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The perils of travelling with the Prime Minister and using her | :00:14. | :00:27. | |
lecturing when she is a foot taller than you! Can I welcome you to the | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
launch of our Scottish manifesto. Let me start by thanking the Prime | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Minister but coming to Edinburgh. A Prime Minister who has shown she has | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
what it takes to do the job, and he doesn't shirk the big challenges | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
that our country faces and someone we can trust over the next five | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
years, not to bend in the wind, but to stand strong and always put the | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
national interest first. As leadership -- its leadership, ladies | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
and gentlemen, and you know it when you see a comment we can all see it | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
in Theresa May. -- you know it when you see it and we can all see it in | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
Theresa May. This manifesto today makes one thing very clear, the | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
Scottish Conservatives are back. We are back in the centre ground of | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Scottish politics, back with ideas to take our country forward, to turn | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
our faltering education system around, to champion the fair work | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
agenda and to invest in the next generation of family homes. And at | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
this election we are offering to do something else, and that is to send | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
the SNP a clear and unequivocal message. Noted there and wanted plan | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
for another referendum on independence -- no to their and | :01:46. | :01:58. | |
wanted. Enough. APPLAUSE Enough of the endless division and | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
uncertainty they have imposed in our country, it is time for them to get | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
back to the day job and time for the country to come back together. It is | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
time to work with family, friends and neighbours across the UK, to | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
boost our security and our prosperity, and we know that Nicola | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Sturgeon doesn't want to hear that. So at this election we say this, | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
let's bring the SNP down to size, to make her listen, and to make sure | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
that finally we get the security and stability that we all deserve. We | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
want this. Not just because in the Scottish Conservative Party we are | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
unashamedly proud of our union and our country, that will always be the | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
case, but we want it because in a vital time in our country we need | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
government to focus on the issues that really matter. Not on division | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
and grievance which is not wanted, but on taking Scotland and Britain | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
through the challenges that we face, and yesterday the Prime Minister | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
spelt out exactly what those challenges are, delivering a strong | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
economy so everyone in this country can prosper, working to achieve a | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
smooth and orderly departure from the European Union. Reducing social | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
divisions so you can get on no matter who you are and where you are | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
from. Responding to the challenges of an ageing society, and harnessing | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
the power of technology for good. Using the power of government to | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
support families and communities to make our lives that little bit | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
easier. Talking up the good that government can do. Some say that is | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
not conservative message, but I say that tackling the issues of the day | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
had on using government to correct injustice and speaking for all of | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
society, they are conservative values and they always have been. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
Yesterday the Prime Minister set out how she intends to put those values | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
into practice and in this manifesto we set out how they will work for | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Scotland, as well. With Scotland at the heart of the new industrial | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
strategy giving our gas and oil sector be supporting these, with | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
Scotland at the heart of the new plan for after Brexit, having our | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
fishermen the security they deserve. With workers offered greater | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
protection whether they are in Birmingham or Belfast or Banchory, | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
and with Scotland back at the heart of the union. Not half in, half out, | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
because it is time to make sure that this union works better. So today we | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
set out our plans to make demolition work better, and to build a stronger | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Scotland. -- devolution work better. So that young people in their 20s | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
and 30s can realise the chance of owning a home of their own. With | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
more childcare for families for the most disadvantaged backgrounds | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
because we know it is in those early years that too many children get | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
left behind. And most of all, with immediate action to tackle the mess | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
the SNP is making of our education system, standards in literacy and | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
numerous see falling, not enough teachers, not enough inspectors to | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
keep the standards up, trainees and admitting that they are not given | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
the maths skills they need to teach primary school children how to | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
count. And in charge, an SNP administration which can waffle for | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
Scotland about the plans it has but has been so busy trying to rerun the | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
referendum it hasn't got round to action. Well I say enough. It is as | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
clear now more than ever that for all the good intentions that were | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
behind the new curriculum in Scotland, basic standards are | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
slipping. Our manifesto makes clear that we will call for a reset of | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
curriculum for excellence putting the focus back where it belongs on | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
learning core knowledge and facts and if we are serious, if we are | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
serious about education being a leveller, that kids from poorer | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
backgrounds can learn their way to a better life, then these are the | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
skills that they need. The SNP has failed generation and it's time they | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
held to account. And in doing all of this and improving schools and | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
economy and protecting the union, I say, the Scottish Conservative Party | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
is the one which can represent the mainstream in our land. A mainstream | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
which once felt loyalty to Labour. But who can now see that party at a | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
complete loss. So today I want to speak directly to Labour Party | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
voters across Scotland. You have stuck with your party to the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
referendum when thousands left, you have been through leadership | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
election after leadership election, and Jeremy Corbyn was not your | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
choice. You have watched as your Scottish leader Kezia Dugdale has | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
left voters in Aberdeen betrayed. Because she would rather prop up the | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
SNP than work together with the Conservatives. In Lanarkshire | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
long-term servants of Labour have said they have no choice but to | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
simply walk away. This week the Scottish Labour Party already weak | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
and has entered a state of civil war. The truth is your party has | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
left you, not the other way round. And it may well find its way back, | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
but you know and I know it won't be at this election. So let me do a job | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
for you. In great parts of the country it is only the Scottish | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Conservatives who are strong enough to take on the SNP, and in many | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
places we can only win if you join us. A Scottish Conservatives are | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
rooted to the centre ground and in the last year we have proven that we | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
can take on the SNP. We did it last May at the Holyrood elections and | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
two weeks ago in the local elections, and we are committed to | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
workers' rights, to boosting low pay, to getting a good deal for our | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
fishermen and improving the education of all of our young people | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
who have been let down by the SNP. So together with your help we can | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
lead the fight back against the SNP and stop Nicola Sturgeon trying to | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
pull our country apart. We will hold her to the promised that the last | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
referendum was a once in a generation, and as Theresa May and | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
myself made clear a few months ago, we won't roll over when they demand | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
a rerun, we will stand up for the quite majority in Scotland who like | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
us have had enough of the SNP's games and who are simply looking for | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
someone to take them on. Let me give Nicola Sturgeon some friendly | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
advice,... LAUGHTER The Prime Minister says she is a | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
bloody difficult woman. Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. APPLAUSE | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
I will fight and fight and fight again to protect the decision that | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
we made as a country to stay together, to stick together and to | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
face the world as one united kingdom. Ladies and gentlemen, the | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
challenges we face are great and in these times you need someone | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
steadfast enough to take them on. Without further a do, I'd like to | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
pass you to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May. | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
APPLAUSE Thank you. Thank you. Here, in | :09:15. | :09:40. | |
Edinburgh, one of the great cities of our Union and one of the greatest | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
cities in the world, we launch our manifesto for a stronger Scotland, a | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
stronger Britain and a prosperous future. The Scottish Conservative | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
and Unionist Party manifesto for this crucial general election. A | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
general election which is defined by one question and one question only - | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
who can lead us through Brexit and get a deal that works for the whole | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
United Kingdom? Who can lead our country and strengthen our Union in | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
the years ahead This manifesto is my plan for a stronger union and a | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
better Britain. My plan to build a country that works for everyone and | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
not just a privileged few. We are embarking on a period of national | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
change and I believe the United Kingdom can emerge from it stronger, | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
more prosperous and a more united country than ever before, and this | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
party, the Conservative and Unionist Party, will be the Government that | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
steps up and makes that more united nation a reality. Yesterday, as Ruth | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
said, in Halifax I set out my plan to seize the opportunities ahead and | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
to build a country that our children and grandchildren are proud to call | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
home. It's a detailed Programme for Government, rooted in the hopes and | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
aspirations of ordinary working people. A clear plan to meet the big | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
challenges we face together. A credible deliverable Programme for | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
Government around which the whole country can unite. Unlike the | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
offerings of other parties, we are being upfront and honest with the | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
British people about the scale of the task we face because leadership | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
means being straight with people about the challenges ahead and the | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
hard work required to overcome them. That is what this manifesto does. It | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
sets out the five great challenges that we must face. One, the need for | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
a strong economy. Two, responding to Brexit and a change inning world. | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
Three, tackling enduring social divisions. Four, responding to an | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
ageing society. Five, facing up to fast changing technology. It sets | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
out what we will do to address each one. These are challenges which we | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
all face, right across the United Kingdom, and the lesson of Britain's | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
history is that we all do best when we tackle challenges together, | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
united. That's how we have overcome obstacles in the past and that is | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
how we will make success of the future. In setting out our plan, | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
we're offering a vision for our you king doll, not just for the next | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
five years, but for the years and decades beyond. A country where | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
everyone has the economic security they need and the chance to lead a | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
secure and full life. A prosperous country where each generation can do | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
better than the last. But all that starts with getting the right Brexit | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
deal, one which works for the whole United Kingdom. When I sit down with | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
the Prime Ministers, presidents and Chancellors of Europe, I will do so | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
Northern Ireland. When I fight for the best deal, it will be a deal | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
which works for the whole United Kingdom. When I talk about a better | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
future for our country, I mean the whole United Kingdom. The choice for | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
who will be at the negotiating who will be at the negotiating | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
tablifyinging to get a deal which is right for Britain and which will | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
strengthen our union in the years ahead? Will it be me or will it be | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
Jeremy Corbyn, propped up by the Scottish Nationalists? A vote for me | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
and my team is a vote for strong and stable leadership and every vote for | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
me and my team will strengthen my hand in the negotiations to come. | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
Every vote will help me get a better deal for the whole United Kingdom. | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
Every vote from Scotland will strengthen my hand when I stand up | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
for our United Kingdom here at home. APPLAUSE | :14:23. | :14:44. | |
Something else is clear. Only the Conservative and Unionist Party has | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
the strength and credibility to stand up to the Nationalists and | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
defend our United Kingdom. APPLAUSE | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
Jeremy Corbyn is too weak to stand up for our union, even if he wanted | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
to. According to him, a second independence referendum would be | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
"absolutely fine." I've been clear that now is not the time for another | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
independence referendum. This is a time to pull together, not apart. A | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
vote for any other party is a vote to weaken our union, to weaken our | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
negotiating hand in Europe and to put our future prosperity and | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
security at risk. Our future prosperity depends on having the | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
strongest possible hand as we enter those negotiations in order to get | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
the best Brexit deal for families across the country. If we fail, the | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
consequences for the United Kingdom and for the economic security of | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
ordinary working people will be dire. If we succeed, the | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
opportunities ahead of us are great. Get Brexit right and we can use this | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
moment of change to build a stronger, fairer, more prosperous | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
United Kingdom. A stronger union where we work together to build a | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
better future. That stronger union is a personal priority for me. As | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
long as I am Prime Minister, I will never stand by and let our union | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
drift apart. APPLAUSE | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
Too often in the past UK Governments have tended ed to devolve and | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
forget. The Government I lead will put that | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
right. We will make the institutions of our United Kingdom a force for | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
good across the whole UK. The UK Government already employs more | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
civil servants in Scotland Thane the Scottish Government does. Scotland | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
makes a major contribution to the UK's defence estate. But I want us | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
to do more to ensure that all parts of our union, including the great | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
cities of Scotland, can play a bigger role in our shared national | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
life. I'm ambitious for everyone in Britain and a Government for the | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
whole UK will leave no-one behind in our efforts to spread opportunity | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
and prosperity. So we will help the Scottish economy, putting Scottish | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
industries at the centre of our modern industrial strategy. Scotland | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
is an economic powerhouse within the United Kingdom and I want to do all | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
I can to help it grow and flourish. As we develop our new trade | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
policies, we will use the United Kingdom's muscle to promote | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
Scotland's exports more effectively around the world. We will build on | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
the success of the city deals which the UK Government has pioneered | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
across Scotland to help spread prosperity further. As Conservatives | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
and Unionist, we believe that every part of our country should share in | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
prosperity and opportunity. But within our United Kingdom today | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
great dispar tease exist so a Unionist Government will take action | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
to close these gaps and bring our nations and people together. Our new | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
UK shared prosperity fund will replace ineffective EU structural | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
funds with a new targeted scheme whose sole purpose will be to reduce | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
the inequalities which exist within and between the Four Nations of our | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
United Kingdom. We will take back control of funds and use them to | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
strengthen our union and reduce inequalities between our | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
communities. Leaving the EU will also enable us to build a better | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
future for our fishermen. Leaving the European Union means leaving the | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
Common Fisheries Policy. After Brexit, we will be responsible for | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
the access and management of the waters where we have historically | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
exercised sovereign control. During this campaign, the nationalists have | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
confirmed that their policy is to take an independent Scotland | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
straight back into full membership of the EU and straight back into the | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
grip of the Common Fisheries Policy. APPLAUSE | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
So my clear message to voters in Scotland's coastal communities is | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
this. A vote for me is a vote for a better future for fishing. A vote | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
for the SNP is a vote for the Common Fisheries Policy. The contrast | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
between a Unionist Government at the service of ordinary, working | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
families and a Nationalist Government with a tunnel vision | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
obsession with its own ideology is clear. After a decade of SNP | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
neglect, standards in Scottish education, once the envy of the | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
civilised world, have become a national scandal. The SNP's tunnel | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
vision obsession with independence above everything else has meant | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
young people in Scotland are being let down. Education might be a | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
devolved matter, but I still care very deeply about the life chances | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
of Scottish children. As Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, I | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
care just as much about the future of children from Ayrshire and Angus | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
as I do about the future of children from Kent and Carlisle. I want | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
everyone in our country to have the chance to live secure and prosperous | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
lives and reach their full potential. That is because of a | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
simple truth, across the United Kingdom we may be Four Nations, but | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
at heart we are one people. We all have a stake in each other's | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
success. We all have a stake in this general election. We all have a | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
stake in getting Brexit right. We need strong and stable leadership to | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
see us through Brexit and beyond. Tackling the long-term challenges we | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
face and ensuring everyone in our country has the chance to get on in | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
life. We need that strong and stable leadership now more than ever. Now | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
more than ever Britain needs a clear plan and the determination and the | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
will to see it through. And now, more than ever, we need a Government | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
committed, heart and soul, to strengthening and sustaining our | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
precious union of nations and people. It is is why, in this | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
election, more than in any before, it is time to put the old tribal | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
politics behind us. To think not about who you have voted for in the | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
past, but about who you want to lead our country in the future. Who will | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
get the best deal for the whole UK from Brexit. It is time to come | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
together in the national interest. United in our desire to make a | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
success of Brexit. United in our desire to get the right deal for the | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
whole UK. United in our determination to strengthen our | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
union of nations. That is my offer to you, as your Prime Minister. That | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
is the Government I will lead. A Government of the whole United | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
Kingdom, for the whole United Kingdom. With the vision of a bet | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
are future for all, the plan and the will to see it through. The right | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
deal for Britain abroad and a better deal for ordinary, working people at | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
home. Our Union secured for the future. A stronger, fairer more | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
prosperous United Kingdom that works for everyone, not just a privileged | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
few. So join me on this journey. Come with me as I lead Britain. | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Strengthen my hand as I fight to strengthen our union. Stand with me | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
as I deliver for the whole United Kingdom and with confidence be in | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
ourselves and a unity of purpose in our country, let us all go forward | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
together. APPLAUSE | :23:14. | :23:46. | |
Please. Thank you very much. I'm going to take if you questions from | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
the media. We have the BBC, Sarah? Sarah Smith from the BBC. You say in | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
your manifesto you won't allow another referendum on skill -- | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
Scottish independence, until there is a clear case for it, how will you | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
measure that? What I'm very clear about is that at this important time | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
of national change we all need to be working together with one clear | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
focus and that is making sure that we get the best deal from Brexit for | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
the United Kingdom and for the whole of the UK, that is for the people of | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
Scotland as well as people across the rest of the UK. And that we | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
should be working together and uniting in order to do that and | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
talking about a second independence referendum at this time is trying to | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
pull us apart just at the very time when as a nation and as a United | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
Kingdom we should be pulling together and working in the | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
interests of everyone across the whole country. APPLAUSE | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
Your social care plans are already being dubbed a dementia tax and some | :24:58. | :25:11. | |
in your own party are very unhappy with the plans. Can you tell us what | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
it is fair and elderly person with cancer can be treated for free but | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
an elderly person who is unlucky enough to get dementia will have to | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in care costs? What I set out today | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
and yesterday is about the five great challenges that we face as a | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
country. One of those is our ageing society and within that making sure | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
that we have a long-term plan for sustainable social care in the | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
future. That is what we have set out in our manifesto. What we are doing | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
is taking the system already exists of the deferred payments for | :25:52. | :25:53. | |
residential care and saying that should apply for care at home. We | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
are quadrupled in the assets that will be protected so people will | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
have ?100,000 of assets protected rather than ?23,000 that is | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
currently in the arrangement. But I think as we look at the long-term | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
and facing this challenge, we need to make sure that what we are doing | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
is providing dignity for older people in their old age but doing | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
this in a way that is fair across the generations. That is what we are | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
doing and that is what our long-term care plan will do. Sky here? Prime | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
Minister, given events this morning in Sweden, what is your view and | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
that of the government of Julian Assange and would you support the | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
extradition request from the United States? We look at those requests | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
when we receive them, on a case-by-case basis. In relation to | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
Julian Assange, any decision that is taken about the UK action in | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
relation to him, were he to leave the Ecuadorian embassy, that would | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
be a matter for the police. Do we have the Scotsman? Yes? No? LAUGHTER | :27:07. | :27:21. | |
Prime Minister, Nicola Sturgeon has said if she wins the election | :27:22. | :27:32. | |
Scotland would being titled to place the -- the Scottish Government would | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
be entitled to take part in the Brexit negotiations. When these | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
negotiations take place it will be between the British government and | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
the 27 men the States, and so I and David Davis and others will be there | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
representing the whole of the United Kingdom -- 27 member states. I will | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
be negotiating as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
Ireland. We will continue to talk to and work with the Scottish | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
Government as we do with the other devolved administrations but sitting | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
around that negotiating table, the place for people on the 8th of June | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
is very clear, even me or Jeremy Corbyn. -- either me. APPLAUSE | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
We have The Daily Mail here? I want to ask a bit more about the | :28:23. | :28:36. | |
public consent, could you outline what that would be, polling, the | :28:37. | :28:45. | |
election result? I'm right in saying that the one party that has spoken | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
about what they think public consent should be is the Scottish | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
nationalist party and they have not reached what they have suggested. | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
This is about whether or not we should be thinking at this moment in | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
time about a second independence referendum. The Scottish | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
Nationalists have this tunnel vision of session with independence. To the | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
extent that actually they have allowed the day job, they have taken | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
their eye off the day job and they have allowed things like education | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
in Scotland to deteriorate. What I'm saying is a very simple message to | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
people, right now, we should be focusing very clearly on who is | :29:26. | :29:27. | |
going to lead the United Kingdom for the next five years. Right now we | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
should be focusing on how we should take a strong hand into the | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
negotiating table and get the best possible deal for the whole of the | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
UK. Talking about a second independence referendum right now | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
doesn't strengthen our hand, it weakens our hand, and as I said | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
before we should pull together, not apart. APPLAUSE | :29:47. | :29:54. | |
Do we have The Sun? Yes? Behind you, I think. Can you tell how much will | :29:55. | :30:10. | |
programme will cost to implement? It will be fiscally neutral and we have | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
shown throughout the manifesto that we set out overall where we will be | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
able to make sure that money is saved and money can be put into | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
other areas. Crucially what we are showing in our manifesto is support | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
for public services and support for a good strong economy because you | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
can only do what we want to do in government if you have that strong | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
economy. You need the strong economy to supply the funds that support | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
public services and again if we just look at what has happened under the | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
SNP stewardship of the economy in Scotland, where they have made it | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
the higher tax part of the UK, that is not the way to encourage a strong | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
economy and to encourage businesses to invest and bring jobs into | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
Scotland, it is the Conservative Party that has the industrial | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
strategy that will boost the economy here in Scotland and will make sure | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
that there are secure jobs for the future for ordinary working families | :31:12. | :31:21. | |
here in Scotland. The Times? Prime Minister, according to the polls | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
your party in Scotland is on course to do quite well in this election, | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
what is the level of seats that you would see as being a success in | :31:30. | :31:37. | |
Scotland? LAUGHTER Look, I've been in politics for a | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
few years now, and I've made it a golden door that I never predict | :31:44. | :31:50. | |
elections. -- golden rule. What the Scottish Conservatives are doing and | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
what our local candidates are doing, they are going out there and working | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
hard to earn the support of Scottish voters for our party at the | :31:59. | :32:04. | |
election. I come back to my central point, there is a clear choice for | :32:05. | :32:07. | |
people on June the eight, who do they want to see leading the United | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
Kingdom for the next five years? It is only going to be one of two | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
people, me or Jeremy Corbyn, so the choice is strong and stable | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
leadership, strengthening our hand in the Brexit negotiations, or a | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
coalition of chaos, propped up by the SNP. I will take one more | :32:27. | :32:29. | |
question. One more question. Can you tell me why you think in | :32:30. | :32:49. | |
which people should pay for NHS prescriptions but Scottish people | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
shouldn't. These are decisions which are taken separately by governments, | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
that is the whole point of devolution, there are areas where | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
the Scottish Government is able to take separate decisions. That will | :33:01. | :33:06. | |
always continue to be the case. What is important for those people in | :33:07. | :33:09. | |
England who are looking at the national health service, the extra | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
money and funding that we are putting into the NHS, what we have | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
set out in our manifesto is the real terms increase per head every year | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
for the NHS and that would be around ?8 billion, we forecast by the end | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
of parliament, and also the biggest ever investment in technology and | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
buildings in the national health service over the next Parliament. | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
That is our commitment to the NHS but we can only do that with a | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
strong economy to underpin that as part of that is making sure they get | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
the Brexit negotiations right. Thank you very much. | :33:45. | :33:48. |