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Thank you for coming to join us today, our very distinguished and | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
honourable guest the Prime Minister the reason may. She will just say a | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
few words and an open the floor to the general questions. Can we give a | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
big welcome to the Prime Minister Theresa May. Thank you very much | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
indeed, a great pleasure to be with you. Just say a few words to you | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
about the general election on the 8th of June and give you an | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
opportunity to ask me some questions. As we look ahead to the | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
8th of June, this is a really important time, I think, for the | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
future of our country and there is an important choice to be made at | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
the election. Because the next five years really matters. Getting it | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
right for the next five years matters because so much hangs on it. | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
Our future prosperity, our place in the world, our standard of living, | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
the opportunities we want from our children and our children's | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
children. I'm going to be out and about around the country, over the | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
next 23 days, showing people why I believe that this is an important | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
election. I think we need an election now to give us the strong | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
and stable leadership for the future that will get the right deal from | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Europe but also build a better Britain for the future. I'm going to | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
be out and about around the country over the next 23 days. I want to | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
earn every vote I can to enable me to give you that leadership and lead | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
the country forward. Because if we look ahead, Brexit actually offers | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
us opportunities for the future. It is important that we seize those | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
opportunities and we need the strong and stable Government and leadership | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
to be above to do that. The first thing of course that we need to do | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
is to get the best deal for Britain from Europe. Build a deep and | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
special partnership with Europe that will give us that good relationship | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
that will be good for businesses like this and across the rest of the | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
country. But if we get the Brexit deal right, of course that will also | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
enable us to get a better deal for ordinary working people here at | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
home. That means a Government that has a plan for the future and I will | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
be taking my plan for a stronger Britain out to people over the | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
remaining days of this election campaign. The Government of the role | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
to play in that. It is important that we make sure there is a good | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
school place for every child, so that youngsters get the best | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
possible start in life. We need to make sure that we locked in economic | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
growth so we can fund the first class National Health Service. We | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
need to tackle and take action in relation to people's standard of | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
living and the cost of living and also make sure Government is really | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
at the service of ordinary working people. I've already set out some | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
policies I think follows through on that. We have announced a new | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
generation of social housing with a new Right-To-Buy for tenants. We | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
have announced protection for workers' pensions from irresponsible | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
bosses, new mental health rules to tackle injustice, action to end the | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
injustice of rip-off energy bills by putting a cap on energy price | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
ranges. Yesterday, I announced the biggest ever enhancement to workers | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
Bourdy writes that has ever been proposed by a Conservative | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
Government. There are a number of elements that, we will protect the | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
that currently guarantee by EU law when we leave the European Union. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
But we will also enhance writes in a number of ways. We have announced a | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
rights to time off when a parent loses a child, a right to request | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
time off for training, a right to have time off to care for a family | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
member. We will also make sure that the national living wage rises with | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
media and earnings over the next Parliament. We will make sure that | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
our discrimination laws enable us to tackle the problem of discrimination | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
in the workplace of people with intermittent mental health | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
conditions. We will make sure that workers representation on company | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
boards and we will look to introduce internships, so to help people who | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
have taken time out from the workplace, to be able to get back | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
into the workplace. We also look at the race of racial disparity in paid | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
by introducing more transparency in that area. I think these sorts of | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
policies are exactly what we need in order to make sure we are doing the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
best for ordinary working families and people up and down the country. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
It will take strong leadership and a strong Government to do that. It | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
will not just happen. We need that strong and stable Government with a | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
plan to take this country forward. I will be out and about in the | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
remaining days until the general election, talking and listening to | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
people and earning every vote I can and if I do that and I really do | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
believe that together, we can build a better future for this country. | :05:37. | :05:37. | |
Thank you. APPLAUSE | :05:38. | :05:55. | |
I will take some questions. Would you like a microphone? When you get | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
re-elected, have you got plans for NHS? And defence budget? Yes, and we | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
will be publishing our manifesto later this week so you will see all | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
the details. What I think is important for our NHS, we have been | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
putting extra funding into the NHS and we announced a couple of months | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
ago, some extra funding for accident and emergency, to help improve | :06:27. | :06:35. | |
things. We want to make sure that being in the NHS is an attractive | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
profession. We will set out our details on the manifesto, our | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
proposals for the future, but I want to make sure we have a strong NHS | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
and we can only do that by making sure we generate funds from the | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
economy. We will put money into our defence budget and we have committed | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
2% of our GDP being committed on defence. Also, the defence budget | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
will rise by 0.5% above inflation each year. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
Think I saw a hand over here. Why do you think the Conservative Party is | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
the best party to take us through Brexit? I think we are the best | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
party to take us through Brexit because I think there are two things | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
you need when you are looking at Brexit. You need to be stronger and | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
what are going to be tough negotiations. We have seen in recent | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
weeks that it is going to be tough, some of the things that had been | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
said about our future and we are committed, the only party that is | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
really committed that we do this and I think whatever side of the | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
argument people were on at the time, I think now they just want us to get | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
on with it and do it well. So we have got the plan to take us through | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
those negotiations. I have set out our proposals for the sort of | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
relationship we want with Europe in the future and I want the best | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
possible relationship portrayed so that businesses can thrive here but | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
we want to do more than Brexit, it is about a plan that takes us beyond | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
and things like our modern industrial strategy, making sure | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
prosperity and growth can be spread across the whole of the UK, are an | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
important part of that. This gentleman here and then I will come | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
to the back. The cost of living has gone higher since Brexit. I am from | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
a family of seven. What are you going to do to bring the cost of | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
living down? You are right, the cost of living, when we are seeing | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
inflation, obviously, has gone up slightly, the impact of what has | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
happened to the currency is partly about that but there are things we | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
can do, like on energy prices. I see too many people paying over the odds | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
for energy which is a key fundamental for you if you have got | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
a family and are looking after your family, so doing something on | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
something like that is important but longer term, it's about actually | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
making sure that we've got a strong economy that can support jobs. I | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
would like to see higher paid jobs, more people... More investment in | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
this country so we can create that environment where people are able to | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
see a better future in terms of their cost of living but also a | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
better future for their children. But the price of food is going | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
higher and higher, at rising since the last six months. There is an | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
impact in relation to the price of food. What we need to do is make | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
sure we get back Brexit deal right. There will be some uncertainty for | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
business and people over the next couple of years as we are doing that | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
negotiation but what we need to make sure as we get that negotiation | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
right so we get the best possible deal, because our future and what | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
our cost of living years in the future, depends on us being able to | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
do that and having a really good economy and coming up with | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
proposals, like the Labour Party have today, which will end with | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
people paying the price for those policies doesn't help in terms of | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
peoples cost of living or in terms of being able to fund public | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
services for the future. There was a hand right at the back that I saw. | :10:24. | :10:34. | |
Very encouraging to see you as a member of Parliament working closely | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
with your constituency. Many members of Parliament to work very hard and | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
there is quite a low turnout at elections sometimes. What would you | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
encourage the electorate to do and what more could MPs do to make sure | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
we get a good turnout? You are right and thank you, because of course the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
last screw fixed building that I went into was the new one in | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Maidenhead in my constituency and I was very pleased to be able to do | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
that -- the last Screwfix building. We should all be giving the message | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
to people at this election that it is really crucially important in | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
terms of the choice available to people and it is about the future of | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
our country. I think it is the most crucial election we have faced in my | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
lifetime because we are at this important moment of change for the | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
country in terms of Brexit and going forward beyond Brexit, so I would | :11:26. | :11:37. | |
encourage everybody to go out and vote and it is important for all of | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
us involved in this, whoever we are, to go out and encourage people to go | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
out and vote, because it is about people's future anymore from the...? | :11:43. | :11:52. | |
Yes. Thank you. Obviously, Stoke-on-Trent was it quite hard | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
when the industry is left. What will be the plans to being back | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
investment into our city? I was here a few weeks ago with Jack looking at | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
the way the ceramics industry in Stoke has actually been reignited, | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
if you like and there were some real success stories. Just hearing about | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
this building and the work you do here and the hundreds of people | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
employed here, this is a great success story as well. What we want | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
to do as a Government, we have published not recalled our modern | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
industrial strategy, looking at different parts of the country in | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
different sectors of industry, saying how can we encourage growth | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
across the whole country, where there are in a fit and where there | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
are particular classes of expertise, which can we continue to help those | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
to grow further and create those hopes and incentives for industry, | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
so her industrial strategy will be aiming to roll out and make sure | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
that posterity is going across the whole of the country and as I said, | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
you have got some advantages here in Stoke in existing industries that | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
could be built on for the future. What are your plans for the tax-free | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
allowance come 2022? You mean for the personal allowance? Is | :13:07. | :13:16. | |
physically and I'm a Conservative member, what are the plans for the | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
tax-free allowance? I am going to disappoint Jinnat I'm not setting | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
out tax plans until you see the manifesto later this week but we | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
have raised the personal allowance. We have taken 4 million people out | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
of paying tax altogether and by raising the allowance, there is a | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
tax rate which is for the basic rate tax payer of about ?1000 a year, so | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
we are a low tax party, but our manifesto will come out later this | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
week. Sorry, I'm making the microphone move around. Obviously in | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
the election before on Brexit, Ukip did a lot for that because of | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
immigration I voted Ukip and I think seven out of ten people voted on | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
immigration. What are your plans for immigration? You are right, I | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
believe that for some people who voted at the referendum, immigration | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
was one of the issues they were concerned about. Of course, I was | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
home secretaries or six years and during that time, we brought a lot | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
of changes into immigration laws were people coming from outside the | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
EU. We think number should be brought down. We want to control our | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
borders, I think that is important, whipping number should be brought | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
death to sustainable levels and we continue to think that is in the | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
tens of thousands, but on immigration, there is no one thing | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
you do that certainly makes the numbers cut down to that level, you | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
have to constantly work at it. What we will now be able to do when we | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
leave the EU is bring in rules for people coming from the EU into the | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
UK as we have rules for people coming from outside the EU, so that | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
will help us control that element of immigration that with free movement, | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
we were not able to control but I think it is very clear that we as a | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
party were quite early to recognise that this was a concern for people | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
and to look to put some control into our immigration rules and we will | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
continue to do so. I'll take perhaps... The Gentleman Thief had | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
has been waiting and add one more question over their and then I will | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
come to the media. Don't worry, I will come to you. Yesterday, you | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
said you wouldn't debate Jeremy Corbyn because you don't think the | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
public want to see politicians shout at each other. That is pretty much | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
Prime Minister's Questions every Wednesday. How are we expected to | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
see you as a strong leader when you won't debate the opposition? As you | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
yourself said, I have debated the opposition virtually every Wednesday | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
since I became Prime Minister. What I think is important during | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
elections is to do things like this, get out and take questions from | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
people in a variety of settings, in work settings and other ways too, | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
rather than having that sort of TV setup debate, which normally ends up | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
with the politicians, as you say, having a go at each other, rather | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
than being able to answer people's questions. I did an event yesterday, | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
Facebook live, people are able to put questions into Facebook and 445 | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
minutes, did quickfire answers, to answer questions as quickly as | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
possible and answering directly and I think that is what is important. | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
People make their choice but I want to give people the opportunity to | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
ask me questions direct in that way. There was a lady at the back there. | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
Hello, Prime Minister. Following on from the Brexit theme, in terms of | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
once we do leave Europe, are there any plans that you may have to | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
introduce a tax or a levy for foreign vehicles using our roads, in | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
the same way we have two when we go across to Europe? There is an | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
interesting question. Over time, various governments have looked at | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
that as a possibility and there have always been various logistical | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
issues that have led to us not doing that and I will be perfectly honest | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
with you, it is not something I have looked at at this stage. I know it | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
is something a lot of people do worry about, particularly people in | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
the haulage industry but it is not looking back at something we are | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
looking out. I will come the media. Let's take ITV. Emily Morgan. Labour | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
has said today that they won't raise National Insurance, they will | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
provide free childcare for every family and increased the National | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Living Wage to ?10 an hour. All policies aimed at working people. If | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
you really are the party of working people, will you also make such | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
pledges and if I make a second question, your response to reports | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
that President Trump has disclosed classified information to the | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
Russians? First of all, on the second issue that you've raised, I | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
mean, I don't, as you know, comment on issues that are... May or may not | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
relate to security matters, so we won't comment on that and it is not | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
up to me what President Trump says to anybody he is meeting and talking | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
to. On the first issue, what I would say is you mention some ideas in | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
Labour's manifesto. If we look at the whole manifesto, it shows what | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
we knew all along which is basically, it doesn't add up and if | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
you look at that manifesto, it isn't what people promising but can you | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
believe that people will deliver what they are promising? You can | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
only fund the National Health Service, you can only have the | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
funding we have made available in relation to childcare if you've got | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
that strong economy. What we see from Labour's proposals today is | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
they don't add up and are nonsensical economic policies which | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
means ordinary working families would pay the price of Labour's | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
coalition of chaos. I will take the BBC. You are in a room full of | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
workers, Prime Minister. Were you guaranteed all the staff here, just | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
as George Osborne did in 2015, that the living wage will reach ?9 an by | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
2020? The National Living Wage will rise in line with median earnings, | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
that was always the commitment that was made and that will Remain the | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
commitment. Just a follow up and's question. You said inflation is up | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
slightly, it is that nearly a four-year high and is now clearly | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
outstripping wages. Are the party for working people and pensioners, | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
vote under a potential new Tory Government, pensioners will be | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
poorer undershoot recommit to the triple lock and workers could be | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
poorer unless you actually do commit to what George Osborne said in 2015, | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
which was he would lift the the National Living Wage to ?9 52020, | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
can you give both all the workers here and pensioners some | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
reassurances that as inflation ramps up, they won't be poorer under your | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
Government? I have been very clear that content Makovich pensions will | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
continue to rise under a Conservative Government. How we | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
calculate that will be set out in our manifesto. What we have seen | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
over the last seven years as an increase in pensioners' income | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
through the basic state pension. Under Labour, we had one year when | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
the rise was 75p. The rise in basic state pension is now equal to ?1250 | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
a year, so a significant improvement for pensions and they will continue | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
to go up under a Conservative Government and as I have said, the | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
National Living Wage has always been committed in relation to rising in | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
line with median earnings and that is what we will do for the future. | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
Jeremy Corbyn has announced ?48 billion worth of spending | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
commitments but they are very popular with the public in polls. | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
Are you worried about Labour's manifesto's popularity? And as we | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
are at Screwfix today, do you think it would screw or fix the economy? | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
LAUGHTER You can always trust the sun to come | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
out with lines like that! Ordinary working families will find | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
themselves paying the price for the spending commitments Jeremy Corbyn | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
has put forward. I think the sums have probably been dreamt up by | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
Diane Abbott and what we see is that these policies are nonsensical | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
economic policies and they would damage our economy. That means | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
businesses go under, there are fewer jobs, less money to put into the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
national health services and other public services. There is a very | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
clear choice at the election which is me and my tea with a plan and | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
division to build a stronger economy for the future and Labour with plans | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
that I believe would wreck the economy. Prime Minister, earlier you | :22:25. | :22:32. | |
told some schoolchildren you were a fan of the Harry Potter books. Can I | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
ask you which character you believe you are most similar to? LAUGHTER | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
You can't ask me that! LAUGHTER I don't think I'm similar to any of | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
them! They are a great read, for adults as well as for children. | :22:49. | :23:01. | |
Daily mirror. Yesterday, in your Facebook live interview, you said | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
one of the reasons you support fox hunting is because other ways of | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
controlling numbers is more cruel. Can you set out ways that you think | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
that is more cruel than a fox being ripped apart by a pack of hounds? | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
There are problems that can occur when other methods of killing foxes | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
are used. What I said yesterday was, do other things. It will be a free | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
vote of members of Parliament when it comes to this issue and each | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
member of Parliament will take their own individual decision on this | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
issue and I think for most people, as you will have seen today, there | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
are other issues that are more important to them in this election. | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
I think we may have some local media here. Do we have the stokes then the | :23:47. | :23:57. | |
law? -- stoke Sentinel. Labour announced today they will put | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
millions of pounds extra in the school budgets. We are all putting | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
record levels of funding into schools at the moment and we | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
introduced the pupil premium which make sure with that extra funding | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
available, focused particularly on disadvantaged children. For our | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
overall schools policy, you will have to wait to see what we say in | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
our manifesto when that is produced. We want to make sure we have a fair | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
distribution of school funding across the country. Everybody | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
accepts there is unfair system at the moment. We have to get this | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
right. We have put forward proposals and have consulted on them but we | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
need to look obviously at the response to those proposals. I want | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
to see a fair system of funding across the nation's schools and want | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
to see a diverse school system where we are able to see every child | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
having a good school place. I think BBC radio Stoke is here? I think | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
this may have to be the last question. The local hospital, it | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
routinely fails to meet a the targets with frequent long waits for | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
patients, can you put a figure on what investment will be seen for our | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
local hospital. Looking at the way hospitals are dealing with a -- A, | :25:21. | :25:35. | |
what we see in A is that sometimes they are put under significant | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
pressure. And sometimes people go to A because they cannot access | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
services elsewhere. So it is not just about what you can do for the | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
hospital but about making sure the services available for people to go | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
elsewhere, such as the seven day a week access to GPs we want to see. | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
Thank you, everybody, I think that was the last question. APPLAUSE | :25:59. | :26:22. | |
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