Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves take questions from workers at Port of Southampton as they launch the party's green investment plans. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Our plan is to get rid of the exploitative zero-hour contracts, we're not going to beat about the bush,
00:04we want to stop the exploitative zero-hour contracts where people don't know what's
00:10happening, but with the flexibility so that people have their hours regularised after a
00:16certain period of time, you know, over 12 weeks or so. So you would have the right to demand
00:23the contract you need, but if you say this works for me then you can carry on the way that you are.
00:27If you look at our performance as a country in terms of the economy the last 14 years,
00:33we've been in the sort of bottom third of the most developed countries, and if we'd been just
00:38at the middle of that league table, our economy today would be £150 billion bigger than it is.
00:43That'd be worth £5,000 for every family in Britain and it would mean that we would have
00:48had another £55 billion for our public services. So, you know, economic growth,
00:54creating prosperity isn't just a nice-to-have, it's absolutely essential if we want to make
01:00sure that people are better off, and that is what Keira and me and our plans are all about.
01:04Politics is about policies and what we're going to do to change. It's also about who do we have
01:09in our mind's eye when we make decisions, and I have in my mind's eye working people like you
01:15who are struggling with the cost of living crisis. That is why we've done so much work on the economy
01:20and growing the economy, because in the end creating wealth is the only way through this,
01:25but we'll be on it from day one. We've got the first things that we want to do on the
01:28first day in government. If we're privileged enough to come in to serve, we will have you in our mind's eye.