Theresa May Speech Election 2017

Thank you very much. It is great to be here this morning on this day,

the 1st of June, and we have one week to go until the most important

election this country has faced in my lifetime. We are 12 months on

from the EU referendum, 12 months since the British people voted for a

brighter future for our country, 12 months since they broke it -- voted

to leave the EU. In one week's time, they have the opportunity to affirm

that decision and secure that brighter future by voting for me to

continue as Prime Minister. If they do, I am confident that we can

fulfil the promise of Brexit together and Ilda Britain that is

stronger, fairer, and even more prosperous than it is today. Because

the promise of Brexit is great, the opportunities before us enormous,

and I am ambitious for Brexit and ambitious for Britain. For we are a

great country, a country that is proud of its European heritage, but

a country that has always looked beyond Europe to the wider world,

and 12 months ago, the British people chose to do so again. They

chose to build a more noble written, and let us the clear, they did so

with their eyes open. They knew it would not be straightforward, they

knew the road ahead may be uncertain but they believed would lead towards

a brighter future for their children and their band children, too. So,

with determination, they defied the establishment, ignored the threats,

and made their voices heard. I respect that decision and I'm clear

about what needs to be done. It is time to act on the instruction, to

deliver there will. It is time to respect the decision of the British

people and take written out of the European Union. And that is what I

am ready to do from dateline. I have the determination and I have the

land, are cleared plan laid out in a White Paper and approved by

Hollywood to get the best Brexit deal from Britain. -- approved by

parliament. A deal that works to the UK and for the EU to. Certainty at

every age so that people and businesses can plan for the few job,

control of our own laws so we bring decision-making back to Britain. A

strong United Kingdom so we all move forward together. The Common travel

area with Ireland retained with no return to Borders for the past.

Controlled immigration so our immigration system serves the

national interest. Rights for EU nationals, writes for workers

enhanced, free trade for European markets. Trade with other countries

around the world, a leading role in science and innovation, continued

cooperation to defeat crime and have arisen, and a phased approach to a

new relationships delivering fed smooth and orderly Brexit. It is my

clear plan for Brexit. 12 object if that amount to one ambitious goal. A

new deep and special partnership between a successful EU and a

successful Britain. But that is not the limit of my ambition, I want to

do more, because Brexit is not a process but an opportunity.

I want us to work together to fulfil the promise of Brexit as well.

Because if we get Brexit right, then together we can do great things. We

can build a bridge and beyond Brexit that is stronger, fairer and even

more prosperous than it is today, Britain and beyond Brexit that is

more global and outward looking. Britain allied with possibilities,

more confident in itself, more united and more secure. A country

our children and grandchildren are proud to call home. If we get Brexit

right, we can be a confident, self-governing country once again, a

country that takes the decisions that matter to Britain here in

Britain. We will be able to control our own borders, ensuring we

continue to attract the brightest and the best to work or study in

this country, but ensuring we have control over that process so it is

managed properly and our immigration system generally serves the national

interest. Because while controlled immigration can bring great

benefits, filling school shortages, delivering public services, making

British businesses the world beaters they often are, when the numbers get

too high it is difficult to build a cohesive society and united country.

We will be able to control our own money, no longer paying huge sums to

the European Union every year, but spending that money on our

priorities here at home. Things like the new shared prosperity fund we

will put in place, replacing ineffective and restrictive EU

structural funds with a new UK based scheme whose sole purpose will be to

reduce the inequalities that exist within and between the four nations

of our United Kingdom. We will be able to control our own laws,

bringing the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice to an end

and returning decision-making authority to this country as the

public demanded we should. We will be able to control our own affairs,

putting as firmly in control of our own future. If we get Brexit right,

I am confident that future will be bright. As we pursue a bold and

ambitious free trade agreement between the UK and the European

Union and as we get out into the world and do new trade deals with

old friends and new allies around the globe, the opportunities for our

economy will be great. We have already started discussions on

future trade ties with countries like Australia, New Zealand and

India, while countries like China, Brazil, the United States and the

Gulf states have expressed their interest in striking trade deals

with as soon as they can. Set free from the shackles of EU control, we

will be a great global trading nation once again, bringing new jobs

and new opportunities for ordinary working families here at home. As we

build the new modern industrial strategy, we will attract and invest

in high-paid, high skilled jobs and spread prosperity and opportunity

across the country. We were invest in the next generation so that

people growing up in Britain today are ready and able to seize the

opportunities ahead. That is why as well as continuing our school

reforms to ensure everyone gets the core academic education they need,

the government I lead will revolutionise skills training in

this country, putting technical excellence on a par with academic

education for the first time. We will invest in further education

colleges to ensure they have world-class facilities. We will

introduce new levels for post-16 education, replacing a confused

picture of 13,000 existing technical courses with new and better

qualifications that give young people the skills they need to do

the jobs of the future. And as we announced in the budget in March, we

will implement the recommendations of the Sainsbury review into post-16

skills, increasing by over 50% the number of hours training for 16-19

-year-old training for technical students including high-quality,

three month work placement for every student. That means that when those

students qualified they will be genuinely work ready and able to

make the most of the opportunities ahead. In support of all this the

government I lead will invest in a new generation of institutes of

technology in every major city in England, important new institutions

providing sought after skills for local, regional and national

industry. They will be in courage to develop their own local identity to

make sure they meet the skills needs of local employers and they will

give young people the chance to get a good job and put down roots in

their local communities, the place they want to call home. We will do

all this because for Britain to succeed after Brexit we need to make

the most of every talent and ensure no person or community is left

behind. And that is what I mean by fulfilling the promise of Brexit. As

we come together behind this great national mission to make a success

of Brexit and of the opportunities it brings, we will build a more

united country as our shared values, interests and aspirations bring us

together. The government I lead will invest in the institutions that

bring us together as a country, things like our vital public

services, our schools, hospitals, our NHS. The NHS is the essence of

solidarity in our United Kingdom, an institution that binds us all

together, the symbol of our commitment to each other, between

young and old, those who have and those who do not, and the healthy

and the sick. So the government I lead will give the NHS its full

support and back it with the resources it needs, increasing

spending by a minimum of ?8 billion in real terms over the next five

years, an increase in real funding per head of the population for every

year of the parliament. Our schools can be the greatest driver of social

mobility in Britain, the means by which we change the greatest

injustice in Britain today, the fact that your life is so often

determined not by your efforts and talents, but by where you come from,

who your parents are and who you know. I want to Britain after Brexit

to be the world's great meritocracy. It means making Britain a country

where every of whatever background has the chance to go as far as their

talent and their hard work will take them. A country that asks not where

you have come from, but where you are going to. Where are all that

matters is the talent you have and how hard you are prepared to work.

So the government I lead will continue to transform education in

this country with more good schools, more and fairer funding and, yes, we

will lift the ban that stops people establishing selective schools in

England. For too long politicians have said two people and communities

who are crying out for change that they cannot have what they want. For

too long politicians have said if you are rich or well off, you can

have a selective education for your child, you can send them to a

selective private school, you can move to a better catchment area or

afford to send them long distances to get the education you want. Yet

for too long those same politicians have sought to deny that right to

others, to ordinary working people up and down this land. That is a

scandal and we will bring it to an end and we will do all this because

despite all the progress we have made in our schools over the past

seven years, there are still nearly 1 million children in schools that

are not just good enough. If you live in the Midlands are in the

north, you have less chance of attending a good school than

children in the south. If we are to fulfil the promise of Brexit

together, that injustice has to end. If we are to fulfil the promise of

Brexit, we need to ensure the benefits of that promise are shared

by all. But we can only do this with an economy that is strong and

secure. We can only do this with an economy based on sound money and

responsible economic management, and economy run by a government that is

committed to bringing the deficit down and getting the country back to

living within its means. We can only do this with a government that

understands that if you cannot manage your money properly, you will

not command the confidence of investors at home or abroad. A

government that knows if you cannot manage your money properly,

investment will dry up, taxes will rise and businesses and the jobs

they provide will flee from our shores and ordinary working people

will pay the price. We can only do this if we get Brexit right. This is

the prize, the opportunity that is within reach, a stronger, more

secure and prosperous nation, a brighter, fairer future for all, and

that is what excites me about the years ahead. It is what I am working

towards. What motivates me to do what I do and put myself at the

service of ordinary working people, and it is what makes the decision

you face next week so vital. This election is so important because,

make no mistake, not everyone shares this view. They say we are too small

and too insignificant, that Britain cannot do it, that the British

people are not up to the task. In short, they do not believe in

Britain and if that is where you start, you have no hope of getting

the right deal for Britain in Europe. You cannot negotiate the

right Brexit deal for Britain if you do not believe in Britain. You

cannot fight for Britain if you do not have confidence in our strengths

and in all that we have to offer. You can only deliver Brexit if you

believe in Brexit. You can only fight for Britain if you believe in

Britain. You can only deliver for Britain if you have the strength,

the plan and the determination to see it through. What we know in this

election is that the only other person that can be Prime Minister in

seven days' time is simply not up to the job. He does not believe in

Britain, he does not have a plan, he does not have what it takes. After

last night it is clearer than ever that just 11 days after the election

when the negotiations begin, Jeremy Corbyn's focus would not be on

trying to negotiate the deal for Britain in Europe, but in trying to

stitch up a deal with Nicola Sturgeon and the rest. Yet it is on

the success of those crucial Brexit negotiations that everything else we

want is a country will depend. If we do not get Brexit right, if we do

not make a success of the next five years, our economic prosperity will

suffer, jobs and livelihoods will be put at risk and with them the

security and peace of mind of working families. We will not have

the opportunities we want for our children, we will not have the

skill, high-paid jobs of the future, we will not have the financial means

to fund the public services upon which we all rely. And the brighter

future people here in the North East and the country voted for 12 months

ago will slip from our grasp. But if we do, the opportunities before us

are great. That is why I make this commitment to you and this

commitment to Britain. If we stand together and you voted to back me

and strengthen my hand, I will fight to get the best Brexit deal for

Britain. I will stand up for Britain and fight for Britain to guarantee

our economic security to deliver better paying jobs, a good school

place for every child, real technical education and extra

funding every year for our schools and a strong NHS. And I will stand

up for Britain to ensure we control and reduce immigration when we leave

the EU. This is my plan for Britain, a plan for Brexit and beyond. But

the brighter future we want for our country will not just happen. This

great, national moment need a great, national effort in which we pulled

together with the unity of purpose and however we voted in the

referendum last June, we come together with a determination to

make a success of the years ahead because together we can do great

things. As I have said many times in the past, people can have faith in

me because I have faith in them. I believe in the British people, I

believe that with determination, ingenuity and common sense, we can

use this moment of great national change to shape a better future for

Britain. So this is the time to choose. Because at moments like

these, great turning point in our national story, the choices we make

define the character of our nation. We can choose to say the task ahead

is too great, we can choose to turn our face to the past and believe it

cannot be done, or we can look forward with optimism and hope and

to believe in the enduring power of the British spirit. I choose to

believe in Britain and that our best days lie ahead. And I do so because

I am confident we have the vision and the plan to use this moment to

build a better Britain. So over the next seven days, I will fight to

earn every vote in this election because every vote will count, to

strengthen my hand in the Brexit negotiations, and every vote will be

a step towards that brighter future that we can build beyond Brexit

together. That is why I will be campaigning in all corners of this

country in the week ahead and why we will be reaching out to everyone in

every community because this election is not about the old,

tribal politics of the past, but about looking to the future, about

securing that future for the generations still to come, and about

doing Who ever you are and how ever you

have voted before, if you put your trust in me that meet I will work

everyday to build a better future for your family and community. If

you put your trust in me, back me, I will work every day to make a

success of Brexit, and build a Britain our children and

grandchildren are proud to call home. If you put your trust in me,

back me, I will strive to be a leader worthy of our great country

and, together, we will fulfil the promise of Brexit and build a

stronger, fairer, more prosperous tree, a country that works, not just

for a privileged few, but for everyone. Thank you.

Thank you very much. I look over to the media. Who have we got? Then. --

Ben. Then right from the BBC. You warned there would be dire

consequences if you didn't get a good deal but you haven't spelt out

what those dire consequences would be. In which circumstances would you

be prepared to walk away from the negotiations? I have pointed out

some of the problems in my speech. A bad deal right look like... We've

got to grips here, people in Europe who are talking about punishing the

UK and if we went down that route, that would lead to a bad deal for

us. On the other hand, you've got people here in the UK and other

Lydia Ko parties who want to sign up to a deal whatever the price, and

they would end up with the worst possible deal at the highest price,

that would be bad for our country. MLE. Emily Morgan from ITV News.

Could you tell us how you think the campaign is going? Did you think in

your wildest nightmares that the party would be where it is now a

week before polling day, and if I may, can you tell us what you have

done to try to persuade President Trump not to pull out of the Paris

agreement? I'm doing what I have been doing from the beginning of the

campaign, getting out and about and being over all the country, taking

this message out to people of the K -- clear choice they have on the 8th

of June, because there is only one of two people that will be Prime

Minister, me Jeremy Corbyn. And talking about what kind of future we

can build together beyond Brexit because the question people have to

ask themselves is not about how they voted before but who do they want to

see leading this country in the Brexit negotiations are leading this

country for the future. You asked about President Trump and the Paris

agreement on planet change, we retain our commitment, we are a

leading country in the world and it was only at the G seven last week

that I was making cleared to President Trump the importance we

attach to the Paris agreement. Michael. Michael Crick from Channel

4 News. Isn't the reason why you are doing so badly is that whenever

people ask you about policy, all we get our cliches and patted tubes.

And we have seen the same today. People think there is nothing there.

It's get something straight. You mention the 8 billion for the health

service, you mention managing money, where is the ?8 billion coming from

Austen Mark first of all, Michael, is what we have published as a

manifesto that addresses the severe challenges this country faces over

the next five years and beyond, and we have set out clearly some of the

hard choices that need to be made and how we will address those

challenges. You ask about extra funding in the NHS, there's look at

our record of funding on the NHS... Just wait a minute. We have shown

that with the growth of the economy, we are able to ensure that we're

putting that extra money into the NHS. You have been at one or two of

my speech cheers, you will have heard me make the point that funding

the NHS depends on having a strong economy in order to be able to

generate those ones. And that is a fundamental difference between us.

Beth. If it goes downhill, the money for the NHS won't be there. Then

people should vote Conservative to make sure the economy doesn't go

downhill. Beth. Beth Rigby. Sky News. Just to go back to Michael's

point about the economy, you talk about immigration being too high but

many experts will say that if you cut it, tens of thousands, the

economy will take a hit and that will affect all of our children's

futures. Do you accept that? What is a realistic level for immigration

and how many work visas do you anticipate we will need to not have

an economic contraction in this tree? First of all, we have retained

our commitment to bring net migration down to sustainable

levels, that is the tens of thousands. We recognise the impact

that immigration has when it is too high and too fast on people. It is

people at the lower end of the income scale through most feel that

impact, both in displacing jobs and keeping wages down. It also can put

pressure on public services but what we do need to do do is make sure

that young people here in this country are trained with the skills

that they need to take the jobs of the future and that is why what we

are doing in technical education is going to be so important for our

economy in the future. Harry. Harry Hill from the sun. On Tuesday, you

launched a blistering attack on Jeremy Corbyn and here you are

preaching national unity and the end of tribal politics, argued concerned

that your campaigning message is all over the place and gives a slight

sense of panic was to mark no, I think Jeremy Corbyn doesn't have a

plan for Brexit or a plan for building a stronger economy and a

more secure future for this country and he doesn't have a plan for

ensuring our national security. That is why it I say there is a clear

choice at the election, it is who do they want to be and who do they

think has the strong and stable leadership to take this country

through to the few? Yes. Jack maiden from the Telegraph. The latest

opinion poll gives your party a lead of just three points over Labour,

wide you think that the 24 point lead you had when the election

campaign began has evaporated? Jack, you know that there is only one poll

that matters that is the poll that will take place next Thursday at the

general election. When people cost their vote, they have the choice

that is simple, there is one of only two people who will be Prime

Minister, it is either me Remy Corbyn, so the choice they have is

how do they see this you sure, they have a choice to decide who they

want to lead this country into the Brexit negotiations, get the best

deal for those negotiations are also built that stronger, more prosperous

future for our country. It is me and my team that have the strong and

stable leadership to be able to take the country into the Brexit

negotiations and build that stronger, more secure, prosperous

and fair refuge. Yes? Heather Stewart from the Guardian. You are a

menace to, your candidate in Darlington, the constituency where

we found the blue battle bus, Peter Cuthbertson, says a woman of Max H

will history should be there to -- should be looked at in rape trials

and he said a woman of low roles is more likely to concept to sex and to

light, is he an appropriate person? Peter has made clear his views have

changed. I have been clear as Home Secretary over six years and

continuing as Prime Minister a number of issues I have addressed,

the decay around domestic violence, we have seen more people willing to

report allegations of rape and we are seeing more prosecutions for

break. We have seen a change in the way that the police and the criminal

justice system deals with these cases but we need to keep looking at

this, that is why we have announced that we will bring in domestic

violence legislation because we need to keep ensuring that we are dealing

with this so that we eradicate this abuse of women that we see in our

country, and it is not just abuse of women, of course, because domestic

violence can take place against men as well, and we should never forget

that. I'm from the Daily Mirror. You said over the weekend that you and

others told President Trump about the importance you attach to the

climate deal, will it be a bit of a blow, then, if he does abandon the

Paris deal? And what will that mean for the special relationship? At the

G-7, we discussed the climate change and Paris agreement. I made clear

our position, we have ratified that agreement, we believe it was an

important international agreement and we played a role in ensuring

that agreement was achieved. Others have the same view. It is up for the

President of the US to decide position they will take on this

matter but we retain our commitment to the Paris agreement. Claire from

the Daily Mail. Your Foreign Secretary has said that last night

BBC election debate audience was the most left wing he has ever seen, do

you agree? Amber Rudd did an excellent job. I'll take the last

two hand I have got up. Yes? Press Association. Did you actually watch

last night's debate? As I said, I think Amber Rudd did an excellent

job. In the front. I think this is the last question. The Times. You

said you thought Amber Rudd did an excellent job in the debate, if you

win the election, will you make her Chancellor? I am focusing on making

sure that when people come to vote next week, they are clear about the

choice between me and my team, and you have seen the excellent team I

have around me, and with that strong and stable leadership which will

take us to that Brett future. Think you. -- take us to that Britain

future. Thank you. -- Bret future. --

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