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The perils of travelling with the Prime Minister and using her

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lecturing when she is a foot taller than you! Can I welcome you to the

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launch of our Scottish manifesto. Let me start by thanking the Prime

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Minister but coming to Edinburgh. A Prime Minister who has shown she has

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what it takes to do the job, and he doesn't shirk the big challenges

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that our country faces and someone we can trust over the next five

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years, not to bend in the wind, but to stand strong and always put the

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national interest first. As leadership -- its leadership, ladies

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and gentlemen, and you know it when you see a comment we can all see it

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in Theresa May. -- you know it when you see it and we can all see it in

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Theresa May. This manifesto today makes one thing very clear, the

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Scottish Conservatives are back. We are back in the centre ground of

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Scottish politics, back with ideas to take our country forward, to turn

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our faltering education system around, to champion the fair work

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agenda and to invest in the next generation of family homes. And at

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this election we are offering to do something else, and that is to send

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the SNP a clear and unequivocal message. Noted there and wanted plan

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for another referendum on independence -- no to their and

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wanted. Enough. APPLAUSE Enough of the endless division and

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uncertainty they have imposed in our country, it is time for them to get

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back to the day job and time for the country to come back together. It is

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time to work with family, friends and neighbours across the UK, to

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boost our security and our prosperity, and we know that Nicola

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Sturgeon doesn't want to hear that. So at this election we say this,

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let's bring the SNP down to size, to make her listen, and to make sure

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that finally we get the security and stability that we all deserve. We

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want this. Not just because in the Scottish Conservative Party we are

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unashamedly proud of our union and our country, that will always be the

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case, but we want it because in a vital time in our country we need

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government to focus on the issues that really matter. Not on division

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and grievance which is not wanted, but on taking Scotland and Britain

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through the challenges that we face, and yesterday the Prime Minister

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spelt out exactly what those challenges are, delivering a strong

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economy so everyone in this country can prosper, working to achieve a

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smooth and orderly departure from the European Union. Reducing social

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divisions so you can get on no matter who you are and where you are

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from. Responding to the challenges of an ageing society, and harnessing

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the power of technology for good. Using the power of government to

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support families and communities to make our lives that little bit

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easier. Talking up the good that government can do. Some say that is

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not conservative message, but I say that tackling the issues of the day

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had on using government to correct injustice and speaking for all of

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society, they are conservative values and they always have been.

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Yesterday the Prime Minister set out how she intends to put those values

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into practice and in this manifesto we set out how they will work for

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Scotland, as well. With Scotland at the heart of the new industrial

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strategy giving our gas and oil sector be supporting these, with

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Scotland at the heart of the new plan for after Brexit, having our

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fishermen the security they deserve. With workers offered greater

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protection whether they are in Birmingham or Belfast or Banchory,

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and with Scotland back at the heart of the union. Not half in, half out,

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because it is time to make sure that this union works better. So today we

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set out our plans to make demolition work better, and to build a stronger

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Scotland. -- devolution work better. So that young people in their 20s

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and 30s can realise the chance of owning a home of their own. With

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more childcare for families for the most disadvantaged backgrounds

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because we know it is in those early years that too many children get

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left behind. And most of all, with immediate action to tackle the mess

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the SNP is making of our education system, standards in literacy and

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numerous see falling, not enough teachers, not enough inspectors to

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keep the standards up, trainees and admitting that they are not given

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the maths skills they need to teach primary school children how to

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count. And in charge, an SNP administration which can waffle for

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Scotland about the plans it has but has been so busy trying to rerun the

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referendum it hasn't got round to action. Well I say enough. It is as

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clear now more than ever that for all the good intentions that were

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behind the new curriculum in Scotland, basic standards are

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slipping. Our manifesto makes clear that we will call for a reset of

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curriculum for excellence putting the focus back where it belongs on

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learning core knowledge and facts and if we are serious, if we are

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serious about education being a leveller, that kids from poorer

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backgrounds can learn their way to a better life, then these are the

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skills that they need. The SNP has failed generation and it's time they

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held to account. And in doing all of this and improving schools and

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economy and protecting the union, I say, the Scottish Conservative Party

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is the one which can represent the mainstream in our land. A mainstream

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which once felt loyalty to Labour. But who can now see that party at a

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complete loss. So today I want to speak directly to Labour Party

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voters across Scotland. You have stuck with your party to the

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referendum when thousands left, you have been through leadership

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election after leadership election, and Jeremy Corbyn was not your

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choice. You have watched as your Scottish leader Kezia Dugdale has

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left voters in Aberdeen betrayed. Because she would rather prop up the

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SNP than work together with the Conservatives. In Lanarkshire

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long-term servants of Labour have said they have no choice but to

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simply walk away. This week the Scottish Labour Party already weak

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and has entered a state of civil war. The truth is your party has

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left you, not the other way round. And it may well find its way back,

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but you know and I know it won't be at this election. So let me do a job

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for you. In great parts of the country it is only the Scottish

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Conservatives who are strong enough to take on the SNP, and in many

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places we can only win if you join us. A Scottish Conservatives are

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rooted to the centre ground and in the last year we have proven that we

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can take on the SNP. We did it last May at the Holyrood elections and

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two weeks ago in the local elections, and we are committed to

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workers' rights, to boosting low pay, to getting a good deal for our

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fishermen and improving the education of all of our young people

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who have been let down by the SNP. So together with your help we can

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lead the fight back against the SNP and stop Nicola Sturgeon trying to

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pull our country apart. We will hold her to the promised that the last

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referendum was a once in a generation, and as Theresa May and

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myself made clear a few months ago, we won't roll over when they demand

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a rerun, we will stand up for the quite majority in Scotland who like

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us have had enough of the SNP's games and who are simply looking for

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someone to take them on. Let me give Nicola Sturgeon some friendly

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advice,... LAUGHTER The Prime Minister says she is a

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bloody difficult woman. Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. APPLAUSE

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I will fight and fight and fight again to protect the decision that

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we made as a country to stay together, to stick together and to

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face the world as one united kingdom. Ladies and gentlemen, the

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challenges we face are great and in these times you need someone

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steadfast enough to take them on. Without further a do, I'd like to

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pass you to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May.

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APPLAUSE Thank you. Thank you. Here, in

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Edinburgh, one of the great cities of our Union and one of the greatest

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cities in the world, we launch our manifesto for a stronger Scotland, a

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stronger Britain and a prosperous future. The Scottish Conservative

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and Unionist Party manifesto for this crucial general election. A

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general election which is defined by one question and one question only -

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who can lead us through Brexit and get a deal that works for the whole

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United Kingdom? Who can lead our country and strengthen our Union in

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the years ahead This manifesto is my plan for a stronger union and a

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better Britain. My plan to build a country that works for everyone and

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not just a privileged few. We are embarking on a period of national

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change and I believe the United Kingdom can emerge from it stronger,

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more prosperous and a more united country than ever before, and this

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party, the Conservative and Unionist Party, will be the Government that

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steps up and makes that more united nation a reality. Yesterday, as Ruth

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said, in Halifax I set out my plan to seize the opportunities ahead and

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to build a country that our children and grandchildren are proud to call

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home. It's a detailed Programme for Government, rooted in the hopes and

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aspirations of ordinary working people. A clear plan to meet the big

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challenges we face together. A credible deliverable Programme for

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Government around which the whole country can unite. Unlike the

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offerings of other parties, we are being upfront and honest with the

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British people about the scale of the task we face because leadership

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means being straight with people about the challenges ahead and the

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hard work required to overcome them. That is what this manifesto does. It

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sets out the five great challenges that we must face. One, the need for

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a strong economy. Two, responding to Brexit and a change inning world.

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Three, tackling enduring social divisions. Four, responding to an

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ageing society. Five, facing up to fast changing technology. It sets

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out what we will do to address each one. These are challenges which we

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all face, right across the United Kingdom, and the lesson of Britain's

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history is that we all do best when we tackle challenges together,

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united. That's how we have overcome obstacles in the past and that is

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how we will make success of the future. In setting out our plan,

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we're offering a vision for our you king doll, not just for the next

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five years, but for the years and decades beyond. A country where

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everyone has the economic security they need and the chance to lead a

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secure and full life. A prosperous country where each generation can do

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better than the last. But all that starts with getting the right Brexit

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deal, one which works for the whole United Kingdom. When I sit down with

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the Prime Ministers, presidents and Chancellors of Europe, I will do so

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as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and

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Northern Ireland. When I fight for the best deal, it will be a deal

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which works for the whole United Kingdom. When I talk about a better

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future for our country, I mean the whole United Kingdom. The choice for

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who will be at the negotiating who will be at the negotiating

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tablifyinging to get a deal which is right for Britain and which will

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strengthen our union in the years ahead? Will it be me or will it be

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Jeremy Corbyn, propped up by the Scottish Nationalists? A vote for me

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and my team is a vote for strong and stable leadership and every vote for

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me and my team will strengthen my hand in the negotiations to come.

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Every vote will help me get a better deal for the whole United Kingdom.

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Every vote from Scotland will strengthen my hand when I stand up

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for our United Kingdom here at home. APPLAUSE

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Something else is clear. Only the Conservative and Unionist Party has

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the strength and credibility to stand up to the Nationalists and

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defend our United Kingdom. APPLAUSE

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Jeremy Corbyn is too weak to stand up for our union, even if he wanted

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to. According to him, a second independence referendum would be

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"absolutely fine." I've been clear that now is not the time for another

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independence referendum. This is a time to pull together, not apart. A

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vote for any other party is a vote to weaken our union, to weaken our

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negotiating hand in Europe and to put our future prosperity and

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security at risk. Our future prosperity depends on having the

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strongest possible hand as we enter those negotiations in order to get

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the best Brexit deal for families across the country. If we fail, the

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consequences for the United Kingdom and for the economic security of

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ordinary working people will be dire. If we succeed, the

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opportunities ahead of us are great. Get Brexit right and we can use this

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moment of change to build a stronger, fairer, more prosperous

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United Kingdom. A stronger union where we work together to build a

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better future. That stronger union is a personal priority for me. As

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long as I am Prime Minister, I will never stand by and let our union

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drift apart. APPLAUSE

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Too often in the past UK Governments have tended ed to devolve and

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forget. The Government I lead will put that

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right. We will make the institutions of our United Kingdom a force for

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good across the whole UK. The UK Government already employs more

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civil servants in Scotland Thane the Scottish Government does. Scotland

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makes a major contribution to the UK's defence estate. But I want us

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to do more to ensure that all parts of our union, including the great

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cities of Scotland, can play a bigger role in our shared national

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life. I'm ambitious for everyone in Britain and a Government for the

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whole UK will leave no-one behind in our efforts to spread opportunity

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and prosperity. So we will help the Scottish economy, putting Scottish

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industries at the centre of our modern industrial strategy. Scotland

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is an economic powerhouse within the United Kingdom and I want to do all

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I can to help it grow and flourish. As we develop our new trade

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policies, we will use the United Kingdom's muscle to promote

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Scotland's exports more effectively around the world. We will build on

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the success of the city deals which the UK Government has pioneered

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across Scotland to help spread prosperity further. As Conservatives

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and Unionist, we believe that every part of our country should share in

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prosperity and opportunity. But within our United Kingdom today

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great dispar tease exist so a Unionist Government will take action

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to close these gaps and bring our nations and people together. Our new

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UK shared prosperity fund will replace ineffective EU structural

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funds with a new targeted scheme whose sole purpose will be to reduce

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the inequalities which exist within and between the Four Nations of our

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United Kingdom. We will take back control of funds and use them to

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strengthen our union and reduce inequalities between our

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communities. Leaving the EU will also enable us to build a better

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future for our fishermen. Leaving the European Union means leaving the

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Common Fisheries Policy. After Brexit, we will be responsible for

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the access and management of the waters where we have historically

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exercised sovereign control. During this campaign, the nationalists have

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confirmed that their policy is to take an independent Scotland

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straight back into full membership of the EU and straight back into the

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grip of the Common Fisheries Policy. APPLAUSE

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So my clear message to voters in Scotland's coastal communities is

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this. A vote for me is a vote for a better future for fishing. A vote

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for the SNP is a vote for the Common Fisheries Policy. The contrast

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between a Unionist Government at the service of ordinary, working

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families and a Nationalist Government with a tunnel vision

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obsession with its own ideology is clear. After a decade of SNP

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neglect, standards in Scottish education, once the envy of the

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civilised world, have become a national scandal. The SNP's tunnel

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vision obsession with independence above everything else has meant

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young people in Scotland are being let down. Education might be a

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devolved matter, but I still care very deeply about the life chances

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of Scottish children. As Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, I

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care just as much about the future of children from Ayrshire and Angus

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as I do about the future of children from Kent and Carlisle. I want

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everyone in our country to have the chance to live secure and prosperous

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lives and reach their full potential. That is because of a

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simple truth, across the United Kingdom we may be Four Nations, but

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at heart we are one people. We all have a stake in each other's

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success. We all have a stake in this general election. We all have a

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stake in getting Brexit right. We need strong and stable leadership to

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see us through Brexit and beyond. Tackling the long-term challenges we

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face and ensuring everyone in our country has the chance to get on in

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life. We need that strong and stable leadership now more than ever. Now

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more than ever Britain needs a clear plan and the determination and the

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will to see it through. And now, more than ever, we need a Government

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committed, heart and soul, to strengthening and sustaining our

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precious union of nations and people. It is is why, in this

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election, more than in any before, it is time to put the old tribal

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politics behind us. To think not about who you have voted for in the

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past, but about who you want to lead our country in the future. Who will

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get the best deal for the whole UK from Brexit. It is time to come

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together in the national interest. United in our desire to make a

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success of Brexit. United in our desire to get the right deal for the

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whole UK. United in our determination to strengthen our

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union of nations. That is my offer to you, as your Prime Minister. That

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is the Government I will lead. A Government of the whole United

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Kingdom, for the whole United Kingdom. With the vision of a bet

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are future for all, the plan and the will to see it through. The right

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deal for Britain abroad and a better deal for ordinary, working people at

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home. Our Union secured for the future. A stronger, fairer more

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prosperous United Kingdom that works for everyone, not just a privileged

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few. So join me on this journey. Come with me as I lead Britain.

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Strengthen my hand as I fight to strengthen our union. Stand with me

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as I deliver for the whole United Kingdom and with confidence be in

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ourselves and a unity of purpose in our country, let us all go forward

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together. APPLAUSE

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Please. Thank you very much. I'm going to take if you questions from

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the media. We have the BBC, Sarah? Sarah Smith from the BBC. You say in

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your manifesto you won't allow another referendum on skill --

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Scottish independence, until there is a clear case for it, how will you

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measure that? What I'm very clear about is that at this important time

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of national change we all need to be working together with one clear

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focus and that is making sure that we get the best deal from Brexit for

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the United Kingdom and for the whole of the UK, that is for the people of

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Scotland as well as people across the rest of the UK. And that we

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should be working together and uniting in order to do that and

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talking about a second independence referendum at this time is trying to

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pull us apart just at the very time when as a nation and as a United

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Kingdom we should be pulling together and working in the

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interests of everyone across the whole country. APPLAUSE

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Your social care plans are already being dubbed a dementia tax and some

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in your own party are very unhappy with the plans. Can you tell us what

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it is fair and elderly person with cancer can be treated for free but

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an elderly person who is unlucky enough to get dementia will have to

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pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in care costs? What I set out today

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and yesterday is about the five great challenges that we face as a

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country. One of those is our ageing society and within that making sure

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that we have a long-term plan for sustainable social care in the

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future. That is what we have set out in our manifesto. What we are doing

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is taking the system already exists of the deferred payments for

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residential care and saying that should apply for care at home. We

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are quadrupled in the assets that will be protected so people will

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have ?100,000 of assets protected rather than ?23,000 that is

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currently in the arrangement. But I think as we look at the long-term

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and facing this challenge, we need to make sure that what we are doing

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is providing dignity for older people in their old age but doing

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this in a way that is fair across the generations. That is what we are

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doing and that is what our long-term care plan will do. Sky here? Prime

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Minister, given events this morning in Sweden, what is your view and

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that of the government of Julian Assange and would you support the

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extradition request from the United States? We look at those requests

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when we receive them, on a case-by-case basis. In relation to

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Julian Assange, any decision that is taken about the UK action in

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relation to him, were he to leave the Ecuadorian embassy, that would

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be a matter for the police. Do we have the Scotsman? Yes? No? LAUGHTER

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Prime Minister, Nicola Sturgeon has said if she wins the election

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Scotland would being titled to place the -- the Scottish Government would

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be entitled to take part in the Brexit negotiations. When these

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negotiations take place it will be between the British government and

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the 27 men the States, and so I and David Davis and others will be there

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representing the whole of the United Kingdom -- 27 member states. I will

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be negotiating as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern

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Ireland. We will continue to talk to and work with the Scottish

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Government as we do with the other devolved administrations but sitting

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around that negotiating table, the place for people on the 8th of June

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is very clear, even me or Jeremy Corbyn. -- either me. APPLAUSE

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We have The Daily Mail here? I want to ask a bit more about the

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public consent, could you outline what that would be, polling, the

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election result? I'm right in saying that the one party that has spoken

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about what they think public consent should be is the Scottish

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nationalist party and they have not reached what they have suggested.

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This is about whether or not we should be thinking at this moment in

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time about a second independence referendum. The Scottish

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Nationalists have this tunnel vision of session with independence. To the

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extent that actually they have allowed the day job, they have taken

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their eye off the day job and they have allowed things like education

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in Scotland to deteriorate. What I'm saying is a very simple message to

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people, right now, we should be focusing very clearly on who is

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going to lead the United Kingdom for the next five years. Right now we

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should be focusing on how we should take a strong hand into the

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negotiating table and get the best possible deal for the whole of the

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UK. Talking about a second independence referendum right now

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doesn't strengthen our hand, it weakens our hand, and as I said

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before we should pull together, not apart. APPLAUSE

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Do we have The Sun? Yes? Behind you, I think. Can you tell how much will

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programme will cost to implement? It will be fiscally neutral and we have

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shown throughout the manifesto that we set out overall where we will be

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able to make sure that money is saved and money can be put into

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other areas. Crucially what we are showing in our manifesto is support

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for public services and support for a good strong economy because you

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can only do what we want to do in government if you have that strong

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economy. You need the strong economy to supply the funds that support

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public services and again if we just look at what has happened under the

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SNP stewardship of the economy in Scotland, where they have made it

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the higher tax part of the UK, that is not the way to encourage a strong

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economy and to encourage businesses to invest and bring jobs into

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Scotland, it is the Conservative Party that has the industrial

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strategy that will boost the economy here in Scotland and will make sure

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that there are secure jobs for the future for ordinary working families

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here in Scotland. The Times? Prime Minister, according to the polls

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your party in Scotland is on course to do quite well in this election,

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what is the level of seats that you would see as being a success in

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Scotland? LAUGHTER Look, I've been in politics for a

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few years now, and I've made it a golden door that I never predict

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elections. -- golden rule. What the Scottish Conservatives are doing and

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what our local candidates are doing, they are going out there and working

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hard to earn the support of Scottish voters for our party at the

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election. I come back to my central point, there is a clear choice for

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people on June the eight, who do they want to see leading the United

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Kingdom for the next five years? It is only going to be one of two

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people, me or Jeremy Corbyn, so the choice is strong and stable

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leadership, strengthening our hand in the Brexit negotiations, or a

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coalition of chaos, propped up by the SNP. I will take one more

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question. One more question. Can you tell me why you think in

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which people should pay for NHS prescriptions but Scottish people

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shouldn't. These are decisions which are taken separately by governments,

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that is the whole point of devolution, there are areas where

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the Scottish Government is able to take separate decisions. That will

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always continue to be the case. What is important for those people in

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England who are looking at the national health service, the extra

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money and funding that we are putting into the NHS, what we have

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set out in our manifesto is the real terms increase per head every year

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for the NHS and that would be around ?8 billion, we forecast by the end

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of parliament, and also the biggest ever investment in technology and

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buildings in the national health service over the next Parliament.

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That is our commitment to the NHS but we can only do that with a

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strong economy to underpin that as part of that is making sure they get

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the Brexit negotiations right. Thank you very much.

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