:00:17. > :00:23.Thank you, Peter, good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming
:00:24. > :00:27.along. This is a most unusual election. Not only does the outcome
:00:28. > :00:31.not appear to be in doubt but most commentators do not think the result
:00:32. > :00:35.is even going to be close, so it couldn't be more different to the
:00:36. > :00:38.contest we had in 2015. As a former political journalist I am on good
:00:39. > :00:43.terms with MPs from across the spectrum and I haven't met a single
:00:44. > :00:49.one over the last few weeks who doubts privately that Britain is
:00:50. > :00:52.heading for another Tory administration with an enhanced
:00:53. > :00:58.majority. A narrow party political times, Theresa May has time to the
:00:59. > :01:01.contest perfectly, before the substance of EU negotiations have
:01:02. > :01:04.got under way and while she is still on a political honeymoon at the
:01:05. > :01:09.official opposition is in total disarray. From the point of view of
:01:10. > :01:14.Ukip's self-interest, we could be forgiven for finding it galling that
:01:15. > :01:16.the ever pragmatic Tory party has lately donned so many of our
:01:17. > :01:20.clothes, and isn't it interesting, clothes, and isn't it interesting,
:01:21. > :01:23.by the way, that Theresa May is being ferried around the country in
:01:24. > :01:29.the very battle bus that was used for the Conservative Remain campaign
:01:30. > :01:35.this time last year? Rather like her, it has had a message reads
:01:36. > :01:40.comfort for Ukip is that when the comfort for Ukip is that when the
:01:41. > :01:45.Tories are turned with a bigger Daugherty it will be with an
:01:46. > :01:50.exquisite mandate to take Britain out of the European Union. -- a
:01:51. > :01:54.bigger majority. The very thing that we have campaigned for for so long
:01:55. > :01:58.and they have resisted for so long. The price of power for the pragmatic
:01:59. > :02:03.Conservatives will have been to receive an instruction from the
:02:04. > :02:04.electorate to return our country to the ranks of independent
:02:05. > :02:14.self-governing democracies. Ukip candidate great pride in that
:02:15. > :02:18.and if we can get candidates over the line in places where they are
:02:19. > :02:25.strong, it will assist us in performing to the central role over
:02:26. > :02:32.the coming period, that's to our pragmatic conservative colleagues
:02:33. > :02:36.honest on Brexit. From my point of view, this corporate trait of the
:02:37. > :02:41.Tory party to rank the attainment and retention of power ahead of
:02:42. > :02:45.advancing a principled agenda has always been a cause of regret. In
:02:46. > :02:50.the old question is asked, are you in politics to be someone ought to
:02:51. > :02:56.achieve something, we even Ukip without hesitation opt for the
:02:57. > :03:01.latter and I just hope the passage of time shows this Prime Minister is
:03:02. > :03:04.motivated either same spirit rather than that of her immediate
:03:05. > :03:08.predecessor who once famously remarked that he wished the Prime
:03:09. > :03:15.Minister simply because he thought he would be good at the job. Eight
:03:16. > :03:18.addiction but of course turned out to be incorrect. Speaking as the
:03:19. > :03:23.Ukip economics spokesman I want to set out another challenge for the
:03:24. > :03:27.Conservatives today. That is to shed their reputation being slavish in
:03:28. > :03:32.their devotion to the already wealthy and well-connected at the
:03:33. > :03:36.expense of aspirational working people. They will not achieve that,
:03:37. > :03:40.I suggest, through gimmicks such as I suggest, through gimmicks such as
:03:41. > :03:46.guaranteeing workers a year of unpaid leave to look after elderly
:03:47. > :03:49.relatives. I think people will recognise that as an unfair burden
:03:50. > :03:55.of uncertainty but small businesses and also as the government papering
:03:56. > :04:00.over the cracks of the structural damage it's done to the social care
:04:01. > :04:09.system through ?4 billion worth of cuts. The fact is that there is
:04:10. > :04:16.still a stench in the political Ayr left by the recently departed
:04:17. > :04:20.Cameron Osborne regime. A regime that for instance favoured the tax
:04:21. > :04:26.avoiding boot over the self-employed black cab drivers and cup top rate
:04:27. > :04:32.of tax for those earning over ?150,000 a year even as it was
:04:33. > :04:38.taking child benefit from families earning a third of that amount. --
:04:39. > :04:42.Uber. My challenge to the Chancellor Philip Hammond is to prove in this
:04:43. > :04:47.election campaign via the economic policies he sets out that the Tories
:04:48. > :04:52.are not mainly in it for the rich because despite his party's poll
:04:53. > :04:58.rating, that is what millions of voters still believe. He could do
:04:59. > :05:04.this in a number of ways. First and most important of all he could and
:05:05. > :05:08.should explicitly rule out unleashing a new national insurance
:05:09. > :05:14.raid on the self-employed. The pernicious measure he set out in his
:05:15. > :05:20.budget and that Ukip vehemently opposed would have picked two and a
:05:21. > :05:26.half million workers, 1.6 million of whom are basic rate income tax
:05:27. > :05:31.payers, costing them an average of ?240 a year. When he withdrew the
:05:32. > :05:36.measure he did so only because it contravened the terms of the 20 15th
:05:37. > :05:41.Tory manifesto which will of course fall into obedience after this
:05:42. > :05:43.election. The Chancellor said he still thought raising national
:05:44. > :05:50.insurance on the self-employed was the right approach. So if national
:05:51. > :05:53.insurance rises for the self-employed are not specifically
:05:54. > :05:58.ruled out in the Conservative manifesto, then we will note that a
:05:59. > :06:02.Tory tax bombshell is on the way, aimed not at the rich but at
:06:03. > :06:08.plumbers and plasterers, electricians and taxi drivers,
:06:09. > :06:13.hairdressers and personal trainers. All the signs are that Mr Hammond is
:06:14. > :06:18.planning a targeted attack on white van men and entrepreneurial women,
:06:19. > :06:21.people who work long hours to provide for their families and take
:06:22. > :06:28.pride in their locality and donation. People who drive
:06:29. > :06:33.themselves hard and occasionally perhaps there are fans quite fast!
:06:34. > :06:39.Ukip will always be on the side of such self-reliant people because we
:06:40. > :06:42.as a party or made up of people just like that, that is why we were the
:06:43. > :06:50.only party with a dedicated manifesto chap in 20 15th about
:06:51. > :06:53.helping small businesses. -- chapter. And that's why be wouldn't
:06:54. > :06:57.dream of plotting national insurance hikes to make our sums add up
:06:58. > :07:03.because we either that has the courage to confront unnecessary and
:07:04. > :07:09.wasteful public spending programmes such as the excessive foreign aid
:07:10. > :07:13.bill, the excessive public spending settlement for Scotland via the
:07:14. > :07:19.Barnett formula and the vanity project of HS2. Instead of lining up
:07:20. > :07:22.self-employed for punishment, Mr Hammond would do much better to put
:07:23. > :07:25.some real political effort into cracking down on the big
:07:26. > :07:32.multinational corporations which dodge tax in the UK. In the run-up
:07:33. > :07:35.to the 20 15th election, I argued for a tax backstop to be created
:07:36. > :07:40.that food for the biggest international companies, create a
:07:41. > :07:46.tax obligation based on their turnover in the UK. If they were
:07:47. > :07:49.continually unwilling to make a reasonable contribution to the
:07:50. > :07:53.running costs of our society. So I was pleased when the Treasury came
:07:54. > :07:58.forward with its diverted profits tax to do this very thing. Where
:07:59. > :08:04.there was evidence of aggressive tax avoidance. But diverted profits tax
:08:05. > :08:09.has to say the least, had a very slow start. I can only find
:08:10. > :08:15.reference to one company being asked to make a significant payment under
:08:16. > :08:18.it, this insipid approach and the Conservatives has come in the face
:08:19. > :08:24.of mounting evidence of continued aggressive tax avoidance by highly
:08:25. > :08:33.lucrative multinational enterprises. -- Diaggeo. Starbuck reported
:08:34. > :08:36.profits of 13 million on a UK turnover of 300 pounds and
:08:37. > :08:42.corporation tax contribution fell to just two points seven million pounds
:08:43. > :08:48.down from the year before. I ask how can a vast as Ms that sells coffee
:08:49. > :08:53.in paper cups all over the country for ?2.50 a pop end up paying
:08:54. > :08:58.corporation tax contribution amounting to much less than 1% of
:08:59. > :09:04.its turnover. With -- with the taxman be happy to accept pro rata
:09:05. > :09:10.contributions from an independence copy shop, good self-employed
:09:11. > :09:13.taxpayer submitting returns four times a year get away with that, I
:09:14. > :09:17.think we know the answer to those questions and as we also know,
:09:18. > :09:23.Cameron and Osborne's friends at the top of Uber channel many of their
:09:24. > :09:27.businesses profits through a complex financial network in the Netherlands
:09:28. > :09:30.thereby depriving the British public realm of significant sums. Its
:09:31. > :09:35.behaviour like this from the big boys that calls out the UK
:09:36. > :09:40.taxpayers, not the amount of national insurance squeezed out of
:09:41. > :09:43.the self employed in the geek economy. Yet time and again you see
:09:44. > :09:49.the Conservative Party giving favourable treatment to the rich and
:09:50. > :09:54.powerful and looking like it's dumping on the up and coming. It's
:09:55. > :09:58.not unattractive trait and neither is upon which Theresa May has yet
:09:59. > :10:03.found a way of taming. I also challenge the Conservatives who are
:10:04. > :10:06.stealing plenty of our policies to steal another one in the interests
:10:07. > :10:10.of working people and that's our proposed moratorium on immigration
:10:11. > :10:16.for unskilled and low skilled employment. In her 2015 Tory
:10:17. > :10:19.Conference speech delivered when she was Home Secretary, the Prime
:10:20. > :10:24.Minister herself pointed out the perils of wage compression in
:10:25. > :10:29.working-class occupations due to excessive immigration. Is she
:10:30. > :10:32.willing to face down the vested interests of corporate written in
:10:33. > :10:37.the interests of ordinary working families? The jury is out on that
:10:38. > :10:43.one but there seems little reason to be optimistic. And isn't it time as
:10:44. > :10:48.Ukip proposes to phase out the green levies placed on every family's
:10:49. > :10:52.domestic energy bill and paid in subsidies to already wealthy
:10:53. > :10:57.landowners who put up when farms on their land? In the wake of the
:10:58. > :11:01.financial crisis ordinary British taxpayers make huge sacrifices to
:11:02. > :11:06.protect the stability of the financial system. People earning an
:11:07. > :11:12.average of ?26,000 a year coughed up to bail out the banks, they should
:11:13. > :11:17.have changed the economic culture in Britain but to date, it has not,
:11:18. > :11:21.indeed George Osborne placed a very high priority on looking after the
:11:22. > :11:25.financial services sector and now in the form of his lucrative part time
:11:26. > :11:32.employment with Blackrock, the financial services sector is looking
:11:33. > :11:37.after him. It's small wonder then people working in industries such as
:11:38. > :11:41.fishing gear it they will be sold short by the Conservatives and in
:11:42. > :11:46.the fishing industry context bartered away in Brussels for a
:11:47. > :11:51.minor concession to the City of London. Whose mighty lobbying power
:11:52. > :11:56.can always blow them out of the water. The economic agenda of Ukip
:11:57. > :12:01.is to speak up not just for the left behind, but for the left out, those
:12:02. > :12:06.who work hard to quote Michael Howard's old phrase, played by the
:12:07. > :12:09.rules but have no special connections or market power. There's
:12:10. > :12:12.the Prime Minister and Chancellor go out of their way to prove
:12:13. > :12:17.differently, then despite an imminent election victory, their
:12:18. > :12:23.party will continue to be regarded as the one that auctioned off
:12:24. > :12:27.prestige internships for university undergraduates at one of its black
:12:28. > :12:31.and white fundraising balls, thereby going and extra mile to ensure the
:12:32. > :12:35.glittering prizes for the rising generation in our country are
:12:36. > :12:41.restricted once again to a privileged minority. Ukip will
:12:42. > :12:46.continue to be the party that speaks for those outside Tory magic circle,
:12:47. > :12:49.if we can get representatives into the House of Commons at the
:12:50. > :12:55.selection, that task will be so much easier. But even if we can't, that
:12:56. > :13:00.task will be done and if we can succeed in pressurising the Tories
:13:01. > :13:04.to change their economic outlook as we have done in changing their
:13:05. > :13:09.European policy, then that will be another feather in our cap. In the
:13:10. > :13:15.meantime, my head is two to two and a half million self-employed people
:13:16. > :13:21.is to think very carefully indeed be for voting Conservative. At this
:13:22. > :13:25.election because if you do so, you might as well be handing the
:13:26. > :13:30.Chancellor at the very dagger he is planning to plunge into your backs.
:13:31. > :13:37.Thank you. And has anyone got any questions? Sky News. Given the
:13:38. > :13:44.opinion poll ratings at the weekend, your leader has spoken about staying
:13:45. > :13:49.on the field. This election was never one to be about our vulture,
:13:50. > :13:54.we acknowledge the political context has changed a lot since 2015 and we
:13:55. > :13:59.never learnt in 2015 having a high vote share spread rather evenly
:14:00. > :14:05.across the country can result in grievous disappointment. So the key
:14:06. > :14:09.test for us is can we concentrate our vote and campaign well enough in
:14:10. > :14:13.the areas we are very strong to get some people across the line and
:14:14. > :14:17.also, to put down markers for the future about issues such as Brexit
:14:18. > :14:21.being the overarching issue, things we can hold the Prime Minister to
:14:22. > :14:29.account for over the next couple of years. I think the signs are quite
:14:30. > :14:33.good in a good cluster of seats for we are strong and within about half
:14:34. > :14:40.of those target seats, the canvassing returns are very
:14:41. > :14:47.promising indeed. Thank you. Policy question, the National wage, will it
:14:48. > :14:54.be raised or lowered, you mentioned the looked Hammond, aren't you risk
:14:55. > :14:59.of turning into a pressure group? Ukip, I don't think anyone has ever
:15:00. > :15:03.measured the success of Ukip according to a jar of how many
:15:04. > :15:06.people we get into the House of Commons, we are perhaps the
:15:07. > :15:10.political party that has also been the most successful pressure group
:15:11. > :15:16.of the entire 21st-century in terms of the EU agenda, the debate over
:15:17. > :15:23.mass immigration. But you know, I am setting something out and it isn't
:15:24. > :15:26.an unusual election, it appears a foremost conclusion that Philip
:15:27. > :15:30.Hammond will be walking back on to number 11 Downing St on less those
:15:31. > :15:37.rumours of disagreements between him and the Prime Minister turned out to
:15:38. > :15:41.be even more severe than we think. The Conservatives are over recent
:15:42. > :15:45.days, claiming to be called the party of working people and I think
:15:46. > :15:49.that's an assertion and claim that deserves to be very rigorous leak
:15:50. > :15:54.tested and I've set up to date lots of different ways in which that
:15:55. > :15:58.clearly is simply not true. A challenge for them to do much more
:15:59. > :16:05.radical things, too, away from their old bias towards the well-connected,
:16:06. > :16:09.privileged, the already wealthy. The minimum wage... On the minimum wage,
:16:10. > :16:15.I'm absolutely behind the minimum wage and actually minimum wage with
:16:16. > :16:18.an aspiration to be lifted towards the living wage but the level at
:16:19. > :16:22.which a minimum wage becomes a living wage, I think depends on
:16:23. > :16:26.other factors most notably the availability and cost of housing and
:16:27. > :16:30.I think under current immigration and population growth trends, I
:16:31. > :16:34.don't think anyone could be really confident in five years time the
:16:35. > :16:45.so-called living wage really will be that. BBC News you addressed the
:16:46. > :16:52.issue of Brexit, I hear you are railing against the axis of
:16:53. > :16:56.business, how does your message... I don't really associate the words
:16:57. > :16:59.lost and Brexit in the same sentence, I would rather see it as
:17:00. > :17:06.we'd have won the issue of Brexit and actually, the price but the
:17:07. > :17:10.Conservatives, their ratings in the opinion polls has been to accept our
:17:11. > :17:14.agenda, apparently accept it because they've timed the selection before
:17:15. > :17:20.the substance of negotiations has begun, before people can really test
:17:21. > :17:24.if they are now true believers. I've set out a few examples of the Tory
:17:25. > :17:31.party tending towards pragmatism over principle. So I think the
:17:32. > :17:35.Brexit agenda, we are still the true believers in Brexit, we have driven
:17:36. > :17:39.the agenda, we've now got to be there to keep the Conservatives
:17:40. > :17:43.honest on it because they need to know, don't they, if they come away
:17:44. > :17:48.from that, if they compromise Brexit away, there will be a political
:17:49. > :17:53.price to pay and certainly, I don't see the voters looking to the Labour
:17:54. > :17:56.Party, the Liberal party, the Green Party to make the Conservatives pay
:17:57. > :18:01.the price if they come away from Brexit so I don't agree that the
:18:02. > :18:05.word lost should be used in the same sentence as the word Brexit and
:18:06. > :18:18.Ukip. I think it's our greatest triumph. You talked about big
:18:19. > :18:20.business and companies, how are you distinguishing yourself? Because
:18:21. > :18:24.unlike the Labour Party we don't want to allow continued Unlimited
:18:25. > :18:31.immigration for working-class occupations which not only cause
:18:32. > :18:36.wage compression and stagnation of incomes, it also puts massive
:18:37. > :18:40.pressure on public services, on housing, and there is an employment
:18:41. > :18:45.effect as well, whereby some of our unemployed people don't get jobs
:18:46. > :18:49.because of excessive immigration and I think Theresa May also recognised
:18:50. > :18:55.that in the Tory Conference speech of Autumn 2015, so we couldn't be
:18:56. > :19:00.more different, I don't really think a Labour Party that is still
:19:01. > :19:03.proposing no limits on immigration into working-class jobs and
:19:04. > :19:05.neighborhoods can possibly claim to be the party of working people and
:19:06. > :19:19.The Telegraph. You have said the be believed.
:19:20. > :19:28.The Telegraph. You have said the Conservatives have largely accepted
:19:29. > :19:30.your agenda. Will you become part of the Conservative Party? I don't
:19:31. > :19:38.think that will happen at all. I'm almost certain it won't. There have
:19:39. > :19:42.been instances of people moving from the Conservatives to Ukip and from
:19:43. > :19:46.Ukip to the Conservatives in the ebb and flow of politics. But I am
:19:47. > :19:51.absolutely certain that Ukip distinctive party is going to
:19:52. > :19:55.continue. We will continue picking up items in the political agenda,
:19:56. > :19:58.whether that is now to do with the excessive foreign aid bill at the
:19:59. > :20:03.cost of underfunding for our National Health Service, whether it
:20:04. > :20:18.is as being bowled on the integration agenda, -- whether it is
:20:19. > :20:24.us being bold on the integration agenda. Yes, we are all for a
:20:25. > :20:29.multinational immunity, but everyone must subscribe to our values of
:20:30. > :20:34.freedom of speech and the law. I absolutely don't think there is
:20:35. > :20:37.going to be any soft merger, if you like, between Ukip and the
:20:38. > :20:47.Conservatives. We believe different things and we have a different
:20:48. > :20:57.approach to politics. What about the need to rebrand the party? More than
:20:58. > :21:00.any other party, Ukip is tied to a single identity. I think it is a big
:21:01. > :21:07.task and it was a task that Paul was task and it was a task that Paul was
:21:08. > :21:12.preparing over the months ahead with a significant staging post being the
:21:13. > :21:15.party conference in 2017, in the autumn. Before all party leaders
:21:16. > :21:20.were rudely interrupted by the Prime Minister foreshortening the
:21:21. > :21:24.Parliament. That will be a task in the years ahead. I still think that
:21:25. > :21:29.Ukip can do many things but it has got to do only one thing to be true
:21:30. > :21:35.to its roots and that is to be the guard dog of Brexit, or the
:21:36. > :21:42.insurance policy for Brexit voted as Nigel Farage has put it, and we do
:21:43. > :21:45.need to drive the government during the remaining 22 months of our
:21:46. > :21:56.formal membership of the European Union. Every. -- whether we are tied
:21:57. > :22:00.to freedom of movement, whether we have jurisdiction, what happens to
:22:01. > :22:07.the fishing industry and our maritime zone. All these issues,
:22:08. > :22:11.that is the first duty of Ukip. We have had many thousands of members
:22:12. > :22:12.who fought this battle when it was incredibly unfashionable and some of
:22:13. > :22:16.them have not lived to see the day them have not lived to see the day
:22:17. > :22:20.of the referendum victory, and we owe it to them all to pursue that
:22:21. > :22:28.agenda right until the end of March 20 19th, so that Britain resumes
:22:29. > :22:31.membership of the ranks of self-governing democracies. -- March
:22:32. > :22:36.2019. That will be Ukip's dream and 2019. That will be Ukip's dream and
:22:37. > :22:47.our top priority until it is achieved. Aren't you effectively
:22:48. > :22:55.helping the Conservatives by not standing candidates in seats with
:22:56. > :23:00.Tory margins? I think I have just laid out by the achievement of
:23:01. > :23:06.Brexit in the fullest possible way has got to be the very top priority
:23:07. > :23:10.of Ukip. When Paul Nuttall set out our approach to this election, we
:23:11. > :23:15.did make clear that we would be guided by the views of our branches.
:23:16. > :23:17.Many of our branches have had conversations with sitting
:23:18. > :23:23.Conservative members. Labour members as well in the case of Kate and
:23:24. > :23:28.Kelvin, for example. But sitting Conservative members and
:23:29. > :23:39.Conservative candidates in seats where a Brexit supporting
:23:40. > :23:45.place to Remain MP. We have put our place to Remain MP. We
:23:46. > :23:47.country before our party in standing aside in those seats. That puts a
:23:48. > :23:52.very heavy burden of responsibility on the people who will benefit from
:23:53. > :24:00.that to stay true to the agenda and to meet the assurances they have
:24:01. > :24:03.given. You might see a big swing of opinion a couple of years down the
:24:04. > :24:06.line of people we have stood aside for don't remain true to what the
:24:07. > :24:16.left describes as hard Brexit and the rest of us describe as Brexit.
:24:17. > :24:22.If you win no seat in the selection, will the party continue? Yes, the
:24:23. > :24:25.cluster of target seats, which we cluster of target seats, which we
:24:26. > :24:26.don't advertise by name, and in the best of those things are very
:24:27. > :24:30.promising. We are on the way to promising. We are on the way
:24:31. > :24:32.creating a political microclimate in creating a political microclimate
:24:33. > :24:34.some places, rather like the Green some places, rather like the Green
:24:35. > :24:40.Party very cleverly achieved in Brighton. And we would hope to get
:24:41. > :24:48.people benefiting from that over the line. Even if we don't under first
:24:49. > :24:52.we still have that absolutely we
:24:53. > :24:56.overarching agenda to see through the process of Brexit for the next
:24:57. > :25:01.two years and I think we have already begun to outline some new
:25:02. > :25:07.political ideas and a new political agenda, that again as a patriotic
:25:08. > :25:10.party we feel these issues need speaking up for and we can't rely on
:25:11. > :25:21.the established political parties to do the case of the integration
:25:22. > :25:25.crisis of our society. How many is a cluster? More than a handful and
:25:26. > :25:36.less than a barrow full! There you go. At the back? The Daily Mirror.
:25:37. > :25:56.INAUDIBLE. I think in that situation, the
:25:57. > :25:59.actual initial thing would be their presence would tell a Prime Minister
:26:00. > :26:05.who was arguing to you guys in the European Union this time last year
:26:06. > :26:13.that there is a real political price to be paid if she compromises the
:26:14. > :26:16.fundamentals of Brexit. Other than that it is to be there as Prime
:26:17. > :26:21.Minister's Questions in other House of Commons events arguing the case
:26:22. > :26:26.for our agenda on for instant reducing the foreign aid bill. Yet
:26:27. > :26:28.again we go into this general election with all the parties
:26:29. > :26:33.represented in the House of Commons wanting to spend more on foreign
:26:34. > :26:37.aid, even as we see the proliferation for instance of food
:26:38. > :26:42.banks in our own country, the health service and the social care system
:26:43. > :26:46.crying out for more resources. And indeed this issue of integration and
:26:47. > :26:53.British values and being patriotic about our own country. I think there
:26:54. > :26:56.are lots of things that are Ukip MP or MPs could do and that would be
:26:57. > :27:01.very advantageous to us but this show will go on whether or not we
:27:02. > :27:03.are in the House of Commons and we have shown before that we can
:27:04. > :27:13.influence the agenda from outside as well. Yes? Go on. Your candidate
:27:14. > :27:19.numbers this time are well down. Under 400. Doesn't that show that
:27:20. > :27:27.you can't get people to stand for you? If we had been absolutely
:27:28. > :27:31.desperate to, I am quite sure we could have fielded a candidate in
:27:32. > :27:35.almost every seat, as we did last time, but things have changed. The
:27:36. > :27:41.governing party is formally committed to Brexit. I hope and
:27:42. > :27:51.believe that when they do release their manifesto, it will say that.
:27:52. > :27:56.Our party, our branches, many of them are regarding this general
:27:57. > :28:00.election as a kind of second referendum, knowing that the Remain
:28:01. > :28:04.parties will collect any bit of evidence they can glean and stumble
:28:05. > :28:11.on to say there is buyers remorse out there. In many cases our
:28:12. > :28:16.branches have made an active decision to stand aside because they
:28:17. > :28:21.have had reassurance from another candidate best placed to win or hold
:28:22. > :28:25.the seat that they sign up to our agenda of the true Brexit. I think
:28:26. > :28:30.it is just a radically changed political context which accounts for
:28:31. > :28:34.the fewer number of candidates. Right. Thanks ever so much.