British people, the next General Election cannot come quickly enough and people are desperate for change. While rishi sunak clings on, out of touch and out of ideas, ourjob and our responsibility is to show that british people, change is possible, and that we are ready and this week we have done just that. We have shown we have got the policies and the passion and the people, notjust to get the conservatives out but to deliver real change people want, the fair deal people deserve. Fair deal people deserve. Applause our task is to fair deal people deserve. Applause our task is to get fair deal people deserve. Applause our task is to get more fair deal people deserve. Applause our task is to get more brilliant our task is to get more brilliant lib dems mps elected so they can be strong local champions for their communities and lead the change our country needs. Bringing real hope to millions. On the bill of this economic crisis. Hope to people struggling to get on, cleaning up the environment, resting the nhs and transforming our politics for good rescuing. Remember, the start of the year, rishi sunak gave a big speech where he told the country we are either delivering you or we are not. For you. Are either delivering you or we are not. Foryou. In are either delivering you or we are not. For you. In fairness, are either delivering you or we are not. Foryou. Infairness, he are either delivering you or we are not. For you. In fairness, he was telling the truth. It is one of those two things and i think we all know which one. His government is failing to deliver, and what is horrific is the scale of their failure in so many ways, and our country is just not working the way it should. It is not working the way it should. It is not working the way it should. It is not working the way it should for the parents, forced to travel two hours just to find their kids an nhs dentist and looking for meals so their children can eat. The couple in my constituency fear losing their home for 13 years as their Mortgage Payments have shot up by more than £400 per month. It is not working for the Teaching Assistant and her young family, evicted from their home in ambleside so the landlord could turn it into a holiday let. It is not working for the pensioner going without heating in the winter or the commuter left on the platform by yet another counsel train. It is not working for the swimmers who spent 13 days in hospital after swimming in sewage infested waters. I have never known our country so badly governed. Applause crimes unsolved,. , crimes unsolved, backlogs in the courts and crimes unsolved, backlogs in the courts and delays crimes unsolved, backlogs in the courts and delays to crimes unsolved, backlogs in the courts and delays to get crimes unsolved, backlogs in the courts and delays to get a crimes unsolved, backlogs in the i courts and delays to get a passport, crumbling school buildings, high street is in decline and potholes everywhere. There are many reasons why all these issues have got so bad, of course, but there is one fundamental cause, the conservative party. The uk is not working because the conservatives are not working. They are more like a bad tv soap and a functioning government. The factions and the feuds and the postal vendettas, the shock exits and the unwelcome returns. Each episode worse than the last. Well, it is time to change the channel. The corruption of borisjohnson, the chaos of liz truss, and the callousness of rishi sunak. The whole conservative shambles, they all have to go. Whole conservative shambles, they all have to 90 and our task is to get them out and then aet and our task is to get them out and then get the and our task is to get them out and then get the uk and our task is to get them out and then get the uk working and our task is to get them out and then get the uk working again. And our task is to get them out and | then get the uk working again. That of course starts with the economy. We need to get our economy growing strongly again. Conservative ministers might think 0 growth and 7 inflation are numbers to boast about but the british people certainly do not. Inflation is still higher than at any time since black wednesday, worse even than at the height of the financial crisis, food prices up 30 in just two years, energy bills almost doubled, Mortgage Rates through the roof. And rishi sunak says it shows his plan is working. Honestly, the Prime Minister sounds so complacent and out of touch, sometimes i think you must be knee deep in the upside down. He must. If this is what it looks like when your plan is working, i think we need a new plan. And that is exactly what the Liberal Democrats have been putting forward. A real plan, notjust to stop things getting worse and to return to business as usual, but to build the economy of the future. Economy of the future. Applause to build an economy of the future. Applause to build an economy economy of the future. Applause to build an economy that economy of the future. Applause to build an economy that is to build an economy that is genuinely innovative, prosperous and fair, an economic plan that gives everyone the chance to get on in life and see their hard work and aspiration properly rewarded. A plan that backs on that immigrant entrepreneurs to grow Small Businesses and create well paid jobs in their communities that backs entrepreneurs. And we also want to embrace the green tech and Clean Technologies of the future. Applause it is time to lead technologies of the future. Applause it is time to lead the technologies of the future. Applause it is time to lead the World Technologies of the future. Applause it is time to lead the world instead. It is time to lead the world instead of trying to hide from it. Conference, after rishi sunak� s disgraceful speech last week, the contrast between our approach and his could not be clearer. We already knew that he did not care about tackling climate change, that is no surprise, but what about the damage his u turn will do to the economy and the car industry and to jobs right across the uk . Does he not care about any of it . Apparently not. Frankly, instead of delivering that speech, rishi sunak should have tornit that speech, rishi sunak should have torn it up and thrown it away, and if hes got seven bins, he might as well use them. Well use them. Applause his smallminded well use them. Applause his smallminded and well use them. Applause his smallminded and backward his small minded and backward looking approach is simply not worthy of our great united kingdom. From the steam train to a number of things, we have always led the world with innovation and invention, and we have always led the way. The Liberal Democrats understand that. In government we made the uk the world leader in offshore wind and we invested early and we had an industrial strategy and we showed we were serious and we attracted global firms to come to the uk and spend of pounds to build factories and wind farms and create thousands of clean secure jobs. Farms and create thousands of clean securejobs. And thanks farms and create thousands of clean secure jobs. And thanks to the Liberal Democrat policies, the price of wind energy has more than halved. So now. � � , so now. Applause now renewables so now. Applause now renewables are | so now. Applause | now renewables are by so now. Applause now renewables are by far the cheapest form of electricity and the most popular. We could be doing the same thing with so many other new technologies, tidal power, clean flight, high speed rail, creating jobs and cutting prices. But rishi sunak says no. We say, build the uk bosman Economic Future here in the uk. Rishi sunak says outsourcing to china the uks Economic Future. That is a dismal failure of leadership and we can do so much better. The uk led the world and we cant lead it again. But not with a and we can lead it again. But not with the conservatives and the Prime Minister refusing even to attend the United NationsGeneral Assembly last week and instead of standing at his lectern in Downing Street trashing our Economic Future single handily, rishi sunak should have been in new york, working with Global Leaders to tackle this crisis together. The uk can be an incredible force for good when it stands tall on The World Stage but rishi sunak does not seem to care about that either. He is getting it wrong at home and getting it badly wrong abroad as well. Our vision is for a uk that leads the world as we embrace the economy of the future but the conservatives were just shackle us to the past. And theres another. Another crucial part of our economic vision. Another area where we are so different from this government. Something that would so obviously make an enormous difference to our economy and our standard of living, something we have always been proud to champion even when no one else even dared whisper it. Fixing our broken relationship with europe cheering and applause the conservatives botched the deal with europe and it has been a disaster for the uk and they sold out british farmers and fishermen and tied up British Business in red tape and pushed up food prices in our supermarkets, so much unnecessary pain inflicted on so many by so few. And only the Liberal Democrats have consistently stood up against it and only we have set out a detailed plan to tear down the Trade Barriers and fix the broken relationship with europe and get a better deal for the uk. Yes, only we. Because the plan of labour, if you can call it a plan, is nowhere near that ambitious. To be fair, they have come a long way from when they voted for borisjohnsons terrible deal. But labour has a long way still to go. Which means it is up to us to lead the way and a better economy a Better Future with europe applause opportunity, investment, innovation, trade, that is the Liberal Democrat recipe for economic success. And one more ingredient, people. Because at its heart, what makes our approach different is that we understand that the economy is notjust a series of abstract percentages and meaningless slogans, it is all of us, it is the things we do every day together, the jobs and the services we rely on and the homes we live in, the tv shows we watch and the places we visit and the presents we give each other. We understand that when you strip Everything Else away, the economy is its people, and if we want to get the economy going strongly again we need to focus far more on our people. Need to focus far more on our eole. � � , of course, that means investing in people, through education, training, skills. But today i want to talk about another investment in people. An investment that too often has not been linked to economic growth, even though it is central to growth. And thatis though it is central to growth. And that is an investment in peoples physical and mental health. You cannot build the economy we need with 7 million people