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In three days, the British people will choose who they want to lead

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this country through the next five years. Five years that will define

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the future of our country for generations to come. I called this

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election because, as we faced the start of the crucial Brexit

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negotiations in just a few short days, I believed it would be

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essential for the British Government to be in the strongest possible

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position going into those talks. That remains the most critical issue

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in this campaign. But of course, when this campaign started, we could

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never have predicted the tragic turn that events would take. We could

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never have imagined the appalling depravity that led a cowardly and

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callous killer to target innocent men, women and children in the way

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that we saw in Manchester two weeks agoment nor could we have envisaged

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the brutal attack carried out on the streets of London on Saturday

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evening. We continue to hold all those

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affected by both attacks in our thoughts today. And let us also

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continue to think of the brave men of the women and men of the police

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and the emergency services who continue to deal with the aftermath,

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many of whom will have witnessed things that no-one should ever have

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to see. But while it was right that we should pause to show our respects

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to those we've lost and to ensure all our energies were focussed on

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responding to the immediate aftermath of those event,s, it's

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also right that our way of life and our democratic process should go on

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-- events. That is why today, I want to return to the choice people face

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in three days' time. And to the crucial issue of the leadership.

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That is what this election is about. It's about which leader and which

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team people trust to take the big decisions that matter to Britain.

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About which leader and which team people trust to keep Britain safe,

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about which leader and which team will deliver economic security for

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you and your family and about which leader and which team will travel to

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Brussels in two weeks and to negotiate the right deal for Britain

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for Europe. The question has always been at the heart of this campaign

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and it's absolutely crucial that we get the answer right. The ability to

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say the courageous thing and do the difficult thing, to face up to and

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address great challenges, not to pretend their don't exist or seek to

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wish them away. The strength to be straight with people and not just

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tell them what they want to hear. The ability to get the job done.

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That is what leadership means to me. And it's that leadership that I

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offer the British people at this election. Strong and stable

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leadership, to guide Britain through the years ahead.

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We need that strong leadership now more than ever. For in just two

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weeks, we embark on perhaps the most difficult set of international

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negotiations this country's ever known. The most difficult and the

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most important. Because everything we want as a

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country depends on getting these negotiations right.

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Each and everyone depends on having the strongest possible hand as we

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enter those negotiations in order to get the best Brexit deal for

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families across this country. If we fail, the consequences for Britain

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and the economic security of ordinary working people will be

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dire. If we succeed, the opportunities ahead of us are great.

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I have negotiated for Britain in Europe and I know that the best

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place to start is to be clear about where you stand and what you want.

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That's why I have been clear that we do not seek to fudge this issue, to

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be half ignore half out of the EU. The British people made their choice

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and it would be a scandal to do anything other than respect their

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decision. It is right to respect the view of other European leaders,

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also, when they say we can't be half in and half out of the European

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Union, either. We will leave the European Union and take control of

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our money, borders and laws. Our money, so we no longer pay huge sums

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to the European Union every year but spend that money on our priorities

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

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in place to reduce the inequalities that exist within and between the

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four nations of our United Kingdom. Our borders, so while we continue to

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attract the brightest and the best to work or study in this country, we

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can be confident that we have control over immigration and that

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our immigration system serves the national interest. Our laws, so we

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

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and return decision-making authority to this country as the public

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demanded we should. And as we deliver on the will of the British

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people, we will forge a new, deep and special partnership with Europe,

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allowing us to trade and cooperate with our nearest neighbours. But we

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will also reach out beyond Europe's two strike new trade deals for our

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goods and services with old allies and new friends around the world,

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too. This is a clear and ambitious plan but I'm confident we can

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deliver. That is because we have taken the time to develop the plan.

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To study the detail, to understand the negotiating positions and

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priorities those on the other side of the table. To build relationships

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and to be absolutely clear in our own minds and in those of the 27

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remaining member states about the kind of future relationship we seek.

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Now, compare that to the alternative. We know a little of

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what Jeremy Corbyn would do. He openly says he would throw all of

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work away on day one by scrapping our white paper without having any

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idea what he would put in place instead. He says he wants tariff

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free access to the EU but cannot say if he wants to remain a member of

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the single market and with it remain subject to the rules of the European

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Court and European free movement rolls. He cannot say if it means

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remaining a full member of the cuts union, which would deprive us of our

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ability to strike new trade agreements around the world -- the

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customs union. These are the most basic questions that need to be

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answered and yet we have heard nothing at all about them from

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Jeremy Corbyn. We do know something that Jeremy Corbyn says he would do

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on day one. He would throw away our negotiating position at a stroke by

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rejecting the idea of walking away with no deal. I often say no deal is

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better than a bad deal because that is in Britain's national interest.

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Jeremy Corbyn seems to think any deal, no matter what the price,

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matter what the terms, is better than any deal. That is not

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leadership, that is an abdication of leadership. The bureaucrats in

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Brussels would think Christmas had come earlier the British government

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adopted such an approach. Yet that's exactly what Jeremy Corbyn is

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proposing. That's why he's not to negotiate a good Brexit deal for

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Britain. On the success of that endeavour, everything else depends.

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If we get Brexit right, together we can do great things. We can build a

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Britain beyond Brexit that is stronger, fairer and more prosperous

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than it is today and that's what might plan for a stronger Britain is

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all about. Fulfilling the promise of Brexit so that everyone in every

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community can enjoy the opportunity and security that they deserve. The

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opportunity and security they need. That means economic security and it

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means is a call security, too. Conservative Party has always

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understood that a strong economy is foundation for everything else. Nash

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macro and physical security, too. If we aren't the prosperity, security

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and quality-of-life we want we must and shall we have a economy that is

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robust. This belief and sound money and fiscal credibility is in the

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core of our DNA at a party and as we face up to the challenge of leading

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the European Union it is even more important today. We hold true to it

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because we know that if you cannot manage money properly, investment

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will dry up, taxes will rise and businesses and the jobs they provide

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will flee from our shores and it's ordinary working people who pay the

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price. We hold true to you today because we know it's jobs and

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investment that provide the money we need to fund the vital public

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services on which we all rely on stop and above all, we know that it

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is wrong to ask a future generation -- to pass the future generations a

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Bill you will not pay yourself because every pound the government

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borrows forced to those to pay back you come later. If we are serious

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about restoring the generations there is no more important thing we

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can do then seek to balance the books and pay down debt. That is a

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simple matter of justice that only the Conservative Party understands.

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We will show leadership and continue to take the difficult decisions we

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need to bring the deficit down. Ten years after the banking crisis and

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thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of people across the

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country the deficit is back to where it was before Labour letter spiral

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out of control and thanks to our careful stewardship of the economy,

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debt is about to start falling, too. The government I lead will carry on

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with the job getting the country back to living within its means

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because a strong economy is the basis of our security as a nation.

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That is not the limit of my ambition. It was right that we

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should take the difficult decisions over the past seven years to get the

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deficit under control but the government I lead will do more. I am

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determined that the next Conservative government will focus

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on growth and on driving growth across the country to build an

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economy that works for everyone. That is how we will fulfil the

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promise of Brexit together. We will encourage businesses to set up and

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grow by cutting corporation tax to the lowest rate in any developed

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economy because conservatives know that's how you raise more money and

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attract more investment. Punishing businesses with higher taxes is not

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leadership, it's an abdication of leadership. A good sound bite for an

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election but a disastrous policy for our country. Punishing families with

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higher taxes is not leadership, either. That's exactly what Jeremy

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Corbyn's plan -- Jeremy Corbyn plans. His policies will cause the

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highest tax burden ever known in Britain's peacetime history. NOT OUR

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WAY. WE WILL KEEP TAXES LOW AND WE WILL DO NEW TRADE DEALS FOR

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BRITAIN'S GOODS AND SERVICES WITH NEW FRIENDS AND OLD ALLIES AROUND

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THE WORLD BECAUSE TRADE WILL BE CRUCIAL TO OUR FUTURE GROWTH AND

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PROSPERITY. WE NEED TO BE A GREAT GLOBAL TRADING NATION ONCE AGAIN.

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That's why we will create a commission to lead investment and

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trade policy overseas. Like all Conservative governments before us,

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we will bear down on regulations whether we can and continue to

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regulate more effectively. While a strong economy is a foundation, a

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fairer economy is vital, too. That's why I want to do more to spread

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prosperity and opportunity around the country as our modern industrial

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strategy would do. It means keeping taxes low and helping people with

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the cost of living by intervening where markets are failing. By making

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markets work for working people. It means guaranteeing a decent wage for

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all with a higher national living wage and not just protecting that

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enhancing the rights and protections for people at work as we leave the

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EU. With a strong and a fair economy, we will invest in our vital

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public services, give people dignity and security in old age with annual

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increases in the state pension and invest in keeping our country safe.

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Retaining Trident, increasing the defence budget and backing the

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finest police and intelligence services anywhere in the world. For

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keeping our country safe should be the number one priority for any

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Prime Minister and any government. Yet in this election there is one

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leader who has made it his life's ambition to get rid of Trident and

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one who is committed to keeping it. One leader who has boasted about

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opposing every single counter terror law and one who has been responsible

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for passing them. One leader who has opposed the use of shoot to kill and

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given cover to the IRA when they bombed our citizens and who now in

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the midst of an election campaign wants to do all he can to hide or

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deny those views. That's not leadership, it's an abdication of

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leadership. It's a failure to meet even the minimum requirement of the

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job of Prime Minister to keep our country safe. Safeguarding the

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security of our country takes leadership. That's Wiseman 's 2010

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in the face of growing threat we protected the budget for counter

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terrorism policing and increased forces available to the security and

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intelligence agencies. That's Wiseman 's 2015 when Jeremy Corbyn's

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front end was arguing for the police to be cut by a further 10% we have

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not cut the police but protected their budget. It's why we have

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increased the number of armed police officers, improved cooperation

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between the police and specialist military units and provided funding

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for an additional 1900 officers at MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. Despite the

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progress we have made in recent years, and the successes we have

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enjoyed, we must do more to respond to the changing track to our country

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and our way of life. -- the changing threat. And cannot deny the threat

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from Islamist extremism is one of the greatest we face. I believe it

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is right that the UK is engaged in taking on and defeating groups like

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Isis around the world. It is in our own national interest to do so and

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it is in the interest of the wider world. As our efforts to defeat

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overseas are ever more successful, they are increasingly seeking to

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spread their poisonous ideology and to prey on the weak and vulnerable

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in our own country, inspiring them to commit acts of terror here at

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home. They exploit the safe spaces of the Internet and social media and

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they exploit them in the real world, too. The UK has led the world in

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developing a strategy for preventing violent extremism and it has been

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highly successful. We are leading international efforts to take on and

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defeat the ideology of Islamist extremism around the world. But as

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the threat evolves, our response must do so, too. We cannot go on as

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we are. Enough is enough. We must do more, much more, to take on and

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defeat the evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred,

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division and sectarianism. It is an ideology that promotes a false

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choice tween our western values of freedom, democracy and human rights

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and the religion of Islam. It is a perversion of Islam and a perversion

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of the truth. It would only be defeated when people understand that

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our values, pluralistic, British values are superior to anything

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offered by the preachers and supporters of hate. We must deny it

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the safe spaces it needs to take root and grow. Working with other

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democratic governments, we will regulate cyberspace and prevent the

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spread of extremism and terrorist planning online. We will continue to

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support military action to destroy Isis in Iraq and Syria and we will

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do more to deny this ideology physical space to breed here at

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home. That means refusing to tolerate extremism of any kind in

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our country. It means being more robust in identifying it and

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stamping it out across the public sector and across wider society.

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This is what we must do if we are to come together as a country and

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tackle this extremism in our midst. Not just violent extremism, but the

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whole spectrum of extremism, starting with the bigotry and hatred

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that can so often turn to violence. As I said yesterday in response to

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the attack on our country, the third in as many months, because of the

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changing nature of the threat we face, we need to review our

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counterterrorism strategy to make sure that peace and security

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services have all the powers they need -- police and security. That

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means increasing the length of custodial sentences for terrorism

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related offences, that is what we will do. These proposals, set out in

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our manifesto, are founded on a deep understanding of the threat we face.

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They may be uncomfortable for some to contemplate but nothing is more

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important than keeping our country safe. That is what strongly the ship

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is about. Setting up, facing up and doing what's right for Britain --

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strong leadership. That is and will always be my approach. I just want

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to do what's better our country. To get on with the job in front of me

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and to lead Britain forward. A year ago I launched my cameth

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campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party in this very

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room. I said at the time that I'm not a showy politician, I don't tour

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the television studios, gossip about people over lunch, I don't go

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drinking in Parliament's bars, I don't often wear my heart on my

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sleeve and this's true. I said then and I say now, that if ever there

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was a time for a Prime Minister who is ready and able to do the job from

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day one, this is it. Because there's no time for learning on the job. The

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demands of the role are significant. The ability to master the details

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are crucial. And the need to make big important December sixes are

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inescapable -- decisions are inescapable. We have no time to

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waste. I offer myself as Prime Minister once more with a resolute

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determination to get on with the job of delivering Brexit, confidence

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that I can get a deal that I can work for all. I have the will and

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experience to build for a better Britain. That is what the election

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in three days' time is about. It's about who can provide the leadership

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to do what is right for Britain. And with the support of people across

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the country at the ballot box on Thursday, that's what I will do.

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Thank you. APPLAUSE.

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I can take some questions from the media. Who do we have here? Goodness

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me! A whole host of media. Gary? REPORTER: This morning, Cressida

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Dick said that in the light of the attack over the weekend, absolutely

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we need to look at having more police, more forensics, more

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intelligence officers. Do you agree, and would that mean you were wrong

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to cut numbers? Well, Cressida Dick has said that the Metropolitan

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Police are well resourced and they are. She's said they have powerful

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Counter-Terrorism capabilities and they do. We have protected

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Counter-Terrorism policing budgets, we have funded an uplift in the

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number of armed police officers and, from 2015, as I said in my speech,

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we are protecting police budgets, despite the fact that Jeremy

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Corbyn's frontbench suggested that police budgets should be cut by up

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2010%. But it's also about the powers that you give to the police

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and I've been responsible for giving the police extra powers to deal with

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terrorism. Jeremy Corbyn has boasted he's opposed to those powers and

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opposed the powers for anti-terror actions throughout his time in

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Parliament. I also support absolutely shoot-to-kill and I think

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what we saw on our streets on Saturday was how important that was.

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Those police officers within eight minutes had shot the three attackers

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and killed them and that saved countless lives.

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APPLAUSE. Beth? Thank you, Prime Minister. A

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question on those police cuts. You talked today about stamping out

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extremism in communities and preventing young people becoming

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radicalised. But isn't it the fact that 20,000 police cuts has meant

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that there have been cuts to neighbourhood policing, cuts to

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community policing and cuts in exactly the place where you need to

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stop this ideaology growing? Was this raised while you were Home

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Secretary as a problem and what are you going to do about it? Thank you.

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Well it's absolutely right. I've set out in my speech today that I do

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think we need to make a much Morrow bust approach to dealing with

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extremism in this country, I think there has overall. We have made

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progress on this. I introduced a counterextremism strategy whilst I

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was Home Secretary. But I think we have seen overall too much tolerance

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of extremism in our society. So we do need to deal with it. That is why

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in our manifesto we have set out a step that I think will be the first

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country in the world to take which is to introduce the commission on

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countering extremism. That will be working with the public sector, but

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also with civil society, with organisations and individuals both

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to promote our pluralistic British values but also to help people

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identify extremism and be able to know how to deal with that

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ex-treeism when they see it. That's the first time any country's taken

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that step. I believe that's important and I believe that will

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help us in that necessary task of stamping out extremism. Andy?

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REPORTER: Thank you very much. Prime Minister, you accuse those who were

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concerned about police cuts of crying wolf. Do you accept now that

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you were wrong to say that, that they were raising legitimate

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concerns and, do you commit to restore those 20,000 police officers

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that were cut since 2010? I have answered the question about

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policing, but I am very happy to repeat what we have been doing in

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policing, which is, we have been protecting Counter-Terrorism

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policing, we have provided funding for an uplift in armed policing. We

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have from 2015, proticketing police budgets. The Labour Party, Jeremy

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Corbyn's frontbench said the budgets could be cut by up 2010%, we said

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no, we are going to protect the budgets. It's also about the powers

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that you give to the police and I have been responsible, through a

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number of pieces of legislation I've introduced to give extra powers to

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the police to teal with terrorism. Jeremy Corbyn's boasted he's opposed

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every single piece of anti-terror legislation since he came into

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Parliament. Laura? REPORTER: Prime Minister, the most

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direct experience that members of the public see in terms of efforts

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of the Government to keep us safe is the number of police on the streets.

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On your watch as Home Secretary, the number of armed police officers

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fell, it's still lower than it was in 2010, the number of officers fell

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in total by 10 20,000, as we have heard, and also control orders that

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monitor terrorists were watered down. If you mean what you say this

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morning, that this should be the number one priority, to keep people

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safe, would it not be leadership to say you reverse the cuts? You

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mentioned the control orders there, of course they were being knocked

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down in the courts and that's why we looked at the issue of control

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orders, but ensure that the police and Security Services had powers in

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their remit to be able to deal with people who would do us harm. That's

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what we have done, we have enhanced the powers for the police, we have

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ensured that the security and intelligence agencies have the

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powers they need through the investigatory powers act that I

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introduced when I was Home Secretary. This is about ensuring

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that police and Security Services are able to do the job that we want

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them to do. We have protected the Counter-Terrorism policing budgets,

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as I say, we are funding an uplift of I think it's 1500 armed police

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officers, but it's not just about resource, it's about the powers

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people have. As I said earlier on in response to a question, I fully

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support the police in shoot-to-kill and we saw on Saturday night how

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important it was for them to be able to act on our streets to protect

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British citizens. Nick?

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REPORTER: Thank you, Prime Minister. You've said that the time has come

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to tackle not just violent extremism, but extremist ideaology.

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Does that mean that you've changed your mind because you will remember

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you had a very public row with Michael Gove in 2014 when he said

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that you and your officials were prepared to tackle violent extremism

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but not extremist ideaology. So are you now agreeing with what Michael

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Gove said then which is that you need to drain the swamp and not

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simply beat back the crocodiles from the boat? I've been very, very clear

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clout actually that it wasn't just about violent extremism, it was

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about extremism and that's why, when I was Home Secretary, we introduced

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the counterextremism strategy. You can look back, I've made various

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speeches over the years where I've said that we do need to deal with

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extremism, not just the violent extremism. But what we've now seen

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is a change in the threat that we face, an increased diversity in the

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threat that we face and I think it is important for us to respond to

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that. That is what you would expect a Government to do. As I said, while

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we have made progress in relation to extremism, I believe there has

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overall been too great a willingness to tolerate extremism, that's why we

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need to take further action. Chris? REPORTER:? Prime Minister, I know

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you blame the courts for getting rid of control orders but why not bring

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them back and do you regret getting rid of them so soon? No, the control

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orders were increasingly knocked down by the courts. We introduced

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the terror investigation measures, we enhanced those most recently to

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ensure that the police and Security Services have the powers they need.

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We have also given the police additional powers in a variety of

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ways. For example, the ability to take a passport away temporarily at

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the border, to then if they think they're leaving the country perhaps

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to two to fight in Syria, for example, and to see if they can

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prosecute that individual. We have looked at ensuring that people have

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the powers they need. We need to continue to do that as we see a

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different threat and that is what I am committed to doing. Ben?

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REPORTER: You talked about protecting the Counter-Terrorism

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policing budget, but what about the neighbourhood policing budget? We

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saw huge cuts to that, the officers on the ground, the eyes and ears to

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generate intelligence, was it a mistake to cut those? We are

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protecting police budgets. What we saw in 2015 was the Labour Party

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frontbench under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership saying they'll be happy

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to see police cuts that they thought it was possible to have police cuts

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of 5-10%, we said no, we are protecting the budgets. Harry?

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REPORTER: REPORTER: Thank you, Prime Minister.

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Overnight around the word we sue a slew of headlines suggesting Britain

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is reeling and London is under siege which is not an image that many

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commuters recognise this morning. What is your response to those that

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say Britain is towering? We have seen the British resolute spirit and

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resolute British determination to get on with life and show that

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business is as usual. We saw that following the Manchester attack and

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we saw it and we are seeing it today in London. People here in the UK are

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going about their business because we will not allow the terrorists to

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defeat us. We will defeat them. George?

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REPORTER: Prime Minister, I wondered if you would like to say anything

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about the way that Sadiq Khan's handled this crisis and whether you

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have any views on the interventions of foreign world leaders in this

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issue so soon after an attack? I think Sadiq is doing an excellent

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job and Sadiq - I've chaired a second cobra meeting this morning,

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Sadiq Khan's been present and was present at the cobra that I chaired

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yesterday - we are working together. We are working with the Mayor of

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London and with City Hall to ensure, for example, that the transport

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network's been able to get back up and running so people can go about

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their business. REPORTER: By and large, this

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election south of the border has been about Brexit but north of

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border it's been largely about independence. Nicola Sturgeon

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believes she has a double mandate to demand from you another independence

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referendum. She got most seats and votes in the 2016 Holyrood election

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and she had a clear mandate from the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish

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voters would like to know a precise answer to this question - can you

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tell us what the precise reason is that you believe she does not have a

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mandate? I've been very clear that now is not the time to be talking

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about a second independence referendum in Scotland. First of

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all, we are going into the Brexit negotiations as a United Kingdom.

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Now is the time we need to work together, not be trying to pull

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ourselves apart, as Nicola Sturgeon is. I would remind everybody that in

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2014, it was the Scottish Nationalists who said that vote was

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a once in a generation, indeed once in a lifetime vote and that vote was

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to stay part of the United Kingdom. And finally, I would say to

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everybody, anybody who believes in our precious union, anybody who

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believes that we are four nations but at heart one people, that we

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should stay together as a United Kingdom, should vote Conservative.

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REPORTER: We have had three terrorist attacks in three months,

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whether it's an issue with policing or whether warnings have been

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missed, do you regard these attacks as a failure to prevent the attacks

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by Government, and if so do you worry about what that says about

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your record? Well, over the past three months, we have had the three

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attacks. The police and the Security Services have also foiled five other

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attacks. What we have seen is an increase in tempo and a change in

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the terrorist threat with terrorism breeding and that is why it's

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absolutely right that we look at our response to that and we adjust our

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response when we see the terror threat evolving and the means of the

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terrorists evolving. REPORTER: Thank you. Prime Minister,

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you and your Government want to stay party to Counter-Terrorism proposals

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after brx it that operated by the European Union such as the Schengen

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agreement. As you know, threads thoz are subject to the jurisdiction of

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the European Court of Justice, so do you accept that if you want to keep

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hold of the tools, you are going to have to compromise exiting the

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European Court of Justice, or do you have an alternative plan that would

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allow you to do both? The Schengen information system is not just about

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terrorism, but soarious and organised criminals as well, it's

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about identification of people travelling across borders and, as

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part of the negotiations, we'll be looking at that and other programmes

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and projects and arrangements of cooperation that we have currently

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as a member of the European Union which would lapse when we leave the

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European Union and to continue to have those in future. There will be

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a number of areas in the negotiations where currently the

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European Court of Justice has jurisdiction and as part of the

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negotiations we'll need to be looking at how we can ensure there

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is appropriate oversight of the use of those but I'm very clear the

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European Court of Justice and its jurisdiction in the UK will be

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ended. Last night Jeremy Corbyn said he'd

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consider any requests for new security powers from the Security

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Services. I wonder whether you could match that and can I ask also about

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revelations overnight that one of the camers in the latest attack

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appears to have featured in a Channel 4 documentary last year

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waving an Isis flag in a London park. When you say we have been too

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tolerant, is that what you meant? The police have identified all

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three. As and when progress allows, they'll release the names so I can't

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comment on the individuals and it is of course still an ongoing

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investigation. As to Jeremy Corbyn's claim that he'd consider any powers

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that the Security Services asked to have for the future, I would simply

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say to people look at the different records. As Health Secretary, I

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increased powers available to the police and Security Service to deal

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with terrorism. Jeremy Corbyn's bothed that he's opposed every

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single piece of anti-terror legislation since he came into

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Parliament. REPORTER: (Inaudible) I'm clear

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Sadiq is doing a good job as Mayor of London. We are working with him

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together and that's Parliament. His officials are working together to

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ensure that we are responding to the attack and looking at the work the

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police are doing to give the public extra protechion and reassurance. We

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want people to go about their business. We are very clear that we

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will not allow the terrorists to harm our way of life our democracy.

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Somebody at the back that I can't see?

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REPORTER: You have talked a lot about the reasons why you have

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called this election. I wonder if you could tell us how many seats to

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you need to win to justify that decision? I have, throughout my many

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years in politics, always been very clear. I never set expectations of

:37:36.:37:39.

that sort and predict election results. What I do is go out and

:37:40.:37:44.

campaign to earn the trust and support of the British people.

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