:00:13. > :00:18.Evening all. Welcome to our fight of a conference with the Conservatives
:00:19. > :00:22.here in Birmingham. Where Theresa May made her pitch not just for the
:00:23. > :00:26.centre ground of British politics but for the centre left with her
:00:27. > :00:30.repeated claims that she would run a government in the interest of what
:00:31. > :00:35.she called ordinary working-class families. Change was going to camp
:00:36. > :00:38.said the Prime Minister, pledging that her government would be a force
:00:39. > :00:43.for good, for working people who felt they had left out. She took a
:00:44. > :00:47.swipe at the socialist left and the libertarian right as she parked her
:00:48. > :00:52.tanks across the centre of British politics, claiming Labour was now
:00:53. > :00:57.the nasty party. Brexit looms over everything she does and says. Adam
:00:58. > :01:03.headed out to see if delegates think leaving the EU will make the country
:01:04. > :01:07.richer or poorer. Richer, 100%. Absolutely. No doubt about it. We
:01:08. > :01:20.will be 100% richer? Roughly. Mrs May did not dwell much on
:01:21. > :01:25.Brexit, but what she did say was significant. No longer under the
:01:26. > :01:30.jurisdiction of the European Court of justice, no more free movement of
:01:31. > :01:33.people but she did not spell it out but it was implicit in everything
:01:34. > :01:37.she said was that we would no longer be members of the single market.
:01:38. > :01:39.When we came to Birmingham this week,...
:01:40. > :01:41.When we came to Birmingham this week, some big questions
:01:42. > :01:44.Do we have a plan for Brexit?
:01:45. > :01:48.Are we ready for the effort it will take to see it through?
:01:49. > :02:11.Can Boris Johnson stay on message for a full four days?
:02:12. > :02:18.But I know there's another big question people want me to answer.
:02:19. > :02:20.What's my vision for Britain?
:02:21. > :02:32.Today I want to answer that question very directly.
:02:33. > :02:35.I want to set out my vision for Britain after Brexit.
:02:36. > :02:44.I want to lay out my approach ? the things I believe.
:02:45. > :02:56.Change is going to come. Change has got to come, because as we leave the
:02:57. > :03:01.European Union and take control of viral destiny, the task of tackling
:03:02. > :03:04.some of Britain's long-standing challenges, like how to train enough
:03:05. > :03:08.people to do the jobs of the future, becomes ever more urgent. But change
:03:09. > :03:26.has got to come, too. Change has got to come
:03:27. > :03:28.because as we leave the European Union and take control
:03:29. > :03:31.of our own destiny, the task of tackling some of Britain's
:03:32. > :03:33.long-standing challenges - like how to train enough people
:03:34. > :03:37.to do the jobs of the future - But change has got to come too
:03:38. > :03:41.because of the quiet revolution that took place in our country just three
:03:42. > :03:44.months ago ? a revolution in which millions of our fellow
:03:45. > :03:46.citizens stood up and said they were not prepared
:03:47. > :03:48.to be ignored anymore. Because this is a turning point
:03:49. > :03:50.for our country. A once-in-a-generation chance
:03:51. > :03:56.to change the direction The referendum was not just a vote
:03:57. > :03:58.to change for the EU, it was something the European Union has
:03:59. > :04:01.come to represent. It was about a sense, deep, profound and let us
:04:02. > :04:05.face it, often justified, that many people have today. That the world
:04:06. > :04:09.works well for a privileged few, but not for them. It was a vote not just
:04:10. > :04:17.to change the British relationship with the European Union, but to go
:04:18. > :04:21.for a change in the way the country works and for whom it works forever.
:04:22. > :04:28.Knock on almost any door in any part of the country and you will find the
:04:29. > :04:32.roots of that revolution laid bare. A society should work for everyone,
:04:33. > :04:36.but if you cannot afford to get onto the property ladder or your child is
:04:37. > :04:42.stuck in a bad school, it does not feel like it is working for you. Our
:04:43. > :04:47.economy should work for everyone but if your pay has stagnated for
:04:48. > :04:52.several years in a row and six items of spending keep going up, it does
:04:53. > :04:55.not feel like it is working for you. Our democracy should work for
:04:56. > :05:00.everyone, but if you have been trying to say that things need to
:05:01. > :05:05.change for years and your complaints fall on deaf ears, it does not feel
:05:06. > :05:10.like it is working for you. And the roots of the revolution run deep.
:05:11. > :05:14.Because it was not the wealthy who made the biggest sacrifices after
:05:15. > :05:19.the financial crisis, but ordinary working-class families.
:05:20. > :05:34.APPLAUSE. And if you're one of those people
:05:35. > :05:40.who took a pay cut as household bills rocketed, or, and I know a lot
:05:41. > :05:46.of people do not like to admit this, someone who finds themselves out of
:05:47. > :05:50.work or on lower wages because of low skilled emigration, life simply
:05:51. > :05:58.does not seem fair. Now, do not get me wrong, we applaud success, we
:05:59. > :06:06.want people to get on, but we also value something else. The spirit of
:06:07. > :06:10.citizenship. That spirit, that means you respect the bonds and
:06:11. > :06:13.obligations that make our society work, that means a commitment to the
:06:14. > :06:19.men and women who live around you and work for you, who buy the goods
:06:20. > :06:23.and services you sell, that spirit, that means recognising the social
:06:24. > :06:28.contract that says you train up local young people before you take
:06:29. > :06:32.on cheap Labour from overseas. That spirit that means you do as others
:06:33. > :06:35.do and pay your fair share of tax. But today...
:06:36. > :06:48.APPLAUSE. But today, too many people in
:06:49. > :06:51.positions of power, behave as though they have more in common with
:06:52. > :06:56.international elites, than with the people down the road, the people
:06:57. > :07:00.they employ, they people they pass on the street. But if you believe
:07:01. > :07:04.you're a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere. You do not
:07:05. > :07:08.understand but the very word citizenship means, so if you are a
:07:09. > :07:12.boss who earns a fortune but does not look after your staff, an
:07:13. > :07:24.international company that treats tax laws an optional extra, a
:07:25. > :07:26.household name that refuses to work with the authorities even to fight
:07:27. > :07:29.terrorism, a director who takes out massive dividends while knowing that
:07:30. > :07:29.the company pension is about to go bust.
:07:30. > :07:47.APPLAUSE. I am putting you on warning, this
:07:48. > :07:50.cannot go on any more, a change has got to come and this party is going
:07:51. > :07:59.to make it! APPLAUSE. Just listen to the way a
:08:00. > :08:06.lot of politicians and commentators talk about the public. They find
:08:07. > :08:11.your patriotism distasteful. Your concerns about immigration,
:08:12. > :08:16.parochial. Your views about crime liberal, your attachment to your job
:08:17. > :08:20.security inconvenient. They find the fact that more than 17 million
:08:21. > :08:27.voters decided leave the European Union simply bewildering. Because if
:08:28. > :08:32.you are well off and comfortable, Britain is a different country and
:08:33. > :08:37.these concerns are not your concerns. It is easy to dismiss
:08:38. > :08:40.them, easy to say that all you want for -- from government is for it to
:08:41. > :08:45.get out of the way, but a change has to come, it is time to remember the
:08:46. > :08:50.good that government can do. Time for a new approach that says, while
:08:51. > :08:55.government does not have all the answers, government can and should
:08:56. > :09:00.be a force for good. That the state exists to provide what individual
:09:01. > :09:04.people, communities and markets cannot and that we should employ the
:09:05. > :09:09.power of government for the good of the people. Time to reject the
:09:10. > :09:13.ideological template provided by the socialist left and the libertarian
:09:14. > :09:18.right and to embrace a new centre ground in which government steps up
:09:19. > :09:24.and not back to act on behalf of us all. Providing security from crime
:09:25. > :09:28.and ill-health and unemployment as well, supporting free markets, but
:09:29. > :09:34.stepping in to repair them when they are not working as they should.
:09:35. > :09:38.Encouraging business and supporting free trade. But not excepting one
:09:39. > :09:41.set of rules for some and another for everyone else. And...
:09:42. > :09:55.APPLAUSE. And if we do, if we act to correct
:09:56. > :10:00.on fairness and injustice and put government at the service of
:10:01. > :10:04.ordinary, working people, we can build that new United Britain in
:10:05. > :10:08.which everyone plays by the same rules and in which the powerful and
:10:09. > :10:15.the privileged no longer ignore the interests of the people. Only we can
:10:16. > :10:20.do it. Because the main lesson I take from the conference last week
:10:21. > :10:29.is that the Labour Party is not just divided, but divisive. Determined to
:10:30. > :10:34.pit one against another. To pursue vendettas and settle scores. And to
:10:35. > :10:39.embrace the politics of pointless protest, that simply pulls people
:10:40. > :10:44.further apart. That is what Labour stands for, fighting amongst
:10:45. > :10:48.themselves, abusing their own MPs, threatening to end their careers,
:10:49. > :10:52.tolerating anti-Semitism and supporting voices of hate. You know
:10:53. > :10:54.what some people call them? The nasty party.
:10:55. > :11:10.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. The speech was long and ambitious,
:11:11. > :11:15.rhetoric and ambition, short on specific policy detail. Even when it
:11:16. > :11:20.came to the economy, she spoke only in the most general of terms. An
:11:21. > :11:24.economy that works for everyone is an economy where everyone plays by
:11:25. > :11:27.the same rules. I understand the frustration that people feel when
:11:28. > :11:31.they see the rich and powerful getting away with things that they
:11:32. > :11:35.themselves would not dream of doing and they would not get away with if
:11:36. > :11:39.they tried. I understand that, because I feel it as well. There is
:11:40. > :11:45.always an excuse, reason why something cannot be done, but when
:11:46. > :11:51.that is used as a basis for inaction, save in capitalism and
:11:52. > :11:56.free markets falls. The Conservative Party will always believe in free
:11:57. > :12:01.markets and that is precisely why it is this party that should act to
:12:02. > :12:06.defend them. From Edmund Burke onwards, Conservatives have always
:12:07. > :12:11.stood that if you want to preserve something important, you need to be
:12:12. > :12:16.prepared to reform it. And we must apply that same approach today. That
:12:17. > :12:20.is why when markets are dysfunctional, we should be prepared
:12:21. > :12:24.to intervene. Where companies are exploiting the failures of the
:12:25. > :12:29.market in which they operate, where a consumer choice is inhibited by
:12:30. > :12:35.deliberately complex pricing structures, we must set the market
:12:36. > :12:37.right. This party will always be the party of business, large and small.
:12:38. > :12:45.But we must acknowledge that the small number of businesses behave
:12:46. > :12:50.fuels the frustration that people feel.
:12:51. > :12:56.But the actions of a few tar the reputations of the many.
:12:57. > :12:59.So the party that believes in business is going to change
:13:00. > :13:06.Too often the people who are supposed to hold big
:13:07. > :13:08.business accountable are drawn from the same,
:13:09. > :13:10.narrow social and professional circles as the executive team.
:13:11. > :13:14.And too often the scrutiny they provide is not good enough.
:13:15. > :13:22.So later this year we will publish our plans to have not just consumers
:13:23. > :13:25.represented on company boards, but workers as well.
:13:26. > :13:33.Those who contribute and give of their best.
:13:34. > :13:36.That's why we announced on Saturday that we're
:13:37. > :13:39.going to review our laws to make sure that, in our modern
:13:40. > :13:42.and flexible economy, people are properly protected at work.
:13:43. > :13:50.Workers' rights, not under threat from a Conservative government.
:13:51. > :13:52.Workers' rights, protected and enhanced
:13:53. > :14:03.Government cannot stand aside when it sees social
:14:04. > :14:06.If we want to make sure Britain is a country
:14:07. > :14:09.that works for everyone, government has to act to make sure
:14:10. > :14:16.And I want us to be a country where it doesn't matter
:14:17. > :14:17.where you were born, who your parents are,
:14:18. > :14:20.where you went to school, what your accent sounds like,
:14:21. > :14:22.what god you worship, whether you're a man or a woman,
:14:23. > :14:28.All that should matter is the talent you have and how hard
:14:29. > :14:48.To build a new united Britain, rooted in the centre ground.
:14:49. > :14:49.An agenda for a new modern Conservatism.
:14:50. > :14:54.That understands the good government can do.
:14:55. > :14:57.That will never hesitate to face down the powerful when they abuse
:14:58. > :15:02.That will always act in the interests of ordinary,
:15:03. > :15:10.That's what this government's about: action.
:15:11. > :15:15.It's about doing something, not being someone.
:15:16. > :15:19.About identifying injustices, finding solutions, driving change.
:15:20. > :15:23.Taking, not shirking, the big decisions.
:15:24. > :15:26.Having the courage to see things through.
:15:27. > :15:29.It's not always glamorous or exciting, but at its best
:15:30. > :15:40.Not every generation is given this opportunity.
:15:41. > :15:43.Not every generation called to step up in such a way.
:15:44. > :15:55.To bring power home and make decisions here in Britain.
:15:56. > :15:57.To take back control and shape our future
:15:58. > :16:02.To build an outward looking, confident, trading
:16:03. > :16:08.To build a stronger, fairer, brighter future,
:16:09. > :16:16.That is the opportunity we have been given.
:16:17. > :16:23.And the responsibility to grasp it falls upon us all.
:16:24. > :16:28.So to everyone here this morning ? and the millions
:16:29. > :16:38.Come with me and we'll make that change.
:16:39. > :16:43.Come with me as we rise to meet this moment.
:16:44. > :17:00.Come with me and together, let's seize the day.
:17:01. > :17:05.The Tory faithful like the cut of the new leader, they feel she is
:17:06. > :17:13.closer to them come Paire David Cameron ever was. Adam rugby tackled
:17:14. > :17:17.a few of them after the speech. What did you think of her first
:17:18. > :17:24.conference speech? Very good, great. What was the message? Country for
:17:25. > :17:27.everybody. What did you think? Everybody working for everybody,
:17:28. > :17:33.fairness, getting back to what the Conservatives do best. Did it sound
:17:34. > :17:38.like Ed Miliband, talking about helping with the markets not helping
:17:39. > :17:43.ordinary people? She will put it into practice and he didn't. How
:17:44. > :17:46.different was that to the David Cameron conference speeches?
:17:47. > :17:51.Completely different. I haven't been. I thought she was fantastic.
:17:52. > :17:57.She speaks as if she intends to do what she's set out to do and she has
:17:58. > :18:03.given me confidence that she will do that. Let's go over here. We are on
:18:04. > :18:07.the BBC, are you happy with the government getting involved in all
:18:08. > :18:14.sorts of things? Fantastic speech, inspirational. We have a spring in
:18:15. > :18:18.our step. What about the idea of the government intervening more? It will
:18:19. > :18:20.be an agent of change and she has thrown down the gauntlet, a
:18:21. > :18:26.government for one country, one nation conservatism. Scottish
:18:27. > :18:30.Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has become the darling of the
:18:31. > :18:34.English Tories but she is cutting out her own distinctive policy
:18:35. > :18:37.agenda in Scotland and I suggested to her that there are a number of
:18:38. > :18:41.areas where she doesn't agree with Mrs May. You are not going to
:18:42. > :18:46.propose the reintroduction of grammar schools in Scotland? I'm
:18:47. > :18:53.not, I know it is a few years since you attended Paisley Grammar. Not
:18:54. > :18:58.that long! About 120. That's one policy you won't follow through. The
:18:59. > :19:02.education system in Scotland has been different, even before
:19:03. > :19:07.devolution. Since it came in we have been wholly in charge of education
:19:08. > :19:10.in Edinburgh, we have ploughed a different furrow, giving more power
:19:11. > :19:15.to individual schools and head teachers, out of local authority
:19:16. > :19:19.control. But not grammar schools. You would like to remain in the
:19:20. > :19:24.European single market. I would have liked to have remained in the
:19:25. > :19:28.European Union. You would like to remain in the European single
:19:29. > :19:31.market. You heard from the Prime Minister, she said she wants British
:19:32. > :19:38.businesses to have the freedom to operate... At not as a member,
:19:39. > :19:42.everyone can access. I wanted to stay in the European single market
:19:43. > :19:45.because I wanted to say the laid-back stay in the European
:19:46. > :19:52.Union. What about companies being forced to publish the number of
:19:53. > :19:56.migrant workers? -- because I wanted to stay in the European Union. It is
:19:57. > :20:01.not something that I would propose. You saw me say strongly in my speech
:20:02. > :20:05.that I want us to be the international party we have always
:20:06. > :20:08.been in the past, saying to people who have made a home here and
:20:09. > :20:14.contribute that this is your home and you are welcome. The government
:20:15. > :20:18.hasn't said that. Liam Fox, your fellow Scot, said that citizens of
:20:19. > :20:23.the EU in this country are essentially a bargaining chip. David
:20:24. > :20:26.Davies said that they are not and he's 100% sure that they will be
:20:27. > :20:29.staying and he wants to make sure that is the first thing that is
:20:30. > :20:34.sorted out so people can have that certainty. Good announced now that
:20:35. > :20:38.regardless of negotiations can anyone coming here legally from the
:20:39. > :20:43.EU and is working without a criminal record has automatically a
:20:44. > :20:50.guaranteed to remain in the country -- you good at -- you could
:20:51. > :20:54.announce. The government warrant. The government has a responsibility
:20:55. > :20:56.to the 1.2 million British people living abroad that they get
:20:57. > :21:01.assurances in the countries they are living in. You had reluctance to say
:21:02. > :21:07.you were confident in Boris Johnson. Would you like to say it today? I
:21:08. > :21:11.said clearly that... I had a sit down with him. We had a ding-dong in
:21:12. > :21:17.the referendum but we are both big boys and girls. You said you are
:21:18. > :21:20.confident in the role of the Foreign Secretary. Mrs May has set a high
:21:21. > :21:28.bar, the aspiration to help ordinary working families, we need to measure
:21:29. > :21:32.this progress. If I was somebody considering tax dodging or
:21:33. > :21:37.facilitating somebody to dodge taxes and I saw Theresa May's gimlet eye
:21:38. > :21:40.as she stared down the camera lens and said that they won't get away
:21:41. > :21:45.with it, I would block my socks pretty soon so you are going to see
:21:46. > :21:49.action. Ruth Davidson, she was the warm up act for the fine minister
:21:50. > :21:52.and she turned up the heat, especially when it came to the
:21:53. > :21:57.Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
:21:58. > :22:15.I'm here to give you the good news ?
:22:16. > :22:17.the Scottish Conservatives are back as a fighting force once again.
:22:18. > :22:35.Flattening the break-up of Britain, asserting that independence is
:22:36. > :22:41.closer now than ever before, declaring that separation is somehow
:22:42. > :22:45.inevitable. Today, speaking to people from across the UK I want to
:22:46. > :22:52.make this clear, don't believe a word of it.
:22:53. > :22:57.There is nothing inevitable about the break-up of this great
:22:58. > :23:00.nation, and I for one will fight it every inch and so will
:23:01. > :23:15.The SNP doesn't speak for all of Scotland.
:23:16. > :23:23.Every nation is bigger than any one party, bigger than any one person.
:23:24. > :23:26.And Scotland is bigger, more varied, more complex than the nation the SNP
:23:27. > :23:50.instead of focussing on a second referendum that isn't
:23:51. > :23:53.wanted, why not get back to the day job, instead?
:23:54. > :23:56.Instead of picking endless fights with Westminster about whatever
:23:57. > :24:00.pick a fight with poor literacy and numeracy standards
:24:01. > :24:04.Pick a fight with the health gap between our richest
:24:05. > :24:07.Pick a fight with the absence of mental health services
:24:08. > :24:11.Pick a fight with the dealers who push the poison
:24:12. > :24:16.You're the government of Scotland and you were elected to improve
:24:17. > :24:19.the lives of the people of our country.
:24:20. > :24:40.That's the fight that matters, so get on with it.
:24:41. > :24:44.Last week, at a ghettoised 'women's conference', tacked
:24:45. > :24:47.on to the front of the main event, speaker after speaker rose
:24:48. > :24:49.to denounce the Prime Minister as not a real feminist.
:24:50. > :24:52.Harriet Harman declared that Theresa May "is a woman,
:24:53. > :25:07.What do the Conservatives do for women?
:25:08. > :25:16.And Theresa May is exactly what a sister looks like.
:25:17. > :25:24.Theresa May was a reluctant remain but she has embraced Brexit with all
:25:25. > :25:29.the gusto of a convert and so have the vast majority of Tory activists
:25:30. > :25:34.in Birmingham this week. Do they think that leaving the European
:25:35. > :25:38.Union will make us richer? Adam went out with his balls for the last
:25:39. > :25:41.time. We'll leaving the EU leave the
:25:42. > :25:46.country feeling richer or poorer? Let's find out. Which are in the
:25:47. > :25:52.long term but a lot of challenges. So both. Some people better off and
:25:53. > :25:59.some people worse off. Two balls, then. Are you at the wrong
:26:00. > :26:04.conference? Very good question. I feel more welcome here than I do at
:26:05. > :26:09.the Labour Party. Richer, just having the seat at the top table. I
:26:10. > :26:16.think we won't notice it this early on but eventually we will be
:26:17. > :26:23.significantly richer. I think we will be poorer. We haven't left yet.
:26:24. > :26:29.Why will we be poorer? I don't think we will get the right deal. Richer,
:26:30. > :26:33.if we get the fair immigration system, anyone from Europe or
:26:34. > :26:36.outside of Europe coming with no discrimination, it is carried to
:26:37. > :26:45.make us richer and a better workforce. Go for it. Richer or
:26:46. > :26:51.poorer? 100% richer. 100%? No doubt about it, best decision we've made.
:26:52. > :26:56.100% richer? Roughly, absolutely. In the long term we will be richer but
:26:57. > :27:03.there may be a period of turbulence. Is it a price worth paying? It has
:27:04. > :27:08.to be. Andrea, you are going to like the question, is Brexit going to
:27:09. > :27:16.leave us richer or poorer? Not denying it will leave us poorer!
:27:17. > :27:23.That shall -- is that how we should interpret it? What would Andrew
:27:24. > :27:27.Mitchell say? I think richer. We are old enough to remember it before the
:27:28. > :27:34.first referendum. And were we rich in the 1950s? We had a good life.
:27:35. > :27:39.Slightly on the poorer side. Why is that? Because it will take us some
:27:40. > :27:48.time to get back into it. You've heard of Brexit? No... No one is
:27:49. > :27:54.talking about it... Is Britain going to be richer or poorer? Don't you
:27:55. > :28:00.want to answer? Time to take a selfie but not time for the box.
:28:01. > :28:08.Which one will he go for? Emphatically richer. Aren't you rich
:28:09. > :28:12.already? I'm going for poorer. I think it is a big mistake to have
:28:13. > :28:19.left, making ourselves more isolated. It is a whopping majority
:28:20. > :28:26.thinking that Britain will be richer as a result of Brexit.
:28:27. > :28:30.That's it from Birmingham. Theresa May once asked to judge her by the
:28:31. > :28:34.progress she makes in helping ordinary working families. The
:28:35. > :28:42.rhetoric and the aspirations are ambitious. By the Conservative
:28:43. > :28:45.conference of 2017, words will not be enough and people will want signs
:28:46. > :28:50.of progress. Jo Coburn will be back on this programme with the daily
:28:51. > :28:54.politics tomorrow at noon and I'll be back on BBC One on Sunday at 11am
:28:55. > :28:58.with the Sunday politics. Until then, good night, don't let the
:28:59. > :29:01.working families bite!