Rishi Sunak On Election Footing As He Tells Voters To Trust Tories To Keep Them Safe

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00:00 And there is an important choice facing the country.

00:04 Because despite having 14 years with nothing to do but think about the future,

00:09 Labour have almost nothing to say about it.

00:13 No plans for our border, no plans for our energy security,

00:17 no plans for our economy either, and no principles either.

00:22 Keir Starmer's gone from embracing Jeremy Corbyn to Natalie Elphick,

00:26 all in the cynical pursuit of power at any price.

00:31 So Labour have no ideas.

00:33 What they did have, they view-turned on.

00:35 They have just one thing.

00:38 A calculation that can make you feel so bad about your country

00:43 that you won't have the energy to ask what they might do with the incredible power that they seek to yield.

00:49 Now I'm not saying that the past doesn't matter.

00:52 I know people are feeling anxious and uncertain,

00:56 that their sense of confidence and pride in this country has been knocked.

01:00 I understand that. I accept it and I want to change it.

01:05 But what I cannot accept is Labour's idea that all the worries you have

01:10 are because of 14 years of Conservative government,

01:13 that all you need to do is change the people in office and these problems will magically disappear.

01:18 It's just not true.

01:20 In the last 14 years, we've made progress in the most difficult conditions any government has faced since the Second World War.

01:27 A world-leading economy.

01:29 We've seen the third highest growth rate in the G7 and created 4 million jobs, 800 a day.

01:36 We took difficult decisions to restore our country's financial security and control national debt.

01:42 And that allowed us to support the country through Covid,

01:45 deliver the fastest vaccine rollout in the world,

01:48 provide record funding to the NHS and protect pensions with the Triple Knock.

01:53 We've reformed welfare by capping benefits and introducing universal credit to help people into work.

01:58 We've reduced absolute poverty, pensioner poverty, child poverty.

02:03 We've cut carbon emissions by a third,

02:06 maintained our position as NATO's second biggest defence power,

02:09 halved violent and neighbourhood crime,

02:11 and improved standards in our schools with English school children not just the best readers in the UK,

02:17 but in the Western world.

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