:00:08. > :00:11.He's coming in five minutes. Let's give him a great welcome when he
:00:12. > :05:40.comes. thank you for coming here today. I
:05:41. > :05:49.am the Labour parliamentary candidate for Reading East. Reading
:05:50. > :05:55.has two marginal seats. Reading East and Reading West. We're working hard
:05:56. > :05:58.to win them. These are the sorts of seats Labour needs to win to form a
:05:59. > :06:01.Labour government. I hope today having Jeremy here will lift our
:06:02. > :06:07.spirits and take us forward in the battle for those seats. Apply to say
:06:08. > :06:16.thank you to so much for Germany the coming and -- thank you for Germany
:06:17. > :06:22.for coming. -- Jeremy Corbyn for coming. The leader of the laden two
:06:23. > :06:33.Labour Party. Thank you. Thank you all for being
:06:34. > :06:41.here. And thank you for your support. This man is going to be
:06:42. > :06:46.your MP, a week on Friday. OK? But that means you've got to put a bit
:06:47. > :06:53.of effort into making sure he does become your MP. Are you all up for
:06:54. > :06:58.that? So it is campaigning, it is talking, it is getting that message
:06:59. > :07:04.across. But I would also like to say a message of sympathy and sorrow to
:07:05. > :07:10.Reading on not getting through in the football. As a very keen
:07:11. > :07:15.football supporter, I know just how painful these things are. But I had
:07:16. > :07:20.a good weekend. I was at the cup final with Arsenal. I wasn't
:07:21. > :07:25.expecting any applause for that at all. Please don't go any further
:07:26. > :07:31.with that particular line of discussion. This morning, we were
:07:32. > :07:33.pointing out just what five more years of the Tory government will
:07:34. > :07:42.do. That is the correct response,
:07:43. > :07:47.billing, thank you. John Ashworth, and Lorraine and I presented a
:07:48. > :07:54.document to our friends in the media about what a five years will be.
:07:55. > :07:56.Think through the crisis that exists in almost every hospital in the
:07:57. > :08:04.country at the present time. Think through the waiting lists to get
:08:05. > :08:09.elective surgery. Think through the delays of A departments. Think
:08:10. > :08:12.through those older people stuck the hospital bed and are unable to leave
:08:13. > :08:17.because social care is not available. Think of millions of
:08:18. > :08:24.people across the country waiting for a social care package that has
:08:25. > :08:28.not come. Then think of our schools. Is it right that headteachers should
:08:29. > :08:33.be encouraged to have collecting buckets at the school gate in order
:08:34. > :08:38.to fund the school 's? Is it right that so many of our children come to
:08:39. > :08:49.school hungry and go home angry as well? -- go home angry. And is it
:08:50. > :08:52.right that children are in super-sized classes over 30, and the
:08:53. > :08:59.teachers stressed out by this and many are sad leaving the press two
:09:00. > :09:04.profession as a result of it. Then look at the underfunding of our
:09:05. > :09:07.secondary schools, the loss of educational maintenance allowance,
:09:08. > :09:10.meaning those students from working-class backgrounds did not go
:09:11. > :09:15.on to college until we introduced them. And then think of the
:09:16. > :09:21.university students, leaving the debt of ?50,000 or more because they
:09:22. > :09:26.tried to get an education. What we are doing is simply pointing out
:09:27. > :09:30.what another five years of the Tory government would mean. Five years of
:09:31. > :09:38.underfunding, five years of cuts, five years of lost opportunities.
:09:39. > :09:44.And the stress that causes to so many families, and young people. And
:09:45. > :09:56.so, we are quite simply saying this: we have a programme and a manifesto
:09:57. > :10:02.for the many, not the few. CHEERING And it is a carefully worked out
:10:03. > :10:07.programme. It is a realistic programme and it is a fully costed
:10:08. > :10:16.programme. And it will cost, yes, more in taxation. As the top end.
:10:17. > :10:21.Corporation tax will go up a bit. And all those tax reliefs and
:10:22. > :10:29.giveaways to the very rich will change. And we are doing this
:10:30. > :10:35.because we believe it is time for a change in this country. We cannot go
:10:36. > :10:37.on with the narrative that the next generation is always going to be
:10:38. > :10:46.worked the Tuimavave -- you will have less housing, less
:10:47. > :10:50.education, you will pay for more and more as you go through life. I just
:10:51. > :10:57.don't accept that is correct. We are a wealthy country, we live in a
:10:58. > :11:02.highly technical age. An age where almost anything is possible. If you
:11:03. > :11:04.get the politics right to distribute the wealth and the opportunity
:11:05. > :11:14.fairly, across all elements of society. CHEERING
:11:15. > :11:23.But, in this country, we are not doing any of that. And so Angela
:11:24. > :11:29.very proudly put forward her views and our plan on education. I am
:11:30. > :11:32.proud of Angela Rayner. She had a difficult upbringing, didn't achieve
:11:33. > :11:38.everything she wanted to orc is often at school. As she was helped
:11:39. > :11:48.to achieve in life by a sure start, which was introduced by the last
:11:49. > :11:51.Labour government. And I totally values education -- Angela totally
:11:52. > :11:57.values education and the values it gives everyone. So we put forward
:11:58. > :12:03.our plan. Firstly, 30 hours per week free childcare for two to four years
:12:04. > :12:11.old children for the whole country. And that pre-school nursery places,
:12:12. > :12:14.social interaction, play, is something that is so important.
:12:15. > :12:19.Winning children together, all of them, for those places, and it will
:12:20. > :12:26.be paid for and cost 4.8 billion extra pounds to do it. But I see it
:12:27. > :12:30.is absolutely right to do that. Because it is an investment in the
:12:31. > :12:36.futures of those children and, indeed, of all of us. Because
:12:37. > :12:44.children that don't get those nursery places don't get those good
:12:45. > :12:49.preschool facilities. Sadly, they are gladly two likely to achieve
:12:50. > :12:54.less in primary, secondary, and less likely to get to university. I am
:12:55. > :12:57.fed up of a country dominated by the postcode lottery of the wealth of
:12:58. > :12:59.the apparent if you are likely to get to university or not. The waft
:13:00. > :13:09.of -- the wealth of your parents. I
:13:10. > :13:13.want it for all of our children. In primary schools, I mentioned hungry
:13:14. > :13:18.children find it hard to learn. Children coming to school hungry,
:13:19. > :13:21.many of them helped out by decent, wonderful teachers. Who dip into
:13:22. > :13:26.their wallets and handbags in order to help the children at killing
:13:27. > :13:30.matter out. It shouldn't ever be like
:13:31. > :13:35.-- to help the children out. It shouldn't be like that. We will
:13:36. > :13:42.introduce an pay for its free school meals that every child in every
:13:43. > :13:47.primary school in the country. And the experience of those children
:13:48. > :13:53.growing up together in school together, eating together, is surely
:13:54. > :13:57.a message to them about our world, our society, that you work with each
:13:58. > :14:01.other and you pay for it through taxation which is their end that it
:14:02. > :14:09.falls a bigger burden on the riches, and the least burden on the the
:14:10. > :14:13.arrest. That is surely basic social justice and Armando -- the least
:14:14. > :14:22.burden falls on and we will fund our primary
:14:23. > :14:25.schools. In this area, we will stand up to councils trying to close down
:14:26. > :14:36.schools, particularly caught two -- Tory councils who don't
:14:37. > :14:43.understand the passion people have for school. I want our students to
:14:44. > :14:46.go on to college and do on and do A-levels and technical education and
:14:47. > :14:53.make the best of our lives. That is why we will returned the educational
:14:54. > :14:57.maintenance allowance which will allow children to say on after
:14:58. > :15:01.school. And for those who go to university, we studied this very
:15:02. > :15:06.carefully and it's a very big call and will cost a lot of money, we
:15:07. > :15:10.believe it is right to end the university fee system and guarantee
:15:11. > :15:19.support for every student going to university by ending university
:15:20. > :15:27.fees. And people say to me, why are you doing all this? I'll tell you
:15:28. > :15:31.this. If you are a child growing up in an unregulated, expensive private
:15:32. > :15:35.rented flat somewhere, with six month assured short hold tenancy,
:15:36. > :15:41.may be moving on, sometimes having to move primary school, you are not
:15:42. > :15:45.likely to be achieving the unit in school. You take it on. And that
:15:46. > :15:58.child does not achieve their potential. The new measure it in two
:15:59. > :16:01.ways. They haven't become a doctor, engineer or tradesperson. I haven't
:16:02. > :16:08.become what they wanted to be or what that ambition was. They lose
:16:09. > :16:15.out dumber we lose out because we don't have the doctor or nurse or
:16:16. > :16:23.engineer that we would have had if we engineered Derry invested in our
:16:24. > :16:24.system. -- invested in our system. I am determined we will achieve
:16:25. > :16:36.everything that Angelus Education is about learning the
:16:37. > :16:43.important subject and the skills you need for life.
:16:44. > :16:49.There's also the creative and imagination in all of us. You talk
:16:50. > :16:56.to children. They dream all kinds of things. Paint the most extraordinary
:16:57. > :17:02.things. As they get older, they might want to develop those skills.
:17:03. > :17:08.Their musical ability. Sadly, too few schools have music, sadly, too
:17:09. > :17:13.few towns are able to afford youth orchestras and music that goes with
:17:14. > :17:17.it. So, we will fund a pupil arts premium for every child in every
:17:18. > :17:32.school so they can all learn a musical instrument.
:17:33. > :17:38.1960s established the Arts Council 1960s established the Arts Council
:17:39. > :17:43.and Open University. We want to have a cultural fund for the whole
:17:44. > :17:48.country so we do have local theatres, support all that cultural
:17:49. > :17:52.activity. But we also recognise that young musicians need some space to
:17:53. > :17:57.play and need some opportunity to develop their skills. Let's, as we
:17:58. > :18:01.build a stronger economy, and protect our services, let's also
:18:02. > :18:06.encourage that free spirit and imagination that's there in all of
:18:07. > :18:13.us. Set the free to imagine the best they can for the future.
:18:14. > :18:18.CHEERING And, our health service is to me,
:18:19. > :18:24.the proudest achievement of the Labour Party. Up until the Second
:18:25. > :18:30.World War, there was no universal free health system in Britain. There
:18:31. > :18:34.was a patchwork of it. And, as Harry Leslie Smith describes, those that
:18:35. > :18:38.couldn't afford an operation frankly died because of it. There are some
:18:39. > :18:41.countries in the world, many in the world that still have that. If
:18:42. > :18:46.you're in the United States, if you're lucky, you've got a good
:18:47. > :18:50.insurance policy because your employer's paid for one for you. If
:18:51. > :18:54.you're unlucky, you've no access to good health care at all. If you're
:18:55. > :18:58.young Americans, you often have a chat in a bar about what kind of
:18:59. > :19:02.health insurance policy you've got. We have a National Health Service
:19:03. > :19:06.for a purpose and a reason. It was founded by people with vision. The
:19:07. > :19:13.vision that health care should be a right, free at the point of use for
:19:14. > :19:18.everybody. CHEERING
:19:19. > :19:21.But, it is under threat. It is under threat because of underfunding. It
:19:22. > :19:25.is under threat because of privatisation. It is under threat
:19:26. > :19:30.because of the operations of the Health and Social Care Act put
:19:31. > :19:35.through by the Conservatives with Liberal Democrat support during the
:19:36. > :19:40.last Parliament. And so, we will guarantee investment for the NHS
:19:41. > :19:44.over the lifetime of Parliament. We will also guarantee funding for
:19:45. > :19:48.social care so that social care crisis is ended. We don't do this
:19:49. > :19:53.lightly but we do it because we believe it. We believe in a health
:19:54. > :19:58.service for all. We also believe you have to tackle the health
:19:59. > :20:03.inequalities. Even if a town like Reading or any other town, you live
:20:04. > :20:07.in place A, your life expectancy is a bit shorter than if you live
:20:08. > :20:11.somewhere else. And you can do that all across the country. That's not
:20:12. > :20:15.right. That's absolutely not right. We have to investment fairly all
:20:16. > :20:20.across the whole country. But, at the moment, our NHS is in crisis.
:20:21. > :20:25.Every hospital running into debts and overdraught. Every hospital
:20:26. > :20:28.wondering how it can cope. A nurses and doctors stressed out
:20:29. > :20:36.beyond belief with the situation they are facing. So, what John
:20:37. > :20:41.Ashworth will do when we becomes the Health Secretary is look again at
:20:42. > :20:44.the provision of A departments all over the country to make sure
:20:45. > :20:49.they're there for everybody to reach.
:20:50. > :20:55.CHEERING And there is another aspect to it.
:20:56. > :20:59.If we continue this underfunding of social care, and if the Government
:21:00. > :21:03.can't give an answer on how much they're going to take out of
:21:04. > :21:07.somebody's value of their home or anything else, then I suggest people
:21:08. > :21:10.look at the Labour alternative, which is to put money in now to end
:21:11. > :21:17.the crisis in social care. CHEERING
:21:18. > :21:24.And develop a national social care service. Because, as with all
:21:25. > :21:28.aspects of public cuts, public spending cuts and austerity, who
:21:29. > :21:32.pays the price? The poorest and most vulnerable. Who pays the price when
:21:33. > :21:38.there isn't social care available, who has to give up their job to care
:21:39. > :21:44.for somebody, a dis#5ib8ed child or an older person suffering dementia
:21:45. > :21:47.or many other conditions, it is mainly the women in the household
:21:48. > :21:52.who have to give up jobs or careers to care for somebody. We think, we
:21:53. > :21:55.as a community, should take responsibility for it and properly
:21:56. > :22:03.fund health and social care. CHEERING
:22:04. > :22:07.And I am very determined on one aspect of the health service. That
:22:08. > :22:11.is the crisis in mental health. One in four of us in this wonderful
:22:12. > :22:16.meeting here today during our lifetime will suffer some kind of
:22:17. > :22:19.mental health crisis. Deep stress, deep depression, many things. Some
:22:20. > :22:22.of us will be well cared for and well treated and will feel able to
:22:23. > :22:28.talk to others around it and get support. Others, sadly, will not.
:22:29. > :22:31.Too many young people get into very dark places and take their own lives
:22:32. > :22:39.because there's nobody there to support them. It's a crisis, it's a
:22:40. > :22:42.tragedy. Anyone who's ever attended a funeral of a teenage who've taken
:22:43. > :22:46.their own life whilst in deep stress would feel the hurt that the whole
:22:47. > :22:51.family is going through as a result of it. It's no solution to cut the
:22:52. > :22:55.number of mental health nurses. It's no solution to underfund our mental
:22:56. > :23:01.health services. It's no solution not to have those emergency beds
:23:02. > :23:07.available and treatment and support and therapy available very quickly.
:23:08. > :23:11.And so, we will ensure mental health is properly funded. I'm looking
:23:12. > :23:16.forward to appointing a minister solely to deal with mental health
:23:17. > :23:22.and social care so we do deal with this crisis properly.
:23:23. > :23:26.CHEERING Those are health and education, two
:23:27. > :23:31.very crucial areas of our lives. Very crucial areas of what we're
:23:32. > :23:36.offering in this election. But it's also about how our society develops.
:23:37. > :23:41.How our economy develops. Because there is a gross imbalance. We've
:23:42. > :23:46.six million people earning less than the living wage in Britain. We have
:23:47. > :23:49.a million people on zero hours contracts not knowing what they're
:23:50. > :23:55.income is from one week to the other. Waking up each morning,
:23:56. > :23:58.staring at the phone, wondering if they've a text message offering them
:23:59. > :24:05.work for the rest of the day. That is wrong. Noes necessary. Not really
:24:06. > :24:09.very efficient. So, we will end zero hours contracts...
:24:10. > :24:17.CHEERING We will introduce a living wage of
:24:18. > :24:20.?10 an hour by 2020. CHEERING
:24:21. > :24:25.And, we will guarantee rights at work from day one so that you can be
:24:26. > :24:27.represented and we will not charge people for going to tribunals trying
:24:28. > :24:34.to get justice. CHEERING
:24:35. > :24:40.It's also about the kind of economy we develop in this country. It's how
:24:41. > :24:46.we develop that economy. Because it is imbalanced, because there is a
:24:47. > :24:50.need to negotiate with the European Union to corn tariff free trade
:24:51. > :24:54.access to the European market, I'm absolutely determined to achieve
:24:55. > :24:58.that so we can protect manufacturing industry and manufacturing jobs in
:24:59. > :25:03.this country that have a supply chain in Europe and vice versa. We
:25:04. > :25:08.are leaving the EU. But, I'm utterly determined we will achieve that
:25:09. > :25:12.tariff-free access and we'll protect the rights and conditions that we
:25:13. > :25:17.achieved through EU membership and we will protect the rights of all EU
:25:18. > :25:20.nationals living here in remain living here permanently with their
:25:21. > :25:26.families. CHEERING
:25:27. > :25:29.But, for the economy to grow, it requires investment. It requires
:25:30. > :25:36.investment in all parts of the country. That means a national
:25:37. > :25:45.investment bank that's regionally based. So these wonderful hi-tech
:25:46. > :25:48.start up businesses mushrooming along the Thames Valley should be
:25:49. > :25:52.supported. I want sustainable industries. I want those clean,
:25:53. > :25:58.green energy jobs of the future. They don't come out of thin air. A
:25:59. > :26:01.national investment bank investing in those enterprises makes a big
:26:02. > :26:05.difference and develops us as an economy for the future. We invest
:26:06. > :26:09.less than any other industrialised country. For former mining or
:26:10. > :26:14.steel-making areas who've seen precious little investment for a
:26:15. > :26:17.very long time, we will put the money in there necessary to build
:26:18. > :26:20.the infrastructure those areas need and give the job opportunities for
:26:21. > :26:25.all of those people that live in those areas.
:26:26. > :26:28.CHEERING So, when the Conservatives called
:26:29. > :26:35.this election, they called this election thinking it was going to be
:26:36. > :26:39.all over. They thought it was just a matter of the Prime Minister going
:26:40. > :26:48.around the country and conveniently not mentioning the name of the party
:26:49. > :26:51.that she leads... LAUGHTER It is called the Conservative Party
:26:52. > :26:55.otherwise known as the Tory Party. I heard her once calling it the Knassy
:26:56. > :27:03.party but I don't want to tread on family difficulties there! -- nasty
:27:04. > :27:08.party. But something has happened over the last few weeks. There were
:27:09. > :27:14.seven weeks for this election campaign. We're now less than ten
:27:15. > :27:18.day, eight days away from the election itself. Do you know what's
:27:19. > :27:22.happened? Thousands and thousands of people have heard our manifesto.
:27:23. > :27:26.They've downloaded it. Read it, bought it, looked into it. Asked
:27:27. > :27:32.questions with it, made contributions on how we could put it
:27:33. > :27:37.forward. And thousands of people contributed to that manifesto
:27:38. > :27:41.through our Labour Party membership, trade union membership and lots of
:27:42. > :27:45.voluntary organisations that sent in lots of good ideas. It's a manifesto
:27:46. > :27:52.that will transform this country. Because, it will be for everybody
:27:53. > :27:56.not for the few. And for the first time, we'll roll back though whole
:27:57. > :28:02.agenda which says you deal with the banging crisis of 2008 by making the
:28:03. > :28:06.nurses, doctors, teachers, those on housing waiting lists or anyone at
:28:07. > :28:10.the lower levels of pay in society pay the price for it. I say, enough,
:28:11. > :28:20.let's invest in the future not pay the price of that austerity.
:28:21. > :28:24.CHEERING And so, look around you. Look around
:28:25. > :28:29.you at this wonderful gathering here today. We're young, we're old,
:28:30. > :28:34.black, white, gay, straight, able, disabled. We're all kinds of things.
:28:35. > :28:38.We're everybody. We are united in what we're trying to achieve. So,
:28:39. > :28:41.we're not running this election campaign of pitting the older
:28:42. > :28:47.generation against the younger generation. We're not running this
:28:48. > :28:50.election campaign blaming minority X what happened to minority Y. We're
:28:51. > :28:58.not running that kind of campaign. CHEERING
:28:59. > :29:02.We're running a campaign which brings people together. We want a
:29:03. > :29:06.society that brings people together. Do you know what, society's united
:29:07. > :29:12.working together, there's nothing they can't achieve. There's nothing
:29:13. > :29:15.they can't achieve in education, in health, in housing, in the creative
:29:16. > :29:21.industries. All those things for the future. Another five years of a Tory
:29:22. > :29:25.Government... What kind of housing? What kind of education? What kind of
:29:26. > :29:31.health care? What kind of employment practices will be in the operation?
:29:32. > :29:35.We know their strategy which is to give a further ?60 billion back to
:29:36. > :29:40.the very richest in our society and the biggest corporations. Our
:29:41. > :29:46.proposal is actually very modest. No tax rises at all for 95% of the
:29:47. > :29:54.population. No increase in national insurance. But, increases and
:29:55. > :29:59.chasing down tax avoidance and tax evasion in order to build the kind
:30:00. > :30:04.of society we want in the future. So, in the last week of this
:30:05. > :30:09.campaign, I ask you all to do this. Yes, knock on doors for our party.
:30:10. > :30:15.Yes, identify all those that are going to vote for my friend here and
:30:16. > :30:23.make sure they do. But also, don't do it in just a mechanical,
:30:24. > :30:27.transactional way, have that conversation with people who may
:30:28. > :30:32.have been misled by some of our newspapers about the role of our
:30:33. > :30:37.party or the views I may or may not hold. But, have that conversation
:30:38. > :30:42.and say what kind of society do you want to live in? Are you comfortable
:30:43. > :30:45.that every night there are thousands of people sleeping on our streets
:30:46. > :30:51.and begging round the railway stations? Are you comfortable that
:30:52. > :30:56.there is such grow Esk levels of inequality in our society and
:30:57. > :31:01.getting worse? Or, do you want to he will echt a Government that will do
:31:02. > :31:08.something different with the support of the people which will develop the
:31:09. > :31:14.health, housing, education and will provide opportunities for all? All
:31:15. > :31:18.across the spectrum. So that we have a more cohesive and coherent society
:31:19. > :31:22.in the future. And, for all the cynical commentators, do you know
:31:23. > :31:27.what's happening is everywhere I go, all over the country, the rallies
:31:28. > :31:34.get bigger, the crowds get bigger, the enthusiasm gets bigger, the
:31:35. > :31:38.determination gets bigger... CHEERING
:31:39. > :31:43.And, that gives us a chance to do something very, very special on June
:31:44. > :31:49.8th. It's very odd that you have an election campaign where we go out
:31:50. > :31:52.and talk to people all the time and the Prime Minister seems so have
:31:53. > :31:57.difficulty in meeting anyone or having a debate. And so, there is a
:31:58. > :32:02.debate in Cambridge tonight. I don't know what she's doing this evening,
:32:03. > :32:06.but it's not far from London. I invite her to go to Cambridge and
:32:07. > :32:13.debate her policies, debate her record, debate their plans, their
:32:14. > :32:18.proposals and let the public make up their minds. Is it to be this?
:32:19. > :32:30.CHEERING Or is it to be the opposite? More
:32:31. > :32:37.cuts, closures, divisions, stress, and pressure. It's time to get out
:32:38. > :32:43.there and get that message. It's time to get people fully behind our
:32:44. > :32:49.message. It's time to vote Labour on eight June. Thank you very much!
:32:50. > :32:57.CHEERING