:00:14. > :00:18.Basically we would welcome those changes, whether the UK
:00:19. > :00:31.Government would make them, or mitigate them. Obviously our
:00:32. > :00:34.priority is that it is a simple and straightforward for people who claim
:00:35. > :00:41.the benefits they are entitled to as it possibly can be. In mitigating
:00:42. > :00:47.policies, as we have seen with schemes around the bedroom tax, and
:00:48. > :00:58.the removal of housing support for 18-21 -year-olds, it tends to be
:00:59. > :01:03.necessarily quite complicated, not as straightforward as not applying
:01:04. > :01:09.the policy in the first place would be, that being said, if the Scottish
:01:10. > :01:23.Government were willing to make changes, we would welcome that.
:01:24. > :01:30.Supplementary is to that. Given the potential cost of a judicial review
:01:31. > :01:37.to third party, third sector organisations like yourself, and
:01:38. > :01:41.given the potential cost to the Scottish Government on terms of
:01:42. > :01:44.mitigation, shouldn't the focus remain on this policy in the source,
:01:45. > :01:50.and given there is a general election going on, shouldn't we be
:01:51. > :01:55.putting the pressure on the UK Government in the coming weeks, and
:01:56. > :02:00.continuing to do so going forward, to abolish this policy at source,
:02:01. > :02:05.this policy that is, as Adam said, has been voted against Scotland? Or
:02:06. > :02:18.at least thinking of a geographical exclusion. If the policy can be
:02:19. > :02:22.amended, and I mean the two child limit can be mended, changed or
:02:23. > :02:27.removed, that would ultimately be of most use to women in Scotland and
:02:28. > :02:31.the rest of the UK. Particularly in Northern Ireland where there are
:02:32. > :02:37.devastating consequences of the way the exemptions operate. There are
:02:38. > :02:43.serious reporting of crimes like rate to the police. And exceptions
:02:44. > :02:47.to abortion health care. Difficult decisions to be made by the women of
:02:48. > :03:00.Northern Ireland, he would not be assisted by any mitigation which was
:03:01. > :03:02.Scotland Pacific. We would wish to spend as little of our member's
:03:03. > :03:51.money as possible. ... But it is not enough. To light
:03:52. > :03:57.candles or signal our upset on social media, when you are a leader
:03:58. > :04:01.of a political party, you have a duty to set out how you would
:04:02. > :04:09.protect the people of your country from the threat to their entire way
:04:10. > :04:14.of life. There is no magic formula to turning back the tide of Islamic
:04:15. > :04:19.fundamentalism, action needs to be taken across many policy areas and
:04:20. > :04:27.it will take time to make significant progress. But the in no
:04:28. > :04:33.doubt, the problem will not be solved if politicians are too
:04:34. > :04:40.cowardly to confront or even identify where the problem lies.
:04:41. > :04:45.More over, without the political will to take difficult decisions,
:04:46. > :04:52.challenge communities and most importantly secure our borders,
:04:53. > :04:58.things are only going to get worse. I was criticised by certain sections
:04:59. > :05:04.of the media for calling radical Islam is a cancer in our society
:05:05. > :05:08.following the Westminster attack, and I make no apologies for saying
:05:09. > :05:17.this and I will repeat this today. It is a cancer that needs to be cut
:05:18. > :05:21.out. It is the role of Ukip in our national political life to challenge
:05:22. > :05:26.the cosy establishment consensus where ever it is failing the British
:05:27. > :05:31.public. We did that on immigration control and we did that on Brexit
:05:32. > :05:40.and now we will do it by tackling issues surrounding integration.
:05:41. > :05:51.These are issues that the other political parties would rather brush
:05:52. > :05:54.under the carpet. And the Westminster powers would simply like
:05:55. > :05:58.to ignore because it makes them uncomfortable. The Prime Minister
:05:59. > :06:02.has during her time in office presided over cuts to our police
:06:03. > :06:09.service, and reductions in our armed services, too. She has put pressure
:06:10. > :06:18.on the police to lower the numbers of stops and searches they carry
:06:19. > :06:22.out. And no progress, whatever was made, reducing the level of
:06:23. > :06:30.immigration to give social cohesion a chance to advance. This, despite
:06:31. > :06:33.Mrs May's pledge to bring net migration down to the tens of
:06:34. > :06:38.thousands. Indeed, this morning it was announced we have added a city
:06:39. > :06:47.the size of Hull to our population in the last year. It is also a
:06:48. > :06:56.dereliction of duty to allow jihadists to return to our country,
:06:57. > :07:00.like Monday's Terrace. Anyone who leave this country to fight for
:07:01. > :07:06.ceramic state should forfeit their past but citizenship and never be
:07:07. > :07:18.allowed return. -- should forfeit their passport, citizenship. More
:07:19. > :07:21.police, more soldiers, more prison officers and border guards are
:07:22. > :07:27.essential. There are many other things in our manifesto, including
:07:28. > :07:34.something that all the other political parties would love to be
:07:35. > :07:40.able to offer but cannot. 11 billion a year spending increase for the NHS
:07:41. > :07:47.and adult social care by the end of the next Parliament. That increase
:07:48. > :07:54.matches the reduction we pledge to make in foreign aid spending. All of
:07:55. > :08:00.our key public services came together to help the victims of the
:08:01. > :08:05.terror atrocity in Manchester. The police, the Ambulance Service, fire
:08:06. > :08:11.and rescue, and all of the hospitals treating the injured. The response
:08:12. > :08:16.serves to emphasise how people who work in our public services are so
:08:17. > :08:22.vital to our society and its civilised values. It is time to
:08:23. > :08:24.start investing in them again. There is, of course, also a major section
:08:25. > :08:35.in the Marek -- in a manifesto about Brexit. We
:08:36. > :08:40.set out how we will keep the government honest taking the country
:08:41. > :08:46.out of the European Union. We have laid at six key breaks it tests that
:08:47. > :08:51.we feel need to be met to ensure we get the kind of brings its people
:08:52. > :08:56.voted for last year. Ukip is the country's insurance policy. If the
:08:57. > :09:04.government begin to backslide during negotiations, it must know that we
:09:05. > :09:08.will be there. We will also be the party standing up for gender
:09:09. > :09:17.equality. Freedom of expression, and equality before the law. Making sure
:09:18. > :09:23.these values are applied in every community in the country. No doubt
:09:24. > :09:26.we will suffer insults from the politically correct brigade for
:09:27. > :09:31.doing so, but that will not deter us. They will be the same people who
:09:32. > :09:36.called us racists or simply are giving for low immigration. Just as
:09:37. > :09:42.we were proved right about the strains of excessive immigration,
:09:43. > :09:48.and the strains it was placing on British communities, and we were
:09:49. > :09:53.right about the way Brussels have taken our democracy, we will be
:09:54. > :09:59.proven right again about Britain's integration emergency. It is seldom
:10:00. > :10:05.easy being part of Ukip, joining an establishment party would offer a
:10:06. > :10:11.far easier route. This party is all about believing in our country, and
:10:12. > :10:16.putting it first. It is not the British way to turn a blind eye to
:10:17. > :10:22.evil in our midst. It is not good enough to light candles and proclaim
:10:23. > :10:27.extremists will not beat us. Action is required on multiple fronts. I am
:10:28. > :10:34.proud of Ukip is setting out its patriotically gender for defending
:10:35. > :10:40.our country and our way of life. And now I am equally proud to hand over
:10:41. > :10:44.to my deputy chairman, Suzanne Evans, who will take you through
:10:45. > :10:54.some specific proposals in our 2017 manifesto.
:10:55. > :11:02.Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, thank you. I would like to extend my
:11:03. > :11:05.deepest sympathies to the families and friends of all those killed and
:11:06. > :11:13.injured on Monday evening. The worst of it is, as the families mourn, and
:11:14. > :11:18.we unite in with Manchester, we know there are others planning the next
:11:19. > :11:21.deadly atrocity. This terrorist must be stopped, this terror must stop,
:11:22. > :11:26.carrying on as normal is not an option. Our first step must be to
:11:27. > :11:32.make our country safer. That means reversing cuts to our policing,
:11:33. > :11:35.security and defence budgets. Theresa May might like to betray
:11:36. > :11:41.herself as a strong and stable leader, he can tackle extremism, her
:11:42. > :11:45.record suggests otherwise. As Home Secretary she make deep cuts to the
:11:46. > :11:52.border force, oversaw record levels of uncontrolled immigration. Even as
:11:53. > :11:57.Islamic State fighters threatened to infiltrate Britain by taking
:11:58. > :12:01.advantage of the refugee crisis. The Tories made 17,000 police officers
:12:02. > :12:07.redundant. As the murderous ideology of the Islamists took hold in our
:12:08. > :12:15.prisons, 7000 prison officers were taken out of service. As Islam
:12:16. > :12:25.-- as Islamism travelled across the word, Theresa May cut 24,000 people
:12:26. > :12:30.from our armed service. She has failed to stop extremist spreading
:12:31. > :12:37.hatred in universities and mosques, net migration reached record highs.
:12:38. > :12:39.The growing backlog of failed asylum seekers, failing to deport illegal
:12:40. > :12:43.immigrants and criminals were hallmarks of their time as Foreign
:12:44. > :12:48.Secretary. Nothing will change if Theresa May wins a huge majority.
:12:49. > :12:54.Reportedly not a single member of the Cabinet really wants to see
:12:55. > :13:00.immigration reduced. As for Jeremy Corbyn, a man who has lauded
:13:01. > :13:03.murderous dictators, shows a marked reluctance to condemn terrorism, and
:13:04. > :13:08.backs uncontrolled immigration, he is not the answer either. Ukip is
:13:09. > :13:12.the only party you can trust on immigration. We know that the
:13:13. > :13:15.country without Borders ceases to be a country at all. Strong border
:13:16. > :13:20.control is the first defence against any terror threat. The only party
:13:21. > :13:25.committed to a balanced migration policy, setting net migration and
:13:26. > :13:29.zero for these five years. This means around 300,000 migrants can
:13:30. > :13:33.settle here every year. We will make sure these are migrants who respect
:13:34. > :13:38.the British way of life, embracing our heritage, culture and values. We
:13:39. > :13:44.will test their social attitudes, if they do not agree, for example, that
:13:45. > :13:50.women or gay people are equal, and not second-class citizens, quite
:13:51. > :13:54.simply they will not get in. They Ukip's plans, 4000 more border
:13:55. > :13:58.guards will be recruited, reversing Tory manpower cuts that have made it
:13:59. > :14:02.easier for illegal immigrants to escape deportation. We will prevent
:14:03. > :14:05.those with by theology is incompatible with British values
:14:06. > :14:09.from coming into the country to spread their hatred and embed
:14:10. > :14:13.themselves in our communities. As for the extremists already here, if
:14:14. > :14:16.we can deport them we will deport them, no excuses. Of course,
:14:17. > :14:19.controlling our borders and controlling our borders and
:14:20. > :14:23.immigration alone will not solve this problem. It is too late for
:14:24. > :14:28.that. These measures should have been put in place years ago, at the
:14:29. > :14:36.very least after 9/11. Be you and our government failed to act.
:14:37. > :14:39.Combating the terror here requires a shift in our attitudes, yet again
:14:40. > :14:43.any Ukip seems to have the stomach for this. We have already spoken in
:14:44. > :14:48.this election campaign about the failures of the culturalism, the
:14:49. > :14:51.divisive philosophy, that anyone from whatever country, holding
:14:52. > :14:54.whatever beliefs, may come and live freely in Britain and continue to
:14:55. > :14:59.behave if they were in their country of origin. Consequently hundreds and
:15:00. > :15:04.thousands of migrants arriving into Britain have never tried to adapt to
:15:05. > :15:12.our way of life. Again Theresa May has a very poor record on this. She
:15:13. > :15:23.backed wearing the niqab and the burqa. She hailed the benefits of
:15:24. > :15:26.sharia courts. When there was a Theresa May Home Secretary, there
:15:27. > :15:35.was not a single conviction for genital mutilation. Hardline
:15:36. > :15:38.Islamist preach hatred on our streets, demonstrating against
:15:39. > :15:42.cartoons, women can gain people, dues, and our country without
:15:43. > :15:51.impunity. When you get to launch an integration policies last month,
:15:52. > :15:55.left wing and cowardly politicians, left wing and cowardly politicians,
:15:56. > :15:58.that there is an instant lamp problem in this country. We stand by
:15:59. > :16:04.those policies and they were in our manifesto. We will ban the wearing
:16:05. > :16:08.of the niqab and burqa in public places. We will not accept these
:16:09. > :16:14.dehumanising symbols of oppression. There is no human right to conceal
:16:15. > :16:17.your identity. We will seek to protect girls from female genital
:16:18. > :16:22.mutilation. We will not tolerate the Islamisation of our schools. We will
:16:23. > :16:25.do our utmost to disband sharia councils discriminating against
:16:26. > :16:29.women. We must stop appeasing those who would overturn the liberties,
:16:30. > :16:33.qualities and way of life that so many have fought so hard for. This
:16:34. > :16:38.is as much to protect law-abiding Muslims as anyone else.
:16:39. > :16:47.The new definition of the version of prison does not even mention the
:16:48. > :16:50.word punishment in the Conservative manifesto, and they are more
:16:51. > :16:55.concerned about being labelled racist than preventing crime.
:16:56. > :17:01.Theresa May we can stop and search and said it undermined relationships
:17:02. > :17:05.with ethnic minority communities, and Ukip warned it would lead to a
:17:06. > :17:10.rise in knife crime and we have been proven right. 14 deaths in London
:17:11. > :17:16.alone in the last three weeks. We would reduce the burden of paperwork
:17:17. > :17:21.that police had to do, and because we believe the primary job of police
:17:22. > :17:26.officers is to prevent crime and catacombs, we will provide them with
:17:27. > :17:31.the manpower and resources need to succeed -- and we will employ 20,000
:17:32. > :17:36.more policemen and women in a direct reversal of the Tory party's cuts.
:17:37. > :17:39.Prisons, we need to keep dangerous offenders our streets and we will
:17:40. > :17:43.continue the prison building programme but reversed cuts to the
:17:44. > :17:48.prison budget, placing them with 7000 officers lost since 2010, and
:17:49. > :17:55.only you kit is prepared to put its faith in a strong police force,
:17:56. > :18:01.deterrent and punishment as the bedrock of our system -- only Ukip.
:18:02. > :18:07.We are the only party to make national security a priority, as
:18:08. > :18:11.well. They have made the Royal Navy a shadow of its former self and left
:18:12. > :18:16.the Royal Air Force with you within 25 the planes for the first time
:18:17. > :18:21.since World War I. -- with only 25 fighter planes for them Britain must
:18:22. > :18:25.have a well resourced and fit for purpose and force us we will add an
:18:26. > :18:30.additional billion pounds to the annual defence budget and by the end
:18:31. > :18:33.of the next Parliament have 20,000 more Armed Forces personnel
:18:34. > :18:37.protecting our nation. This is Ukip's costed plan to make our
:18:38. > :18:43.country safer and we will reverse the cuts that have put our national
:18:44. > :18:46.security at risk, 20,000 more Armed Forces and 20,000 more police and
:18:47. > :18:51.4000 more border guards and 7000 more prison officers. We will refuse
:18:52. > :18:55.to allow culture to be an excuse for crime. We will stand firm against
:18:56. > :18:59.the barbaric ideologies and practices that have been imported to
:19:00. > :19:07.Britain and protect those at this, is Liz -- Islamism will not be
:19:08. > :19:11.tolerated and we will only bring to Britain at migrants who abide by our
:19:12. > :19:14.rules for top our way of life is under threat, make no mistake, and
:19:15. > :19:19.if protecting it means making tough choices then Ukip will make those
:19:20. > :19:25.tough choices but keeping us safe is the first duty of government. But of
:19:26. > :19:29.course it is not the only duty. What else is in the manifesto? Times have
:19:30. > :19:35.changed since we launched the last one in 2015, and back them leaving
:19:36. > :19:39.the European Union was Ukip's train and we outlined a vision of how
:19:40. > :19:44.strong and democratic Britain could be we had the courage to leave --
:19:45. > :19:48.dream. A year later the people found the courage and voted for that dream
:19:49. > :19:52.and now Article 50 has been triggered and we dare to believe it
:19:53. > :19:56.will become a reality. But Ukip will keep pushing until we are actually
:19:57. > :20:00.out and properly out, and in his manifesto we set at six Brexit tests
:20:01. > :20:05.which need to be passed before we can say we are finally free of the
:20:06. > :20:10.EU, the right of Parliament to make our laws and for our Supreme Court
:20:11. > :20:13.to actually be supreme. We must have control of immigration and asylum
:20:14. > :20:18.and border control and not be bound by any free movement of people
:20:19. > :20:21.obligation. We must leave the single market and the customs union and
:20:22. > :20:24.take back our seat at the World Trade Organisation and there must be
:20:25. > :20:29.no divorce payment and this should be done and dusted by the end of
:20:30. > :20:33.2019. One more critical test, the Maritime test, under international
:20:34. > :20:38.British fishermen should have the right to fish up to 200 miles of the
:20:39. > :20:41.coast or to the halfway point between the UK and neighbouring
:20:42. > :20:45.countries, but there are signs that the fishing communities might be
:20:46. > :20:49.sold out. The fishing community should know they have a true friend
:20:50. > :20:54.in Ukip and if the Tories barter their rights away we will fight them
:20:55. > :20:57.every inch of the way. We will also introduce a programme to encourage
:20:58. > :21:00.economical growth in the coastal communities that have suffered
:21:01. > :21:03.mostly from our European Union membership, offering reductions in
:21:04. > :21:09.business rates and giving local authorities additional powers to
:21:10. > :21:11.rejuvenate our seaside towns. Ukip will not treat our coastal
:21:12. > :21:17.communities as being at the end of the line. As in 2015 all our
:21:18. > :21:20.policies in this manifesto are costed and we have stuck to the same
:21:21. > :21:26.financial principles that we utilised in 2015. We are the one
:21:27. > :21:29.party prepared to spell out big reductions in unnecessary and
:21:30. > :21:33.wasteful spending programmes in order to fund our priorities. By
:21:34. > :21:39.making significant cuts to the foreign aid budget and scrapping HS2
:21:40. > :21:44.vanity projects, and amending the Barnett formula and ceasing to pay
:21:45. > :21:48.contributions to the EU, we will be saving 35 million pounds year by the
:21:49. > :21:52.end of Parliament. That means for the second general election in a row
:21:53. > :21:59.Ukip spending proposals do not involve raising any taxes -- ?35
:22:00. > :22:04.billion. We go into the election as the only party promising not to
:22:05. > :22:07.raise taxes. Our fiscal approach is responsible and our priorities are
:22:08. > :22:11.those of the British people. And of course one of the top priorities for
:22:12. > :22:17.the British people right now is the NHS and care for the elderly. Ukip
:22:18. > :22:21.believes it is wrong for the country to be spending nearly ?14 billion
:22:22. > :22:24.year on foreign aid when the Red Cross is describing the situation in
:22:25. > :22:32.our own hospitals as a humanitarian crisis. Ukip will reduce the aid
:22:33. > :22:37.budget 20.2% which enables us to make our biggest spending page of
:22:38. > :22:46.the manifesto -- 0.2%. We will be using the money we will be saving to
:22:47. > :22:50.find the NHS and social care, and this is significantly more than any
:22:51. > :22:56.of the other parties can offer. We can show exactly where the money is
:22:57. > :23:01.coming from, new kit will stop sending so much money abroad and
:23:02. > :23:06.make the NHS and adult social care services the envy of the world --
:23:07. > :23:10.Ukip will stop sending. This will close the HS funding gap and it will
:23:11. > :23:15.enable us to lift the cap on medical school places and fund the cost of
:23:16. > :23:18.training, abolishing tuition fees for medical students providing they
:23:19. > :23:22.work in the NHS for at least ten of the 15 years after they qualify and
:23:23. > :23:30.it means we can increase the number of nurse training places and
:23:31. > :23:35.reinstate bursaries and remove the 1% pay cut for NHS staff earning
:23:36. > :23:40.less than ?35,000 year. We would have 24,000 more nurses and 3500
:23:41. > :23:46.more midwives working in the NHS and we will be on the way to seeing
:23:47. > :23:50.10,000 more GPs, as well. We are going to put significant sums into
:23:51. > :23:52.improving mental health provision, especially for our children and
:23:53. > :23:57.young people who are poorly served at the moment. Our plans include
:23:58. > :24:00.developing a national school-based counselling strategy for England on
:24:01. > :24:10.a par with those operating in Wales and Northern Ireland. We will triple
:24:11. > :24:15.the amount we have ring-fenced for dementia, and rolling out a national
:24:16. > :24:18.dementia plan to identify priorities and coordinate expertise and deliver
:24:19. > :24:24.a bold new programme of research and treatment and care. Ukip values the
:24:25. > :24:28.hard work and experience all the people bring to our communities and
:24:29. > :24:33.the voluntary sector that would collapse without them, and the Tory
:24:34. > :24:37.attacks on the elderly are shocking. Ukip is proud to say we will
:24:38. > :24:41.maintain the winter fuel allowance, free bus passes and prescriptions
:24:42. > :24:49.and I tests for everyone over 60 -- eye. We will keep the triple lock on
:24:50. > :24:52.state pensions. Ukip will make sure the National health service is a
:24:53. > :24:56.national health service and not an international health service and we
:24:57. > :25:00.will roll out the toughest ever crackdown on health tourism, but I
:25:01. > :25:07.would also like to make it clear, unlike Theresa May, that Ukip will
:25:08. > :25:11.guarantee the right of the 167,000 EU nationals who work in the NHS and
:25:12. > :25:17.our social care sector, the right to stay in the UK after Brexit. We are
:25:18. > :25:22.concerned about that if you are concerned about cuts to the foreign
:25:23. > :25:26.aid budget, please don't be, a study concluded that in the developing
:25:27. > :25:30.world there was no affect of aid on growth, trade is proven to be a far
:25:31. > :25:36.better way to lift developing nations out of poverty. We will
:25:37. > :25:39.embrace the opportunity Brexit Britain has to sign mutually
:25:40. > :25:41.beneficial free-trade deals with developing nations so they can
:25:42. > :25:46.develop economically rather than rely on hand-outs which often never
:25:47. > :25:53.actually reach those in need. We will still be spending the same
:25:54. > :25:57.percentage of GNI on aid as the USA and more in cash terms than Spain
:25:58. > :26:01.and Italy combined, and we will continue to fund aid projects that
:26:02. > :26:04.make a real difference such as clean water programmes and childhood
:26:05. > :26:08.inoculate chins and medical assistance and emergency and
:26:09. > :26:15.disaster relief. -- inoculations. We will launch a dedicated 500 hospital
:26:16. > :26:19.bed ship to improve the contribution Britain can make in times of crisis,
:26:20. > :26:25.she will deliver relief to our Armed Forces on active duty is and two
:26:26. > :26:27.civilians and refugees in war sermons and to undertake him and a
:26:28. > :26:35.terrier missions in peacetime and she will also provide reinforcement
:26:36. > :26:43.in case of urgency is at home -- war zones. What else is only Ukip
:26:44. > :26:48.offering? A workable plan to create the homes our country is desperately
:26:49. > :26:51.short of. Other parties promised to build hundreds of thousands of new
:26:52. > :26:55.homes but this is pie in the sky because the builders aren't there.
:26:56. > :27:00.We have a real answer to the housing crisis. We will roll out up to
:27:01. > :27:07.100,000 high low-cost factory built modular homes every year. Homes that
:27:08. > :27:09.will cost less than ?100,000 to buy so they are affordable on the
:27:10. > :27:16.national average wage of ?26,000 year. We will create jobs as we go.
:27:17. > :27:20.When we leave the EU some of the money we get back from the regional
:27:21. > :27:26.development budget will be used to boost capacity in UK based modular
:27:27. > :27:30.homes mar factoring. Homes will be manufactured where jobs are needed
:27:31. > :27:37.and built where homes are needed. Mostly on Brownfield sites, so they
:27:38. > :27:41.will be close to existing infrastructure and these homes will
:27:42. > :27:47.only be for owner occupation and not rental and they can't be sold on the
:27:48. > :27:53.open market. Only back into the scheme at a guaranteed cost plus
:27:54. > :27:58.inflation. We will have grants for the poorest students and we stand by
:27:59. > :28:00.our pledge to abolish tuition fees for science technology and
:28:01. > :28:06.engineering and mathematics students as well as medical students. To cut
:28:07. > :28:10.the cost of living for ordinary families, we would use energy bills
:28:11. > :28:15.by removing VAT and the green levies and taxes we are forced to pay to
:28:16. > :28:18.help the energy companies invest in renewable energy, and Ukip thinks
:28:19. > :28:21.their profits are high enough already and if they want to invest
:28:22. > :28:27.in renewable energy they should pay for it themselves. Ukip will remove
:28:28. > :28:30.VAT from takeaway food and women sanitary products and we will scrap
:28:31. > :28:36.the TV licence. These policies will save households and average of ?400
:28:37. > :28:40.year by 2022, and finally when Paul Nuttall stood for the leadership he
:28:41. > :28:44.pledged to create an image parliament and that is in our
:28:45. > :28:49.manifesto. Ukip will put England on the same footing as Wales and
:28:50. > :28:51.Scotland and Northern Ireland and we will sit in the chamber occupied by
:28:52. > :29:00.the House of Lords which Ukip will abolish. APPLAUSE
:29:01. > :29:05.I'm surprised that is the most popular policy. We will also cut the
:29:06. > :29:08.number of MPs House of Commons and make sure they are all elected on a
:29:09. > :29:12.proportional voting system meaning every vote will count. Our plans
:29:13. > :29:21.will reduce the number politicians in Parliament from 1475 down to just
:29:22. > :29:25.700, making government more smaller and saving the taxpayer a grated of
:29:26. > :29:33.money. -- making the government smaller. I would like to thank my
:29:34. > :29:39.policy team. And our finance guru who wishes to remain anonymous.
:29:40. > :29:44.Katharine gun for her help with proofing and our designer who has
:29:45. > :29:48.made the manifesto so pleasing and also Patrick for his invaluable
:29:49. > :29:51.contributions. Ukip is the only party that is serious about tackling
:29:52. > :29:55.the threat of radical Islam in Britain. We are the only party that
:29:56. > :30:00.will reverse Tory cuts to the defence and security of our nation
:30:01. > :30:03.and we are the only party that is 100% committed to cutting
:30:04. > :30:07.immigration and introducing a compatibility test for migrants.
:30:08. > :30:11.Ukip is the only party to have a serious costed plan to get the NHS
:30:12. > :30:15.back on its feet and build more homes. And we are the only party
:30:16. > :30:22.going into this election promising not to put up taxes. Our country
:30:23. > :30:25.needs a radical social economic and democratic change and the blueprint
:30:26. > :30:34.is here. Or you have to do now is boat for it. -- all you have to do
:30:35. > :30:46.now is vote for it. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE
:30:47. > :31:20.AKA can make you and Dave. -- OK. Question and answers. Your
:31:21. > :31:32.opening speech, wasn't that blatantly exploiting the events? You
:31:33. > :31:36.are exploiting it was no, it certainly was not exploiting
:31:37. > :31:39.Manchester. What I wanted to do was ensure the democratic process
:31:40. > :31:43.continue. The one thing they hate most about us is our democracy can
:31:44. > :31:48.they want to see it destroyed. The best way of telling them that they
:31:49. > :31:52.will not win is getting out and campaigning and debating these
:31:53. > :31:55.issues. It was not trying to jump on the back of Manchester, it was
:31:56. > :32:09.telling these people they will not beat us. Following on from that, can
:32:10. > :32:13.you confirm you have not added any thing into your manifesto since what
:32:14. > :32:17.happened on Monday night, everything you presented here was already there
:32:18. > :32:27.before the attack of Manchester? It went to print on Saturday night. We
:32:28. > :32:31.will do broadcast first. You say you are not exploiting Manchester, but
:32:32. > :32:33.you say lighting candles is not enough, is that an insult to all the
:32:34. > :32:47.people who come out dart... enough, is that an insult to all the
:32:48. > :32:55.people who come out It is not insulting people. People have a
:32:56. > :33:00.right to go out, and like candles, and showed their grief on Twitter.
:33:01. > :33:05.For the politicians, it is not enough. The problem we have in this
:33:06. > :33:11.country is the politicians are too cowardly, to say but the real issue
:33:12. > :33:14.is. They like to dodge the question. We are the only party who has put
:33:15. > :33:18.forward in our manifesto policies which we think will help solve the
:33:19. > :33:22.problem. It will be a long process. A lot of issues, a lot of things
:33:23. > :33:26.that will need to be action. At least we are the only party willing
:33:27. > :33:30.to face up and say what the real problem is. We are not exploiting
:33:31. > :33:35.any thinking that what we're doing is telling these evil, walked, cruel
:33:36. > :33:48.terrorists, you hate our way of life, you will not win. I understand
:33:49. > :33:53.you had very strong words for Theresa May, when Home Secretary,
:33:54. > :34:07.accusing her of allowing jihadistss in. It sounds like you are blaming
:34:08. > :34:17.her for this attack. Is that the BBC, by any chance? Please, please,
:34:18. > :34:22.let's be respectful. No, I'm not accusing the Prime Minister. I'm
:34:23. > :34:28.saying politicians have been weak on this issue for many, many years. The
:34:29. > :34:33.record as Home Secretary, I think it is appalling. This is a Home
:34:34. > :34:37.Secretary who cut the numbers of police officers, that the number of
:34:38. > :34:44.border guards down, cut the number of prison officers. I am sorry, it
:34:45. > :34:48.is not a good record at all. As for blaming her personally for the
:34:49. > :34:51.attack, I am not. I'm saying politicians in this country are too
:34:52. > :35:03.cowardly at the moment to actually face up to what the real issue is.
:35:04. > :35:07.Peter Walker from the Guardian. You said, making great pains to point
:35:08. > :35:15.out at the start of the speech, you do not believe the great majority of
:35:16. > :35:25.Muslims in Britain are problem. Your manifesto has a picture of Gerard
:35:26. > :35:31.Batten, talking about Islam, he says it is a barbaric, regressive
:35:32. > :35:40.ideology. Backwards. Do you plan to get rid of him as your Brexit
:35:41. > :35:45.spokesman, or not? He's sitting behind you, you can speak to him at
:35:46. > :35:57.the end of this, and asking those questions. You could have put back
:35:58. > :36:01.this manifesto to 12 o'clock, before the minute's silence? In ten minutes
:36:02. > :36:11.time, the nation will stop to remember the victims. Surely you are
:36:12. > :36:16.exploiting this? Of course, we will take part in that minute's silence.
:36:17. > :36:20.We try to push this back, the broadcasters told us we could not.
:36:21. > :36:25.That is the bottom line. We wanted to push this back. We were told we
:36:26. > :36:31.were not allowed to. It has nothing to do with making the lunchtime news
:36:32. > :36:35.first you are focusing on the wrong problem. Last night your energy
:36:36. > :36:41.spokesman said it was time to consider the unthinkable with
:36:42. > :36:46.regards to internment policies for people who went beyond the radar of
:36:47. > :36:52.intelligence services? I have not seen what he said, I don't know
:36:53. > :36:56.where he has actually said that. What I will say, we need to get real
:36:57. > :37:02.about the problems we face in this country. What I do fear, there has
:37:03. > :37:09.been an attack in March, one this month, I feel this is the future we
:37:10. > :37:13.had to get used to. We are not tackling it. The politicians are not
:37:14. > :37:21.prepared to tackle the situation was is internment useful? I'm not
:37:22. > :37:27.prepared to answer the question. What I will say, we have to get
:37:28. > :37:32.real, stand-up and be counted, to at least have the bottle to say whether
:37:33. > :37:36.real problem lies. After the Westminster attack, you said you
:37:37. > :37:43.wanted to see changes to the way Mosque funding was recorded? Why did
:37:44. > :37:45.you not have the bottles with that in your manifesto? I will stand here
:37:46. > :38:01.and say I don't believe... I don't think it is fair to single
:38:02. > :38:06.out one country in a manifesto. The nature of this election meant it was
:38:07. > :38:12.loved to spend a lot of time loved to spend a lot of time
:38:13. > :38:17.researching the funding of mosques, but we simply did not have the time.
:38:18. > :38:21.Given that I did not have all the evidence at hand, not fair to single
:38:22. > :38:34.out one country. I suspect Saudi Arabia is not the only culprit. I
:38:35. > :38:40.wanted to ask you and Suzanne, what is the point in this context listing
:38:41. > :38:45.Theresa May's failures as Home Secretary on prison numbers, funding
:38:46. > :38:50.the military, controlling borders, if you are not suggesting she does
:38:51. > :38:57.not bear some responsibility for the security failings? I think she must
:38:58. > :39:00.bear some responsibility. All politicians who voted against the
:39:01. > :39:08.measures, or voted for measures to make cuts bear some responsibility.
:39:09. > :39:12.As I said, when 9/11 happened, we should have had a serious rethink
:39:13. > :39:16.about immigration. In did not happen. Of course the European Union
:39:17. > :39:23.is equally culpable as well. I lay a lot of blame at the feet of the
:39:24. > :39:28.commissioners. As Paul said, they were far too cowardly to face up to
:39:29. > :39:33.the real issues in our country. And what needs to be done to keep people
:39:34. > :39:37.safe. That has to be the primary focus of any government, any
:39:38. > :39:40.politician. Frankly, if they are not prepared to stand up and do what
:39:41. > :39:44.needs to be done to keep people safe, they are not fit to govern. I
:39:45. > :39:51.stand by what I said. I will take one more question, I don't look to
:39:52. > :39:56.push towards 11 o'clock. I will take two this Theresa May must bear
:39:57. > :40:02.responsibility for what happened in Manchester, do you agree with that?
:40:03. > :40:07.I did not say she must bear responsibility, the only person
:40:08. > :40:12.responsible, or people responsible, are the terrorists. Let me make that
:40:13. > :40:17.absolutely clear. Sometimes we are too quick to blame other people, but
:40:18. > :40:22.the terrorists in the situations. The circumstances that allowed them
:40:23. > :40:27.and their ideology to breed, allowed their hatred to spread, politicians
:40:28. > :40:32.should have taken action on that long ago. Once again, my worry, we
:40:33. > :40:36.have this horrific atrocity, yet in a couple of weeks' time, it will all
:40:37. > :40:40.be forgotten about. Those families will not forget. They will still be
:40:41. > :40:44.grieving. My worry is that the politicians will move on, nothing
:40:45. > :40:59.will change. Paul and I stand here to say that must not happen. Last
:41:00. > :41:07.question. The government will not tell us if they will prioritise
:41:08. > :41:13.reducing immigration, which part of the economy would you be
:41:14. > :41:17.prioritising to reduce it? We're looking at foreign workers who have
:41:18. > :41:23.a job to come to. A job or they can sustain themselves and their family.
:41:24. > :41:27.Workers who will actually be able to contribute economically to this
:41:28. > :41:31.country. Also in our manifesto we talk about agricultural workers, we
:41:32. > :41:36.consciously farming community, for incense, they are very aware they
:41:37. > :41:43.need to have a period of short migration to get crops in, and so
:41:44. > :41:49.forth. Which workers are most expendable? I think unskilled. We
:41:50. > :41:55.have said we will put on the Tory unskilled workers for five years. --
:41:56. > :41:58.put a Mahmood Taurean. There are young unemployed people in this
:41:59. > :42:02.country. One thing makes me sick, they do not want to work? I am out
:42:03. > :42:07.on the streets, they do want to work. They do want a job. There are
:42:08. > :42:11.jobs they could do very easily with the minimum training. These big
:42:12. > :42:15.businesses have to get used to employing British people, training
:42:16. > :42:24.them up, and paying them a decent living wage, instead of importing
:42:25. > :42:27.cheap foreign labour. Allow me to simply add to that, this morning it
:42:28. > :42:31.has been announced we allowed a city the size of Hull to come to our
:42:32. > :42:36.country in the last year. If we continue on this road we will have a
:42:37. > :42:40.population of 80 million by the middle of the century. It is
:42:41. > :42:43.unsustainable. Something needs to be done, we have any party honest and
:42:44. > :42:50.realistic about cutting the numbers. One for social cohesion reasons, and
:42:51. > :42:52.two we think it is bad for working class communities because it
:42:53. > :42:57.depresses wages. OK, we will act to wrap it up there. Thank you very
:42:58. > :43:05.much coming. The minute as 's silence will take place in two
:43:06. > :43:08.minutes time. Thank you very much. Cheers. APPLAUSE.