:00:00. > 3:59:59should not and we will not. And so what I ask you to do is understand
:00:00. > :00:21.how things ever happen in politics. Six weeks ago we started our
:00:22. > :00:29.campaign on issues such as integration and fundamentalist
:00:30. > :00:35.Islam, at the time many people disapproved, at the time many people
:00:36. > :00:42.said it was completely irrelevant, people said they were just trying to
:00:43. > :00:48.find something. In the most appalling and terrible way it has
:00:49. > :00:55.shown these are the issues that are fundamental concern to the British
:00:56. > :01:02.people. We're talking about that time about short-term, long-term and
:01:03. > :01:14.medium term of how we should address these issues but today, though now
:01:15. > :01:18.it is about the immediate response needed to terrible events at a all
:01:19. > :01:30.too regular so without further ado thank you Paul.
:01:31. > :01:35.It is clear from the terrorist atrocities over the past month that
:01:36. > :01:51.the Government are struggling to protect its own citizens. Our
:01:52. > :01:56.security services are at any one time thwarting 500 potential terror
:01:57. > :02:07.plots, they are monitoring 3000 hard-core jihadis around the clock
:02:08. > :02:22.and keeping tabs, these are truly shocking figures. The police foil
:02:23. > :02:26.plot afterthought in the neck of time now they're being overwhelmed
:02:27. > :02:33.by the impossible scale of the task that they face, that task has
:02:34. > :02:41.reached this impossible scale and it is a damning indictment of the
:02:42. > :02:46.complacent British political establishment. An establishment
:02:47. > :02:51.which adopted way back in the 1980s mindset that said Islamist should be
:02:52. > :02:55.allowed to set up home in Britain because they would surely never
:02:56. > :03:02.attack the place that was giving them refuge. It is an establishment
:03:03. > :03:10.that has allowed hundreds of jihadis to return from five to four Islamic
:03:11. > :03:17.State in Syria, an establishment that has abolished control orders in
:03:18. > :03:22.place that was weakly, even as the Islamist threat was getting worse,
:03:23. > :03:28.it is an establishment that was content to whip up cries of racism
:03:29. > :03:39.against those of us who want clearer on a cause and called for a much
:03:40. > :03:44.tougher approach on immigration. The Prime Minister finally took a step
:03:45. > :03:50.towards acknowledging the problem, for far too long politicians in this
:03:51. > :03:57.country have lacked the courage to name the source of terror within our
:03:58. > :04:01.midst. I will do so again today. It is Islamist extremism. When I of
:04:02. > :04:07.this fact in the debate in Cambridge last week, I was roundly criticised
:04:08. > :04:15.by the leaders of the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens,
:04:16. > :04:17.the SNP and the rest. These leaders are not prepared to acknowledge the
:04:18. > :04:24.source of the problem means that they cannot even begin to start
:04:25. > :04:30.sorting it. I want to make it clear Islamist extremism isn't cancer
:04:31. > :04:39.within our society and it is a cancer that needs to be cut out. We
:04:40. > :04:46.must be prepared to reverse the cuts to the police budgets. This has led
:04:47. > :04:55.to 20,000 fewer police officers on our streets. We said this before.
:04:56. > :05:02.These cuts were wrong. In these times of heightened terror we need
:05:03. > :05:05.more police on the beat and an increase in community policing. We
:05:06. > :05:11.must all be referred to reverse the cuts to the prison services and to
:05:12. > :05:15.swallow the keepers referred to recruit 7000 more officers in an
:05:16. > :05:27.effort to curtail the radicalisation of our prisons. We must also
:05:28. > :05:31.properly control our borders. We are committed to recruiting 4000 more
:05:32. > :05:38.border guards, here today, any British citizen goes abroad to
:05:39. > :05:41.support bull fights for Islamic State should have their passports
:05:42. > :05:43.revoked, their citizenship removed and never be allowed back into this
:05:44. > :05:58.country. I also call on all parties to commit
:05:59. > :06:05.to a major increase in resources for MI5 to help it in its brilliant work
:06:06. > :06:11.in infiltrating, disrupting, and detecting Islamist terror plots. We
:06:12. > :06:18.must also open a debate in this country as to whether we routinely
:06:19. > :06:24.arm our police force, particularly in major cities. At the very least,
:06:25. > :06:29.we must double the number of armed police officers as soon as per. Some
:06:30. > :06:38.have said that some of my proposals have been extreme however I make no
:06:39. > :06:43.apologies for taking nothing off the table to ensure that our people are
:06:44. > :06:50.kept safe whether this includes tagging or indeed in the future
:06:51. > :06:56.detention orders. And we must demand more from the Muslim community
:06:57. > :07:03.itself. When it comes to reporting extremism. Here, the Labour Party is
:07:04. > :07:07.culpable with people like Andy Burnham pushing the idea that the
:07:08. > :07:14.Prevent strategy should be scrapped because it is uncomfortable for some
:07:15. > :07:20.people within the Moslem community. It is clear that there has been a
:07:21. > :07:27.breakdown of trust between Muslim leaders and the Prevent strategy.
:07:28. > :07:32.Indeed, the report suggested that only one in eight referrals to
:07:33. > :07:41.Prevent come from within the Muslim community itself. This is simply not
:07:42. > :07:50.good enough. It is unreasonable to accept -- that anyone within the
:07:51. > :07:57.community is on the path to violence. In fact, I would suggest
:07:58. > :08:01.it is the minimum that we would demand from any decent person. Ukip
:08:02. > :08:07.believes that Prevent should not be dropped but it should be redoubled.
:08:08. > :08:14.Six weeks ago, at the beginning of this general election campaign Ukip
:08:15. > :08:18.launched its integration agenda. At the centre of this agenda was a
:08:19. > :08:24.determination that every young person from every community should
:08:25. > :08:29.have the chance to enjoy the full fruits of British society and make
:08:30. > :08:35.their maximum contribution to it. That we believe is the way forward.
:08:36. > :08:41.Many of our suggestions, including banning face coverings, banning
:08:42. > :08:49.sharia councils, mandatory checks for girls at risks of FGM were
:08:50. > :08:54.widely derided by the Westminster establishment. Caroline Lucas of the
:08:55. > :09:03.Green Party accused our integration agenda of being full throttled
:09:04. > :09:09.Islamophobia. The Lib Dem Lynne Featherstone said that our policies
:09:10. > :09:14.to stamp out FGM were outrageous. We were even accused of going to war
:09:15. > :09:21.with the entire Moslem religion. I utterly refute that our integration
:09:22. > :09:26.agenda is in any way Islamophobic or divisive. It is about bringing
:09:27. > :09:30.communities together and ensuring that community cohesion is improved.
:09:31. > :09:36.And I predict that history will prove that Ukip was head of its time
:09:37. > :09:43.in highlighting these issues. Finally, it is clear that we need to
:09:44. > :09:53.do more to prevent impressionable young minds from being is --
:09:54. > :09:57.influenced by extremists. The authorities must get a grip on Saudi
:09:58. > :10:04.funding of radical imams and mosques. It is time to close down
:10:05. > :10:14.mosques where extra inversions of Islam are preached. -- extreme
:10:15. > :10:17.versions. We know that the government has conducted research
:10:18. > :10:24.into this and we call on them to release their findings. I repeat my
:10:25. > :10:30.call for the banning of all Saudi and Qatari funding of mosques in
:10:31. > :10:38.Britain. For all of the criticisms I have of Mrs May who I believe has
:10:39. > :10:42.been complex and at best during her time -- commonplace and at best
:10:43. > :10:46.during her time as Home Secretary they pale into insignificance in
:10:47. > :10:52.comparison to the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn or a Diane Abbott government.
:10:53. > :10:58.It would be reckless in my opinion to have as Prime Minister in these
:10:59. > :11:04.dangerous times someone who has opposed every single piece of
:11:05. > :11:09.anti-terrorism legislation put forward. Someone who has gone out of
:11:10. > :11:12.his way to befriend terror groups in both Northern Ireland and the Middle
:11:13. > :11:17.East, someone who has opposed allowing the police to shoot to kill
:11:18. > :11:29.when confronted with armed terrorists. I want to make it clear
:11:30. > :11:35.if there is a Ukip candidate go out and vote Ukip to ensure that these
:11:36. > :11:42.policies are enacted. However, I have no hesitation in saying that
:11:43. > :11:46.out of more than the 200 constituencies where Ukip has stood
:11:47. > :11:53.aside in this election there are only a handful were I would
:11:54. > :11:59.recommend a Labour vote. Kate Hoey, and Frank Field come to mind. In the
:12:00. > :12:06.vast majority of other seats, Labour cannot be trusted on Brexit and
:12:07. > :12:11.national security. The same is true of the Liberal Democrats everywhere.
:12:12. > :12:18.So where Ukip is not on the ballot, I hope that those who voted for us
:12:19. > :12:24.in 2015 will bear that in mind as they make their choice on Thursday.
:12:25. > :12:31.Whatever the result, I will be proud of Ukip's campaign. We have set the
:12:32. > :12:36.agenda as before on Brexit and immigration but we have also marked
:12:37. > :12:42.out new priorities for our country and we have been the 1-party with
:12:43. > :12:51.the guts to tell it how it is an integration and security. I have
:12:52. > :12:57.never had any doubt that we would be vindicated on these issues and, in
:12:58. > :12:59.fact, I'm only sorry that this vindication has come too soon and
:13:00. > :13:10.has involved so much blood being shared. -- shed. If the terrible
:13:11. > :13:14.events of the spring and early summer 2017 mark a genuine turning
:13:15. > :13:22.point in political attitudes, the moment when moral relativism and
:13:23. > :13:27.political correctness are ushered off the stage and a new muscular
:13:28. > :13:31.approach takes their place we will have a better chance of preventing
:13:32. > :13:40.another Manchester or indeed another London Bridge in the future. Ladies
:13:41. > :13:47.and gentlemen, in any event, under my leadership, Ukip will continue to
:13:48. > :13:53.be a patriotic party that speaks up for our wonderful country and sounds
:13:54. > :13:55.the alarm whenever the interests of its people are jeopardised. I thank
:13:56. > :14:15.you very much indeed. APPLAUSE Questions. Siobhan Robbins from Sky
:14:16. > :14:20.News. You said we need to have a discussion about arming all police.
:14:21. > :14:24.What's your personal view on this. Should all police be armed? I notice
:14:25. > :14:29.that there was a poll on your station last night that said 72% of
:14:30. > :14:34.British people would like to see the majority of the police being armed.
:14:35. > :14:38.I certainly would like to see more armed police, particularly in cities
:14:39. > :14:48.guarding places of interest, guarding places where obviously of
:14:49. > :14:53.tourist interest as well. We work in different times. I work in Brussels,
:14:54. > :15:00.Strasbourg as well. You see armed police everywhere. Particularly in
:15:01. > :15:06.Brussels. You have to realise that we are living in a different world
:15:07. > :15:17.where a small group of people hate us, hate what we are and want to
:15:18. > :15:24.kill us. Is that yes? In our cities, yes. You have put forward plans of
:15:25. > :15:32.reversing cuts to prisons and borders. How would you from that? We
:15:33. > :15:35.have made ?35 billion worth of savings in our manifesto. We would
:15:36. > :15:40.cut the foreign aid budget, there would be a dividend from membership
:15:41. > :15:45.fee when we leave the EU. We would cut HS2 and look at The Barnett
:15:46. > :15:51.formula which ensures in Scotland they are getting ?1700 per head more
:15:52. > :15:57.than we are here in Britain. Everything is fully costed. It would
:15:58. > :16:05.cost ?2.1 billion. Peter Walker in the Guardian. You've been adamant
:16:06. > :16:16.that you are not in Islamophobic party. Yet your spokesman has called
:16:17. > :16:20.Islam a barbaric death cult. Do voters not take these protestations
:16:21. > :16:25.of Ukip not been Islamophobic seriously or do not have power over
:16:26. > :16:35.them? It is like Groundhog Day. Every press conference. They aren't
:16:36. > :16:39.my views. My views are that Islamist extremism is a cancer within our
:16:40. > :16:43.country. Gerard has got his terminology wrong. They don't
:16:44. > :16:48.represent the views of the party as a whole. But, you know, we do have a
:16:49. > :16:51.problem in this country. It is something that needs to be cut out
:16:52. > :16:56.and I think what I'd lay down today are a series of proposals that go
:16:57. > :16:59.some way to ensuring that we don't have the kinds of attacks that we
:17:00. > :17:05.saw on London Bridge the other night. Harry. You have made an
:17:06. > :17:10.explicit call today for tactical voting. Is that going to be Ukip's
:17:11. > :17:19.role in coming years to be the tactical voting party? No. Can you
:17:20. > :17:23.blame your voters and supporters for lending their vote to a strong
:17:24. > :17:27.Brexit backing Tory in a seat that you are standing in and don't have
:17:28. > :17:34.chance of winning? If there is a Ukip candidate, go out and vote
:17:35. > :17:39.Ukip. There is clear water between ourselves and other parties. We are
:17:40. > :17:43.the only ones who really want to cut immigration. Not the Tory Jackanory
:17:44. > :17:48.where they say they want to get it down to ten thousands but never
:17:49. > :17:52.really want to do it. We have a real policy on cutting migration. If you
:17:53. > :17:57.believe that the foreign aid budget should be cut and put into NHS and
:17:58. > :18:02.social care, you go out and vote Ukip. There is clear water between
:18:03. > :18:07.ourselves and other parties. If there is a Ukip candidate, go out
:18:08. > :18:12.and vote Ukip. As for the future, is tactical voting what Ukip is about?
:18:13. > :18:16.No. This is a unique election. A one-off. It won't be happening in
:18:17. > :18:22.the future. That is why a number of our branches have stood down for
:18:23. > :18:30.this one election only. One of your spokesman has said that mosques that
:18:31. > :18:36.preach hatred should be closed down. Is that something you agree with? I
:18:37. > :18:41.think that some mosques that poison the minds of young people in the
:18:42. > :18:47.country should be shut down. I also believe that the funding of mosques
:18:48. > :18:50.from Saudi Arabia and Qatar should be stopped. It is happening in
:18:51. > :18:58.Austria and it should happen in this country as well. You say that
:18:59. > :19:02.nothing is off the table. Would you consider a travel ban such as
:19:03. > :19:07.outlined by Donald Trump? No. I have made that perfectly clear in a
:19:08. > :19:15.number of press conferences. Tactical voting. Where ever there
:19:16. > :19:24.isn't a Ukip candidate and apart from a handful of Labour candidates
:19:25. > :19:37.that you mentioned, Ukip supporters should vote Conservative. INAUDIBLE
:19:38. > :19:44.In light of the attacks are, do you think there should be... INAUDIBLE
:19:45. > :19:49.I think that the copper should be awarded with the Queen 's police
:19:50. > :19:54.medal for gallantry and then we can move an and talk about the George
:19:55. > :19:59.Cross for civilians as well. There is an immense number of examples of
:20:00. > :20:03.bravery. It just goes to show how great the British people are. We
:20:04. > :20:07.will stand up in the face of terror for our fellow citizens and try to
:20:08. > :20:12.ensure that everyone is kept safe. What needs to happen now is that the
:20:13. > :20:17.government, whoever is elected, will show equal bravery to ensure our
:20:18. > :20:22.citizens are kept safe, however politically incorrect or difficult
:20:23. > :20:27.that may be. As for tactical voting, if there isn't a Ukip candidate in a
:20:28. > :20:32.seat. Go out and vote for the Brexit candidate. I know that a lot of our
:20:33. > :20:36.chairmen have had conversations with candidates from other political
:20:37. > :20:41.parties. We need to get as many Brexit MPs in the next House of
:20:42. > :20:48.Commons as possible. You talk about arming more police. Where do you
:20:49. > :20:58.start on personal gun control? Would you like to see a relaxation of
:20:59. > :21:04.that? No. And on costings, do you have any costings? You talk about
:21:05. > :21:07.increases. We'd like to see 20,000 more police officers on the beat,
:21:08. > :21:16.with training we estimate that will cost about 1.2 billion pounds. There
:21:17. > :21:21.will be added training involved in putting more armed police on the
:21:22. > :21:26.streets but, as I say, Ukip has a policy that if anyone has served in
:21:27. > :21:30.the Armed Forces for 12 years, they will automatically be offered a job
:21:31. > :21:36.in the police service. They are already firearms trained anyway.
:21:37. > :22:01.Thank you very much, everyone. Cheers! APPLAUSE
:22:02. > :22:08.I want to know what's really happening, who's saying what and
:22:09. > :22:09.why. I've had enough will that of facts.