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Hello and welcome to The Election Wrap, our guide | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
And the countdown is on, with just 12 hours until the polling | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
booths open for the 2017 General Election. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn criss-cross the country in a frantic | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
last push for votes in the Battle for Number 10. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
We'll tell you what the other parties have been doing | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
on the campaign trail on the eve of the election. | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
They separate us into two groups, I want you to unify the country. | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
They may be too young to vote, but children from the BBC | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
School Report ask what the next Prime Minister can do | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
Theresa May called this snap election 50 days ago. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
We'll tell you how things developed in our campaign highlights | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
We'll hear a plea from Simon Brown, a British soldier who was injured | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
in Iraq and saved the lives of six of his colleagues, | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
about the importance of voting tomorrow. | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
It's so important that you use your voice and your opinion. You might | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
not think it matters, but it truly does. And at the very least, honour | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
the sacrifices made to ensure that you will always have a vote. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
And our election gurus in the studio this evening, | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
for this last Election Wrap of the campaign, are Caroline | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
Crampton, the Assistant Editor at the New Statesman, | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
and Tim Shipman, who's Political Editor at the Sunday Times. | :01:47. | :01:58. | |
Let's bring you up to date with the latest developments from | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
The leaders treated the British public to a re-run of their best | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
hits today, trotting out plenty of old favourites | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
After seven weeks of campaigning, Theresa May told voters | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
she still needs help with her Brexit hand to become | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Every vote for me is a vote to strengthen my Brexit hand. | :02:18. | :02:30. | |
And a vote for a fairer and more prosperous Britain for us all. | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
Jeremy Corbyn set his sights closer to his London home, | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
visiting Watford, Harrow and Islington to emphasise that his | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
I'm proud of this document, for the many, not the few. I'm very proud of | :02:45. | :03:01. | |
the input into it. And it is a manifesto that can transform our | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
politics and change our attitudes in this society. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
It was 'back to the future' for Tim Farron in his speech | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
to supporters in Bath ahead of a rally in Oxford. | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
I've my back to you, because we are facing forward and facing a massive | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
day. Not just in Bath, but across the west country and an opportunity | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
to change the direction of the country. | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
And Nicola Sturgeon criticised Theresa May's 'strong | :03:33. | :03:33. | |
and stable' message, but fell back on her own catchphrase | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
when she insisted her candidates could be strong for Scotland. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
Do not wake up on Friday morning and find that Scottish votes have | :03:42. | :03:52. | |
boosted Theresa May's majority and thrown her a lifeline. Let us wake | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
up on Friday morning having re-elected strong SNP voices who | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
will stand up for Scotland. Well, those were the party leaders | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
with their latest messages, but let's have a look at the last | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
dash that started Ridiculously early o'clock | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
and the Prime Minister was taking the phrase meat and greet quite | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
literally by visiting Smithfield | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
Market in London. Obviously not courting | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
the vegan vote. But listen carefully | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
and you can hear a Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
was in Solihull to continue He whipped up sausages | :04:26. | :04:36. | |
and sauerkraut as warning against In Glasgow, the Labour leader | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
held the first of six Behind the scenes shadow | :04:45. | :04:55. | |
police minister Lynne Brown took over from | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
the shadow Home Secretary, Actually, Jeremy's been | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
sounding a bit croaky. Mid morning and Theresa May | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
was at a bowling club in Fresh from the revelation | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
that she ran through wheat fields as a child, we learned | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
another personal gem about the Prime By this point he was | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
in a pub in St Alban's Paul Nuttall took | :05:25. | :05:38. | |
you Ukip's message to They do love a market | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
these politicians. Paul Nuttall was one party leader | :05:44. | :05:59. | |
trying to get a message out. We are not a single issue party, we stand | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
for putting more into the NHS, slashing the foreign aid budget, | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
investing in our defence and our boys and girls in the armed forces | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
and of course reducing immigration which would be good for community | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
cohesion and the economy. We are feel we are at a fork in the road F | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
you don't want to waste money on Trident and look at ideas to make | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
the country fit for the 21st century and want more investment in the NHS, | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
then vote for the Green Party. We face a number of threats from a Tory | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Government with an increased mandate. Threats to people in our | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
communities, threats to our NHS and threats to the process of leaving | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
the EU to jobs and livelihoods. It is only by having a strong team of | :06:53. | :07:05. | |
Plaid Cymru MPs that we can make su wail's voice is taken seriously. | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
Well, to have a look at the last day of campaigning in more detail I'm | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
joined by Caroline Crampton, the Assistant Editor | :07:13. | :07:13. | |
of the New Statesman and Tim Shipman, Political Editor | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
Does this last day matter, the final push to get the message over? It is | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
important for narrative purposes bgs you want to give your story the | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
crescendo before voting day. I'm not sure it matters so much to voters. | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
People have already decide or they will decide in the ballot box in the | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
last 24 hours. I don't think anything will change their minds. It | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
has been such a strange election. From the moment Theresa May called | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
it, with almost nobody expecting that, a surprise? Yes the whole | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
thing has been bizarre. A month ago, this was probably the most boring | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
general election I have covered. And now I'm thinking it is one of the | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
most interesting and we have seen two parties taking control of the | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
landscape and the small parties have faded and you're the two visions | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
taking each other on and it is a proper clash of ideologies and of | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
personalities. How do you see the personalities having fared? I think | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
it has been very revealing for both. Both leaders who haven't led into an | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
election before and although we do have a Parliamentary system there is | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
a discussion about increasingly presidential we are becoming, your | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
voting for local candidates, but you feel like you're voting for the | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
national outcome and we have had greater scrutiny on Theresa May and | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Jeremy Corbyn and I think Jeremy Corbyn's come out the better. He | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
loves the local detail of campaigning and meeting people. I | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
think Theresa May that is not her for Tay and it comes across. Is that | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
how you see it? Yes, Theresa May became Prime Minister without even | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
going through a proper Tory leadership contest and elections | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
reveal the individuals. The Americans complain they have this | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
agonising two year process to pick a president. But by the end of it, you | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
know everything there is to know about that person. This has been a | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
revealing process for Theresa May. She didn't even make a virtue of it | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
by saying this guy is a great campaigner let him be a protester, | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
I'm the serious Prime Minister. Even that she has not been able to frame | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
and shown she is not comfortable in the spotlight and can't wait to get | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
back into No 10 as she hopes. Is that how she sold herselfers | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
somebody who gets on with the job. That is how she was selling ourself | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
to start with and how she is today. It has been cliche day on the | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
campaign trail. They want people going into the ballot box thinking | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
through Theresa May's virtues. But they have seen a woman who has | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
changed her mind about a couple of things and has looked uncomfortable | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
with some questioning. She called it presumably hoping for a landslide. | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
If she doesn't get one, how disappointed will she be and how | :10:14. | :10:22. | |
disappointed with the Conservative Party be? When the expectations are | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
set high, there is only one way. You feel like you have lost. Before we | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
know the result people are arguing over what victory looks like and the | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
day after traichl call -- Theresa May called the election, we were | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
talking of a 100 strong majority. We are not in that ball game. The polls | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
and what we are hearing... To be fair was that just journalists | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
talking? I think the Conservative Party themselves had expectations in | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
that realm as well. I think the Tory MPs did. I think the one good thing | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
for Theresa May is they have had that knocked out of them now. When | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
they started the campaign, if you believed people who work for Theresa | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
May, she went in hope, thinking it was worth calling the general | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
election to get a majority of 50 or 60. Now most Tory MPs would be | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
satisfied with that. I'm struggling to find many that think they will | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
have a majority of much less than that. They're relatively confident, | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
but what has changed appears to be the chance for Theresa May and the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Tories to ruck up the score in a way we haven't seen since Tony Blair's | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
victories 20-odd years ago. But a majority of 50 would be the best | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Tory performance for a generation since 1987. So they will take that. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Not long to wait until we find out. Thank you. | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
The election has been dominated in recent days by security issues | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
in the aftermath of the terror attacks in London and Manchester. | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Today's final day of campaigning has seen party leaders return | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
to their core messages - for the Conservatives - | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
Brexit and the economy andfor Labour - the NHS and schools. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
Christian Fraser has been looking at each of the main parties | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
manifesto commitments in three key areas - the economy, | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Have you made up your mind or do you need a bit of help? | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Let's have a fast and furious guide to some of the policies | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
The Conservatives say they'll balance the budget by 2025. | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
They are ruling out any increases to VAT but they will stick | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
with current plans to raise personal tax allowances, those they have set | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Labour say they'll inject ?250 billion into the economy | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
There'll be no increase in personal National Insurance but there will be | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
a top rate of 50p and higher income taxes for those who | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
If there is a hung Parliament, the SNP will play a bigger role, | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
of course, they would support any plans to balance the UK budget over | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Again their pledge is to protect the low-paid but there would be | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
And the Liberal Democrats, again, pledges to balance the budget. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
This is really the marquee policy for the Liberal Democrats. | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Everybody would spend an extra penny in the pound in income tax | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
for a world class NHS service and they would inject | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
an extra ?100 billion into infrastructure, | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
house building, broadband, schools, etc. | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
Let's look at a devolved issue, health care. | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
They would give the NHS an extra ?9 billion every year for the next | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
This one was there in 2015, cracking down on foreign nationals | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Labour would commit more than ?30 billion in extra funding | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
This is really a key one, they would guarantee access to NHS | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
And the Tories say they would increase spending by ?8 billion over | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
And the Liberal Democrats, we have seen that one, | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
but this one is maybe important, ensuring mental health care | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
is similar to the standards in physical health care. | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
Quite a big one that on the doorstep. | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
Let's look at housing, another devolved issue. | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
Rent controls, a big issue for younger voters. | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
The Green Party making commitments on that. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
The Conservatives say they would build fixed-term council | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
houses that could be sold after 15 years under the right-to-buy scheme. | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
Labour say they will, again, control rent rises | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
and they are promising to build at least 100,000 council houses | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
a year and the Liberal Democrats, 300,000 new homes every year. | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Can't get through all of them, but please do | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
All the manifestos are there, from all the parties - | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
They may not be old enough to vote tomorrow - | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
but many teenagers across the UK will be directly affected | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
BBC School Report have asked some of them what the next Prime Minister | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
Dear Prime Minister, make Wi-Fi free. Myself and other young people | :15:16. | :15:31. | |
want to go to university, reduce tuition fees. I want a free day week | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
so, I don't have to dread Monday. I would like to make fees cheaper for | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
people like me. Make rights between men and women equal. I want you to | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
lower the voting aiming so we have a fair chance of deciding the future. | :15:53. | :16:18. | |
Now young voters they can't vote, but many can and Jeremy Corbyn has | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
been targeting them with tuition fees. It is a major planks of Jeremy | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
Corbyn's idea of how he would win an election. First non-voters, people | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
who stay at home and young voters, which historically don't turn up. Or | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
doesn't even register. The older you get, the more likely you are to vote | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
and it has been the older you are the more likely you are to vote | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
Conservative. So hence the strategy. I remain sceptical, but if he turns | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
out many young people he will have changed the landscape of British | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
politics. Is that enough to win him an election? If it happened on the | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
scale some people in the Labour Party hope, it might be enough to | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
remove the Conservative majority and if you look at opinion polls, some | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
of the companies are predicting high turn out among young people, up to | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
08%. Traditionally they vote in the low 40s and in a good election up to | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
the low 50s. That would seem to be ambitious. But he splurged ?11 | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
billion on the tuition pledge and some think it was an attempt to | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
target those people in the university towns and cities at the | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
expense of the working class, the traditional Labour voters, they | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
wanted commitments on benefits. We did some work at the weekend and a | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
lot of young people who are registering appear to be doing so in | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
seats that Labour already holds. The problem for Jeremy Corbyn is he may | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
get more votes than Ed Miliband, but may not get more seats. Looking | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
ahead, if Corbyn does reasonably well, loses, but does well, is he | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
then safe? It seems so. There doesn't seem, what I pick up is that | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
there isn't much appetite for a second coup as the phrase was last | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
year. But it comes back to what victory look like. If we have either | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
an equal or a better vote share than what Ed Miliband achieved, but fewer | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
seats, that is possible, if as it looks like, Jeremy Corbyn is piling | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
up votes in places where Labour already hold seats or seats that | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
would have gone to them any way, he is not making inroads in difficult | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
areas, then it is a kind of semantic argument. He can argue, I'm a | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
popular leader and I turned out so many people and those in the Labour | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
Party who are critical of him and they can say we have fewer seats and | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
the Conservatives have more. That is the opposite of what you want to | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
achieve. It is going to be a summer of Labour wrangling, but I think | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
Jeremy Corbyn will stay where he is. I agree, his position looks like it | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
will be enhanced. He has a huge amount of support from the | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
membership and may have more votes than Ed Miliband from the party at | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
large. From the country at large. Tony Benn hailed eight million votes | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
for socialism. There might be ten or 11 this time and they can point to | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
the opinion polls and say a lot of this stuff is popular. For the | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
moment, we will thank you. We are going to look back. | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
It's been 50 days since Theresa May called a snap General Election. | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Here is a round-up of the 2017 General Election campaign | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
The government should call a general election to be | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
You can only have strong public services when you have the strong | :20:02. | :20:11. | |
and stable leadership that delivers a strong economy. | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
Strong leadership is about standing up for the many, not the few. | :20:15. | :20:37. | |
I will give you the figure in a moment. | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Debates where the politicians are squabbling among themselves | :20:42. | :21:12. | |
Where do you think Theresa May is tonight? | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
I think the first rule of leadership is to show up. | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
I believe leaders should walk the walk. | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
Absolutely shocked and horrified at what happened. | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
We need to ensure that our police and our security and intelligence | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
The police and security services must get the resources they need. | :21:43. | :21:58. | |
With me is Caroline Crampton of the New Statesman and Tim Shipman | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
Let's give Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn marks out of ten for their | :22:02. | :22:13. | |
campaigns. Why don't me? Tim. I will give Jeremy Corbyn 7. He has | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
outperformed expectations that were very low. He had a couple of | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
wobbles. The interview with the Woman's Hour was one a low and had | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
die yacht Abbot not -- Diane Abbot not performed worse it may have been | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
the worst of campaign. But he has given a good account of himself and | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
wh he believes. Theresa May I would give 4. She has held her own, got | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
back to the messages she wanted, but ultimately whether she wins or not, | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
a lot of people in the Conservative Party think she is a diminished | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
figure. Is that how you see it? Yes, I would go further and give Jeremy | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
Corbyn 9 out of 10, given he went into the campaign on 1 or minus | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
something. He has made tremendous... What about Tim Farron? He has had a | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
terrible campaign. I would put him on 2. Really dreadful. In what | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
sense? I think you know he was hampered at the start with all the | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
stuff about his personal opinions on social issue, gay marriage and this | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
stuff and he didn't shut that down quickly and allowed it to drag on | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
and taint the Liberal Democrats' message and it became about his | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
personality. After that, nothing else seemed to compete. They haven't | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
cut through as Tim said, we are operating a two-party system it | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
feels like. Tim Farron, is his leadership of the Liberal Democrats | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
under threat? Depending on the results, but if it doesn't go | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
brilliantly? I think so we will have three succession battles in all | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
three of the main parties. Perhaps all four if you include Ukip, if | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
there still a Ukip. I could give Farron 2 or 3. His campaign has been | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
more disastrous than Theresa May's, because it is rendering his party | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
irrelevant. He made a misjudgment in assuming the vast number of remain | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
voters would rush to the Liberal Democrats, because they wanted to | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
re-open the question around Brexit. It looks like most of Remain voters | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
would like to move on. Even if they don't, there is nothing compelling | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
about the Liberal Democrats with Tim Farron. We may end up with Vince | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
Cable again. It was supposed to be the Brexit election, but it has not | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
been exclusively? No, Theresa May's made her best attempts to make it | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
so. Because she feels that is her point of authority and strength. But | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
I think astonishing as it may feel not even a year on, we have moved | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
on, most people accepted our exit from the EU as a reality and now its | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
just a question of who does it best and how do we negotiate and on what | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
terms do we leave. And in a word, your prediction? Tory majority of | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
about 60. I've put in a prediction of 66. You must have been talking to | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
each other. 60 and 66. It would surprise me if it was lower. It | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
wasn't surprise me if it was nearer 100. You're keeping your options | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
open. Thank you. Well, that's it from | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
The Election Wrap. But before we go, we wanted | :25:48. | :25:49. | |
to leave you with the Simon was shot while | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
serving in Iraq in 2006. He saved the lives of | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
six of his colleagues and has these thoughts for you ahead | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
of polling day tomorrow. Hi there, my name is | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
Simon Brown and I am a former soldier in the British | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
Army. I was fortunate to survive | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
the incident on the battlefield. I woke up in Birmingham | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
after 18 days in a coma. To the knowledge that I'd | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
lost my left eye and my right I had very little hope | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
of retaining any sight. Although I survived my injuries, | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
I have colleagues that didn't. And it changed my | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
perspective on life. I suddenly realised | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
I was a survivor, And it made me think | :26:41. | :26:42. | |
about the things I have kept and not I think that some values | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
that I carry forward I've served in places around | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
the world where the people I really feel that | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
the biggest freedom that we have is to have | :26:59. | :27:07. | |
a voice and an opinion. It is so important that | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
you use your voice and your opinion. You might not think it | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
matters, but it truly does. And at the very least honour | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
the sacrifices made to ensure I'm sure most of us would agree the | :27:21. | :27:46. | |
weather's been much better today compared | :27:47. | :27:48. |