Health research, i am deeply worried for the lack of funding and health and social care secretary is which is showing up in waiting lists and lack of funding. My name is graham, i voted to leave the eu, we need to get brexit done. Wherever you are in the country, get in touch and tell us what the big issues are that will determine your vote. Hello. Welcome to norwich castle, were live until 11 oclock. It is stunning here. This morning is all about what you, the voters, want to hear from the politicians in this Election Campaign. Norwich is a city that could be crucial in deciding who gets a majority at the election. Weve got 80 voters here supporters of the conservatives, labour, lib dems, greens, brexit party as well as many who are yet to decide how theyre going to vote. Their views on brexit broadly reflect the way the country voted in the referendum. Weve also got two politicians here who were mps until last month and are candidates in this election. Dan poulter, a conservative who still works part time as an nhs psychiatrist, and labours Lloyd Russell moyle. Also with us is sal brinton, president of the liberal democrats. There are so many issues to cram into this 90 minute special. Wherever you are, get in touch, send us wherever you are, get in touch, send usa wherever you are, get in touch, send us a message wherever you are, get in touch, send us a message on twitter. Details are on screen. I would like to ask an overarching question first, if i may. Do you feel you are getting the truth in this Election Campaign . feel you are getting the truth in this Election Campaign . I feel like we have not had the truth in a long time. Iam we have not had the truth in a long time. I amjen, i am a teacher currently working on a special needs school in norwich and i feel we currently working on a special needs school in norwich and ifeel we have not heard the truth and a long time. Why . What info i getting . Lots of different information, much of it conflicting, and since the last general election we have been made a lot of promises that have never come to fruition and i want to see the promises made now that our swaying voters in this election, how can we trust you . What is the answer to that . How do you know if a politician is telling the truth or not . Show us where you want to get the money from. You are making claims about billions here and millions there, we want to believe ina millions there, we want to believe in a utopia but were grown ups, we know it is not realistic. Give us the honest truth, we can take it, but be honest, say where you plan to get the money from, where it is going and tell the truth for once. Applause do you feel you are getting honest a nswe rs , do you feel you are getting honest a nswers, straightforward information, nicole . Certainly not, andl information, nicole . Certainly not, and i think this is the reason as to why lots of young people feel disengage with politics nowadays. For example, the Labour Government is claiming to build £100,000. 100,000 homes. The labour party, surrey. In reality, the Labour Government is in power in wales and theyjust built a 57 homes. How can we believe you when you are making these claims . You will have a chance to come back from that. these claims . You will have a chance to come back from that. I am chris, the managing director of the Technology Company specialising in road safety. My concern is i feel i cant trust any politicians at the moment, the paralysis and the voyage caused by indecision around brexit means caused by indecision around brexit m ea ns lots caused by indecision around brexit means lots of people are telling us exactly what they think we want to hear because they are desperate to get into power, and the chances of many of those promises being fulfilled afterwards will never happen. Do you feel that is unique to this election, or does that feel familiar to you from previous elections . It feels more concentrated at this time. A few people are agreeing, what is it about this election . It is the voyage, politicians are not listening to constituents, they are following their personal agendas and desires to further their own careers and we are being left behind. It is the void. Applause bearing in mind those comments, dan poulter from the conservatives, has your party been misleading at all during this Election Campaign, do you think . Laughter iamso laughter i am so sorry, before you answer, explain what you are laughing, so . It is obvious they had lied consistently. Applause they have light for nine years. Applause they have light for nine yearsm you do not have a microphone there is no point in shouting out. Dan poulter, do you feel your party has been at all misleading . We have tried to set out to live a promises about what we would do if we got back into government. Are you saying that it has not been misleading . When i was first elected in 2010. Iam when i was first elected in 2010. I am talking about now. David cameron and nick clegg put together a programme of the Coalition Government and what of the things it did was check the promises they made at the beginning were delivered by 2015. That is history and we are now, i will ask about this Election Campaign. I will ask you about the Tory Press Office rebranding itself on twitter as fact check uk, i will ask about the fake website on google the tories have set up pretending to be behind the labour manifesto, you work part time in the nhs, why does borisjohnson claim repeatedly work part time in the nhs, why does Boris Johnson claim repeatedly about the nhs, quote, we are getting on with a fantastic programme, 20 hospital upgrades, a0 new hospitals, when it is not true . In terms of the fa ct when it is not true . In terms of the fact check issue, i am not on twitter, i feel it is an abusive medium, particularly if you are in politics. I understand that it was all branded cchq, it was very clear it was a conservative fact check operation. Was it clear to people . No in terms of the nhs there has beena no in terms of the nhs there has been a promise that if re elected we will put almost 35 billion p more in the nhs. I asked you about 20 new hospital upgrades and forging new hospitals. Misleading, yes or no . We had seven hospital upgrades under way already, shovel ready, good to go, and there are plans to make sure we put in place 40 hospital upgrades, which will be very deliverable in addition to the 35 billion extra p put into the nhs to deliver better patient care. Six nhs trusts are sharing £2. 7 billion with the aim of upgrading by 2025, the rest are sharing a small pot of money in relative terms to plan for possible Building Work but not to begin any work. From the labour party. That its not you, those hospitals had said they have a wish to expand, they have been supported in that expansion, their plans have been brought forward to fruition, the money will be put in place later to support the plans and make sure those hospitals are developed. Sorry, i dont want to labour this point, but when the Prime Minister said we are building 1a new hospitals, that is not true. I will bring labour if i may, for a moment, Lloyd Russell moyle. You claimed the conservatives will, quote, cripple oui conservatives will, quote, cripple our hospitals and then people will die. What kind of claim is that . If oui die. What kind of claim is that . If our Hospital System continues to go the way it is, people will die, we have already seen, most independent studies show, austerity has led to the early deaths of 100,000 people in this country. Applause it is not an exaggeration to say that current policies of this government have led to the deaths of people and the continuation will lead to more deaths. It is true. The veins you said on politics live this week, there will be a great big bonfire of the nhs. What were you talking about . Not only the privatisation but the rollback of the nhs, so now we see in many nhs trusts they will not do routine procedures they previously did. Just to remind you, it was a few days ago, you are talking about a future trade agreement between the uk and the us when you claimed that the conservatives were going to sell off the nhs in a free trade deal with donald trump. Do you have any evidence . The americans have said to stop the negotiations, that needs to be on the table. We are not saying that would be the final outcome, nobody knows the final outcome, but we know there is a risk because the americans are saying to start negotiations, pharmaceuticals must be on the table. You have set the conservatives will sell off the nhs without any evidence. The conservative party had said they will go for a quick deal with america, that requires pharmaceuticals to be on the table. I dont believe it is misleading, voters will be able to judge on the 12. Sal brinton, you have apologised on behalf of the lib dems for dodgy lib dem election leaflets. Lets talk about the nhs and social care, i know it is a massive issue. We need a microphone here, ellie, sorry, to the front row. Then we will move around. Introduce yourself. I am catherine, will move around. Introduce yourself. Iam catherine, i will move around. Introduce yourself. I am catherine, i anna signeul lecture and health research. Iam signeul lecture and health research. I am desperately worried about the nhs and social care. Bet i and a senior lecturer. There is no point venting the nhs, if we do not fund social care. There will be ambulances keeping up the front door with no way for patients to go because they are in beds when they should not be, they should be in the Community Getting social care. We have massively just Community Getting social care. We have massivelyjust invested in both, this is the result. We dont need tojudge both, this is the result. We dont need to judge whether the promises are right, the tories have shown us by their behaviourfor are right, the tories have shown us by their behaviour for the last ten yea rs by their behaviour for the last ten years that they cannot be trusted with health and social. Applause hi,| applause hi, iam applause hi, i am taylor, i and a student. Hold the microphone a bit closer. You say they are building these new hospitals but there is already a strain on all the nhs staff, they are already overworked and underpaid and no one is getting the correct ca re and no one is getting the correct care needed, like young carers are going under the radar with medication needed for the people they care for. Applause nothing is really being done about that. Hi, i am liz, i am a Family Support worker and i live in waverly. The conservatives say they will build more hospitals but we are already struggling, whenever hospital has had three failed cqc reports. We need to work and Better Mental Health services. Applause iam helen, applause i am helen, i and a nurse in the community, i work in Child Protection at the moment. The nhs has been used as a political pawn between Political Parties forcing many years, there are crippling debts at the moment that have been inherited through the pfi is that runner mark through burkes Labour Government, hospitals are paying billions of p every year. Run amok through tony blairs Labour Government, hospitals are paying billions of pounds everyday. I support staff who work, front facing patients. It feels like there are a not enough staff. It is never kind is working harder, it is quaint as working smarter, to see more patients, get more clients through. It is really tough, it is tough that people in the community and the acute sector. Let me bring in some politicians, some of you want to talk about social care, lets get ready for that, but, talk about social care, lets get ready forthat, but, sal brinton, president of the democrats, the funding squeeze in england and wales began in 2010 when the lib dems werent government with the conservatives, you accept some responsibility for these descriptions the nhs . We do, i think people forget how bad the 2010 financial crisis was. We said in 2013 that we thought the time had come to stop the cuts. In 2015 we we re very come to stop the cuts. In 2015 we were very clear, and have been ever since, there should be no further cuts. Part of the problem, particularly with the social care system but also the nhs, is there has not been enough and jingling into the system. It is notjust doctors and nurses, it is right to the system. That is why we want to put a penny on income tax to provide 7 billion a yearfor nhs, 7 billion extra. Dan poulter, do you accept that it extra. Dan poulter, do you accept thatitis extra. Dan poulter, do you accept that it is because the conservatives, alongside the lib dems in the early days of the coalition, because you undefended the nhs and she got into power, that we are seeing these massive problems . Because you underfunded. I will ask you to a nswer underfunded. I will ask you to answer the question. Do you accept it is because the conservatives have underfunded, squeeze the funding on the nhs since 2010, we have seen the problems we are seeing . There has been real terms increases in nhs spending every single year under the coalition. It has not been enough. The challenge facing our Health Care System, and every Health Care System in the world, particularly high income countries, is an ageing population and many people with medical conditions like diabetes and heart problems, about 3 Million People in this country have three or more long term conditions. The nhs is treating, as many people, if not more people, than it was hysterically, but people are presenting with much more complex needs and much more people are presenting overall because of the challenge we havent people being looked after. Do the challenges have anything to do with the squeezing of the funding . The nhs has been under pressure financially, i do not think it is controversial to say that, but evenin it is controversial to say that, but even in spite of very difficult Economic Situation we inherited in 2010, we have put in extra money every year and putting in the best pa rt every year and putting in the best part of 35 million over the next five years, it will be the biggest step change in nhs funding for about three decades, a positive step forward. As a doctor, i have a role in looking after some of those vulnerable patients had Mental Health, i am vulnerable patients had Mental Health, iam really vulnerable patients had Mental Health, i am really pleased to see Mental Health much higher up the priority list and we will see meaningful increases in spending on Mental Health for the first time in probably about 50 years. Are you ashamed that the last time a e waiting time targets were met was july 2015. Are you showing that the last 10p awaiting time targets were met was december 2015 . The last time cancer waiting time targets . There have been challenges with the two week access. I would like patients to be seen in a timely manner and diane dodds happy that the nhs has had those pressures, but iam very the nhs has had those pressures, but i am very happy that across the Political Parties there is an a cce pta nce Political Parties there is an acceptance that there needs to be a step change in funding. The £35 we are £35 billion will make a real difference. Lloyd russellmoyle, i thought i saw you raising your eyes to heaven . Of course part of the problem is funding, we have had a huge squeeze in the nhs, but in 2010 the conservatives in liberals said they would not do any top down reorganisation of the nhs, but what they did was a top down reorganisation of the nhs that splintered things, meaning that Public Health was moved away from the nhs to local authorities that we re the nhs to local authorities that were already squeezed and had no money to do anything. The Early Intervention stuff you mentioned was underfunded in that period, meaning we have more pressure on a e and doctors because Early Intervention has been ignored. Applause do you accept that if people want more pressure spent on the nhs macklemore money spent on the nhs, they should vote lib dem . No, we will spend more money in an integrated way with social care. You had to be clear with people, you know . You heard at the beginning of the programme that people did not feel they were getting straightforward information. When you spend more on the nhs than the lib dems, yes or no . The blood on the nhs and social care together, yes. Sal brinton . I am not sure about the detail of the labour figures, so much money is being thrown around. I cant give you the absolute total right now. How can you say it is more than the lib dems . Because our people have checkedit dems . Because our people have checked it is more than the lib dems. There are people chuckling. Give a microphone to somebody who is chuckling. How are you responding . I am rachel, a business owner, i dont anything about the nhs other than being a patient. I was chuckling because it is a joke, not knowing his own figures. Please can Party Politics think about taking the nhs out of Party Politics. Applause needs to be a cross party issue with a Long Term Plan that they get together in a room and they make and stick to a Long Term Plan. It should not be brought up in every general election, it should be taken out of it, that is my opinion is a business owner. I can give you the figure now, i dont have every single figure to my mind but the figure is, i will give you the breakdown, 5. 5 billion for the nhs, i will give you the breakdown, 5. 5 billion forthe nhs, plus 1. 4 i will give you the breakdown, 5. 5 billion for the nhs, plus 14 four Health Care Free at the point of use like prescriptions in dentistry, plus a like prescriptions in dentistry, plusa 10. 8 like prescriptions in dentistry, plus a 10. 8 billion on ocean on social care. So that leaves £17 billion plus totally, all costed, of which we have in our great book. There is a gentleman who wants to talk about social care. My name is jeff, iam talk about social care. My name is jeff, i am a full time carerfor my wife susie, who was diagnosed with early alzheimers seven years ago. Susie is here with me. Good morning, susie, thank you for coming. My question to the labour party generally is about the funding. You are going to nationalise royal mail ata are going to nationalise royal mail at a cost, i dont know, £50 billion, you are talking about putting 10 billion into social care. Dont you think that money could be better spent on the needs of the people rather than ideological viewpoints . Before you respond, jeff, what is it like looking after your wife who has a early onset alzheimers . It is challenging, interesting, you have to become adaptable, you have to recognise that you change roles. It is no longer a husband and wife, you have to concentrate on what you can do and you forget about resentment, dont think about that at all. We have been together 30 years. Congratulations. Thank you. Can you pass the microphone to jane . congratulations. Thank you. Can you pass the microphone to jane . I am jane, a full time carer for my husband chris who was also diagnosed with early onset alzheimers at the age of 59. He is now in full time ca re age of 59. He is now in full time care at the age of ga. Age of 59. He is now in full time care at the age of 64. He is in a ca re care at the age of 64. He is in a care home . Yes, it is self funding at over £1000 a week, i pay over 50,000 pa at over £1000 a week, i pay over 50,000 p a year. The vice that was a sharp intake of breath, a of people. How do you manage . Chriss care is taken from his private pension, which i have no access to. That is all going straight to his care. I had to live off my savings. How long this is going on for, i have no idea, with alzheimers and dementia there is no diagnosis, really, of how long it will go on. Do you feel anxious and stressed . How long it will go on. Do you feel anxious and stressed . Yes, all the time. Although he is in a care home, being a full time carer is no easy life, it gets no easier with him being away. Thank you, jane. I would like to bring in aegis. Ine did, i am like to bring in aegis. Ine did, i amiam like to bring in aegis. Ine did, i am i am best, i am an accountant but i have so i need social care twice a day. Edith was on the programme a couple of weeks ago, she wa nted programme a couple of weeks ago, she wanted to come back today because we have politicians. You have had Serious Problems with carers being able to come into your home, you need help getting up and going to bed at night, and in your area, for the foreseeable, the council said they had no parents . the foreseeable, the council said they had no parents . I had to go for a week without care, relying on family to help me, and obviously your coverage helped resolve the situation but beyond that there was no support. My parents are getting older, i dont have brothers and sisters, it is really worrying. And i think, you sisters, it is really worrying. And ithink, you know, we sisters, it is really worrying. And i think, you know, we had promises ofa i think, you know, we had promises of a green paper on social care, now they are talking about a white paper. It undoubtedly needs funding that you cant just throw funding at a broken system. You need to reform and fix the system so there is a Long Term Plan. Applause i will ask you all as concisely as possible, your plans for social care . £5 billion to increase funding as things stand at the moment. What is the Long Term Plan . as things stand at the moment. What is the longterm plan . I agree entirely with some of the comments made, far too often health and so is a political football and what we would like to do is gain some political consensus about the right way forward on this, because that would make a big difference. It is about peoples lives, it is not about banal Party Political. Did you hear people saying 5 billion p is not enough . Some of that will be used for more integrated care across health and. For me, if you look at how we improve and inform the system. I willjust answer the ladys very important point about transforming the system, the nhss own plan for the system, not a Party Political plan, is to deliver more integrated and joined up care, which is what we have to do. That is delivering what will work for patients. I will pause you there. You have been in powerfor nine yea rs, you have been in powerfor nine years, do you have a Long Term Plan for social care . What is it . As part of the Coalition Government at the time, we took sue with norman lamb. Iam time, we took sue with norman lamb. I am talking about now, what is your future, long term lamb. I am talking about now, what is yourfuture, Long Term Plan. Iam sorry to keep asking the same question. Part of the plan is having more integrated care and pooling the pulling budgets between the nhs and social care. We want to back the nhss plan for more integrated care, which is pooling budgets together, pooling the budgets of the nhs and social care, to hopefully create a morejoined a patient social care, to hopefully create a more joined a patient focused system where we can deliver more care. Has anybody heard the Long Term Plan yet . No sal brinton, what is your Long Term Plan for social power . Yet . No sal brinton, what is your longterm plan for social power . We wa nt longterm plan for social power . We want to look at the report we had published independently, all three parties agreed until 2010. What is the liberal democrat peer Long Term Plan for social care . Describe it . I know people say the word integration, but full integration. A funding mechanism in the long term. Will people have to sell their homes . There would be a small amount, nothing like the 1000 pens a week, absolutely open for years and years and years. An insurance system would probably kick in, that is a recommendation that lots of professionals are making. So you are suggesting people will not have to sell their homes, and an insurance system . Sell their homes, and an insurance system . What about labour . We want to National Social care service which provide social care free at the point of delivery and you pay for a National Insurance contribution. In the short term, we need to talk about bridging that gap, we would ensure no one pays more than 100,000 pens their lifetime. That would be right now, the day we get in. We would ensure that we recruit the 100,000 talents that we recruit the 100,000 talents that people are missing in the social care sector and give the responsibility of the new local authorities to ensure that that happens and they coordinate that and they do not allow people like you or my constituents or others to be left waiting. You will not have to pay more than £100,000 . We will work on it being free at the point of delivery. What do people think about the level of £100,000 . 0blak how can people with learning disabilities afford to pay £100,000 . They do not have money anyway. Introduce yourself, marilyn . I am a family carer, my daughter is with me, she is 23 years of age. In norfolk at the moment they are facing 33 cuts in benefits. Nobody can afford this. Nobody is talking about working age disabled people. Nobody is talking about them. I am very happy that people over the age of 65 are getting help, dont get me wrong, very happy that Children Services are getting help, but nobody is addressing the 18 to 6a Year Old Age Group who have been cut either cuts in minimum income guarantee, cut especially hard in norfolk. Sara, is there something you want to say . Yes. I would like to say but the vote to the people about the money, i need the money to dart to help with the future. I need the money to go out and see my friends. Sara does not have enough money because her benefits are being cut, do you want to respond . That is why we will scrap universal credit and reform the system, we will stop these rotating pip and Work Capability assessments which are cruel and nasty. I know once where the centre deliberately put ballads 100 metres away so you cant physically get there by car. If you walk to the centre you are immediately disqualified, you have to phone the centre and ask for a wheelchair and if you dont, you will be disqualified. That will all be scrapped, we will return back to a system where your doctor and carers certify you, and that lasts for a decent period rather than every few yea rs decent period rather than every few years going through it, wasting government money. Your response to sara and her mum, marilyn . government money. Your response to sara and her mum, marilyn . I dont know about your individual circumstances and i am sorry, sara, if you are having difficulties. I think there have undoubtedly been challenges with the universal credit syste m challenges with the universal Credit System and the transition towards the new system. My understanding is, and we have more things to iron out, i believe, with universal credit. Laughter but i believe once people are on the system, the principle behind it, rather than a complex arrangement of about 80 different benefits, there is one single benefits, it is a sensible concept, it is a much less complicated benefit system. I think what we would see, if we get the roll across correct, i believe about 300,000 people would be slightly better off. What i do know is there have been people who have understandably have had a tough transition. This i am going to read some m essa g es this i am going to read some messages from people from all around the country. This one says. The severe lack of funding in local government has decimated social care. We are being asked next year to make even more savings. How can we trust the conservatives when they say austerity is over . How can labour keep a straight face on the nhs, says this one, when they privatised parts of the nhs through pfi . This one says. Why havent they funded the nhs to meet the requirements . This one says. 0ver the years the nhs and education have had major cuts, when the parties are talking about extra funding, it is not actually extra. They are replacing what is needed, not giving extra. Alisons has. I am at home receiving social care. Several of my ca re rs receiving social care. Several of my carers do not drive, they have to walk in all weather and they need to look after themselves as well. The Nursing Agency have cut their car fuel allowance for those that do drive, therefore not only is it that, but they have to run a car for work. Also, my wife has dementia and imp in £1350 per week for her care. Thank you to all of you at the moment. Were going to paws because it is just moment. Were going to paws because it isjust gone moment. Were going to paws because it is just gone ten oclock, were going to bring you the latest news, welcome if you have just going to bring you the latest news, welcome if you havejustjoined us. Were in norwich with an audience of voters and politicians. For the last half an hour weve heard from people who dont trust anything politicians in this election. Weve heard from people reliant on the nhs and social care system who want to know what the parties are going to do about it. In the next hour well be bring you the launch of the plaid cymrus election manifesto the leader adam price will be doing that at around 10. 15. And much more conversation here too, about crime, the climate, and brexit. Before we get to all that, heres Rachel Schofield with a summary of todays news. Good morning. A 27 year old man has been found guilty of the murder of british backpacker Grace Millane, whose body was found in a suitcase in new zealand last year. The student from essex met her killer on the evening of her 22nd birthday and spent several hours drinking with him before she was strangled. The jury returned a unanimous verdict after five hours of deliberation. The man is not being named because of legal reasons. 0ur correspondent Shaimaa Khalil is in aukland. This is a case that has brought raw emotion, both inside and outside the courtroom. Today, Grace Millanes family sat in the courtroom as the jury came in and announced that guilty verdict. And for a moment there, graces mother gillian gasped for air and both parents broke down in tears as they found out that the man who killed their daughter grace is now guilty of murder. Outside the court, graces father struggled through his tears. He said that grace did not deserve to die in this brutal manner, that this has ripped up their lives, and that this was going to stay with them for the rest of their lives. He called grace their sunshine, and said she will be missed dearly. Shaimaa khalil reporting there. The brexit party will unveil its policies for the general election this morning in what it describes as a contract with the british people. Its leader, nigel farage, says they arent calling the document a manifesto because that word is too often associated with broken promises. The brexit party will field candidates in 275 seats after deciding not to contest those being defended by the conservatives to help prevent a split in the leave supporting vote. Thousands of tsb customers say they havent been paid today. Wages, benefits, pensions and other payments due to arrive in some accounts today still havent arrived. A tsb spokesperson has apologised for the inconvenience caused and says theyre working to process payments as soon as possible. The uk has been described as an illegal colonial occupier by mauritius for refusing to hand over the Chagos Islands in the indian ocean. In may, the Un General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to give britain six months to relinquish control of the archipelago. The first global study of its kind has warned that the majority of children arent getting enough exercise. The World Health Organisation has analysed data from 1. 6 million children aged between 11 and 16 from 2001 to 2016. In the uk, the research suggested 85 of girls and three quarters of boys arent active enough. Bangladesh was found to be the most active country, while south korea came bottom of the table. The first comic book produced by marvel, the us publisher behind spider man, x men and the avengers, has sold at auction for a record 1. 26 million. The issue features the first appearances of characters such as the human torch, ka zar, angel and the sub mariner. It was first purchased at a newsstand in pennsylvania and the issue has only changed owners a handful of times. The new owner wishes to remain anonymous. That is all from us for now, back to you, victoria. Good morning and welcome to norwich applause and cheering. The bbc is in norwich today, three weeks ahead of the outcome of the general election. Three weeks today, we will potentially know what direction our country is taking in the next few years. We have got lots of voters here supporting many different parties, some who have not yet made up their mind how they are going to vote this time. We have talked quite a bit about the nhs and social care, we have talked about the truth, a number of people feeling they are not getting straightforward information in this election and as chris was telling us at the start, it feels a bit more intense, a bit more of an issue in this election. Were going to talk about brexit for the next few minutes. Welcome and thank you for your comments wherever you are in your comments wherever you are in your country, you can message us on twitter. 0r your country, you can message us on twitter. Or by e mail. What do you wa nt to twitter. Or by e mail. What do you want to say . Graham, hgv driver. I voted to leave the European Union in 2016. Since 2016, all weve seen is mps trying to keep us in the European Union. The democratic decision of this country was to leave the European Union. You asked us to make the decision and then you refused to implement our decision. I think its outrageous. Do you agree, its outrageous, sir . You miami stephen, i work in the nhs. Yes, its outrageous, sir . You miami stephen, iwork in the nhs. Yes, we voted to leave. I voted to leave, but i would have accepted if we were asked to remain, if people wanted to remain, but we did vote to leave. They said they would implement what we decided. We decided to leave, they should get on with it. We have had three years of a remain heavy parliaments trying to do everything it can to thwart the will of the people, and we need to move on. You miami lauren, i am people, and we need to move on. You miami lauren, lam going people, and we need to move on. You miami lauren, i am going to study at uea in september. So, some of the lib dems campaigning and labour have actually been either to revoke article 50, or to have a second referendum. How are you going to word the referendum better than the first one to inform people . I was 15 when we had the election, im now 18 and we still havent left. If someone has voted to do something, surely you should act on it and what are you going to do to change the second referendum . Were going to get answers, i am just bouncing around to include as many people as possible. Hi, i am and through, a retired gp, i had 30 years as a gp, ao retired gp, i had 30 years as a gp, 40 years in the health service. I think the whole question of the brexit referendum is a travesty of democracy. Not because we havent left but because the whole. Deciding the course of our country like it is a football score does not represent the diversity of opinion. We have got increased polarisation and the problem with the whole brexit question is that it is dividing the country and polarising. So what should happen . What should happen is that for a start, the referendum was only called to get the cameron and. We are not going to go over history, what should happen now but had what should happen now but had what should happen is that there should be a cross party, happen is that there should be a cross party, i would have a peoples assembly, to redefine the question. It is not whether we leave, it is how we leave. My name isjulia, i am a medical student. As doctors, when we look for consent from patients, we look for consent from patients, we have to give them the information, because they are making Big Decisions about their life, and i think the same should be accepted about brexit. People are voting to get brexit done because we are all bored of brexit. I didnt particularly care about it in the first place, i understand people wa nted first place, i understand people wanted to leave but at the same time, oversimplifying what has proven to be quite complicated over the last three years by the fact that no one has been able to agree and they keep going round in circles, i think it is only fair that it comes back to the people with an Economic Analysis which the government has refused to conduct about how it will actually affect us in real terms. About how it will actually affect us in realterms. My name is marcus, i have got a thing on brexit. What do you do for a living . I am a business owner, with some pups. What really confuses me with brexit is that we voted to leave but people say they didnt understand or people lied and m ista kes didnt understand or people lied and mistakes were made so we should have another election. We have just mistakes were made so we should have another election. We havejust heard in this election that mistakes are made, people lying, untruths are told, so, do wejust keep having elections and then the losing party turns around and says, you told some porky pies so we will have another election . It was very clear, it was up election . It was very clear, it was up to the electorate to look at all of this information. We look at it, we understand it, we make a decision and it is up to the politicians to do it. Instead, wejust keep going round and round in circles and we are now being told that we have to have another election or whatever, when most people understood what was going on, even if there was spin, it is up to us to understand that spin. Is the most important for you issue for you in this election, where does it come, brexit . Iwasnt for you in this election, where does it come, brexit . I wasnt actually that bothered but what it is now is the fact that politicians are telling me that they dont respect my vote, and therefore it becomes important because i am like, if i voted to do something, and now you are telling me we are not going to do it, what is the point voting . So this time, if i vote for a Political Party and i dont like the result and then i find a leaflet that they told a lie about, can i get another election . Because they telling untruths of . I will introduce you again for those who are justjoining us. We are here alive in norwich. Come on, we practised that that was not good enough lets try again. We are live in norwich. Applause and cheering. And we have dan from the conservatives, representatives from the liberal democrats and labour. Do you want to respond as a liberal democrat to marcus directly . There isa very democrat to marcus directly . There is a very straightforward answer, which is, we have general elections every five years unless there is no majority, in which case clearly as now, we are having another election. The problem with a referendum is that actually, lots of people voted for brexit, they werent necessarily sure about what type of brexit we we re sure about what type of brexit we were going to have. People are saying rubbish. Parliament over the three years has been about what type of brexit. You said rubbish . All of theissues of brexit. You said rubbish . All of the issues about northern ireland, about how easy it is going to be to trade. There is a gentleman here who said rubbish. I am archie, a copywriter. It was a binary decision on the ballot paper, it didnt say what kind of brexit we wanted, it wasnt that question, it said, do you want to leave the European Union . And everybody knew, because it was debated ad infinitum for six months before the referendum. Sorry, what was your name . Archie. So, the liberal democrats want to remain, they want to revoke article 50, what are you think of that . I think they should be done under the trade descriptions act for having democrat in theirtitle. Descriptions act for having democrat in their title. Respond . The liberal democrats have been completely honest all the way through this about our position. We believe we are entitled, as are many millions of people who voted to remain, to continue to fight for that. That is what democracy is about. Youve not implement it the decision of the referendum yet. When youve implemented the decision, then you can campaign to implemented the decision, then you can campaignto go implemented the decision, then you can campaign to go back in. From the labour party, we dont know where your leader stands on this issue. Not in our policy is that we will negotiate a workable deal, one that we would be willing to implement, and we will put that back to the people, so they can decide either to remain, orto people, so they can decide either to remain, or to leave on that deal. Now, the reality is. We have already decided. I want to remain andi already decided. I want to remain and i am very clear that i want to remain and and i am very clear that i want to remain and i will campaign to remain andi remain and i will campaign to remain and i am happy to eat my hat but i dont believe there is a chance in hell of getting a deal which is better than remain. But we have to try and see if we can get that deal, and maybe i will be eating my hat and maybe i will be eating my hat andi and maybe i will be eating my hat and i will be voting for that. never told you. Excuse me. I do apologise, can i ask. . As a leader, do you think a leader should express whether they are remain or leave in this election . express whether they are remain or leave in this election . I think a leader should express that they will ta ke leader should express that they will take and follow the facts, and so therefore, you negotiate first, you see what will be on the table, and then you express an opinion. And actually the reason we got in this mess is that we have had to many so called leaders expressing their opinion first, shooting their mouth off and not actually looking at the fa cts. Off and not actually looking at the facts. We are going to interrupt in a moment to go to the plaid cymru announcement. I actually voted remain in the referendum but from the following day i accepted that leave won, that is it, we have got to leave. That is democracy. We had a peoples vote and that was it. We had two conservative Prime Ministers who failed to deliver brexit . Because we have had a hung parliament, there has been a concerted effort by a number of mps to try and thwart the will of the people. Im sorry, you had a majority before the 27 general election, you had a majority. But after 2017. But before 2017, you had a majority, and that you lost it. Actually, before the previous election, the majority of mps across the house and said, we accept the referendum result. And then we had another election, and. Was that a mistake . Well, it meant that the conservative party lost their majority. So it was a mistake . Certainly, it wasnt my decision to call the election, i think we had a five Year Parliament and i would have probably continued that five Year Parliament, but that is what happened, and we have now had a parliament which has been determined to thwart the will of the people. Hang on, Boris Johnson, to thwart the will of the people. Hang on, borisjohnson, on the second reading of this, had a vote of principle, lost a vote of principle . Some of the mps said, i am doing that but actually i am going to want to amend this bill so lam going going to want to amend this bill so i am going to vote against the timetable motion. Which is when borisjohnson decided timetable motion. Which is when Boris Johnson decided to timetable motion. Which is when borisjohnson decided to pause the whole thing . That is the deal on the table, it protects jobs whole thing . That is the deal on the table, it protectsjobs and whole thing . That is the deal on the table, it protects jobs and allows us to leave. If we want to get on to talk about the other things like the nhs and education and Climate Change, we cant do it until we get brexit done. I am a Primary School teacher in norwich. In 2016, i voted leave and i still think that we should leave the European Union. The fa ct should leave the European Union. The fact is, i dont trust the conservatives on brexit, theyve failed to deliver it for three yea rs. Failed to deliver it for three years. Borisjohnson failed to deliver it for three years. Boris johnson promised failed to deliver it for three years. Borisjohnson promised it would be delivered by 31st october and he failed. I want a government that we can trust. Weve got the schools funding crisis, my Childrens School is going to lose £56,000 in years budget, their local secondary will have lost £1. 9 billion since the conservatives were elected but they say theyre putting money into schools. We cant trust them on schools, on the nhs, on social care. I want to leave but i wa nt to social care. I want to leave but i want to vote for a government i can trust, i can trust on brexit, i can trust, i can trust on brexit, i can trust on education, on social care, on the nhs, i will be voting labour, because at least they do what they say. But if you want to leave, you cant be guaranteed of a leave vote with a Labour Government . We had a majority to leave this country in 2016, i believe, when labour negotiates a brexit deal that we can believe in, i believe we will have a majority again, and i would like to leave under that deal, under a government i can trust, not one that lies to me. Good morning, i am a managing director of an electronics company. Managing director of an electronics. My managing director of an electronics company. My question is, to labour, the problem i have is a managing director, were looking to expand and to work with more european partners, what theyre telling us is that they dont actually know what position we are going to be in Going Forward , position we are going to be in Going Forward, nor do we. I want a government that i can trust will deliver brexit, i voted to remain, i now want to get on with it sol deliver brexit, i voted to remain, i now want to get on with it so i can move my business forward. I dont trust a government where they cant even say at the point of the election which way they are going to go, ie, the labour party, their leader wontjump go, ie, the labour party, their leader wont jump one way or the other, and thats because, they want to say the right thing to keep them in power. They are not making a decision for themselves. in power. They are not making a decision for themselves. I am a mum of three in norwich. We cover a lot of three in norwich. We cover a lot of the issues we talked about in our family pocket carers, we are on universal credit, so were really feeling the squeeze at the moment. But i wanted to respond to what you said about howjeremy corbyn cant be open about his personal position, whether he would, on brexit, on whether he would, on brexit, on whether he would campaign for remain or leave. I think the big issue with brexit is that rather than coming together as one united front as a government and providing us with the fa cts , government and providing us with the facts, this is what would happen if we leave or if we remain, party is split and campaigned themselves, so youre voting for the people and what you think of the person. What do you want to happen regarding brexit . I am really undecided, we voted leave in the referendum, were so disingenuous. Dissatisfied, disgusted, disinterested . Definitely, 100 , everything it has just been an absolute nightmare trying to figure out who is telling the truth and how it will actually affect us, the real people because were told Different Things all the time. If it is no deal, it is going to be the worst, if there is a deal, it is still going to be bad, what is the best outcome . It comes back to who you trust and believe, i suppose. I am told we are a minute away from the launch of the plaid cymru manifesto. So i am going to have to interrupt you but go for it. I actually want us to get back to talking as a country not lobbing rocks at each other, i voted the opposite way to my husband, i voted remain, he voted leave. How is working out . Fine. Because what we agree on is that domestic issues matter, and at the moment, what is not working. What is not working is our economy, our economy is not working for the people who most need it to. So brexit has to be delivered then things can move on . To you know what, this is probably sacrilegious but i dont give a toss about brexit. What i want is our politicians to deliver on domestic issues. If that means remaining, then remain, if it means leaving, then remain, if it means leaving, then leave. I want a country that is 0k then leave. I want a country that is ok for my kids and for the people who most need it to be ok. From a woman who says she doesnt give a toss about brexit, we are going to go tojust north toss about brexit, we are going to go to just north of cardiff, where the leader of plaid cymru, adam price, is talking. Thats what politics is about, its about actually changing things for the better, leaving our country better than we found it. Lets set ourselves an audacious goal, as the Kennedy Administration did with that apollo programme, the 50th anniversary of which we marked this year. But lets plant ourflag, not on the moons surface but here in our own land. Not to escape our planet, but to save it. Lets make the coming decade the decade of hope and change. Let 2030 be the year of three zeros. Zero carbon, zero waste, zero poverty. Applause. You know, for so long, for too long, its true, isnt he . Swales, not throughout own efforts, but through the neglect of others, weve been behind the curve, havent we, at the wrong end of somebody elses two. Now, we can become the worlds wrong end of somebody elses two. Now, we can become the worlds are leading edge, the first in the world to build tidal lagoons, anywhere, and not just to build tidal lagoons, anywhere, and notjust one, but three, of the north and the south, a barrage, an offshore wind farm, carving out a global niche for wales in marine energy, waves, tidal, fixed and floating, wind, off the coast of pembrokeshire and in the celtic sea, and in hydrogen, here in wales, after all, the home of the fuel cell. And in microgrids, district heating, Energy Efficiency and homes as many power stations in a £5 billion programme of investment to ensure, instead of crippling fuel bills, our people get a fuel dividend. We have the power. We have the potential to create tens of thousands of new, high skilled jobs as wales becomes the cradle of the green Industrial Revolution, just as we we re green Industrial Revolution, just as we were to the original, 200 years ago. And this time, a revolution led by wales for wales, not by state owned monopolies, headquartered outside of wales, thats hardly any better than a private monopoly headquartered outside of wales, but by our own National Energy company. And lets ta ke National Energy company. And lets take a fibre connection to every home and business in wales for but again, lets not create a distant british behemoths. I wouldnt trust british behemoths. I wouldnt trust british broadband more than British Telecom to deliver for us, we want to own our own future, so lets create a welsh Digital Infrastructure company, so never again, do we find. So, neveragain do we have to wait in line in somebody elses two. 0ur do we have to wait in line in somebody elses two. Our plans for wales are ambitious but they are achievable as well. They are practical dreams in a land that is crying out for leadership. In every area, theres work to do and theres no time to waste, weve got less than three weeks now to change wales. In that time, we can build the foundations of a wales where there is a fair deal for our families. Thats why our manifesto commits to providing freefall day early years childcare and education to all our children, and offering sea mless to all our children, and offering seamless care between the ages of one to three from early years into school. We are also committing to a new, £35 a week welsh child payment for every child in low income families, lifting 50,000 children in wales out of poverty immediately. We can build that care in wales together in the next few weeks. An incoming plaid cymru government in 2021 will be committed to free social care at the point of need, delivered by a new and seamless National Health and social care service, a new vision of care from the cradle to the grave. In government, too, we will train and recruit an additional 1000 doctors, 5000 nurses and 100 dentists for the welsh nhs. Safer communities is also key to well being, so we will recruit another 1600 extra Police Officers, at least two for every community in wales, and we will establish a Welsh Justice system. And we will devolve. And devolve policing, too, not for us, the equivocation and delay shown by others. Our manifesto commits us to a major investment in social housing. Were deeply concerned about the increasing numbers of especially younger people who are trapped in expensive rented accommodation and struggling to get on the housing ladder. Thats why were committing in our manifesto to a urgent relief for them now. We will help people that are struggling to make ends meet a. Adam price at the launch of the plaid cymru general election manifesto. Good morning, it is coming up to half past ten and we are live in norwich today. Applause and cheering. Thank you for all your message, so many messages coming in from all over the country as you hear our audience here in norwich debate and discuss the things that are important to them in this election. This one says. The people who vote for any of the conservatives, labour and the lib dems are complicit in how bad this country is run. They should remember that when they go to the ballot box. This text says. Listening to the debates, the overwhelming view is that none of the politicians will give a straight answer. This one says. At 77 years of age, for the First Time Since being able to vote, i am so fed up with the whole thing, i dont want to vote. Politicians are not listening to the people. Right, weve got half an hour or so left of our programme. Some issues that people here want to talk about, Climate Change, the chronic crisis, crime, and what kind of country do we wa nt crime, and what kind of country do we want to be in five, ten years time . Lets talk about the climate, first of all. Good morning. Hi, i am a student in ipswich, ive been organising. For future strikes. Ladies and gentlemen, locally, i am told she is known as the rector of norfolk. I got caught that one time bya norfolk. I got caught that one time by a newspaper. Norfolk. I got caught that one time bya newspaper. Is the norfolk. I got caught that one time by a newspaper. Is the greta of norfolk. Obviously we have to sort out brexit but what should be the most important issue in this election is the climate emergency. It isa election is the climate emergency. It is a controversial thing to say but. Why is it controversial . Because everybody is talking about brexit and nobody wants to. The conservative party dont have a policy on the Climate Crisis. For the other parties, it is a small part. The conservative government have legislated for net zero emissions by 2050, the first government to do that . And that is not soon enough, unfortunately. The uk government has been fantastic in terms of globally but the actions that they have taken have not been enough yet. We need to hit net zero by2040 enough yet. We need to hit net zero by 2040 to be certain of staying under1. 5 by 2040 to be certain of staying under 1. 5 celsius which is what the ipcc has recommended, and that means we have to cut emissions in half by 2030, which is two election cycles. We have to start now. My my name is ruth. Bring the microphone closer. I have listened to everybody here this morning, you are all very concerned about social ca re are all very concerned about social care and not enough money being put into social care. We have the three main parties competing with each other to throw billions, billions at Climate Change. Whatever we do as a country about Climate Change, it will make the smallest dent in global emissions, so why are we throwing all this money into something that will make no difference when that money can be spent on stuff that will make a difference to peoples lives. Not all the parties are throwing billions at it, but how would you respond . Talk directly to ruth. We are a small country so we are not producing that much emissions, we are leading the way, that is a good thing. The rest of the world needs to follow. You mention social care, health and things like that, the Climate Crisis will directly influence health and so, especially here in norfolk, large parts of this county will end up large parts of this county will end up underwater. That isjust scaremongering. It is not. It is, we had al gore saying somewhere where he has just built a had al gore saying somewhere where he hasjust built a big palatial house on the beach will be underwater, he would not have done that if that was the case, it is scaremongering. I am very scared for my future. Of course, because you have been brainwashed. my future. Of course, because you have been brainwashed. I had been brainwashed by gcse science . i have been brainwashed by the ipcc . This is what the scientists believe. Because not all scientists. 97 of scientists. C where the Climate Change emergencies in terms of priority, dan poulter from change emergencies in terms of priority, dan poulterfrom the conservatives . The conservative government has made the target of net carbon zero, over the last nine yea rs we have net carbon zero, over the last nine years we have seen Carbon Emissions for. In terms of Going Forwards, we need to continue to invest in Renewable Energy forms, in 2018 38 of energy in the uk came from renewables, a good step in the right direction, and i believe we have to doa direction, and i believe we have to do a lot more in terms of home Energy Efficiency and help people not to just reduce fuel bills but reduce energy omissions in their homes with better insulation. The big thing in the manifesto, transport is a major polluter, probably the major polluter, and we have not done enough so far. The ma nifesto, have not done enough so far. The manifesto, there is a big encouragement for electric cars, a funded roll out of more charging points, which has to be the big thing we look to as a country to reduce Climate Change Going Forward. Liberal democrats . 0blak it is a climate emergency, it has to be an absolute priority. We undertake getting to zero emissions by 20a5, between say that 80 of that can be donein between say that 80 of that can be done in the next three years. Insulating homes is a major emissions area, we think all those in fuel poverty who often live in badly insulated homes will have insulation, we will provide Tax Advantages for people who do their own homes, a major project of that, planting 60 Million Trees a year not just because it is good for the environment but because it will help capture carbon. I could go on. The greens say the fact you are promising 60 Million Trees planted means you are not serious. They promised 700 million. We are serious, and the ifa says it all adds up. Labour . The third chapter of the manifesto is about transforming our country. We are not only doing it because we need to do for the environment, meeting the 2030 target we heard earlier, but we will do it because de jager labour are not going for the 2030 target. Look out the young person said we had to achieve half of those savings by2030 had to achieve half of those savings by 2030 and the full savings by 20a0, that is in the manifesto. At your conference at. Sorry, you side as though this is not true, at your conference, delegates voted for a motion to aim for net zero Carbon Emissions of greenhouse gases, to stabilise global temperatures, by 2030. It is not in the labour ma nifesto. 2030. It is not in the labour manifesto. In the manifesto says we have clear pathways to achieve the majority of that by 2030, we will aim forall of it majority of that by 2030, we will aim for all of it by 2030 but we have to be realistic and follow the science. Let me make this point about why it needs to be done for the wider economy, the Global Economy will change. Do we want to be able leader because we will get the economic benefit from being the first to develop the good electric ca rs first to develop the good electric cars and we will sell them . Or do we wa nt to cars and we will sell them . Or do we want to be the last and lose out on that Industrial Revolution . I wanted to be the first step, we can then invest in the social care. We cannot hear you, ruth, if invest in the social care. We cannot hearyou, ruth, if you invest in the social care. We cannot hear you, ruth, if you do not have a microphone. It is notjust Wind Turbines and electric cars, as everybody knows. I wonder if the politicians will be honest about the changes we will all have to make in our lives to reach net zero . Nicholas dean, i and a our lives to reach net zero . Nicholas dean, land a farmer from norfolk. L nicholas dean, land a farmer from norfolk. I can assure the audience at Climate Change is very real. Applause step into the light, then we can see you. I have neighbours whose fans had disappeared underwater the other coast, similarly grazing areas getting increasingly say line. Climate change is definitely here. Which party do you trust to take Climate Change seriously . which party do you trust to take Climate Change seriously . I will reserve Climate Change seriously . I will reserve that comment but i am prepared tojudge reserve that comment but i am prepared to judge on reserve that comment but i am prepared tojudge on their actions. My question is that surely there is nothing wrong with being a world leader and leading the way in Climate Change, why should we shy away . Applause cani applause can i ask you, as an individual, as a farmer you can see Climate Changes real, you say, are you prepared for governments in the future to spend billions and billions and billions changing our lifestyle, transitioning from carbon intensive jobs, moving from the kind of manufacturing we see now to non carbon intensive technology, are you prepared for that . As farmers, landowners and blood managers, we have a key role to play in Climate Change in the future, we must be involved in that conversation. The National Farmers union has an ambition to be Carbon Neutral by 2040 but we wont do that on our own, we need government help, support and guidance. We need an integrated environmental and Agricultural Policy that actually leads the way from a Land Management point of view, and l leads the way from a Land Management point of view, and i challenge the parties to tallis what they will do to assist that move. You want cash to assist that move. You want cash to change . Incentives, that its cash and the ability to do things that will help Climate Change. You could do it yourself . Not on our own, it needs to be an integrated policy across government. Climate change should be at the top of the agenda, but food, farming and agriculture can provide a lot of the answers. Applause iam sam, iama applause i am sam, i am a postgraduate researcher at the John Innes Centre in norwich. Parties are talking about Climate Change as an important issue, by 2023 we will not meet our carbon budget, we are already overshooting. The conservatives might put in place a 2050 target by decarbonisation but they have consistently cut subsidies for Renewable Energy, they are not investing in insulating homes, we are not putting this at the top of the agenda. Your response . In 2018, 37 or 30 of electricity in our country was produced by renewable forms, showing a consistent investment in Renewable Energy under the current government. One of the other things is about investing in interconnected, there is a lot of offshore wind in denmark, having interconnected so we can tap into excess energy interconnected so we can tap into excess energy production, that is going on at the moment and will help us to have more Renewable Energy forms power in the uk. Carbon emissions have reduced by 25 in this country. I absolutely agree that we need to do more on transport, that is why we really have to push the agenda for electric cars. It is pretty flipping wedge for the tories to claim credit on the fact we have had renewable wind power running the country, it was donein power running the country, it was done in coalition under the lib dems and the moment we left, the tories because most of our initiatives, including the future Green Investment bank, so you are seeing the benefit of lib dems promises in action. We will move on from climate after Lloyd Russell moyle and this lady, of you want to talk about crime. The plan from the tories is to import evergreen energy, effectively exporting jobs from britain, because you then allow those greenjobs britain, because you then allow those green jobs to britain, because you then allow those greenjobs to be in denmark and they make no regard to building up and they make no regard to building up our own industry to be green and self sufficient in the energy affect energy sector, and i think that is the difference labour will do. ama is the difference labour will do. am a youth worker and a Young Ambassador for ymca. I just want am a youth worker and a Young Ambassador for ymca. Ijust want to put on your point, we are not brainwashed, we have the facts. It has come from scientists, we see a ten third world countries. Hand on, we are not having a row about Climate Change we see it in norfolk, we see it everywhere. We have already made irreversible changes, there is nothing we can do about those but we can do other stuff now. I am changing the way live my life, i stuff now. I am changing the way live my life, lam stuff now. I am changing the way live my life, i am already a vegetarian, i am live my life, i am already a vegetarian, lam hoping live my life, i am already a vegetarian, i am hoping to go the, it is really, really hard. I am hoping to go vegan. You have to keep trying, and with another youth group lam trying, and with another youth group i am involved with, we had a Climate Change conference and so many young people said 2030 is the point where if we dont change anything, we are completely doomed. This is the future of young people. If you dont mind, what do you do in order to combat Climate Change in your lives . Iam not combat Climate Change in your lives . I am not trying to ambition, i am just interested. Living rulli in east anglia, it is difficult to use public transport. I always use public transport. I always use public transport. I always use public transport or walk in london. Living ru rally. Public transport or walk in london. Living rurally. I always use reusable containers when going to the gym, for example, rather than buying new drinks containers. 0n the point of tree planting, i planted three trees after Extinction Rebellion came to meet mps, they gave us one tree, i planted three. It is making a statement generally. As leaders in the areas we represent, we need to show we are taking energy seriously. Recycling, not using one of plastics, we have an electric car at home. I am not quite vegetarian but i am working on it, that its quite hard, five days a week it, that its quite hard, five days a week i really try. I have reduced my meat intake, i used to run a vegetarian cafe to try to promote not eating meat. If all american stopped eating beef they would meet their kyoto targets. It can be simple. I their kyoto targets. It can be simple. Lam their kyoto targets. It can be simple. I am not saying you had to stop eating beef but a mixture of things can make a difference. People always complain my home is probably always complain my home is probably a bit too cold, the heating does not go on for much of the year, that is why i need good insulation, like many people in the country cannot afford to intimate my house properly. Put anotherjumper on, as one politician said. I cant afford to insulator my house properly. I appreciate this wonderful audience in norwich. I know some people want to talk about crime, hopefully kerry has a microphone . I am kerry johnson, crime, hopefully kerry has a microphone . I am kerryjohnson, i have been a professional youth workerfor 15 have been a professional youth worker for 15 years and i know from direct experience that if young people are not invested in unprovided with somewhere to go in the way of youth clubs, that they turn to crime. I have seen it, yes, by their own admission they smoke more, take more drugs, more fighting is going on in general, they travelled down the road of anti social behaviour which leads to other things, including county lines which now affect all over the uk. Young people are being drawn into gangs and other groups going on in negative ways because they havent gotan negative ways because they havent got an alternative, there is nothing else out for them in the evening out of formal education. Some people watching will say just of formal education. Some people watching will sayjust because you are bored does not mean you have to sell drugs. What do you say . That is true, but sometimes if there are older young people, adults, that are composing them and looking for Vulnerable People to have in their gangs that are coercing him and looking for Vulnerable People to have in their gangs, these are the people they will pick up. It is imperative that we invest in young people. They are the next generation of electorate, voters, every other profession represented here today, they are the next generation that will be making choices and decisions on our behalf. I think you lost your job in 2011, what happened . Gulp i was made redundant by Norfolk County council as a professional youth worker. The whole Youth Work Department was abolished. They put other things in place, in the form of the youth advisory board, we have already heard it mentioned, but they are not providing the services we used to, youth clubs in the evening, alternative and informal education within schools. Thank you, kerry. My name is connor, i work with norfolk and Norwich Police commissioning team, i and Norwich Police commissioning team, lam and Norwich Police commissioning team, i am one of their young people, and we work with the community to see what kind of things that young people have in place to prevent them from crime, and we find that because everything is so expensive that we had so much to pay for housing, they are having to turn to crime to get more of an income, they are turning to crime to fend for themselves, they are turning to crime to fend forthemselves, basically. They are turning to crime to fend for themselves, basically. You dont have too, do you . You dont have to turn to crime, but some people are not able to get the job because people are not giving people the chance. People are getting slated off because of how they come across. People are being pushed under. 0k. Who do you trust when it comes to law and order, to crime . Not the current government, for sure. One issue i would like to raise. Why dol issue i would like to raise. Why do i not trust them . We have seen crime rise, we have seen disproportionate punishment which is not about the restorative criminal justice estimate thought we had, we had seen prison leaders given a sleeping bag and told to make do. Reoffending rates up. Why should we trust them . Policing rates have been cut. Let me bring in the conservatives, why are you recruiting 20,000 Police Officers . That is the right thing to do. Laughter no, we have heard from the audience to date. Is it the right thing to do because you cut 20,500 . We came into government, we had to make difficult decisions. Boris has come into power and his First Priority was to put more money into the police. Boris is our new Prime Minister, he said that was the top priority, putting money into the police. He had a chance to make a difference, he put that into the police and gave them additional stop and search powers. Dan poulter, i wa nt to and search powers. Dan poulter, i want to ask it really straight question. The rise in knife crime we have seen, has it been worth it to save that money . Knife crime has a lwa ys save that money . Knife crime has always been a major problem in many. Im really sorry, you had to stop this spin. Knife crime has gone up stop this spin. Knife crime has gone up on your watch, i am asking you, was it worth it to save the money . The factors behind knife crime, and in some of my medical work through working in cahms, many of them, the choice to getting involved in gangs, it is not just choice to getting involved in gangs, it is notjust having police on the streets. The point is we need more police on the streets, you are right, and as soon as boris. Is there any links . He has personal experience of running lunging in and helping to reduce running london and helping to reduce crime. helping to reduce running london and helping to reduce crime. I do not feel you have answered any question today. Applause iam applause i am absolutely answering your question. Do you believe there is any link between the cuts to 20,500 Police Officers and the rising certain elements of Violent Crime . More police on the streets will reduce crime, we can all accept that. I have been the chair of the all party group the Youth Affairs that. I have been the chair of the all party group the Youth Affairs in the last parliament, my firstjob leaving school at 16 was a youth worker, and i have seen the Youth Service decimated, and i believe there is a direct link, notjust with policing numbers, and 44,000 Police Personnel have been cut, 21,000 Police Officers, 1 billion out of Youth Services, it is no surprise when young people in scotland, for example, and northern england, in recent surveys show that one in nine has thought about committing suicide. This should be a National Disgrace and that is why labour will reinvest a 1 billion in a new statutory Youth Service. When we got into power in 97, we said we would be tougher on crime and the causes of crime. We have talked about spending pledges on behalf of labour, huge figures being talked about about jo at labour, huge figures being talked about aboutjo at the manifesto launch. At the manifesto launch. Some people are saying, respected experts, but there is doubt about the credibility of the figures. We have given ourselves a contingency within that. Colossal and not credible. This is what the director said, but the Research Part of the institute for fiscal studies said of course there was institute for fiscal studies said of course there was some institute for fiscal studies said of course there was some movement within the contingency part, but each one of them proposes a way to get the money into the coffers, 80 billion to focusing on cooperation and focusing on the very richest. So you are ignoring the director of the institute for fiscal studies . Yes, because i want to know what the researchers that he employs are saying. Crime, the lib dems in coalition took the decision to cut Police Officers, how much to you regret that . Grin there have been further cut since we left government. At the time, everything needed to be coach. As i said at the start, the country was facing real economic crisis and there needed to be changes to get us through. Why Police Officers . We had to look at difficult decisions, there was investment in health but not enough and cut to other budgets. When you lead back, do you think it was a mistake . It was extremely difficult. Was it a mistake . Mistake . It was extremely difficult. Was ita mistake . Grin mistake . It was extremely difficult. Was it a mistake . Grin not appetite. When you look back and you see the rise in knife crime . I think Something Else is going on with knife crime, the police cuts are important but the really big issue is we should be treating knife crime and violence as a Public Health emergency, as they did in glasgow, which is about investing in youth servers, which is about investing in youth servers, investing support in psychiatric services, and we would make that happen across the country. We will get a couple more comments on crime and then i want to sort of bring is altogether, if that is possible. I am danny cracknell, i runa possible. I am danny cracknell, i run a security installation business. I unable to police officer, retired 15 years ago. During my 30 years as a policeman, numbers were cut, funding was cut, they are always trying to take money away, it is across every part of the country. Will hear a number of parties saying that we will recruit more officers and spend more. There is only so much you can take away from any business to make it nonoperational. The Police Service is exactly that, we do not have the Police Officers to respond to incidents, we do not have the pcsos in norfolk to be the first person that member of the public sees, so there is no first contact. You have a 101 system. The face when you hear not just the conservatives a 101 system. The face when you hear notjust the conservatives but labour. We need more support staff, we need the public to assist the police, if they are not told what has happened in the community, the police cannot deal with it. Rural crime, which is what we mainly deal with, cross border crime, in other words, people who travel to norfolk to commit crime, they stand a good chance of getting away because it is a big area with few policeman, same in areas like north yorkshire, wejust policeman, same in areas like north yorkshire, we just need policeman, same in areas like north yorkshire, wejust need more Police Officers and more Police Support staff. Applause thank you. Last few minutes of the programme, iwant thank you. Last few minutes of the programme, i want to ask a broad question, if i may, what do you want britain to be like in two years, five years. Where do you want is to be . What is your vision for the country you want to live in with five live in within five years. I am not asking you to make Party Political points, this is a broader personal vision. The gentleman here is back where we were ten years ago. My name is catherine, i live and work in norfolk, i am a mother of five. What i want for the future is for us all to unite. I hate this division. Applause we had so much in common. A remain, he isa we had so much in common. A remain, he is a leaver, we have talked about other things, we had so much more in common lunch are certain things that we will agree on at some point i and a red. My vision for a future is working together in cooperation where people are looked after her need looking after. Carers, my god, you are heroes. I really hope we pull together and do our bit. Individually, we will not, but collectively we can make a difference. Applause iand applause i and johnny, a student at warwick university. We need to come together, we need to stop being so divisive, stop throwing rocks at each other and talk to each other. We need to realise the Climate Crisis is the Biggest Issue facing the country. You can talk about whatever policies you like but you cannot implement any if we do not have a Sustainable Planet to live on. Lets talk to each other and work together. I think we should deal with more related problems to everybody. I am surprised nobody has touched on the dire state of the Mental Health service, which links to crime and waiting lists. My husband was on an nhs waiting list for 19 months and his follow up will be another six months, that was actually not related to Mental Health. But i work with members of the public daily and people are active reacting to be actively asking to be sectioned, asking for medication, we had to say that we do not have time for that, go to the back of the queue, it is being ignored. In five years time i want is to be able to reach out and seek the help we need to easily and comfortably instead of crying for help. Seek the help and get the help. Seek the help and get the help. I want to reiterate what the lady said about working together, what i cant understand and what i have tried to get answers to but there are none being given, what we have done as carers and disabled people to deserve what is happening to us . What have we done . We save the country £135 billion a year, and the country £135 billion a year, and the county 1. 9 billion. What have we done to deserve this treatment . The a nswer done to deserve this treatment . The answer is nothing, nothing. Yes . Where do you want is to be in five yea rs . Where do you want is to be in five years . My name is keith, i would like to see the economy grow, we need more money for all sorts of things, social services etc, but we cannot do it without the economy growing and being stronger and i really would like to make sure we dont go back to nationalisation. I have seen the problems with it. Applause keith does not want to go back to nationalisation. I want to be paying more tax with a good education system, good nhs and warehousing is not at the bottom of the list all the time, we all need somewhere decent to live and you need cross party decent to live and you need cross party consensus. Decent to live and you need crossparty consensus. Thank you to Lloyd Russell moyle from labour, sal brinton from the lib dems, dan poulter from the conservatives. Thank you to the audience in norwich, thank you so much. Thank you for your company. Bbc newsroom live is next. Good morning. Quite a bit of rainfall forecast over the next few days, it is well worth staying tuned to the forecast. You can see from this morning quite a bit of rain moved across Northern Areas of england, heavy showers across the south and further rain spreading into the south west of england. Thatll spread northwards into wales, the midlands, central and southern areas, and we still have that patchy rain across northern pa rt into that patchy rain across northern part into scotland this afternoon. If you brighter skies and seven scotla nd if you brighter skies and seven scotland on the far north west of england, temperatures about 9010 celsius. The south west will continue to see heavy rain not only for the rest of today but tonight, moving further northwards, that can lead moving further northwards, that can lea d o nto moving further northwards, that can lead onto localised flooding issues, some travel disruption to the south west, and more rain spreads in for the early part of saturday. 0vernight temperatures down to four to eight celsius, not a frosty night like recently. For saturday, quite a bit of wet weather for many, a number of weather warnings enforce. 0n number of weather warnings enforce. On sunday it should be that bit drier. Youre watching bbc newsroom live. Its11. 00am and these are the main stories this morning a 27 year old man, who cannot be named due to a Court Suppression order, has been found guilty of the murder of british backpacker Grace Millane in new zealand. Her father spoke outside the citys high court after the verdict grace was taken away from us in the most brutal fashion a year ago. And our lives and family have been ripped apart. The brexit party are unveiling their policies for the election at a launch event this morning. Well be live at the event in central london. In wales, plaid cymrus leader is calling for a green jobs revolution. We wa nt we want wales to be the cradle of the green Industrial Revolution just as we work for
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