:00:00. > :00:00.fiction, supposition and exaggeration. Then came the
:00:00. > :00:00.broadcasters. And those comments bring us to the closing headlines
:00:00. > :00:25.from Westminster... Thank you very much! This is the
:00:26. > :00:29.86th rally I've addressed in this election campaign and after that,
:00:30. > :00:33.we're going to Colwyn Bay and then south and we end up tonight in my
:00:34. > :00:40.constituency in London. We started at 8am in Glasgow. Yesterday, we
:00:41. > :00:47.showed Labour covering the whole country. We had been in rallies to
:00:48. > :00:53.six places all over the country. This campaign is enthusiastic,
:00:54. > :01:00.strong, growing and very confident. I've got a present here for Mike
:01:01. > :01:05.Amesbury. Quite simple, Mike, no pressure, a win for all of us
:01:06. > :01:10.tomorrow. All of us. You will see the van that sparked behind me and
:01:11. > :01:14.you know what this election is about. Never before has there been a
:01:15. > :01:18.clever choice in British politics about which way we go. The
:01:19. > :01:27.re-election of a Tory Government tomorrow will mean five more years
:01:28. > :01:32.of cuts to our NHS, five more years of increased waiting lists and
:01:33. > :01:37.waiting times, five more years of more and more people waiting for
:01:38. > :01:41.social care, five more years of more and more people not getting the
:01:42. > :01:49.mental health support that they need. Five more years of austerity
:01:50. > :01:53.and cuts to the vast majority of people of this country. Our National
:01:54. > :02:00.Health Service, I think, is the most precious and civilised thing that we
:02:01. > :02:05.have in this country. Health care, free at the point of use for
:02:06. > :02:11.everybody. Something very special about that. Under these Tories, it's
:02:12. > :02:17.been underfunded, it's been privatised, the staff are on a pay
:02:18. > :02:21.freeze and, in reality, 14% pay cut over the past seven years. You know
:02:22. > :02:27.the reality of it, I know the reality of it. So a Labour
:02:28. > :02:30.Government, on day one, will suspend the sustainability and
:02:31. > :02:33.transformation plan, look at it all again to ensure there are accident
:02:34. > :02:39.and emergency departments covering the whole country. We will properly
:02:40. > :02:45.fund our National Health Service, we will properly fund our social care
:02:46. > :02:52.system and set up a national care service so that you are treated, if
:02:53. > :02:56.you get cancer, in a hospital, you will be treated just as well if you
:02:57. > :03:01.have dementia. At the moment, you get cancer free but not dementia
:03:02. > :03:04.free. It's all part of our belief in a caring society. I also pull
:03:05. > :03:10.strongly about the mental health crisis facing this country. Too many
:03:11. > :03:14.people, particularly young people, suffer alone, that the stigma and
:03:15. > :03:21.they suffer abuse. We want to properly fund mental health services
:03:22. > :03:24.but also, all of us together can do something about it. We can do
:03:25. > :03:29.something about it by supporting each other, ending the jokes, ending
:03:30. > :03:34.the stigma, and the isolation. We can all be in a bad place.
:03:35. > :03:39.Communities bring people together. This election is also about the
:03:40. > :03:44.feature of our young people. There is a change in the funding formula
:03:45. > :03:49.in our schools. Headteachers have been told, if you can't afford to
:03:50. > :03:52.pay your teachers, can't afford to sustain your school, then either
:03:53. > :03:59.tough or go and collect the money from your parents. Well, sorry, I
:04:00. > :04:04.want to live in a society where, yes, we all pay our taxes, we pay
:04:05. > :04:09.our taxes so that our children can be fairly educated in our schools.
:04:10. > :04:14.-- properly educated in our schools. So, starting at the younger stage,
:04:15. > :04:18.we will bring in free preschool places for all to four-year-olds
:04:19. > :04:24.irrespective of parental income or background, so that those children
:04:25. > :04:28.get to grow up together. Their first experiences growing up together,
:04:29. > :04:32.that is strong. Then in the primary schools, two very big things I am
:04:33. > :04:37.very keen on doing. The Tories brought in some limited numbers of
:04:38. > :04:42.free school meals in the country. They have now decided to take that
:04:43. > :04:47.away and, as you know, they are very challenged where maths is concerned,
:04:48. > :04:54.so we did some sums on their offer of school breakfast and it turns out
:04:55. > :04:59.to be just shy of 7p per day per child. I don't quite know what the
:05:00. > :05:03.exact prices of rice crispy today but I think you could manage about
:05:04. > :05:08.an a couple of rice crispies with that sort of money. It's a joke, an
:05:09. > :05:11.insult, quite frankly. Hungry children don't learn. Hungry
:05:12. > :05:16.children can't concentrate, hungry children don't achieve in primary
:05:17. > :05:20.school and that goes all the way through the years, and so I am
:05:21. > :05:25.determined, and it would cost, I know, but I am determined to do it,
:05:26. > :05:28.and determined that we would bring in free school meals for every child
:05:29. > :05:34.in every primary school across the country and they will eat together.
:05:35. > :05:38.Education is about schools, it is about learning, it is about
:05:39. > :05:42.subjects, but it is also about our children unlocking their
:05:43. > :05:49.imagination. There is poetry in every child, art, music in every
:05:50. > :05:53.child. And so, we will bring in people arts premium so that every
:05:54. > :05:59.child can get to learn a musical instrument while they are in school.
:06:00. > :06:04.And I see that as part of the kind of society and community we want and
:06:05. > :06:08.as they go through the school years, many other things are also very
:06:09. > :06:11.important. But if you take away, as the Tories have done, the
:06:12. > :06:17.educational maintenance allowance, take away the maintenance grant for
:06:18. > :06:22.those going on to university, raise university fees up to ?9,000 a year,
:06:23. > :06:27.introduce college fees, introduce fees for adult education, what
:06:28. > :06:31.happens? Well, you know what happens. Fewer students from middle
:06:32. > :06:36.income or poorer families go to university, go to college to achieve
:06:37. > :06:40.what they want to in life. Two things happen then. They lose out
:06:41. > :06:44.because they are not following the career they wanted, not learning the
:06:45. > :06:49.trade or profession they wanted to. They lose out and we lose out
:06:50. > :06:52.because we don't get that nurse, that engineer, that Doctor, that
:06:53. > :06:59.skilled person he would contribute to our society. And so I am very
:07:00. > :07:06.keen, very keen that we will instead invest in our young people. And so,
:07:07. > :07:11.we've costed it and it does cost and it is expensive but I think it's
:07:12. > :07:16.absolutely the right thing to do, we will end university fees altogether.
:07:17. > :07:22.And to reintroduce the maintenance grant, because it cannot be right,
:07:23. > :07:26.it cannot be right that so many of our young people leave university
:07:27. > :07:30.with debts of 40 or ?50,000 around their neck merely because they
:07:31. > :07:35.wanted to get educated. I think we've got to invest in our future
:07:36. > :07:39.for all of us and so this election is about the kind of society and
:07:40. > :07:44.world we want to live in. We want an economy that works for all. I don't
:07:45. > :07:48.want an economy where 6 million people are earning less than the
:07:49. > :07:55.minimum wage, where 1 million ar on zero hour is contract. I want
:07:56. > :07:59.instead a real living wage, ?10 per hour by 2020, I want an end to the
:08:00. > :08:04.indignity of 0-hours contracts, where you wake up every morning
:08:05. > :08:09.wondering if you've got work that day. That's not right. So, we will
:08:10. > :08:14.be changing quite a lot of employment law. But we'll also be
:08:15. > :08:18.investing in our economy for the future and so we will be
:08:19. > :08:22.establishing a national investment bank. That national investment bank
:08:23. > :08:30.will invest over ten years ?500 million across the whole of the UK,
:08:31. > :08:34.regionally based, so that all the transport infrastructure investment
:08:35. > :08:36.doesn't just go to London and the south-east, it goes to every part of
:08:37. > :08:46.the country. APPLAUSE
:08:47. > :08:49.Jeering at -- CHEERING Yes, we will be investing in new
:08:50. > :08:54.technology and infrastructure and sustainable jobs.
:08:55. > :08:58.As a country, we have to improve our manufacturing capacity. It is half
:08:59. > :09:02.that of Germany and productivity is much lower. We have to do better and
:09:03. > :09:08.provide good quality skilled jobs for the young people of the future.
:09:09. > :09:12.Those things to me are very, very important and, people say to me,
:09:13. > :09:18.well, this manifesto, for the many not the view, they say, well, it's
:09:19. > :09:26.going to cost a lot of money. Well, yes, it is. I know that. But, be
:09:27. > :09:31.very clear about this, we happily costed it. 95% of the population
:09:32. > :09:36.will pay no more in tax, no more in National insurance, no more in VAT.
:09:37. > :09:43.Taxation for corporations will go up for the big ones. We will be at the
:09:44. > :09:47.same time supporting small businesses and there will be some
:09:48. > :09:53.tax rises for those on very large incomes. I think that is the right
:09:54. > :10:02.thing to do, because we've had seven years of austerity, seven years in
:10:03. > :10:06.which the banking crisis of 2008, 2009 has been paid for by the low
:10:07. > :10:11.wages in the public sector, by unemployment, by insufficient
:10:12. > :10:16.housing, by public services being cut all over the country. This
:10:17. > :10:18.generation is being damaged by the austerity created by the banking
:10:19. > :10:24.crisis. APPLAUSE
:10:25. > :10:27.CHEERING Al manifesto offers something very,
:10:28. > :10:33.very different for the future. Our manifesto offers something that
:10:34. > :10:38.is opportunity for the whole country, rather the change in our
:10:39. > :10:43.whole attitude. We are putting to the British people this programme
:10:44. > :10:47.because we believe very strongly in it and tomorrow, we've got the
:10:48. > :10:51.chance to vote for it and elect Labour MPs like Mike and many others
:10:52. > :10:55.to carry it through. And when we carry it through, we want to be
:10:56. > :10:59.measured by the numbers of people that are no longer homeless, the
:11:00. > :11:03.numbers of children that are no longer poor, the number of people
:11:04. > :11:09.who are no longer living in poor quality, overcrowded housing, with
:11:10. > :11:15.better chances that everybody has got. And by our environmental
:11:16. > :11:20.sustainability, by the way in which we approach the whole of society.
:11:21. > :11:25.And I'm very, very excited by the opportunities offered by it. And so,
:11:26. > :11:30.the election of a Labour Government tomorrow will be the election of
:11:31. > :11:34.Labour MPs to make sure that carried out, that's true, but you know what,
:11:35. > :11:38.over the seven weeks of this campaign, a lot has changed. A lot
:11:39. > :11:43.has changed because the Tory party thought it was going to be a walk in
:11:44. > :11:48.the park. They just thought, wherein a lovely park today, enjoy your
:11:49. > :11:52.walk, they just thought, walk in the park, what have they got to offer?
:11:53. > :11:56.We've got something very important to offer here. The difference...
:11:57. > :12:03.CHEERING The difference is this. A Tory
:12:04. > :12:07.Government will continue with all the policies they are doing at the
:12:08. > :12:11.present time, continue with the indignity of the way they treat
:12:12. > :12:15.those with disabilities, the way in which they treat those that are
:12:16. > :12:20.hardest up in our society. The way they walk by on the other side when
:12:21. > :12:24.people are in desperate need. We offer something very different. If
:12:25. > :12:29.you look around yourself in this rally here today, this fantastic
:12:30. > :12:35.crowd here today, look at all of us. We are young, old, black, white,
:12:36. > :12:40.men, women, gay, straight, we have problems, we have EV lives, we are
:12:41. > :12:46.lots of different things, but you know what? Do you know what unites
:12:47. > :12:51.us together? A common belief in humanity, a common belief in what we
:12:52. > :12:56.can achieve together. Either you go down the Harwich Road of Tory cuts,
:12:57. > :13:03.Tory closures, Tory privatisation, Tory inequality or you take the
:13:04. > :13:06.other road. Those bold and brave people that lead our party in the
:13:07. > :13:13.desperate days after the Second World War had that vision of a
:13:14. > :13:20.National Health Service, of an inclusive society. This Labour Party
:13:21. > :13:25.in the 21st-century has that vision, that vision that you share the
:13:26. > :13:30.wealth, that you said the ability, you contribute to your society and
:13:31. > :13:31.your community and you need no one, no community and no place behind.
:13:32. > :13:44.CHEERING in a and in a positive campaign we
:13:45. > :13:50.have fought. -- I am very proud of the positive campaign we have
:13:51. > :13:54.fought. Those young people on top of that rock, please don't fall!
:13:55. > :14:00.Otherwise I will get the blame if you do! We've refrain from personal
:14:01. > :14:06.abuse because I don't believe that gets us anywhere.
:14:07. > :14:14.CHEERING I understand because my neighbours
:14:15. > :14:20.tell me that some people have said some very unkind things about me but
:14:21. > :14:28.I think it all. And I ask you, all of you, in the few hours that remain
:14:29. > :14:33.until the polls open tomorrow, think very hard. Talk to your friends,
:14:34. > :14:39.your neighbours, everyone in the community, of the choice before us
:14:40. > :14:46.tomorrow. To me, it's the choice of the kind of country we want to live
:14:47. > :14:51.in. It's a choice of this or cuts, closure and privatisation.
:14:52. > :14:59.CROWD JEERS It's between hope or fear!
:15:00. > :15:02.CHEERING Get people to vote tomorrow so that
:15:03. > :15:04.we elect that Government, the Government that can work the good of
:15:05. > :15:29.all of us. Corbyn! Corbyn! Corbyn!