Thank you to Bradford University for giving us this space this morning and the level of. And a lovely conversation. This university is a great plac place, going great places. Thank you very much for giving us the space this morning. And thank you to everyone in bradford. And those across yorkshire. Ive been campaigning over the past few days. What a fantastic welcome weve had and fantastic support. [applause] so many people tell me so much about the hopes they have in our manifesto, in our plans, in all of us. We intend to deliver on those hopes and on those planes. [applause] i think you for the bravery for which you spoke about your own problems and demons because i am determined that we will deal with, address and confront the issues of the Mental Health crisis facing this country so people dont face it and suffer alone. Thank you for what you said this morning. [applause] i also want to say a big thank you to all of those that contributed to our manifesto. Those in our team in the labour party and my team that put amazing amounts of work into producing a very good manifesto in a very short space of time. Well done to all of them, and thank you to all of the Different Society groups, Civil Society organizations and so many others that sent in really good ideas which have helped to frame our thinking and frame our ideas and of course the numbers of the labour party. I also want to say thank you to the parties National Executive for the huge work they put in on this in a very deep appreciation to all my colleagues were here today in our shadow cabinet. Theyve spent in a mormons amount of work into holding their briefs into getting their message across and contributing to our manifesto. If you look at our shadow cabinets, use the experience, you see diversity, you ch range and people whose Life Experience is rooted in real Life Experience who will never forget that when they are holding to deliver for the people who put them there. Thank you very much. [applause] and of course its a pleasure to be here to launch this manifesto for the many, not the few. Bradford university had a chancellor for a long time and a great chancellor he was. It was help wilkins, a former labor Prime Minister. He was not born in bradford and as Prime Minister he did so much to expand University Education and make it accessible for all and his greatest legacy i believe is the open university and the access that gives to everybody to go into Higher Education if thats what they wish to do at any stage in their life. And so, i think today we are setting out a manifesto to transform the 21st century in the same way that wilkins in the 1950 sought to transform the 20th century and its an absolute pleasure to be here today. This manifesto is a drive for a Better Future for our country. Its a blueprint of what britain could be and a pledge of the difference a labor government can and will make. Like thousands of others, i have been making the case to people across the country over the past few weeks. This is a manifesto for all generations. We are providing hope and genuine opportunity for everybody. I say to our children, whatever post code you were born in, we will make sure you have the same chance as every other child. [applause] and, i have to say, as the day turned into weeks and this campaign continued, opinion is changing and its moving toward labor. [applause] and, actually, there is no secret as to the reason for that. People want a country run for the benefit of the many, not the few. Thats because for the past seven years, our people have lived through the opposite. A britain for the rich and the elite and the vested interests. They benefited from tax cuts, salaries and millions have struggled at the same time. Whatever your age or situation, people are under pressure, struggling to make ends meet. Our manifesto is for you. Parents worrying about the prospects of their children and anxious about the growing needs of their elderly parents. Young people struggling to find a secure job and despairing of ever getting a home of their own. Children growing up in poverty. Students leaving college burdened with debt. Workers who have gone years without a real pay raise, and stretching Family Budgets just to survive. Labors mission over the next five years is to change all of that. Our manifesto sets out how, with the program that is radical and responsible, a program that reversed our National Priorities and put the interest of many. We will change our country while managing within our means, and it will lead us through brexit while putting the preservation of jobs first. Let me highlight just a few of our pledges. Believe it or not, you may have read them already. [laughter] we are ruling out rises in vat and National Insurance and on income tax we are all but 5 of the highest earners. We will lose the wages of 5. 7 Million People earning less than the living wage to 10 pounds an hour by 2020. [applause] labor will. [inaudible] and deliver safe levels and reduced waiting lists. [applause] labor will scrap tuition fees. [applause] and that will lift the debt clouds for hundreds of thousands of young people. Labor will move toward universal childcare, expanding provisions for 23 and four yearolds in the next parliament. Labor is guaranteeing the triple lock that protects incomes. And we will build over a million new homes, at least half of them for social rent. Labor makes no apology for offering new protections including ending this candle of zero hours contracts. And we make no apology for finding new resources to hire new Police Officers and 3000 new firefighters. And we will do the smaller things that make a real difference like ending hospital car Parking Charges were introducing for extra Public Holidays every year. But we in the labour party recognize that solving these problems requires a thriving economy, one that gets our economy working again and rises the challenges of brexit on jobs and investment. For seven years the conservatives have been Holding Britain back, low investments, low wages, low growth. Labor will move britain forward with ambitious plans to unlock this countrys potential. We will set up a National Investment bank and Regional Development banks to finance growth for good jobs in all parts of the united kingdom. [applause] through the funding of major capital budgets, labor will also invest in our young people through a National Education service focused on childcare, schools and skills, giving them the capacity to make a productive contribution to tomorrows economy. [applause] and labor will take our railways back to Public Ownership and put passengers first. [applause] we will take back control of our countrys water by bringing them into regional Public Ownership. And we will take a public steak in the Energy Sector to keep fuel prices down and ensure a balance in green Energy Policy for the future. Those now want to scare us. Only labor has a plan ambitious enough to unleash this countrys potential and only labor has a plan to make brexit work for ordinary people. We are clear there is now a choice. Labor brexit that puts jobs first or brexit that will be give toward the city of london and risk making britain a lowwage tax haven. [applause] as we leave the eu, because that is what the people have voted for, only labor will negotiate a deal that preserves jobs, accesses a Single Market and provides rights and access not plunge our country into a race to the bottom. All this as the documents a accompanying our manifesto make very clear. Our revenue plan to ensure we can embark on this Ambitious Program without jeopardizing our national finance. We are asking the better of and the big corporations to pay a little bit more and of course to stop dodging their Tax Obligations in the first place. [applause] and, in the longer term we look to us faster rate of growth driven by increased private and Public Investment to keep our accounts in shape. This is a program of hope. The other campaign, by contrast is built on one word, fear. [applause] what would another five years of conservative government mean to britain . Just look back at the last seven. More children living in poverty. Fewer young people able to buy their first home. More people in line at food banks. Fewer police, fewer firefighters, more people are in work, but theyre not getting the pay or the hours to make ends meet. More young people in debt. The record says it wont change. The Prime Minister will disagree of course, so i say to her today in the most polite and friendly way possible, come out of hiding and lets have a debate. [applause] butts have a polite respectful debate on television so millions of people can make up their own mind about which party offers better hope for britain. Lets debate our two manifestoe manifestoes, have the discussio discussion. Im confident once this country gets the chance to study the issues, look at the promises, they will decide that britain has indeed been held back by the conservative government. They have prevailed over the many for far too long, and they will decide its now time for labor. [applause] our country will only work for the many, not the few, if opportunity is in the hands of the many. So, our manifesto is a plan for everyone, have a fair chance to get on in life because our country will only succeed when everyone succeeds. This message is for everyone in this country whether theyre young or middleaged or old. We want that Inclusive Society that cares for all. As i said at the start of my speech, we are determined that a childs future is not that cited by the place of birth. A childs future is not decided by the underfunding of their primary school. A childs future is not decided by the policy of their community. But a government that invested for all. A government with the vision to ensure that the brilliance and imagination of every child can be fulfilled during their lifetime. Our proposal is to give government for the many, not the few. Our proposals are of hope for the many all over this country, and i am very proud to present our manifesto for the many, not the few. Thank you very much. [applause] [applause] thank you everyone. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. We now have an opportunity for questions because jeremy loves answering questions. Im going to take them in groups of three. Bear with me. There are a lot of people in the room. Ive got the lady in the pink, the gentleman and over there. Thank you. Ive been waiting 30 years to hear Something Like this that i can believe in and fight for. The question is, we have a huge issue in our area which is fracking. We are delighted to see it in the manifesto and we would love to hear you say it as well. Thank you. Gentleman, behind you please. Thank you very much. Mr. Corbin, i know you dont want to set a target for immigration. But can you simply say if you think it would be good for the country if the immigration level was reduced, if immigration came down. Mr. Corbin, to be Crystal Clear for our viewers, for good or for ill, do you think its time to pay for your ideas to tax more, spend more and borrow more . Thank you very much. The manifesto is absolutely clear we believe fracking is very damaging to the environment and therefore they have made the statements on that and im sure you understand and accept them and the way those. I thank him for the work he has done. He is nodding in agreement so it must be true. On the issue of immigration, there is immigration from all parts of the world. Those that have migrated to this country have made an immense, in our mess and fantastic contribution to our society. Without those. [inaudible] [applause] those nurses who came from jamaica, those doctors who came from india, the specialists that come from germany, those that work in all aspects of our National Service and industry and transport and so much else has helped to give us the Living Standards that we all have and i think we should recognize our country owes them a great deal of debt and thanks for what they have done. [applause] we have also made it clear that people should not be brought into this country to work in poor conditions or low wages deliberately to undercut people that are already here and work on agreed conditions. And that the Free Movement that currently exist within the European Union, obviously the time we leave the European Union, that Free Movement doesnt continue. We will negotiate the tray to agreement that will ensure free access to the entire European Union and future migration will be based on a fair migration policy, fairness towards our economy and the needs of our people and an end to the under putting an exploitation that goes with it. And, i believe it will be fair and decent and reasonable in the way that it runs it. Bear in mind, if there hadnt been people coming here to work in our area, all of us would be in far worse health than we are at the present time. Lets remember that. [applause] and laura, thanks so much for your question and for the way you put it. What we are proposing here is a really balancing of our economy, a rebalancing so there is proper levels of investment in infrastructure fairly across the whole of the uk, not totally in london in the southeast but every region of the country and i think thats extremely important. An Investment Bank that will ensure that fairness is taken all the way through. We will also be increasing wages through the living wage and that will actually lead to Economic Growth and higher spending within the economy. It will also lead to a slight reduction in work benefits because of higher wages, but it will also help to rebalance our society, and from a government that has borrowed more than every labor government and history over the past seven years, we really dont need lectures. We really dont need lectures from the stories on this. We are there to invest for the future and invest for the good of all, and to ensure there is fairness across community and across the regions of britain. You know what, every other country in the world says why does britain invest so little and pay itself so little while it allows such protest levels of inequality to get worse. Lets turn it around and do it the other way. [applause] thank you. Ive got a lady in the back row emma the gentleman and the gentleman with the second most lovely. Are there any provisions that fix the failing issues in our school . [applause] can anything be done about the shockingly biased media . [applause] [inaudible] will they provide a bank for the people . Thank you very much for your question. We dont want to close schools, indeed we want to see those proper investment in schools all across the country and under labor, head teachers will be asked to take collections at the school gate in order to pay for teacher salaries. We will ensure very decent and fair funding of all schools across britain come and not what is happening now which is funding being cut in the vast majority of schools and the schools are paying the price for that with oversight and super sit sized classes and overstretched teachers. We will ensure our schools are properly funded. Secondly, where there are schools that are failing, then i believe, and im sure angela would agree with me on this, there has to be an effective and strong local Education Authority that can step in to make sure that those schools are properly funded. We are not convinced of the idea that every school should be accountable only to the department of education. We want a much stronger local community and family of schools and education so we would want to bring free schools and academy within that family of local education and a mutually supportive environment. [applause] because, at its best if one school recognized it has a problem with achievement in english or math, then the school down the road might be doing very wellin those areas. You learn from each other. If you create competition between schools all the time, you reduce the ability to learn from each other. Our children need to grow up knowing the whole community is working for them. To quote the african proper, it takes a village to bring up a child, not just the parents immediate wisdom. [applause] since you so kindly brought up the question of education, weve been discussing on our Wonderful Campaign how exciting its going to be when we introduce the premium so every child gets a chance to learn a Musical Instrument in school. [applause] peter, thank you very much for your question. You have noticed that some of the media are slightly biased against the labour party. This is sometimes said to be the case. Listen we are very serious about ensuring there is freedom of information and the right to know in society. We also recognize that many societies around the world, very brave journalists lose their lives or are assassinated because theyve uncovered the truth about brutal regimes and abuses of human rights. Journalists and journalism and free journalism and free press are intrinsic to a democracy and a free society. I fully understand that. It is also important to ensure there is responsible journalism, that there is ownership, that there is a right of reply and there isnt an abuse of monopoly power within it, and so we will develop very clear that we will protect the diversity of our free press and we will ensure there is diversity of all of our Media Outlets in this country so everybody can take an informed opinion. The point raised at the end about economic isolation, John Mcdonald has put forward a very clear view that a bank is something that is actually part quite important. The town center has been hollowed out and there are shops and banks that get to a whole process of decline and you end up with the town center that is payday loan short, booking and fast food outlet and very little else. Its quite complicated, but with intelligence planning and good support you can and up with a much more vibrant and effective town Centers Across the country. [applause] and so, johns proposal is that banks shouldnt be allowed, willynilly, to close their branches and leave some towns with no branches whatsoever. Theres also the promotion of other banks as well. Credit unions have grown a great deal in our society. I think there are a great way of helping people financially manage and help them to get credit if they needed and get loans if they need it. Those things are very important why didnt you choose to do that, and secondly, youve sat out plans to spending 5 billion a year and Tax Companies and the rich by around 50 billion pounds a year more. Youve also got a program of investment and public through mail, water how much do you intend to brr borrow additionally every year . [inaudible conversations] oh, hi. So you described a independent difficult study has said that this is the biggest involvement of the government in the state since the 1970s. The last election two years ago two million more voters fell to the department too radical insufficiently irresponsible. Why outside of this, between voters you will determine the election . Why should they trust you that their water rate, gas bills [inaudible conversations] , thank you. And in a moment manifesto a lot of these policies weve put to opinion and wildly popular. Vast majorities of the people really, really like but what they didnt like was you as leader. Why do you think that is . [booing] okay. Thank you for your question, jack. All right. All right dont worry it about it. [applause] robert, thanks so much for your question. Yes increasing benefits is important and clearly were not going to squeeze benefits. That is very clear and were also looking at the reverse effects of the benefit cap on people and their housing position in london . Earn of our big cities you will be hearing more about that in the very near future. Secondly, on the borrowing an investment ive made it very clear that this government has borrowed because it hasnt invested and it has borrowed more and more it has less and ended up with relative to what we could achieve as of that and were going to make it very, very clear that this government that invest for the future in all parts of the country because we have a grossly imbalanced process so one of our key commitments is a cross rail are to the north from manchester. [applause] and jack your questions are actually the mirror image of each other. Did you get together to decide who was going to ask sorry dont worry about it. [laughter] when we talk about the 1970s and our manifesto during that, i say the other major party contesting this election is really, really forward looking. Theyre going to bring back fox hunting and glamour school that sounds 21st century doesnt it . [applause] and so yes, ive made it very clear and John Mcdonald will set out this in great detail tomorrow. Every one of our commitments has costed and funded all of our borrowing commitments will, out there this the open of what we would do. And you say that manifesto was leaked last week, yes many people got advanced copy of it where, well they read it anyway. And the opinion poll that tested the policies individually found them all to be very, very popular indeed. I just say this, i am very, very proud to lead this party. I was elected by a very large number of members an supporters ordinary people all over the country in tribune, Labor Department members, and im very proud that we have a party that is diverse, that is inclusive, that is realistic and this manifesto, this manifesto is a product of that process. I see leadership as not deck at a timing but leadership is also about listening. Listening to what people say, understanding the stress, the measure, and the tensions in their lives. That our government approach to things respect the reality of peoples lives im proud to present an inner City Community in london and i love the community and i listen very carefully to what we all say. As i do on all of the trappings around the country. If the function of leadership is to understand the stress it is that people face in their daily lives, the frustrations, the am l bigs, the anger that they face and try to produce policies that make that different. Think strong and standing up doesnt they isly mean shouting, dictating and instructing. It is how you put your case. [applause] so as you well know, i do not indulge in personal abuse it is appalling that abuse that is thrown at individual colleagues in shadow cabinet in a trade union. Appalling awe abuse thrown around on social media and the very dark places it drives people into when that abuse takes place. So i want to set an example, an example that you dont indulge in that, you debate what we all face and come to solutions that we can all collectively accept and be enthusiastic and excited by and you know what . This is something that is brought more than half a Million People into membership of our party because theyre excited about what we can do together for the good of everybody else. [applause] [cheering] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, on that note, thank you for all of you thank you to all of the colleagues that have made this amazing document that was proud to stand by, and ladies and gentlemen, we viewer support hard work and dedication over the next three and a half weeks. Please say thank you to your next Prime Minister. [cheering and applause] gather around. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [cheering]