Conference, it is time that we have a government that matched the ambition that people have for their families and communities, a Government Siding with the builder is not the blockers. A government that will get Britain Building again and with labour we will. Let me give you one example. Our energy grid. Today, new developments are being forced to wait up to 15 years, into the late 2013s, to connect to the grid. £200 billion worth of projects stuck in limbo. Into the late 2030s. So i can announce labours plans to rewire britain, working with ed miliband. 0pening britain, working with ed miliband. Opening up new Grid Connections at competitive tendering. And so that the british people should own a stake in their energy system, the publicly owned Great Britain energy will look to bid into a competition. 220,000 newjobs, lower bills for good and Energy Security for britain. And theres more. We will invest in expanding local authorities planning capacity to speed up decisions and here is
nigel farage says he want to be a candidate for prime minister in five years time. right now, his party is promising to cut the nhs england waiting list to zero in two years. how is that possible? and the two child benefit cap which both the conservatives and labour will keep will plunge half a million more children into relative poverty ,according to new figures., according to new figures. welcome to newsnight, where we bring you interviews and election insight live every weeknight. our political panel tonight is conservative peer lord ed vaizey. and the boss of electricity company ecotricity, dale vince, who will support labour at this election. he s donated money to labour, the greens and lib dems in the past. we ll hearfrom them in a moment. first, nick, take ouraudience through what mr farage was promising today and why merthyr tydfil? as you say the key word is contract, nigel farage says it is not a manifesto, because he says manifestos are associated with the est