Is ourfamily. My important. The most important thing is our family. My wife does enormous amount to support me. But our Welfare System and i want to make sure everybody gets the support they need with Mental Health challenges. Our society is more open about talking about Mental Health challenges in a way it wasnt ten years ago. They dont risk over medical housing one of the everyday challenges and anxieties of life that you described. When it comes to the Welfare System, we have seen a massive increase since the pandemic and the number of people who are of working age, but they are not working age, but they are not working because they are deemed to be of ill health and it is driven by Mental Health claims. It is causing an enormous increase in the norm numbers, 800,000 people not working on welfare because of ill health, since the pandemic, just in the last few years. The bill is forecast, the bill for these benefits, pit alone is forecast to grow by 50 in the next four years. And we
Labour leader keir starmer speaking in kent. We expect to hear a lot of personal stories like that as the leaders get out and about around the country meeting people and learning about their priorities, what they want the politicians to deliver in this General Election. As we have said the Prime Minister there at the Vale Of Glamorgan Craft Brewery in south wales. These are the moments when they will speak with business leaders, with voters, with the electorate, and hear about their priorities. One would assume a visit to a hospital and otherfacilities in the coming weeks. With me as alessia fitzgerald. Lets look at what moments like this are for. This is about the leaders being seen in all the right places. It is a photo opportunity. But it is a chance for them to hear from voters about what they need to deliver. fin them to hear from voters about what they need to deliver. They need to deliver. On the first thin , they need to deliver. On the first thing. When they need to deliver.
Setting out their stall. Our political editor, chris mason has been tracking them all day. Applause placards and cheers and a baby is getting attention from politicians. Keir starmer is quite a fan of visiting Lower League Football grounds and places he hopes labour can win. He was in gillingham in kent this morning, his deputy with him too. ~ kent this morning, his deputy with him too. , ~ , ~. , kent this morning, his deputy with him too. , ~. ,. Him too. Thank you. Whatever service eole him too. Thank you. Whatever service eole t him too. Thank you. Whatever service peeple try and him too. Thank you. Whatever Service People try and access him too. Thank you. Whatever Service People try and access these him too. Thank you. Whatever Service People try and access these days, people try and access these days, they find its like wading through treacle. , they find its like wading through treacle. ,. , they find its like wading through treacle. ,. , treacle. Red cards arent usually welc
Decline and chaos under the governing conservatives or rebuilding the country under his party. The Liberal Democrats and the snp have also been setting out their stall. Our Political Editor chris mason has been tracking them all day. You applause. Placards and cheers and a baby is getting attention from politicians. Keir starmer is quite a fan of visiting Lower League Football grounds and places he hopes labour can win. He was in gillingham in kent this morning, his deputy with him too. Thank you. Whatever Service People try and access these days, they find its like wading through treacle. Red cards arent usually welcome for folk on a Football Pitch but expect to see plenty of these in the next month or so, spelling out labours core message. We have had 14 years of going around and round in circles, getting absolutely nowhere. Chaos and division, Feeding Chaos and division. If you want to change you have to vote for it, and if you vote labour its a vote to stop the chaos, a vote to tur
China has started two days of Military Exercises around taiwan as a strong punishment. The drills come after lai ching te was sworn in as taiwans new president this week and made an Inauguration Speech that china denounced as a confession of independence. The late president Ebrahim Raisi was buried in his North Eastern hometown in the last day of state organised funeral ceremonies. The state media have praised the funeral in mashhad, stressing that millions attended the ceremony. Good evening. As theyjourneyed into work yesterday, recess looming, the mps At Westminster were probably planning for a Long Bank Holiday weekend. So much for that today they were coming to terms with six weeks of frenetic campaigning, many of them already back in their constituencies, the lucky ones with Party Leaders alongside. There will be miles and miles of travel before voting day onjuly 4th. Even if they re are mostly guided by the maps that lead to target seats, not the same maps that we might use. The