At the right time and how much money is being paid to one of those special advisers, Sue Gray. It is not the backdrop that would have been wanted for this conference. Mi that would have been wanted for this conference. This conference. All of the questions. This conference. All of the questions, the this conference. All of the questions, the criticism i this conference. All of the i questions, the Criticism And Concern over freebies and donations, and ministers in the Tv Studios and newspapers, and the first couple of days of the conference itself, having to field questions about that, questions about hospitality and gifts and donations, and as you say, there have been those briefings about Sue Gray the chief of staff to the Prime Minister, about her salary, and both supporters and detractors of Sue Gray have had a bit of a row at the top of number ten playing out in public, so i think the parties have been keen to grab the narrative and put it firmly back on the turf they want to be t
To the people they are exploiting, you have never met a criminal gang. Those gangs are vile, they are making a huge amount of money. They are putting people in boats that they shouldnt be. We have to be serious about smashing those gangs and taking them down. That is where the Border Security command comes in. New command, new resources and new powers, including counterterrorism powers. We talk about small boats. That is the language that is used. If you look at the bouts that are being used these days, they are not that small. They are being made to order, stored in europe and moved up to the north coast of france. Vulnerable people are being put in them for money by violent gangs. I worked for years as a prosecutor and i worked with police and law in florence Law Enforcement across europe to take down these gangs. They are sophisticated gangs, by the way. I would never accept that it is impossible to take down the vile gangs that bring people in small boats to cross the channel. We w
means that we will have to take difficult decisions, and we may not be able to do all the things that an incoming labour government would want to do as quickly as we would like to do, because that is what we inherit. what i am setting out is the basis on which we will take our country forward, and the change that people can expect to see after five years. the idea of a mission is the sense of driving purpose. so we don t get knocked off course. so that we can measure against it. and so that we can take priorities and decisions about priorities in a consistent and coherent way. and frankly, if we had anything like the strategy and certainty that i m setting out now in the last 13 years, we wouldn t be in the utter mess we are in. we are going round and round in circles, chopping and changing, complete failure. five prime ministers, poor chancellors in the last year. this may be politically amusing, for the future
opportunities from aucus creating hundreds of highly skilled jobs across the united kingdom including in scotland, the north of england, taking forward this government s driving purpose of leveling up across the whole country. we will have a new opportunity to reinforce britain s place at the leading edge of science and technology strengthening our national expertise and perhaps most significantly the uk, australia, and the u.s. will be joined even more closely together. reflecting the measure of trust between us, the depth of our friendship and the enduring strength of our shared values of freedom and democracy. only a handful of countries possess nuclear-powered submarines. and it is a momentous decision