Our audience was selected by a leading opinion Polling Company to ensure they are representative of the country as whole. They support different parties, some are undecided voters, and they are also equally split along the lines of last years Eu Referendum half voted to leave the eu and half to remain. And if youd like to join in the debate at home, you can do so on twitter using the hashtag bbcdebate. We start with Opening Statements from all seven politicians, the order of which was decided by the drawing of lots. First, the leader of plaid cymru, leanne wood. Theresa may called this election because shes taking you for granted. She wont turn up to these debates, because her campaign of soundbites is falling apart. Unlike theresa may, i am not afraid to defend my policies, my principles, my values. Plaid cymru exists to defend and build up our country. In wales, it is plaid cymru that stands for fairness and equality for everyone who chooses to call wales home. For a hundred years, w
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particular area but he painted a grim picture of the country, a picture of the country, decline he talked about, downtrodden, he talked about the rocks of decline, time and again he suggested that the past iii years under the conservatives have been pretty grim, notjust the most recent cost of living crisis. he said he would counter this with what he called project hope, i think people will be waiting to see what the substances behind that slogan that he coined during the course of the speech. i think you re right to say that most of the speech focused on countering apathy, this idea that the labour lead in the polls is quite wide but the support may be shallow beneath that. he needs to give people a reason to turn out and vote for change. whenever the election comes. a lot of the focus was on that, siding with those who are cynical about westminster,
be and you can reject the pointless populist gestures, the low road cynicism that the tories believe is all you deserve. applause live now to our political correspondent iain watson in westminster. what is the calculation here? why is he seizing on the issue of apathy? is seizing on it because he has a big lead in current opinion polls, there is a lot of scrutiny about what he might be offering as a potential prime minister but his worry is that although people are suggesting that they are disillusioned with the current government, they haven t yet come over to labour solidly to his party, he hasn t yet possibly sealed the deal so he needs to encourage people to get out and vote and vote for change. part of his way of doing this is aligning himself with those
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