eye local doctor. There was no support for | :16:14. | :16:25. | |
this, I was not an alcoholic. One Sunday night in 2014, things finally | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
got to me and I took a walk on the hard shoulder of the 62. I don't | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
know how I managed to get there, but the intended outcome was to end my | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
own life. Fortunately, I didn't. With intervention, I gave up | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
drinking. I spoke at great length with my wife and we realised we were | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
both suffering from severe depression. We set up a support | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
group for parents of autistic children in October 20 14. This has | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
now become a charity called The Whole Autism Family and last week | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
received an award from the Duke of York. It was set up because we | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
didn't want parents to go through the same issues we had with no | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
support available. We are now in the process of moving our children back | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
to a special needs school. The local school they attend say they cannot | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
meet their needs. We had a meeting with a special school last week and | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
have been told they can not go there because the school is full. The team | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
in charge at the council have informed us that the other special | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
schools are all over numbers. We are currently paying towards one-to-one | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
care to make sure that our children are kept safe at school. In every | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
meeting with the special needs team, they tell me they don't have the | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
finances to do anything different. On Sundays, both boys attend a | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
respite centre, and there was recently consultation to close it | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
down in an attempt to save ?500,000 per year. The service is safe for | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
now only because there is nothing to replace it. I spoke on Sunday to the | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
manager. She is running on zero budget and being asked to make | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
further savings. We met with other parents at the support group. Most | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
had to give up work, due to their child's needs. I regularly see grown | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
men and women cry. Dealing with a disability and special needs is hard | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
enough and does not need to be made harder by the reduction of vital | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
services. Something has to change. A Labour government will fully fund | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
the NHS, giving it the money it needs. They will provide emergency | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
funding to address the social care crisis, as well as develop a fully | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
funded social care model over the longer run. It will stop cuts to | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
school budgets and introduce new schools funding formulas that are | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
truly fair to develop a world-class education for every child. Labour | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
will develop a better, fairer Britain. This is why I am voting | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
Labour what this election. I would like now to welcome Mohamed to the | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
stage. Comrades, sisters, brothers, | :18:47. | :19:17. | |
colleagues. Good morning, peace be with you all. My name is Muhammad, I | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
am a bus driver, I am from Oldham and a former Labour Party | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
councillor. I am also a proud dad, but also a worried dad. Worried | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
about the future. My kids, three of whom have graduated from university, | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
two who are currently in University, what are they going to come out with | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
after university? There are very few jobs they can go into. But they will | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
have a massive debt on their shoulders. Is that the kind of | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
future I envisage for them? Actually, no. I wanted my kids to do | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
better than me. As a bus driver, I have no debt. Yet my kids, who are | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
better educated and should have better opportunities have got | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
massive debts. That is not the kind of future I need for my kids or for | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
anybody else's kids. The Tories have been holding us back and putting a | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
cap on our kids. How will they afford homes of their own? How will | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
they manage their debt? How can they live a richer life? That is why I am | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
proud to be a Labour Party activist, somebody who wants to bring about | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
peace and prosperity, not just for my kids and my neighbourhood, but | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
for the whole world. That is why the Labour Party, and the Jeremy Corbyn, | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
is now proposing a future where there is hope for everybody. No | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
community will be left behind. This is a party that stands for the many, | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
and not a few. You will hear more details and a | :21:18. | :21:36. | |
short while. But I can tell you, for me as a worker and my colleagues in | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
the bus industry, the proposals that have already leaked out have been | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
really enthusiastically accepted. ?10 an hour. How many people is that | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
going to lift out of poverty? That is going to do a huge favour for | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
communities I live in. ?10 an hour. Add to that, and extra four days | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
bank holiday. Bank holidays for those people that want time off to | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
spend their families are needed and we will be able to enjoy that. There | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
are a whole host of other proposals that I am sure, and I don't want to | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
take the thunder from people that will introduce them to you, but I | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
think housing, work, security at work, dignity and a peaceful world | :22:25. | :22:32. | |
is something that we all aspire to. That is why I am out, up and down | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
the country, trying to help my colleagues from the Labour Party to | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
get elected so that we can have, on June the 8th, a Labour Party | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
government that serves the many and not the few. | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
Colleagues, my message today is quite clear. It is short and sweet. | :22:48. | :23:06. | |
We have very little time. The media is not going to do our job. We need | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
to be on the doorstep. We need to be talking to people. Our communities, | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
our colleagues, we need to be telling them how bad the next Tory | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
government will be if they get in. On the other hand, with this Labour | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
Party, the colleagues here, who will form the next government, I am sure | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
they will be able to deliver not just for our communities, not just | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
for me and my kids, but everybody in this room and everybody in this | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
country. That is the kind of future I am looking forward to. That is the | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
kind of future I ask everybody to work towards. We have very little | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
time, we have to get out there and do our work. Colleagues, we know | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
this manifesto is going to deliver for us. Please, take the time out | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
there and do whatever you can. We need a government that will be on | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
our side. I need a Labour government that will get my kids out of the | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
debt, out of the poverty, out of the situation. I worry for their future. | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
I know many more people, up and down the country, worry for the future as | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
well. Let's end the worrying. Let's start looking forward to a brighter | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
future. Let's look forward to a Labour government, on June nine, but | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
we have to do work for that. Colleagues, my message is clear. Let | :24:32. | :24:43. | |
us go for peace and prosperity, and not what the Tories offer, war and | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
austerity. Let's get out there and do our work. Thank you for giving me | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
this opportunity and listening to me. Now I would like to invite | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
Christine to say a few words. Hello, my name is Christine and I | :25:02. | :25:14. | |
live not far from Bradford. I am a busy working mum of two girls. Like | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
all parents, I work hard to make sure they have everything they need. | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
As a single parent and carer for my girl's grandmother, sometimes I have | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
additional challenges. Work needs to fit around looking after the girls | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
and their grandmother, so I used to work all kinds of shift patterns at | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
a bookies. Now they are older, I have started working nights at a | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
hotel. Even though I work hard, after paying for food, rent and | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
bills, there is not much left. Sometimes there is not even enough, | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
full stop. I know I'm not the only person who has to deal with these | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
challenges and look after their family, and I don't think I am the | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
only one that feels it should not be this hard. The Tories are taking the | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
country backwards. But I want better opportunities for me and my family. | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
I want my girls to have more opportunities and not fewer. I want | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
a party in government that stands up for people. I want a government that | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
works for the many, not the few. This general election is a clear | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
choice between the Labour Party, who will stand up for working people, | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
and the Tory party, who are failing us. I will be voting Labour on June | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
the 8th for the good of my family and I hope you will too. I would | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
like to introduce the leader of the Labour Party and our next Prime | :26:34. | :26:34. | |
Minister, Jeremy Corbyn. Can I say first of all, thank you so | :26:35. | :27:17. | |
much for everyone coming here today, thank you to Bradford University for | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
giving us this space this morning, and the lovely conversation with | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
Professor Brian Cantor, the vice Chancellor of the University. I | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
think this university is a great place, going great places. Thank you | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
very much for giving us the space this morning. | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
Thank you to everyone in Bradford, and all across Yorkshire, | :27:42. | :27:49. | |
campaigning over the last few days. What a fantastic welcome we have | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
had, what fantastic support we have received. So many people tell me so | :27:53. | :28:04. | |
much about the hopes they have in our manifesto, in our plans, in all | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
of us. We intend to deliver on those hopes and on those plans. | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
Thank you to Brian, Mohammed and Christine for what they have just | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
said, and the bravery with which you spoke about your own problems and | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
Demons. I am determined that we will deal with, address and confront the | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
issues of the mental health crisis facing this country, so people don't | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
face it and suffer alone. Thank you for what you said this morning. | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
I also wanted to say a big thank you to all of those that contributed to | :28:44. | :28:58. | |
our manifesto. Those in our teams at the Labour Party had office, in my | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
team, who put such amazing amounts of work in producing a very good | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
manifesto in a very short space of time. Well done to all of them. And | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
thank you to all of the different society groups, civil society | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
organisations, so many others, that sent in really good ideas to us, | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
which have helped to frame our thinking and ideas. And, of course, | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
the members and affiliated trade unions of the Labour Party. I also | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
wanted to say thank you to the party's National executive for the | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
huge work they put in on this, and a very deep appreciation to all of my | :29:35. | :29:36. | |
colleagues who are here today, in our Shadow Cabinet. They have put in | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
an enormous amount of work into upholding their briefs, into getting | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
a message across, into contributing to our manifesto. If you look at our | :29:48. | :29:54. | |
Shadow Cabinet, you see experience, diversity, you see a drainage, you | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
see people whose life experience -- and age range, you see people whose | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
life experience is rooted in real life experience, he will never | :30:04. | :30:05. | |
forget that when they are holding great offices of state, to deliver | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
for the people that put them there. Thank you to all of my colleagues in | :30:11. | :30:11. | |
the Shadow Cabinet. And, of course, it is a pleasure to | :30:12. | :30:25. | |
be here in Bradford to launch this manifesto, for the many, notes the | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
few. Because Bradford University had a Chancellor for a long time, and a | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
great Chancellor he was, he was Harold Wilson, a former Labour Prime | :30:36. | :30:36. | |
Minister. Who while not born in Bradford saw | :30:37. | :30:50. | |
the strength and the values of this fantastic city, and Harold, as Prime | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
Minister, did so much to expand university education, and make it | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
accessible for all, and, his greatest legacy I believe, is the | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
Open University, and the access that gives to everybody, to go into | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
higher education, if that is what they wish to do at any stage in | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
their lives. So I think today we are setting out a manifesto to transform | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
the 21st century in the same way that Harold Wilson in the 196 0s | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
sought to transform the 20th century and it is a pleasure to be here | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
today. This manifesto is a draft for a | :31:30. | :31:36. | |
better future, for our country. It's a blueprint of what Britain could | :31:37. | :31:43. | |
be, and a pledge of the difference a Labour Government can, and will | :31:44. | :31:46. | |
make. Like thousands of other Labour Party members, I have been making | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
the case to people across the country, over the last few weeks. | :31:51. | :31:56. | |
This is a manifesto for all generations. We are providing hope, | :31:57. | :32:01. | |
and genuine opportunity for everybody. I say to our children, | :32:02. | :32:06. | |
what ever the postcode you are born in, we will make sure you have the | :32:07. | :32:13. | |
APPLAUSE APPLAUSE | :32:14. | :32:23. | |
And I have to say, as the days turn into weeks as this campaign's | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
continued, opinion is changing, and it is moving towards Labour. | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE And actually there is no secret as | :32:33. | :32:47. | |
to the reason for that, because people want a country run for the | :32:48. | :32:55. | |
benefit of the many, not the few. That is because, for the last seven | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
years, our people have lived through the opposite. A Britain for the | :33:01. | :33:06. | |
rich, and the elite, and the vested interests, they have benefitted from | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
tax cuts, bumper salaries, and millions of struggled at the same | :33:12. | :33:17. | |
time. Whatever your age or situation, people are under | :33:18. | :33:19. | |
pressure, struggling to make ends meet. Our manifesto is for you. | :33:20. | :33:26. | |
Parents worrying about the prospects of their children, and anxious about | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
the growing needs of their elderly parents. Young people, struggling to | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
find a secure job, and despairing of ever getting a home of their own. | :33:37. | :33:44. | |
Children growing up in poverty. Students, leaving college, burdened | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
with debt. Workers, who have gone years without a real pay rise, and | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
stretching family budgets just to survive. Labour's mission over the | :33:55. | :34:00. | |
next five years is to change all of that. Our manifesto sets out how. | :34:01. | :34:07. | |
With a programme that is radical, and responsible. A programme that | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
will reverse our national priorities and put the interests of the many | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
first. We will change our country, while managing within our means. | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
And will lead us through Brexit while putting the preservation of | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
jobs first. Let me highlight just a few of our key pledges. And believe | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
it or not, you may have read them already. If you are a reader of | :34:35. | :34:45. | |
newspapers. We are ruling out rises in VAT and National Insurance. And | :34:46. | :34:52. | |
on income tax, for all be 5% of the highest earners. Labour will boost | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
the wages of 5.7 million people earning less than the living wage to | :34:59. | :35:02. | |
?10 an hour by 2020. APPLAUSE | :35:03. | :35:18. | |
Labour will end the cuts in the National Health Service and deliver | :35:19. | :35:22. | |
safe staffing levels, and reduce waiting lists. | :35:23. | :35:32. | |
Labour will scrap tuition fees, lifting the debt... | :35:33. | :35:40. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE And that will lift the debt cloud | :35:41. | :35:59. | |
from hundreds of thousands of young people. Labour be move towards | :36:00. | :36:05. | |
universal childcare, expanding free provision, for two, three and | :36:06. | :36:08. | |
four-year-olds in the next Parliament. Labour is guaranteeing | :36:09. | :36:14. | |
the triple lock to protect pensioners incomes. | :36:15. | :36:16. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE And we will build over one million | :36:17. | :36:33. | |
new home, at least half of them for social rent. | :36:34. | :36:46. | |
APPLAUSE Labour makes no apology for offering | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
no protections to people at work, including ending the scandal of zero | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
hours contracts. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :36:58. | :37:05. | |
And we make no apology for finding the resources, to hire 10,000 new | :37:06. | :37:13. | |
police officers is and 3,000 new firefighters. | :37:14. | :37:21. | |
APPLAUSE And we will do the smaller things | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
that can make a real difference, like ending hospital car parking | :37:27. | :37:34. | |
charges, or introducing four extra... Four extra public holidays | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
every year. APPLAUSE | :37:40. | :37:46. | |
But we in the Labour Party recognise that dealing with and solving these | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
problems requires a thriving economy. One that gets our economy | :37:51. | :37:57. | |
working again. And rises to the challenges of Brexit on jobs, and | :37:58. | :38:02. | |
investment, for seven years, the Conservatives have been holding | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
Britain back. Low investment, low wages, low growth. Labour will move | :38:08. | :38:14. | |
Britain forward with ambitious plans to unlock this country's potential. | :38:15. | :38:20. | |
We will set up a national investment bank and Regional Development banks | :38:21. | :38:23. | |
to finance growth and good jobs for all par parts of the United Kingdom. | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
APPLAUSE APPLAUSE Through the funding of | :38:27. | :38:41. | |
major capital projects. Labour will also invest in our young people, | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
through a national education service, focussed on childcare, | :38:48. | :38:53. | |
schools and skills, giving them the capacity to make a productive | :38:54. | :39:00. | |
contribution to tomorrow's economy. APPLAUSE | :39:01. | :39:09. | |
And Labour will take our railways back in to public ownership and put | :39:10. | :39:19. | |
passengers first. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :39:20. | :39:28. | |
We will take back control of our country's water, by bringing them | :39:29. | :39:41. | |
into regional public ownership. And we take a public stake in the | :39:42. | :39:48. | |
energy sector, to keep fuel prices down, and ensure a balanced and | :39:49. | :39:54. | |
APPLAUSE APPLAUSE The Tories now want to | :39:55. | :40:08. | |
scare us, into accepting more of the same. Only Labour has a plan | :40:09. | :40:16. | |
ambitious enough to unleash this country's potential. And only Labour | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
has the plan to make Brexit work for ordinary people. We are clear, there | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
is no now a choice, Labour Brexit that puts jobs first or a Tory | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
Brexit that will be geared towards the interests of the City of London, | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
and risk making Britain a low wage tax haven. | :40:38. | :40:46. | |
APPLAUSE As believe the EU, because that is | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
what the people have voted for, only Labour will negotiate a deal, that | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
preserves jobs, access the single market and preserves rights and | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
access not plunge our country into a race to the bottom. | :41:02. | :41:11. | |
APPLAUSE All this is costed as the documents | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
accompanying the manifesto make very very clear. Our revenue raising | :41:17. | :41:23. | |
plans ensure we can embark on this ambitious programme, without | :41:24. | :41:26. | |
jeopardising our national a finances. We are asking the better | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
off and the big corporations, to pay a little bit more. And of course, to | :41:33. | :41:39. | |
stop dodging their tax obligationses in the first place. | :41:40. | :41:40. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE And in the longer term, we look to a | :41:41. | :41:59. | |
faster rate of growth, driven by increased private and public | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
investment, to keep our accounts in shape. This is a programme of hope. | :42:04. | :42:10. | |
APPLAUSE built on one word. Fear. | :42:11. | :42:19. | |
APPLAUSE What would another five years of | :42:20. | :42:22. | |
Conservative Government mean for Britain? Just... Just look back at | :42:23. | :42:34. | |
the last seven. More children living in poverty. Fewer young people able | :42:35. | :42:44. | |
to buy their first home. More people queueing at food banks. Fewer police | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
on the beet. Fewer firefighters too. More people are in work but they are | :42:51. | :42:57. | |
not getting the pay, or o hours to make ends meet. More young people in | :42:58. | :43:04. | |
debt. Will the Tories change their spots? Don't bank on it. | :43:05. | :43:11. | |
Their record says they won't. The Prime Minister will disagree, of | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
course, so I say to her today, in the most polite and friendly way | :43:16. | :43:21. | |
possible, come out of hiding, and let's have a debate. | :43:22. | :43:24. | |
APPLAUSE APPLAUSE | :43:25. | :43:42. | |
Let's have a polite respectful debate on television, so millions of | :43:43. | :43:49. | |
people can make up their own minds about which party offers bet hoper | :43:50. | :43:55. | |
for Britain. -- better hope. | :43:56. | :44:01. | |
APPLAUSE Let's debate, let's debate our two | :44:02. | :44:06. | |
manifestos. Have the discussion. I am confident that once the people of | :44:07. | :44:12. | |
this country get the chance to study the issue, look at the promises, | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
they will decide that Britain has indeed been held back by the | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
Conservative Government. They have prevailed over the many, for far too | :44:23. | :44:30. | |
long. And, that they will decide it's now time for Labour. | :44:31. | :44:32. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Our country will only work for the | :44:33. | :44:50. | |
many, not the few, if opportunity is in the hands of the many. So our | :44:51. | :44:58. | |
manifesto is a plan for everyone. Have a fair chance to get on in | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
life, and our country will only succeed when everyone succeeds. This | :45:03. | :45:08. | |
message is for everyone in this country, the gay young, middle-aged | :45:09. | :45:16. | |
or older. -- be they young, middle-aged or older. As I said at | :45:17. | :45:21. | |
the start of my speech, we are determined that a child's future is | :45:22. | :45:28. | |
not decided by the Place of birth, a child's future is not decided by the | :45:29. | :45:32. | |
underfunding of their primary School. That a child's future is not | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
decided by the poverty of their community. A government that invests | :45:38. | :45:43. | |
for all. A government with a vision to ensure that the brilliance and | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
imagination of every child can be fulfilled during their lifetime. Our | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
proposal is a government for the many, not the few. Our proposal or | :45:53. | :46:03. | |
hope for the many across the country. I am proud to present our | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
APPLAUSE Thank you very much! | :46:09. | :46:56. | |
Thank you, everyone. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. We now have | :46:57. | :47:18. | |
an opportunity for questions. Jeremy Lomas answering questions! -- Jeremy | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
Lomas answering questions. I will take them in groups of three. Bear | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
with me, because there are a of people in the room. I thought the | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
lady the pink, the gentleman, Ben Rohrer. | :47:36. | :47:41. | |
It is wonderful to hear, I have been waiting 30 years to hear something | :47:42. | :47:53. | |
like this, that I could believe in and fight for. The question is, we | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
have a huge issue in our area, which is fracking. We are delighted to see | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
it in the manifesto and we would love to hear you say it as well. | :48:03. | :48:10. | |
Gentleman behind you, with the tide? Channel five news. I know you do not | :48:11. | :48:21. | |
want to set a target for immigration, sorry... That is more | :48:22. | :48:25. | |
like it. I know you don't want to set a target number for immigration, | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
but can you simply say if you think it would be good for the country if | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
the immigration level was reduced, if immigration came down? | :48:34. | :48:42. | |
Lets have respect for everyone that once to ask a question, including | :48:43. | :48:48. | |
members of the media. By the way, I am a member of the NUJ. | :48:49. | :48:55. | |
Laura Kuenssberg. To be crystal clear for viewers, for good or for | :48:56. | :49:04. | |
ill, you think it is time to pay for your ideas, to tax more, to spend | :49:05. | :49:07. | |
more, and to borrow more? Thank you very much, the manifesto | :49:08. | :49:18. | |
is absolutely clear, we believe that fracking is very damaging to the | :49:19. | :49:21. | |
environment, and therefore we have made the statement on that. I am | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
sure you understand and accept them. I thank Barry for the work he has | :49:27. | :49:29. | |
done. He is nodding in agreement, it must be done. | :49:30. | :49:36. | |
On the issue of immigration, there is immigration from all parts of the | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
world. Those that have migrated to this country have made an immense, | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
enormous and fantastical division to our society. -- fantastic | :49:47. | :50:02. | |
contribution to our society. Those nurses that came from Jamaica, the | :50:03. | :50:05. | |
doctors that came from India, the specialists that come from Germany, | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
those that work in all aspects of our National Health Service, | :50:10. | :50:14. | |
education service, industry, transport and so much else have | :50:15. | :50:16. | |
helped to give us the living standards that we all have. I think | :50:17. | :50:20. | |
we should recognise that our country owes them a great deal of debt and | :50:21. | :50:22. | |
thanks for what they have done. We have also made it clear that | :50:23. | :50:38. | |
people should not be brought into this country to work in poor | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
conditions on low wages, deliberately to undercut the people | :50:43. | :50:45. | |
that are already here in work on agreed conditions. And that the free | :50:46. | :50:56. | |
movement that currently exists within the European Union, obviously | :50:57. | :50:59. | |
at the time that leaves the European Union, that free movement does not | :51:00. | :51:04. | |
continue. We will negotiate a trade agreement with the European Union | :51:05. | :51:07. | |
that will insure tariff free access to the European Union and future | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
migration will be based on a fair migration policy, fairness towards | :51:13. | :51:15. | |
our economy and the needs of our people, and an end to the | :51:16. | :51:18. | |
undercutting and exploitation that goes with it. I believe that a Home | :51:19. | :51:25. | |
Office led by Diane Abbott would be fair, decent and reasonable in the | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
way that it runs it. Bear in mind, if there had not been people coming | :51:30. | :51:34. | |
here to work in our NHS, all of us would be in far worse health than we | :51:35. | :51:38. | |
are at the present time. Let's remember that. | :51:39. | :51:49. | |
Laura, thank you very much for your question, thanks for the way you put | :51:50. | :51:56. | |
it. What we are proposing here is rebalancing of the economy, a | :51:57. | :52:01. | |
rebalancing so that there is proper levels of investment in | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
infrastructure, fairly across the whole of the UK, not totally in | :52:07. | :52:09. | |
London and the south-east, but in every region of the country. I think | :52:10. | :52:18. | |
that is extremely important. And a national investment bank that will | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
ensure that fairness is taken all the way through it. We will also be, | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
yes, increasing wages through the Living Wage. That will actually lead | :52:30. | :52:36. | |
to economic growth and higher spending in the economy. It will | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
also be a slight reduction in work benefits, because of higher wages. | :52:42. | :52:46. | |
It will also help to rebalance our society. From a government that has | :52:47. | :52:55. | |
borrowed more than every Labour government in history over the past | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
seven years, we really don't need lectures, we really don't need | :53:01. | :53:08. | |
lectures from the Tories on this. We are there to invest for the future | :53:09. | :53:14. | |
and invest for the good of all, and ensure there is fairness across | :53:15. | :53:16. | |
communities and across the regions of Britain. You know what, every | :53:17. | :53:22. | |
other country in the world says, why does Britain invests so little and | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
pay itself so little, while it allows such grotesque levels of | :53:27. | :53:29. | |
inequality to get worse? Let's turn it around and do it the other way. | :53:30. | :53:41. | |
I have a lady on the back row, the gentleman with the most splendid | :53:42. | :53:50. | |
moustache I have ever seen... What is wrong with mine!? Second most... | :53:51. | :53:59. | |
Are there any provisions to fix the failing academies that we already | :54:00. | :54:08. | |
have? My son is 18 and came out with no GCSEs because the schools fail | :54:09. | :54:09. | |
him. Peter Lazenby, Morning Star. Can | :54:10. | :54:23. | |
anything be done about the shockingly biased media? | :54:24. | :54:26. | |
One problem that people face is economic isolation. We see the High | :54:27. | :54:46. | |
Street banks that are closing down. Do you think it would be a good idea | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
if there were a network of banks on the High Street, maybe utilising | :54:51. | :54:53. | |
post offices to provide banks for the people? Scarlets, thank you for | :54:54. | :55:01. | |
your question. We don't want to close schools, we want to see there | :55:02. | :55:04. | |
is proper investment in schools right across the country. Under | :55:05. | :55:10. | |
Labour, headteachers will not be asked to take collections at the | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
school gates in order to pay for teacher salaries and teaching | :55:14. | :55:16. | |
Assistant salaries. We will ensure there is decent and fair funding of | :55:17. | :55:22. | |
all schools across Britain, not what is happening now, which is funding | :55:23. | :55:26. | |
per pupil is being cut in the vast majority of schools, and the schools | :55:27. | :55:34. | |
are paying the price with super-sized classes, insufficient | :55:35. | :55:37. | |
teachers, and insufficiency of teaching assistants and staff in the | :55:38. | :55:40. | |
schools. We would ensure that schools are properly funded. Where | :55:41. | :55:50. | |
there are schools that are failing, I believe, and I am sure Angela | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
would agree, there has to be an effective and strong education | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
authority that can step in to make sure schools are properly funded. | :56:02. | :56:09. | |
We're not convinced of the idea that every school should be accountable | :56:10. | :56:15. | |
only to the Department for Education. We want a much stronger | :56:16. | :56:19. | |
local community and family of schools and education. We want to | :56:20. | :56:25. | |
bring free and academies within that mutually supportive environment. At | :56:26. | :56:38. | |
its best, if one school recognises it has a problem in achievement in | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
say English or maths, a school down the road might be doing well in | :56:43. | :56:44. | |
those areas. You learn from each other. If you create competition | :56:45. | :56:50. | |
between schools, you reduce the ability to learn from each other. | :56:51. | :56:54. | |
Children need to grow up knowing the whole community is working for them. | :56:55. | :57:03. | |
It takes a village to raise a child, not just the parents immediately | :57:04. | :57:14. | |
with them. Since you kindly took up the issue of education, Tom Watson | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
has been discussing on our wonderful campaign bus how exciting it is | :57:19. | :57:23. | |
going to be when we introduce the Pupil Arts Premium, so every child | :57:24. | :57:27. | |
gets an opportunity to learn an instrument in school. | :57:28. | :57:42. | |
Thank you for your question. You have noticed the media is slightly | :57:43. | :57:46. | |
biased against the Labour Party. This is sometimes said to be the | :57:47. | :57:53. | |
case. We are very serious about ensuring there is freedom of | :57:54. | :57:56. | |
information and a right to know in society. It was Labour that | :57:57. | :57:59. | |
introduced the Freedom of Information Act. We also recognise | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
in many societies around the world that very brave journalists lose | :58:04. | :58:06. | |
their lives or are assassinated because they have uncovered the | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
truth about a brutal regimes and abuses of human rights. Journalists | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
and journalism, and free journalism, free press, are intrinsic to a | :58:15. | :58:19. | |
democracy and free society. I fully understand that. | :58:20. | :58:22. | |
It is also important to ensure that there is responsible journalism, | :58:23. | :58:37. | |
that there is a multiplicity of ownership, that there is a right of | :58:38. | :58:40. | |
reply, and there isn't an abuse of monopoly power within it. So, we | :58:41. | :58:47. | |
would develop Leveson, and Tom Watson is very clear on this, we | :58:48. | :58:52. | |
will protect the diversity of our free press and we will ensure there | :58:53. | :58:56. | |
is diversity of all of our media outlets in this country. So that | :58:57. | :59:00. | |
everybody can take an informed opinion. | :59:01. | :59:09. | |
The point that Tony raised about economic isolation, John McDonnell | :59:10. | :59:19. | |
has put forward a very clear view that a high-street bank is something | :59:20. | :59:22. | |
that is quite important, part of our community. If you think about it, | :59:23. | :59:27. | |
there are too many small towns, even medium-sized towns, where the town | :59:28. | :59:32. | |
centre has been hollowed out, where various shops go, the banks go, you | :59:33. | :59:38. | |
get to a whole process of decline and ended with a town centre that is | :59:39. | :59:42. | |
payday loan shops, bookies and fast-food outlets, and very little | :59:43. | :59:48. | |
else. It is quite complicated, but, with intelligent planning and good | :59:49. | :59:52. | |
support, you can end up with a much more vibrant and effective town | :59:53. | :59:53. | |
centre all across the country. And so, John's proposal is that | :59:54. | :00:05. | |
banks shouldn't be allowed willy-nilly to close all their | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
branches and leave some towns with to bank whatsoever. There is also | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
the question of the promotion of other banks as well, credit credit | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
union I don't knows have grown a great deal. I am a member of one | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
myself because I think they are a great way of helping people | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
financially manage and helping them to get credit if they need it and | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
loans if they need it. I think those things are very important. There is | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
also the role of the Post Office in this, as an alternative source of | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
banking and it was a Labour Government of Harold Wilson that | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
introduced the Giro account system in those days and so we would be | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
looking in a, alongside the question of public ownership of Royal Mail of | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
the role that the Post Office will play in assisting people to get good | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
banking, that means you have to keep Post Offices on the high streets of | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
all our towns and cities in Britain. APPLAUSE | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
Thank you. The next three I am just going to go to journalists to prove | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
how unbiased they are, I have Robert, Jack, sorry I am gaing for | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
Jack instead. Robert is first. Hello. Couple of things. Most | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
forecasters say that the main reason why the living standards of those on | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
lower pay is set to fall over the next few years is because of the | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
freeze on benefits and I am struck that you haven't promised to end the | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
benefits freeze, why didn't you choose to do that in your programme? | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
And secondly, you have set out plans to spend about ?50 billion a year | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
more and tax companies and the rich by round ?50 billion a year more, | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
you have also got an ambitious programme of investment and an | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
extension of public ownership of energy, the Royal Mail and water, | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
how much do you intend to borrow additionally every year? Mr Corbyn, | :02:14. | :02:26. | |
so, you have described the manifesto as radical. The Institute for Fiscal | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
Studies has said this is the biggest involvement of a government in the | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
state since the '70s. At the last election two million more voters | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
felt that the Labour Party was too radical, why outside of this hall, | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
and the swing voters who will determine the election, why should | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
they trust you to set their water rates, gas bills and train fares? Mr | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
Corbyn, when the manifesto leaked last week, a lot of these policies | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
is were put to an opinion poll and they proved to be wildly popular, | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
the vast majority of people really really like, what they didn't like | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
was you as leader, why do you think that is? OK. Thanks for your | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
question Jack. All right, it's all right. It's not | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
the cult of personality, don't worry about it. | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
APPLAUSE Robert, thank you for your question. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Yes, increasing benefits is important, and clear we are not | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
going to freeze benefit, that is very clear, we are looking at the | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
perverse effects of the benefit cap on people and their housing | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
accommodation, particularly in London, and the centre of our big | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
city, you will be hearing more about that in the very near feature. -- | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
future. Secly on borrowing and investment. I have made it very | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
clear that this Government has borrowed because it hasn't invested, | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
and it has borrowed more and more because it invested less and less | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
and we end up with a process of almost managed economic decline, | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
relative to what we could achieve as a result of that and so, we are | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
going to make it very very clear, that this Government will invest for | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
the future in all parts of the country. We have a grossly | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
imbalanced where it goes to London and the south-east. One of our key | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
commitments is a Crossrail for the north, from Manchester across to | :04:37. | :04:37. | |
Newcastle. Your questions are the mirror images | :04:38. | :04:51. | |
of each other, did you get together to decide who was going to ask | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
which? That is a joke, don't worry about it! When people talk about the | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
'70s, and our manifesto doing that, I simply say that the other major | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
party contesting this election, is really really forward looking, they | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
are going to bring back fox hunting, and grammar school, that sounds | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
APPLAUSE APPLAUSE And so, yes, I have made it | :05:18. | :05:30. | |
very clear and John McDonnell will set out this in great detail | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
tomorrow, every one of our commitments is costed and funded, | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
all of our borrowing commitments are there, out there in the open of what | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
we would do. And you say the manifesto was leaked last week, yes, | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
many people got an advance copy of it, well, they read it any way, and | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
the opinion polls that have tested the policies individually have found | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
them all to be very very popular indeed. I just say this. I am very | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
very proud to lead this party. I was elected by a very large number of | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
members and supporter, ordinary people, all over this country. In | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
trade union, Labour supporterers, Labour Party member, and I am very | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
proud we have a party that is diverse, inclusive, that is | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
pluralistic, and this manifesto, this manifesto is a product of that | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
process. I see leadership as not dictating but leadership is also | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
about listening. Listening to what people say, understanding the stress | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
the pressures and the tensions in their lives, and ensuring that our | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
party's policies, our Government's approach to things reflects the | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
reality of people's lives. I am very proud to represent an inner city | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
community in London, and I love the community and I listen very | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
carefully to what they all say, as I do on all the travelling round the | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
country. The function of leadership is to understand the stresses that | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
people face, in their daily lives, the frustrations, the thwarted | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
ambition, the anger that they face. And try to produce policies that | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
make that different. Being strong and standing up doesn't necessarily | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
mean shouting dictating and instructing, it is how you put your | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
case. APPLAUSE | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
So as you well know, I do not indulge in personal abuse, I think | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
it is appalling, the abuse that is thrown at individual colleagues in | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
the Shadow Cabinet, in a trade unions, the appalling abuse that is | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
thrown round on social media and the very dark places it drives people | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
into, when that abuse takes place. So I want to set an example. An | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
example that you don't indulge in that, you debate the issues that we | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
all face, and come to solutions that we can all collectively accept and | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
be enthusiastic and excited by. And you know what? This is something | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
that has brought more than 500,000 people into membership of our party | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
because they are excited about what we can do together, for the good of | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
everybody else. APPLAUSE | :08:41. | :08:58. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, on that note, thank you to all of you, thank you | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
to all of the colleagues that have made this amazing document of which | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
we are very proud to stand by and ladies and gentlemen, with your | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
support, your hard work and your dedication, over the next | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
three-and-a-half weeks, please say thank you to your next Prime | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Minister. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :09:21. | :10:34. | |
The election is upon us, every day BBC Parliament will have the key | :10:35. | :11:03. | |
speeches from the main players in full and uncut. As well as all the | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
big campaign events. Don't miss a single moment on BBC Parliament, and | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
BBC iPlayer. Pure politics, from the UK's only dedicated politics | :11:16. | :11:15. | |
channel. | :11:16. | :11:26. |