:00:00. > :00:13.The candidate here in this constituency. I am a proud member of
:00:14. > :00:17.the Jeremy Corbyn Shadow Cabinet. I'm not here to make a speech but
:00:18. > :00:25.just to welcome you all and first will introduce your fantastic
:00:26. > :00:37.candidate to this stage. Come on down, Tracey. Hello, everybody. I am
:00:38. > :00:41.going to say a huge welcome. A huge welcome to Jeremy Hunt coming here
:00:42. > :00:47.today. Clearly the weather is awful but -- a huge welcome to Jeremy Hunt
:00:48. > :00:54.coming here today. I know you have all been really excited about
:00:55. > :00:59.meeting him. It does rain every time you come to Middlesborough, doesn't
:01:00. > :01:03.it? We have had a fantastic campaign here. A lot of support from
:01:04. > :01:08.volunteers behind the campaign but I would also like to say a huge thank
:01:09. > :01:13.you to everybody here and thank you for all of your support. We do need
:01:14. > :01:19.to retain this seat. We have a couple of days left of the campaign,
:01:20. > :01:25.so anybody wants to come out and be part of the Riga 's campaign, please
:01:26. > :01:30.do. We -- and be part of this campaign. We need to have Jeremy as
:01:31. > :01:37.our Prime Minister on Thursday. And we need to have me as your MP on
:01:38. > :01:43.Thursday as well. We can work together to address the issues that
:01:44. > :01:46.we are all facing. All through the Tory austerity, which was not
:01:47. > :01:51.necessary. Please get your family out, your brothers, your sisters,
:01:52. > :01:55.parents, grandparents, sons and daughters out on Thursday and I will
:01:56. > :02:06.be a fantastic MP and this guy will be a fantastic Prime Minister. Thank
:02:07. > :02:10.you very much. APPLAUSE Thank you very much, Tracey. I have
:02:11. > :02:15.a gift for you here. It says, Tracey, win for all of us in
:02:16. > :02:26.Middlesborough. For the many, not the few. Tracey. Before I start,
:02:27. > :02:28.let's just pause for a second and recall what happened in London on
:02:29. > :02:34.Saturday and what happened in Manchester. Four people from this
:02:35. > :02:37.region died at the concert in Manchester and the whole of the city
:02:38. > :02:43.of Manchester came together the following day. Only 18 hours later,
:02:44. > :02:47.thousands of people when Albert Square showing their solidarity in
:02:48. > :02:50.commemoration of those who have died. Just as in London, an awful
:02:51. > :02:55.lot of people assembled together straightaway afterwards to show
:02:56. > :02:58.their solidarity again with those that had been killed just because
:02:59. > :03:01.they happen to be out on a Saturday night enjoying themselves and doing
:03:02. > :03:08.what everybody wants to do at any time in their lives. Those people
:03:09. > :03:11.that died must not be forgotten and we as a society must continue to
:03:12. > :03:16.support those families fall time because they will never get over the
:03:17. > :03:19.trauma of what happened. I thought holding the concert last night in
:03:20. > :03:23.Manchester was an amazing thing to do and absolutely the right thing to
:03:24. > :03:29.do because it showed that we're not going allow anybody to dictate how
:03:30. > :03:36.we live our lives or how we go about enjoying ourselves. For those people
:03:37. > :03:40.that imagine somehow or other these kind of terrorist attacks are going
:03:41. > :03:43.to deter us from exercising our democratic right to have our
:03:44. > :03:49.election to decide who our government are going to be, wrong.
:03:50. > :03:55.We carry on. Democracy will prevail. APPLAUSE
:03:56. > :04:01.I made a speech about this last night and about all the issues
:04:02. > :04:07.surrounding it and so this election is, of course, about many, many
:04:08. > :04:11.things but it is also recognising those people that have lost loved
:04:12. > :04:14.ones and suffered as a result. If you could just pause for a few
:04:15. > :04:20.moments silence in memory of all those who died in Manchester and at
:04:21. > :04:25.the same time pay huge thank you to the police, the British Transport
:04:26. > :04:29.Police, the firefighters, Ambulance Service, NHS and so many others who
:04:30. > :04:34.did so much to try and save lives. Thank you to all of them. They stand
:04:35. > :04:50.by us everyday of the year. We must stand them at the same time.
:04:51. > :05:06.Thank you very much. APPLAUSE This election is now only a few
:05:07. > :05:09.hours away, almost and I tell you what, we have been travelling the
:05:10. > :05:13.whole country and we still have the whole country left to go round again
:05:14. > :05:17.because we are not going to leave any area behind us. We are going to
:05:18. > :05:22.leave no stone unturned get our message out about this election and
:05:23. > :05:27.how people have got a choice, a real choice in this election. Either we
:05:28. > :05:32.can go down the road over government that passers-by on the other side,
:05:33. > :05:35.leaves communities behind, does not care about the effects of
:05:36. > :05:40.free-market economics, does not care about the effects of cuts in local
:05:41. > :05:44.government spend it sure, does not care about the effects of NHS cuts
:05:45. > :05:47.-- in local government expenditure, does not care about the effects of
:05:48. > :05:52.cuts on schools. The Labour government would do things very
:05:53. > :05:56.differently. This book, for the many, not the few, has within it a
:05:57. > :06:01.programme, an idea and a philosophy for how we approach lies and these
:06:02. > :06:05.issues. I am proud of this document, proud of my Shadow Cabinet who put
:06:06. > :06:09.it together and proud of the contribution and even Donald has
:06:10. > :06:14.made to the team and what is in this book. Thank you Ian and Andy for the
:06:15. > :06:17.work you do -- Andrew McDonald. I will give you an example of how we
:06:18. > :06:23.do things differently. The Hillsborough has made steel for the
:06:24. > :06:26.world. One company was a household name, famous all around the world,
:06:27. > :06:31.you could see Bridges, railways built with steel from this area, the
:06:32. > :06:35.skill that provided those things for people all over the planet and then
:06:36. > :06:39.it was brought into public ownership with British Steel and continued
:06:40. > :06:43.doing all of that and then privatisation followed, one company
:06:44. > :06:47.after another brought it and then it was closed down. What did the
:06:48. > :06:51.government do when it was under threat? What did it do when it was
:06:52. > :06:56.about to be closed down? What intervention did they propose?
:06:57. > :07:00.Nothing, nothing, nothing. I tell you this, Labour government of MPs
:07:01. > :07:06.like Ian and Andy and Tracey as part of that parliamentary majority would
:07:07. > :07:11.not pass by and let a community die and suffer because of a lack of
:07:12. > :07:14.government intervention. This document, our manifesto, is quite
:07:15. > :07:20.clear. We will have an industrial strategy that protect our steel
:07:21. > :07:24.industry and does invest in high technology, sustainable jobs for the
:07:25. > :07:29.future. We will not allow 6 million people to be earning less than the
:07:30. > :07:33.living wage. We will not allow 1 million people to be working on zero
:07:34. > :07:38.hours contract. We will give rights of work from day one of employment,
:07:39. > :07:46.not having to wait. APPLAUSE And beyond that, we won't charge
:07:47. > :07:50.people for going to unemployment tribunal to try and get justice.
:07:51. > :07:56.APPLAUSE This will be a government that looks
:07:57. > :08:00.at things in a very different way and through the National investment
:08:01. > :08:05.bank, we will be investing ?500 billion across the whole of the UK
:08:06. > :08:10.regionally based, so that no area is left behind and that industrial
:08:11. > :08:13.strategy works for everybody. It is simply not right or fair that the
:08:14. > :08:17.vast majority of transport infrastructure investment goes in
:08:18. > :08:27.London and the south-east. London needs it but so does every other
:08:28. > :08:32.region. Share it out fairly. But it is also an election about our future
:08:33. > :08:36.and about social justice that we want. Our children only get one
:08:37. > :08:41.childhood. They only get one chance in school. They only get that one
:08:42. > :08:46.opportunity and APPLAUSE Up to each generation to make sure
:08:47. > :08:50.the next generation has even better opportunities than they had. This
:08:51. > :08:55.government remaining in office will mean what? How much longer will the
:08:56. > :09:00.waiting lists the in our hospitals? How much more overcrowding will
:09:01. > :09:03.there be in our classrooms? How many more centres will be closed? How
:09:04. > :09:09.many lost opportunities with Debbie with a Tory government handing tax
:09:10. > :09:12.relief to the biggest businesses and the wealthiest people while cutting
:09:13. > :09:18.the services for the vast majority of the rest all over the country?
:09:19. > :09:26.We want our children to have the best possible opportunity so we
:09:27. > :09:31.start with preschool. We are going to give free 30 hours per beak
:09:32. > :09:35.places in preschool for all two to four-year-olds, no rationing of it,
:09:36. > :09:40.no means testing, one place for every child for 30 hours a week to
:09:41. > :09:43.play together, to learn together, to grow up together in communities that
:09:44. > :09:49.are strengthened by our children being brought together. And then you
:09:50. > :09:53.move into primary schools. We will fund our primary schools properly
:09:54. > :09:57.and we'll make sure that every child gets a lunch every day in school
:09:58. > :10:06.because, do you know what, hungry children don't learn very well. When
:10:07. > :10:11.the Tories decided to cut back on the school lunches, they then said
:10:12. > :10:14.they'd put it into breakfasts and we got some very smart people in my
:10:15. > :10:26.office and it took them two minutes to work out what that meant, 6.7p
:10:27. > :10:32.per child a day. You can get an egg cup full of Rice Krispies for that.
:10:33. > :10:36.What an insult, a disgrace. We'll make sure every child gets a decent
:10:37. > :10:40.meal a day in school. And I recognise the huge work and stress
:10:41. > :10:44.that teachers are under and their sense of responsibility, so many of
:10:45. > :10:47.them helping children out by feeding them when they're hungry. That
:10:48. > :10:50.should not be necessary and so we are going to make sure our schools
:10:51. > :10:55.are properly funded and they're there for all of our children.
:10:56. > :10:59.Likewise, head teachers in primary and secondary schools going through
:11:00. > :11:04.awful stress deciding which courses to close down, which teachers to get
:11:05. > :11:08.rid of, which teaching assistants to get rid of, all because the funding
:11:09. > :11:12.formula's changed and money's been taken away. What is the answer of
:11:13. > :11:16.this Government? It might work amongst the sort of circles they
:11:17. > :11:21.live in, have a collection amongst the parents to help out with the
:11:22. > :11:27.school budget. Sorry clam we pay taxes in order to make sure there is
:11:28. > :11:32.education for every child. -- sorry! We pay taxes. It shouldn't be a
:11:33. > :11:36.lottery to decide how our schools are run. I'm absolutely determined
:11:37. > :11:42.to see how our schools are funded and to make sure our children have a
:11:43. > :11:44.real chance. And we'll bring back the educational maintenance
:11:45. > :11:48.allowance so that those who want to stay on and study, two to college,
:11:49. > :11:52.do A-levels and go on to university, will have that chance. Then we've
:11:53. > :11:56.had a long discussion and debate about what to do over college and
:11:57. > :12:02.university education and adult education. When I was leaving school
:12:03. > :12:05.at that age, had I wanted to two to university and got in, basically it
:12:06. > :12:09.would have been free for me. As it was for that whole generation. I
:12:10. > :12:13.take the view, it's not up to my generation to pull up the ladder on
:12:14. > :12:17.the next generation. So we've taken the view, and it's an expensive one
:12:18. > :12:21.but we believe it's the right thing to do, because it invests for us
:12:22. > :12:25.all, is to end university and college fees and adult education
:12:26. > :12:34.fees to give everybody an equal chance of getting the education that
:12:35. > :12:37.they want. It cannot be right that students are leaving university 50
:12:38. > :12:41.and 60,000 pounds in debt. It simply cannot be right. Do you know what
:12:42. > :12:45.happens, two things happen really because of this, one is the young
:12:46. > :12:48.person who hasn't got into university because they couldn't
:12:49. > :12:52.afford it, hasn't got the education they wanted because it wasn't
:12:53. > :12:56.available for them, they lose out, they're probably angry about it and
:12:57. > :13:02.disappointed, they probably feel thwarted in life. But do you know
:13:03. > :13:09.what, we all lose out. We've lost that nurse that, doctor, that
:13:10. > :13:12.engineer, that surveyor, plumber, electrician. We have lost that
:13:13. > :13:17.skilled person who can contribute to all of our lives. I see funding
:13:18. > :13:21.education properly as funding for the future, investing in our young
:13:22. > :13:29.people for the future and giving them the chance that they deserve.
:13:30. > :13:33.Tory misery knows no bounds whatsoever. There is a million older
:13:34. > :13:39.people, mainly older people waiting for social care, not getting it.
:13:40. > :13:43.There is a crisis in almost every hospital of funding, shortage of
:13:44. > :13:49.staff, of waiting times and waiting lists even for A departments. It
:13:50. > :13:53.does mean that we have to recognise our National Health Service is the
:13:54. > :13:58.most precious thing we have, the most civilised thing about our
:13:59. > :14:05.country, but again, it's under threat from lack of funding and
:14:06. > :14:08.privatisation. There will not be NHS privatisation under Labour, there
:14:09. > :14:19.will be properly funding of our hospitals. And decent pay for those
:14:20. > :14:23.in it. And there is one thing I mention at almost every meeting, a
:14:24. > :14:28.quarter of us are going to suffer a mental health crisis in our lives.
:14:29. > :14:32.Let's stop the stigma and nastiness about mental health conditions,
:14:33. > :14:36.recognise it could happen to us all, reach out to support those that are
:14:37. > :14:40.going through it and properly fund our mental Health Service, properly
:14:41. > :14:47.fund it so this burglarly young people can get the support that they
:14:48. > :14:50.need when they're going through difficult times -- particularly
:14:51. > :14:56.young people can get the support they need. We need to make sure it's
:14:57. > :15:00.an economy that works for all, decent Public Services and decent
:15:01. > :15:03.wages. It's also about an expression of all of us about the kind of
:15:04. > :15:15.world, community and society we want to live in. Look amongst us today. I
:15:16. > :15:19.Know it's raining, but I can see your faces, what are we, gay,
:15:20. > :15:29.straight, black, old, young, disabled, we are a community, we are
:15:30. > :15:32.together! It's that sense of community that supported the miners
:15:33. > :15:36.during the strikes all those years ago, it's that sense of community
:15:37. > :15:42.that supported the Steelworkers, it's that sense of community that
:15:43. > :15:46.doesn't pass by on the other side. We, as people, we as ordinary people
:15:47. > :15:50.in our communities, see somebody in stress, we reach out and help them.
:15:51. > :15:54.It's natural, human, it's the decent, reasonable thing to do. Do
:15:55. > :16:00.we have a Government that's reaching out to people, or is it passing by
:16:01. > :16:04.on the other side? Is it passing by on the other side ignoring the
:16:05. > :16:09.poverty, ignoring the homeless, ignoring those going through stress
:16:10. > :16:14.in life? This election is about a choice. A choice of the kind of
:16:15. > :16:22.society and kind of world we want to live in. Us based on the values of
:16:23. > :16:26.us, on the values of community, ours based on the the Labour traditions
:16:27. > :16:30.of a National Health Service of education, of intervention and
:16:31. > :16:37.industry to make sure there are jobs and services and investment for the
:16:38. > :16:59.future, or the Tory way, the Tory way, cuts bottom, increases at the
:17:00. > :17:02.top. We have a rainy Tuesday, better Wednesday and sunny Thursday. On
:17:03. > :17:06.that sunny Thursday, get out there and support Tracey to get her
:17:07. > :17:12.elected to be part of that Labour majority. But also in the run-up to
:17:13. > :17:16.it in these last three days, let's have those conversations on the bus,
:17:17. > :17:20.on the train, in the cafe, in the pub, anywhere you go, just ask
:17:21. > :17:27.people, what kind of world do you want to live in? One where there's a
:17:28. > :17:34.party in Government that glories in injustice and inequality? Or
:17:35. > :17:39.somebody people, MPs, that see the world differently to the prism of
:17:40. > :17:42.humanity and community and solidarity of coming together? I
:17:43. > :17:48.know which I want, I think I know what you want, vote for Tracey on
:17:49. > :18:07.Thursday, win in Cleveland. Thank you very much indeed!
:18:08. > :18:15.Colleagues, friends, what a fantastic speech by the next Prime
:18:16. > :18:20.Minister of this country. Let me just conclude today's proceedings by
:18:21. > :18:25.simply saying, politics is about priorities. The manifesto set out by
:18:26. > :18:30.Jeremy Corbyn is about priorities, it's about the redistribution of the
:18:31. > :18:34.wealth. Let nobody tell you that this country is not financed. We
:18:35. > :18:39.have got bucket loads of cash, it's how we best spend it. Jeremy's
:18:40. > :18:46.outlined that. Get out on Thursday, get out there and vote for Tracey,
:18:47. > :18:51.she'll be a tremendous MP and this fella will be the Prime Minister!
:18:52. > :19:02.When you wake up on Friday morning. Good luck. Solidarity!
:19:03. > :19:12.Before I go, thank you very much for being a great crowd, thank you for
:19:13. > :19:17.not getting very wet, but we've got five events today, we finish off in
:19:18. > :19:20.Gateshead tonight. We are all over the Midlands tomorrow, then on
:19:21. > :19:25.Wednesday we are covering goodness knows how many places, but we are
:19:26. > :19:30.covering the whole country. We are campaigning right up to the last
:19:31. > :20:20.minute to convince people we can win this election! Thank you!
:20:21. > :20:26.In three days, the British people will choose who they want to lead
:20:27. > :20:32.this country through the next five years. Five years that will define
:20:33. > :20:36.the future of our country for generations to come. I called this
:20:37. > :20:42.election because, as we faced the start of the crucial Brexit
:20:43. > :20:44.negotiations in just a few short days, I believed it would be
:20:45. > :20:45.essential for the British