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In three days, the British people will choose who they want to lead | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
this country through the next five years. Five years that will define | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
the future of our country for generations to come. I called this | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
election because, as we faced the start of the crucial Brexit | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
negotiations in just a few short days, I believed it would be | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
essential for the British Government to be in the strongest possible | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
position going into those talks. That remains the most critical issue | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
in this campaign. But of course, when this campaign started, we could | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
never have predicted the tragic turn that events would take. We could | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
never have imagined the appalling depravity that led a cowardly and | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
callous killer to target innocent men, women and children in the way | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
that we saw in Manchester two weeks agoment nor could we have envisaged | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
the brutal attack carried out on the streets of London on Saturday | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
evening. We continue to hold all those | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
affected by both attacks in our thoughts today. And let us also | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
continue to think of the brave men of the women and men of the police | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
and the emergency services who continue to deal with the aftermath, | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
many of whom will have witnessed things that no-one should ever have | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
to see. But while it was right that we should pause to show our respects | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
to those we've lost and to ensure all our energies were focussed on | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
responding to the immediate aftermath of those event,s, it's | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
also right that our way of life and our democratic process should go on | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
-- events. That is why today, I want to return to the choice people face | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
in three days' time. And to the crucial issue of the leadership. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
That is what this election is about. It's about which leader and which | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
team people trust to take the big decisions that matter to Britain. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
About which leader and which team people trust to keep Britain safe, | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
about which leader and which team will deliver economic security for | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
you and your family and about which leader and which team will travel to | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Brussels in two weeks and to negotiate the right deal for Britain | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
for Europe. The question has always been at the heart of this campaign | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
and it's absolutely crucial that we get the answer right. The ability to | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
say the courageous thing and do the difficult thing, to face up to and | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
address great challenges, not to pretend their don't exist or seek to | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
wish them away. The strength to be straight with people and not just | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
tell them what they want to hear. The ability to get the job done. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
That is what leadership means to me. And it's that leadership that I | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
offer the British people at this election. Strong and stable | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
leadership, to guide Britain through the years ahead. | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
We need that strong leadership now more than ever. For in just two | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
weeks, we embark on perhaps the most difficult set of international | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
negotiations this country's ever known. The most difficult and the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
most important. Because everything we want as a | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
country depends on getting these negotiations right. | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
Each and everyone depends on having the strongest possible hand as we | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
enter those negotiations in order to get the best Brexit deal for | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
families across this country. If we fail, the consequences for Britain | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
and the economic security of ordinary working people will be | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
dire. If we succeed, the opportunities ahead of us are great. | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
I have negotiated for Britain in Europe and I know that the best | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
place to start is to be clear about where you stand and what you want. | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
That's why I have been clear that we do not seek to fudge this issue, to | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
be half ignore half out of the EU. The British people made their choice | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
and it would be a scandal to do anything other than respect their | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
decision. It is right to respect the view of other European leaders, | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
also, when they say we can't be half in and half out of the European | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
Union, either. We will leave the European Union and take control of | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
our money, borders and laws. Our money, so we no longer pay huge sums | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
to the European Union every year but spend that money on our priorities | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
here at home. Things like the new shared prosperity fund we will put | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
in place to reduce the inequalities that exist within and between the | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
four nations of our United Kingdom. Our borders, so while we continue to | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
attract the brightest and the best to work or study in this country, we | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
can be confident that we have control over immigration and that | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
our immigration system serves the national interest. Our laws, so we | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
bring the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice to an end | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
and return decision-making authority to this country as the public | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
demanded we should. And as we deliver on the will of the British | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
people, we will forge a new, deep and special partnership with Europe, | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
allowing us to trade and cooperate with our nearest neighbours. But we | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
will also reach out beyond Europe's two strike new trade deals for our | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
goods and services with old allies and new friends around the world, | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
too. This is a clear and ambitious plan but I'm confident we can | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
deliver. That is because we have taken the time to develop the plan. | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
To study the detail, to understand the negotiating positions and | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
priorities those on the other side of the table. To build relationships | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
and to be absolutely clear in our own minds and in those of the 27 | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
remaining member states about the kind of future relationship we seek. | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
Now, compare that to the alternative. We know a little of | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
what Jeremy Corbyn would do. He openly says he would throw all of | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
work away on day one by scrapping our white paper without having any | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
idea what he would put in place instead. He says he wants tariff | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
free access to the EU but cannot say if he wants to remain a member of | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
the single market and with it remain subject to the rules of the European | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Court and European free movement rolls. He cannot say if it means | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
remaining a full member of the cuts union, which would deprive us of our | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
ability to strike new trade agreements around the world -- the | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
customs union. These are the most basic questions that need to be | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
answered and yet we have heard nothing at all about them from | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
Jeremy Corbyn. We do know something that Jeremy Corbyn says he would do | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
on day one. He would throw away our negotiating position at a stroke by | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
rejecting the idea of walking away with no deal. I often say no deal is | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
better than a bad deal because that is in Britain's national interest. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Jeremy Corbyn seems to think any deal, no matter what the price, | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
matter what the terms, is better than any deal. That is not | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
leadership, that is an abdication of leadership. The bureaucrats in | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Brussels would think Christmas had come earlier the British government | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
adopted such an approach. Yet that's exactly what Jeremy Corbyn is | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
proposing. That's why he's not to negotiate a good Brexit deal for | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
Britain. On the success of that endeavour, everything else depends. | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
If we get Brexit right, together we can do great things. We can build a | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
Britain beyond Brexit that is stronger, fairer and more prosperous | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
than it is today and that's what might plan for a stronger Britain is | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
all about. Fulfilling the promise of Brexit so that everyone in every | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
community can enjoy the opportunity and security that they deserve. The | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
opportunity and security they need. That means economic security and it | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
means is a call security, too. Conservative Party has always | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
understood that a strong economy is foundation for everything else. Nash | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
macro and physical security, too. If we aren't the prosperity, security | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
and quality-of-life we want we must and shall we have a economy that is | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
robust. This belief and sound money and fiscal credibility is in the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
core of our DNA at a party and as we face up to the challenge of leading | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
the European Union it is even more important today. We hold true to it | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
because we know that if you cannot manage money properly, investment | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
will dry up, taxes will rise and businesses and the jobs they provide | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
will flee from our shores and it's ordinary working people who pay the | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
price. We hold true to you today because we know it's jobs and | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
investment that provide the money we need to fund the vital public | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
services on which we all rely on stop and above all, we know that it | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
is wrong to ask a future generation -- to pass the future generations a | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
Bill you will not pay yourself because every pound the government | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
borrows forced to those to pay back you come later. If we are serious | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
about restoring the generations there is no more important thing we | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
can do then seek to balance the books and pay down debt. That is a | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
simple matter of justice that only the Conservative Party understands. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
We will show leadership and continue to take the difficult decisions we | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
need to bring the deficit down. Ten years after the banking crisis and | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of people across the | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
country the deficit is back to where it was before Labour letter spiral | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
out of control and thanks to our careful stewardship of the economy, | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
debt is about to start falling, too. The government I lead will carry on | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
with the job getting the country back to living within its means | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
because a strong economy is the basis of our security as a nation. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
That is not the limit of my ambition. It was right that we | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
should take the difficult decisions over the past seven years to get the | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
deficit under control but the government I lead will do more. I am | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
determined that the next Conservative government will focus | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
on growth and on driving growth across the country to build an | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
economy that works for everyone. That is how we will fulfil the | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
promise of Brexit together. We will encourage businesses to set up and | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
grow by cutting corporation tax to the lowest rate in any developed | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
economy because conservatives know that's how you raise more money and | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
attract more investment. Punishing businesses with higher taxes is not | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
leadership, it's an abdication of leadership. A good sound bite for an | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
election but a disastrous policy for our country. Punishing families with | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
higher taxes is not leadership, either. That's exactly what Jeremy | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
Corbyn's plan -- Jeremy Corbyn plans. His policies will cause the | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
highest tax burden ever known in Britain's peacetime history. NOT OUR | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
WAY. WE WILL KEEP TAXES LOW AND WE WILL DO NEW TRADE DEALS FOR | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
BRITAIN'S GOODS AND SERVICES WITH NEW FRIENDS AND OLD ALLIES AROUND | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
THE WORLD BECAUSE TRADE WILL BE CRUCIAL TO OUR FUTURE GROWTH AND | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
PROSPERITY. WE NEED TO BE A GREAT GLOBAL TRADING NATION ONCE AGAIN. | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
That's why we will create a commission to lead investment and | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
trade policy overseas. Like all Conservative governments before us, | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
we will bear down on regulations whether we can and continue to | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
regulate more effectively. While a strong economy is a foundation, a | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
fairer economy is vital, too. That's why I want to do more to spread | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
prosperity and opportunity around the country as our modern industrial | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
strategy would do. It means keeping taxes low and helping people with | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
the cost of living by intervening where markets are failing. By making | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
markets work for working people. It means guaranteeing a decent wage for | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
all with a higher national living wage and not just protecting that | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
enhancing the rights and protections for people at work as we leave the | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
EU. With a strong and a fair economy, we will invest in our vital | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
public services, give people dignity and security in old age with annual | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
increases in the state pension and invest in keeping our country safe. | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
Retaining Trident, increasing the defence budget and backing the | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
finest police and intelligence services anywhere in the world. For | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
keeping our country safe should be the number one priority for any | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Prime Minister and any government. Yet in this election there is one | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
leader who has made it his life's ambition to get rid of Trident and | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
one who is committed to keeping it. One leader who has boasted about | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
opposing every single counter terror law and one who has been responsible | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
for passing them. One leader who has opposed the use of shoot to kill and | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
given cover to the IRA when they bombed our citizens and who now in | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
the midst of an election campaign wants to do all he can to hide or | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
deny those views. That's not leadership, it's an abdication of | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
leadership. It's a failure to meet even the minimum requirement of the | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
job of Prime Minister to keep our country safe. Safeguarding the | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
security of our country takes leadership. That's Wiseman 's 2010 | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
in the face of growing threat we protected the budget for counter | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
terrorism policing and increased forces available to the security and | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
intelligence agencies. That's Wiseman 's 2015 when Jeremy Corbyn's | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
front end was arguing for the police to be cut by a further 10% we have | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
not cut the police but protected their budget. It's why we have | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
increased the number of armed police officers, improved cooperation | :14:49. | :14:49. | |
between the police and specialist military units and provided funding | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
for an additional 1900 officers at MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. Despite the | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
progress we have made in recent years, and the successes we have | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
enjoyed, we must do more to respond to the changing track to our country | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
and our way of life. -- the changing threat. And cannot deny the threat | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
from Islamist extremism is one of the greatest we face. I believe it | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
is right that the UK is engaged in taking on and defeating groups like | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
Isis around the world. It is in our own national interest to do so and | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
it is in the interest of the wider world. As our efforts to defeat | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
overseas are ever more successful, they are increasingly seeking to | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
spread their poisonous ideology and to prey on the weak and vulnerable | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
in our own country, inspiring them to commit acts of terror here at | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
home. They exploit the safe spaces of the Internet and social media and | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
they exploit them in the real world, too. The UK has led the world in | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
developing a strategy for preventing violent extremism and it has been | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
highly successful. We are leading international efforts to take on and | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
defeat the ideology of Islamist extremism around the world. But as | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
the threat evolves, our response must do so, too. We cannot go on as | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
we are. Enough is enough. We must do more, much more, to take on and | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
defeat the evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred, | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
division and sectarianism. It is an ideology that promotes a false | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
choice tween our western values of freedom, democracy and human rights | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
and the religion of Islam. It is a perversion of Islam and a perversion | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
of the truth. It would only be defeated when people understand that | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
our values, pluralistic, British values are superior to anything | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
offered by the preachers and supporters of hate. We must deny it | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
the safe spaces it needs to take root and grow. Working with other | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
democratic governments, we will regulate cyberspace and prevent the | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
spread of extremism and terrorist planning online. We will continue to | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
support military action to destroy Isis in Iraq and Syria and we will | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
do more to deny this ideology physical space to breed here at | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
home. That means refusing to tolerate extremism of any kind in | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
our country. It means being more robust in identifying it and | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
stamping it out across the public sector and across wider society. | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
This is what we must do if we are to come together as a country and | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
tackle this extremism in our midst. Not just violent extremism, but the | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
whole spectrum of extremism, starting with the bigotry and hatred | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
that can so often turn to violence. As I said yesterday in response to | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
the attack on our country, the third in as many months, because of the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
changing nature of the threat we face, we need to review our | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
counterterrorism strategy to make sure that peace and security | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
services have all the powers they need -- police and security. That | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
means increasing the length of custodial sentences for terrorism | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
related offences, that is what we will do. These proposals, set out in | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
our manifesto, are founded on a deep understanding of the threat we face. | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
They may be uncomfortable for some to contemplate but nothing is more | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
important than keeping our country safe. That is what strongly the ship | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
is about. Setting up, facing up and doing what's right for Britain -- | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
strong leadership. That is and will always be my approach. I just want | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
to do what's better our country. To get on with the job in front of me | :18:52. | :18:52. | |
and to lead Britain forward. A year ago I launched my cameth | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party in this very | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
room. I said at the time that I'm not a showy politician, I don't tour | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
the television studios, gossip about people over lunch, I don't go | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
drinking in Parliament's bars, I don't often wear my heart on my | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
sleeve and this's true. I said then and I say now, that if ever there | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
was a time for a Prime Minister who is ready and able to do the job from | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
day one, this is it. Because there's no time for learning on the job. The | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
demands of the role are significant. The ability to master the details | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
are crucial. And the need to make big important December sixes are | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
inescapable -- decisions are inescapable. We have no time to | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
waste. I offer myself as Prime Minister once more with a resolute | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
determination to get on with the job of delivering Brexit, confidence | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
that I can get a deal that I can work for all. I have the will and | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
experience to build for a better Britain. That is what the election | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
in three days' time is about. It's about who can provide the leadership | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
to do what is right for Britain. And with the support of people across | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
the country at the ballot box on Thursday, that's what I will do. | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
Thank you. APPLAUSE. | :20:27. | :20:45. | |
I can take some questions from the media. Who do we have here? Goodness | :20:46. | :21:01. | |
me! A whole host of media. Gary? REPORTER: This morning, Cressida | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
Dick said that in the light of the attack over the weekend, absolutely | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
we need to look at having more police, more forensics, more | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
intelligence officers. Do you agree, and would that mean you were wrong | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
to cut numbers? Well, Cressida Dick has said that the Metropolitan | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
Police are well resourced and they are. She's said they have powerful | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
Counter-Terrorism capabilities and they do. We have protected | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
Counter-Terrorism policing budgets, we have funded an uplift in the | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
number of armed police officers and, from 2015, as I said in my speech, | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
we are protecting police budgets, despite the fact that Jeremy | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
Corbyn's frontbench suggested that police budgets should be cut by up | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
2010%. But it's also about the powers that you give to the police | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
and I've been responsible for giving the police extra powers to deal with | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
terrorism. Jeremy Corbyn has boasted he's opposed to those powers and | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
opposed the powers for anti-terror actions throughout his time in | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
Parliament. I also support absolutely shoot-to-kill and I think | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
what we saw on our streets on Saturday was how important that was. | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
Those police officers within eight minutes had shot the three attackers | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
and killed them and that saved countless lives. | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
APPLAUSE. Beth? Thank you, Prime Minister. A | :22:26. | :22:36. | |
question on those police cuts. You talked today about stamping out | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
extremism in communities and preventing young people becoming | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
radicalised. But isn't it the fact that 20,000 police cuts has meant | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
that there have been cuts to neighbourhood policing, cuts to | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
community policing and cuts in exactly the place where you need to | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
stop this ideaology growing? Was this raised while you were Home | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
Secretary as a problem and what are you going to do about it? Thank you. | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
Well it's absolutely right. I've set out in my speech today that I do | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
think we need to make a much Morrow bust approach to dealing with | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
extremism in this country, I think there has overall. We have made | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
progress on this. I introduced a counterextremism strategy whilst I | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
was Home Secretary. But I think we have seen overall too much tolerance | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
of extremism in our society. So we do need to deal with it. That is why | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
in our manifesto we have set out a step that I think will be the first | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
country in the world to take which is to introduce the commission on | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
countering extremism. That will be working with the public sector, but | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
also with civil society, with organisations and individuals both | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
to promote our pluralistic British values but also to help people | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
identify extremism and be able to know how to deal with that | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
ex-treeism when they see it. That's the first time any country's taken | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
that step. I believe that's important and I believe that will | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
help us in that necessary task of stamping out extremism. Andy? | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
REPORTER: Thank you very much. Prime Minister, you accuse those who were | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
concerned about police cuts of crying wolf. Do you accept now that | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
you were wrong to say that, that they were raising legitimate | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
concerns and, do you commit to restore those 20,000 police officers | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
that were cut since 2010? I have answered the question about | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
policing, but I am very happy to repeat what we have been doing in | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
policing, which is, we have been protecting Counter-Terrorism | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
policing, we have provided funding for an uplift in armed policing. We | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
have from 2015, proticketing police budgets. The Labour Party, Jeremy | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
Corbyn's frontbench said the budgets could be cut by up 2010%, we said | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
no, we are going to protect the budgets. It's also about the powers | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
that you give to the police and I have been responsible, through a | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
number of pieces of legislation I've introduced to give extra powers to | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
the police to teal with terrorism. Jeremy Corbyn's boasted he's opposed | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
every single piece of anti-terror legislation since he came into | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
Parliament. Laura? REPORTER: Prime Minister, the most | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
direct experience that members of the public see in terms of efforts | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
of the Government to keep us safe is the number of police on the streets. | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
On your watch as Home Secretary, the number of armed police officers | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
fell, it's still lower than it was in 2010, the number of officers fell | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
in total by 10 20,000, as we have heard, and also control orders that | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
monitor terrorists were watered down. If you mean what you say this | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
morning, that this should be the number one priority, to keep people | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
safe, would it not be leadership to say you reverse the cuts? You | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
mentioned the control orders there, of course they were being knocked | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
down in the courts and that's why we looked at the issue of control | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
orders, but ensure that the police and Security Services had powers in | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
their remit to be able to deal with people who would do us harm. That's | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
what we have done, we have enhanced the powers for the police, we have | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
ensured that the security and intelligence agencies have the | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
powers they need through the investigatory powers act that I | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
introduced when I was Home Secretary. This is about ensuring | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
that police and Security Services are able to do the job that we want | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
them to do. We have protected the Counter-Terrorism policing budgets, | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
as I say, we are funding an uplift of I think it's 1500 armed police | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
officers, but it's not just about resource, it's about the powers | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
people have. As I said earlier on in response to a question, I fully | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
support the police in shoot-to-kill and we saw on Saturday night how | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
important it was for them to be able to act on our streets to protect | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
British citizens. Nick? | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
REPORTER: Thank you, Prime Minister. You've said that the time has come | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
to tackle not just violent extremism, but extremist ideaology. | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
Does that mean that you've changed your mind because you will remember | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
you had a very public row with Michael Gove in 2014 when he said | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
that you and your officials were prepared to tackle violent extremism | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
but not extremist ideaology. So are you now agreeing with what Michael | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
Gove said then which is that you need to drain the swamp and not | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
simply beat back the crocodiles from the boat? I've been very, very clear | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
clout actually that it wasn't just about violent extremism, it was | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
about extremism and that's why, when I was Home Secretary, we introduced | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
the counterextremism strategy. You can look back, I've made various | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
speeches over the years where I've said that we do need to deal with | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
extremism, not just the violent extremism. But what we've now seen | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
is a change in the threat that we face, an increased diversity in the | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
threat that we face and I think it is important for us to respond to | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
that. That is what you would expect a Government to do. As I said, while | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
we have made progress in relation to extremism, I believe there has | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
overall been too great a willingness to tolerate extremism, that's why we | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
need to take further action. Chris? REPORTER:? Prime Minister, I know | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
you blame the courts for getting rid of control orders but why not bring | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
them back and do you regret getting rid of them so soon? No, the control | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
orders were increasingly knocked down by the courts. We introduced | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
the terror investigation measures, we enhanced those most recently to | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
ensure that the police and Security Services have the powers they need. | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
We have also given the police additional powers in a variety of | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
ways. For example, the ability to take a passport away temporarily at | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
the border, to then if they think they're leaving the country perhaps | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
to two to fight in Syria, for example, and to see if they can | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
prosecute that individual. We have looked at ensuring that people have | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
the powers they need. We need to continue to do that as we see a | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
different threat and that is what I am committed to doing. Ben? | :29:16. | :29:26. | |
REPORTER: You talked about protecting the Counter-Terrorism | :29:27. | :29:28. | |
policing budget, but what about the neighbourhood policing budget? We | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
saw huge cuts to that, the officers on the ground, the eyes and ears to | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
generate intelligence, was it a mistake to cut those? We are | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
protecting police budgets. What we saw in 2015 was the Labour Party | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
frontbench under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership saying they'll be happy | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
to see police cuts that they thought it was possible to have police cuts | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
of 5-10%, we said no, we are protecting the budgets. Harry? | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
REPORTER: REPORTER: Thank you, Prime Minister. | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
Overnight around the word we sue a slew of headlines suggesting Britain | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
is reeling and London is under siege which is not an image that many | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
commuters recognise this morning. What is your response to those that | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
say Britain is towering? We have seen the British resolute spirit and | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
resolute British determination to get on with life and show that | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
business is as usual. We saw that following the Manchester attack and | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
we saw it and we are seeing it today in London. People here in the UK are | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
going about their business because we will not allow the terrorists to | :30:34. | :30:42. | |
defeat us. We will defeat them. George? | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
REPORTER: Prime Minister, I wondered if you would like to say anything | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
about the way that Sadiq Khan's handled this crisis and whether you | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
have any views on the interventions of foreign world leaders in this | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
issue so soon after an attack? I think Sadiq is doing an excellent | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
job and Sadiq - I've chaired a second cobra meeting this morning, | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
Sadiq Khan's been present and was present at the cobra that I chaired | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
yesterday - we are working together. We are working with the Mayor of | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
London and with City Hall to ensure, for example, that the transport | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
network's been able to get back up and running so people can go about | :31:20. | :31:27. | |
their business. REPORTER: By and large, this | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
election south of the border has been about Brexit but north of | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
border it's been largely about independence. Nicola Sturgeon | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
believes she has a double mandate to demand from you another independence | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
referendum. She got most seats and votes in the 2016 Holyrood election | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
and she had a clear mandate from the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
voters would like to know a precise answer to this question - can you | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
tell us what the precise reason is that you believe she does not have a | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
mandate? I've been very clear that now is not the time to be talking | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
about a second independence referendum in Scotland. First of | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
all, we are going into the Brexit negotiations as a United Kingdom. | :32:13. | :32:14. | |
Now is the time we need to work together, not be trying to pull | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
ourselves apart, as Nicola Sturgeon is. I would remind everybody that in | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
2014, it was the Scottish Nationalists who said that vote was | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
a once in a generation, indeed once in a lifetime vote and that vote was | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
to stay part of the United Kingdom. And finally, I would say to | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
everybody, anybody who believes in our precious union, anybody who | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
believes that we are four nations but at heart one people, that we | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
should stay together as a United Kingdom, should vote Conservative. | :32:44. | :32:52. | |
REPORTER: We have had three terrorist attacks in three months, | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
whether it's an issue with policing or whether warnings have been | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
missed, do you regard these attacks as a failure to prevent the attacks | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
by Government, and if so do you worry about what that says about | :33:08. | :33:10. | |
your record? Well, over the past three months, we have had the three | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
attacks. The police and the Security Services have also foiled five other | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
attacks. What we have seen is an increase in tempo and a change in | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
the terrorist threat with terrorism breeding and that is why it's | :33:27. | :33:29. | |
absolutely right that we look at our response to that and we adjust our | :33:30. | :33:38. | |
response when we see the terror threat evolving and the means of the | :33:39. | :33:40. | |
terrorists evolving. REPORTER: Thank you. Prime Minister, | :33:41. | :33:51. | |
you and your Government want to stay party to Counter-Terrorism proposals | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
after brx it that operated by the European Union such as the Schengen | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
agreement. As you know, threads thoz are subject to the jurisdiction of | :34:01. | :34:04. | |
the European Court of Justice, so do you accept that if you want to keep | :34:05. | :34:09. | |
hold of the tools, you are going to have to compromise exiting the | :34:10. | :34:13. | |
European Court of Justice, or do you have an alternative plan that would | :34:14. | :34:18. | |
allow you to do both? The Schengen information system is not just about | :34:19. | :34:21. | |
terrorism, but soarious and organised criminals as well, it's | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
about identification of people travelling across borders and, as | :34:26. | :34:29. | |
part of the negotiations, we'll be looking at that and other programmes | :34:30. | :34:35. | |
and projects and arrangements of cooperation that we have currently | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
as a member of the European Union which would lapse when we leave the | :34:40. | :34:41. | |
European Union and to continue to have those in future. There will be | :34:42. | :34:45. | |
a number of areas in the negotiations where currently the | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
European Court of Justice has jurisdiction and as part of the | :34:49. | :34:51. | |
negotiations we'll need to be looking at how we can ensure there | :34:52. | :34:55. | |
is appropriate oversight of the use of those but I'm very clear the | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
European Court of Justice and its jurisdiction in the UK will be | :35:00. | :35:01. | |
ended. Last night Jeremy Corbyn said he'd | :35:02. | :35:17. | |
consider any requests for new security powers from the Security | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
Services. I wonder whether you could match that and can I ask also about | :35:23. | :35:26. | |
revelations overnight that one of the camers in the latest attack | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
appears to have featured in a Channel 4 documentary last year | :35:31. | :35:33. | |
waving an Isis flag in a London park. When you say we have been too | :35:34. | :35:40. | |
tolerant, is that what you meant? The police have identified all | :35:41. | :35:44. | |
three. As and when progress allows, they'll release the names so I can't | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
comment on the individuals and it is of course still an ongoing | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
investigation. As to Jeremy Corbyn's claim that he'd consider any powers | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
that the Security Services asked to have for the future, I would simply | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
say to people look at the different records. As Health Secretary, I | :36:05. | :36:07. | |
increased powers available to the police and Security Service to deal | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
with terrorism. Jeremy Corbyn's bothed that he's opposed every | :36:13. | :36:15. | |
single piece of anti-terror legislation since he came into | :36:16. | :36:16. | |
Parliament. REPORTER: (Inaudible) I'm clear | :36:17. | :36:44. | |
Sadiq is doing a good job as Mayor of London. We are working with him | :36:45. | :36:51. | |
together and that's Parliament. His officials are working together to | :36:52. | :36:58. | |
ensure that we are responding to the attack and looking at the work the | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
police are doing to give the public extra protechion and reassurance. We | :37:04. | :37:06. | |
want people to go about their business. We are very clear that we | :37:07. | :37:13. | |
will not allow the terrorists to harm our way of life our democracy. | :37:14. | :37:20. | |
Somebody at the back that I can't see? | :37:21. | :37:22. | |
REPORTER: You have talked a lot about the reasons why you have | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
called this election. I wonder if you could tell us how many seats to | :37:26. | :37:29. | |
you need to win to justify that decision? I have, throughout my many | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
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. | :37:45. | :37:49. |