, system system of disgraceful system of interviewing women and asking them to fill in pages of forms because they have given birth to a child as a result of rape. i will tell you what. i was this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. very proud to go to the north—east the headlines at two... as the final few days of campaigning get under way — of london, a constituency the conservatives promise represented by iain duncan smith, to introduce an australian—style and announced points—based immigration system to control unskilled migration. we wa nt we want to bear down on migration, and we do that because of the particularly on unskilled workers who have no job particularly on unskilled workers who have nojob to come particularly on unskilled workers who have no job to come to. brutality of what universal credit has done to so many people's lives. meanwhile labour sets out its plans for social care if it wins the election — those who have remained homeless as by offering free personal care a result of going into debt. those for older people in england who have lost private rented and an additional ten—billion—pounds of funds. accommodation and those that have i want social care available for gone hungry as a result of it. i'm everybody, all across the uk. fed up of living in a country where liberal democrat leaderjo swinson will address supporters more thani.5 shortly in sheffield — we'll bring you that live. fed up of living in a country where more than 1.5 million parcels of a huge blaze breaks out food are given out every year in in a factory in delhi —

food are given out every year in food banks all over the country. i indian police say at least 43 people don't want to see an industry of have been killed. food banks around britain. i want to see people properly supported in their hour of need by the rest of us ina their hour of need by the rest of us in a community, rather than relying on the charity of others in order to get something to eat. and that includes people in work because their wages are so low. zero—hour contracts damage their chances of earning enough money so they then have to access food banks as well. the number of children... applause. in modern britain there are 4 million children living in poverty. this christmas, 135,000 children will wake up on christmas morning not knowing if the place they are waking up is their home for much longer. because they are on short—term tenancies, they are basically transferring that one homeless situation to another, to

another, to another. what does that do to the mentality of those children? what does it do to their sense of security other than thinking they are some way or other worse than others in society? and the price of austerity is not paid by the very rich, it is not paid by the billionaires, the 150 billionaires in britain. it is paid for by those going through mental health stress. it is paid for by those that are homeless. it is paid for by our children going hungry. it is paid for by the underfunding of public services all over britain. none of this is at all necessary and therefore... applause. when i first ran for the leadership of the labour party in 2015 the whole point was we asa party in 2015 the whole point was we as a party, we as a movement, have to invest for the future, not cut. you can't cut your way to prosperity, you invest your way to prosperity, you invest your way to prosperity and there is no more

important investment than investing in children in the next generation. applause. and that is what i want oui’ applause. and that is what i want our labour government to do. labour government that will properly fund the devolved governments of scotland and wales and properly fund local government and social services all across england. and our manifesto, hear this wonderful red book, to read books i have got, one i write my speeches in and the other one is my speeches in and the other one is my manner faster. they are much the same thing actually! i am very proud of our manifesto and all the work that has gone into it. that ma nifesto that has gone into it. that manifesto was written by thousands of people, written by those obviously in the labour party and the trade unions but also people with particular expertise on environmental issues, industrial strategies, and so much else. it was

basically written by all of you because it is your aspirations that are here in this manifesto. and i am very proud of the contents of it. and i want to leave... i want to lead a labour government that will carry it out. but there are also the wrongs of the past that have to be righted. you can't go onjust assuming that somehow or other these terrible wrongs are just going to carry on and nothing done about it. i'm thinking here of the wasp women. —— the women who were misled and have lost a lot of money. 0ften living in desperate poverty. women that have worked all their lives, supported people, made a massive contribution to our society. suddenly told they're not going to get the pension they thought they we re get the pension they thought they were going to get, they have got to wait a few years to get it. well,

thatis wait a few years to get it. well, that is simply not right. i sat down with a group of women in derbyshire last week for an hour and i went round the table with them, there we re round the table with them, there were quite a lot of them. and i wrote down the figure that each one had lost because of the change in the pension regulations. and it was thousands, thousands and thousands of pounds. women who thought they we re of pounds. women who thought they were going to be able to retire and get on with what they wanted to do in retirement suddenly found they had to access the benefits system. and some of them turned up atjob centres and were told why don't you getan centres and were told why don't you get an apprenticeship and start working again? what? i mean, how insulting and rude is that to somebody who has been so badly treated. and so we, the labour government will compensate the waspi women. and that has to happen... that has to happen and it will. the

first question i get from the media on this was, well, that means some of the better off women will also be compensated. i said, of the better off women will also be compensated. isaid, well, actually what it's called his universal benefits. they paid in in order to get security, that is what universal benefits of a kind of society that i wa nt to benefits of a kind of society that i want to live in does. because that really is the sort of drip, drip, drip approach that somehow or other you should have an insurance —based health service. no, the principle behind everything we say is a welfare state that cares for all ad taxes on the basis of the ability to pgy- taxes on the basis of the ability to pay. but the principle is... applause. but the principle is that eve ryo ne applause. but the principle is that everyone can have access to the support and benefits that they need and that is exactly what a labour government will do. but it is also about the poverty that has been

imposed on this country because of austerity. the way in which local government cuts have fed through all over the uk because of underfunding. the way in which high street have been decimated, that sense of community has often gone as a result of it. it is about investment for the future. but it is also about the money that is spent in port working class communities, where the spending power has been reduced by 20, 20 5% over the past ten years. 0bviously 20, 20 5% over the past ten years. obviously if people have got less money to spend, the cornershop, the hairdressers, the cafe and all that are going to do less well. and so it is about raising living standards and raising wages in britain. and so we other party that the national minimum wage in1997 we other party that the national minimum wage in 1997 and i'm so proud that we did that. and i remember, when that bill was put before parliament after that election, the tories kept us up all

night, all night trying to defeat this piece of legislation, to introduce the principle of a national minimum wage. i remember cycling home after that debate at 5am thinking, wow, for all the years i've been in parliament we have done something really good tonight. we have set ourselves on the road of eliminating poverty in work in this country. but it isn't enough. a real living wage must be paid. and including four young workers, who are including four young workers, who a re often including four young workers, who are often very badly exploited in our society. applause. the last time i looked, young people ate as much as older people. they had the same cost as older people, they need somewhere to live, they don't pay less on the train on the bus generally speaking, although that is going to change. and so we will introduce a real living wage of £10 an hourfor all workers.

0bviously, recognising the problems this may cause for some very small businesses and we will make accommodations to accommodate that. the principal will be the worker will get the benefits from that. i'm proud of the policies we have put forward , proud of the policies we have put forward, i'm proud we will be a party that will start to distribute wealth and power in britain. 0ver the last ten years the number of billionaires has grown. there is now 150 billionaires in britain and i could tell with all honesty one of them has contributed 1p to the labour party election funds. the average donation to the labour party is £25. i'm proud of that. nobody is buying access, nobody is buying power or control. 0ur manifesto sets out the way we want to transform and empower people across britain. and there are massive issues that we

have to face that we will face when we go into government. the biggest one is the climate emergency facing the whole planet. you cannot walk away from it, you cannot ignore it, it is absolutely there. everything you look at, every loss of species, every time a glacier melts, the sea level rises, every forest that burns, every piece of natural world thatis burns, every piece of natural world that is destroyed damages our natural world, damages our unsustainability in the long run. we cannot go on ignoring it. the unusual and extreme weather patterns we have, the floods that happen, the wildfires that happen because of extreme drought. and how often have you heard this is a once in 100 year storm happening honest every year. in effect, the poorest people in the poorest countries on the most vulnerable places are the worst. when their massive floods in mozambique it took three weeks before any kind of aid or supplies reached some of those remote communities there. exactly the same

as happening now with drought in zimbabwe and other places not so far away. those are countries that often don't have the kind of infrastructure we have got to scope with those kind of problems. but we are not immune from it, the floods that are happening all across the uk are massive. and so we have to address that by a combination of river —based management to use natural defences like flood plains but also obviously flood defences. but we also have to recognise that the paris climate change record of 2015 was a massive step forward. huge. it took a long time to achieve, i was there, ifound huge. it took a long time to achieve, iwas there, ifound it fascinating meeting people from all over the world and the fact that at that point all countries were signed up that point all countries were signed up to it. and we've moved forward from there. however, we now have resident in the usa that doesn't believe climate change is happening. we have a government in britain that is simply not doing enough about it. and so if we were to meet our

requirements under paris 2015 we have got to take a lot more action than we are doing at the moment. 0n the president trajectory we will not achieve zero net emissions until 2099. our aspiration sets out to achieve them by 2030 if we possibly can. applause. and that will require, it will require a big change. but we will also, next year, in 2020, have the opportunity, the owner, of hosting cop26 in britain. i want to have the opportunity of implementing something much tougher because the rate of global warming will increase if we do nothing. if we can hold it to 1.5 celsius that

will give us some chance of sustainability. but it does mean radical changes. but it doesn't mean you impoverish people on the way, it means you use it as an opportunity. i have been working with people in the usa, bernie sanders and others on the green new deal that they're putting forward there. our proposal ona putting forward there. our proposal on a green industrial revolution is not that different. what we are saying is let's invest for a sustainable future, invest by retrofitting those homes that use far too much energy. invest in attainable transport system by all our buses been electric within ten yea rs invest in our buses been electric within ten years invest in more electric cars, invest in the infrastructure that is necessary to support all of that. but also invest in the green energy sources that are all around us. wales has many, many things, wonderful hills, wonderful mountains and rivers. lots of water and lots of wind. all of those things... all

of wind. all of those things... all of those things, thank you, all of those things can help us. and create good quality, highly skilled jobs for the future. supporting industries, manufacturing wind generation, solar panels and big projects like swansea bay lagoon, which will generate a great deal of sustainable electricity. that is the excitement and the opportunity that is there in our manifesto that has been very carefully prepared and produced. and i was very proud last week in southampton to announce our plan for nature, which is about improving biodiversity. it is about supporting farmers, physically small farmers, in sustaining the natural world around them, which they always wa nt to world around them, which they always want to try and do. but also improving our biodiversity by the tree planting and all the preservation concept that we have in our manifesto. so this is the future, the future can be green, the

future, the future can be green, the future can also be very prosperous for people. but we cannot afford these levels of inequality in britain. so when we talk about the investments we want to make, people say welcome it is very expensive isn't it? you're manifesto... they come up with all kinds of figures. borisjohnson added a few does not strip the other night. i don't where he studied maths but i think he needs to perhaps restudy the maths. it was nonsense what he was talking. the reality is, the sad reality is this, every single last page of our ma nifesto this, every single last page of our manifesto carried out would take british public services and public spending roughly to the level of france or germany. that is how far behind we have fallen because of the way in which neoliberal economics has been told to us that we let the rich get richer and there is a trickle—down effect and somewhere along the line everybody is going to be better off. well, it doesn't work like that, it has never worked like

that and i don't believe it ever will. what you need is a government... applause. what you need is a government that is prepared to invest for the future. what you need is a government that is prepared to work with people and not pass by on the other side to the extreme levels of poverty. 0r indeed the levels of debt that those who are in work and not necessarily a bsently are in work and not necessarily absently poor are now having to go into in order to support older members of their family needing social care that is not affordable for them because there isn't enough money to put into the system all across the uk. but i do pay tribute for welsh labourfor across the uk. but i do pay tribute for welsh labour for everything it has done to try and improve social care. i want social care available for everybody all across the uk. applause. we can't be a country that

relies on food banks and hand—outs, we can't be a country that relies on charity in order to feed the poorest in our society. for goodness' sake, the post—war consensus was that we create a welfare state that eliminated poverty, that took away the dangers of destitution. in the greatest achievement of that government was the national health service as was the work to achieve it. it was the lessons that gave us the national health service. but the national health service is under threat, under threat because of what this government is doing on its future trade relationship with the united states. just think about this, the last two years there have been secret talks between the british government in the us trade department about a future trade relationship between the us and britain. people asked under the freedom of information act for the details of these meetings, these discussions that have taken place. and we duly got them, yeah. all it

said was a number of meetings had taken place and told us who had been at the meetings. 0ne taken place and told us who had been at the meetings. one of them was liam fox, the trade secretary. and vaguely what the subject of the meeting was but nothing else. line after line after line of redacted documents. then we got a us document, which indicated a desire for access to british public services market by us companies and this would have to form part of any trade deal with the united states. and then we got all the volumes, 400 pages and more, of unredacted documents, which go through in excruciating detail what the demands of the united states are. the patents on medicines go on for longer in order to raise the price of medicines outside of the usa. that us pharmaceutical companies have access to our health care market, as they keep calling it. and so it goes on with something called

investor protection as well. well, i simply say this, under labour, our nhs is not for sale to anybody. applause. borisjohnson boris johnson and the borisjohnson and the tories can obfuscate as much as they like, the evidence is very clearly there what the real intention is. labour will not go down that road, we will not do that. we will make sure we defend jobs and services in this country by sensible trading relationship with europe, whatever the outcome of the final vote happens to be. we are the party that is serious and sensible about protecting and expanding industries and jobs across this country, improving living standards and dealing with the climate emergency that we face. we cannot go on with another five years of a tory

government with more billionaires and more poverty. more assertions on the international stage that simply do not add up. and a prime minister that seems to have some strange idea about how services are developed. i will give you an example, less than 18 hours after he had become prime minister he came to parliament to make a statement. and he announced that in england there was going to be 40 new hospitals. i was very impolite, i asked be 40 new hospitals. i was very impolite, iasked him be 40 new hospitals. i was very impolite, i asked him where they we re impolite, i asked him where they were going to be. there was no a nswer to were going to be. there was no answer to that. it is not possible, i can't possibly know. and then the number was reduced to 20. ok, that's only a 50% reduction. it was then reduced to six. and then it was seed funding for the consideration of the possibility of may be building six

new hospitals. so you go from 40, 220, to six, to be?. that is not serious, that is not a serious way of approaching politics, it is not serious way of approaching the stress levels that people face within our society. and so our manifesto... 0ur manifesto is serious, well—prepared manifesto... 0ur manifesto is serious, well—prepa red and manifesto... 0ur manifesto is serious, well—prepared and fully costed. we have got a grade book that identifies every single item of expenditure we wish to make as a labour government. we are the only party to have done that because we are absolutely serious about this election. so we have got five days to go, four days i suppose really, to go, four days i suppose really, to go, four days i suppose really, to go to the election. and our determination is not lowered, it is higher and higher and higher the nearer we get to polling day itself. whatever personal abuse they throw at any of us, members of our shadow

cabinet, leaders met leading members of our party, candidates, myself or anybody else, i don't care, it only shows how empty their arguments are... applause. and how vacuous their aspirations for people really are. iwant their aspirations for people really are. i want to lead a government that will transform things, i want to lead a government that empowers people. i want to lead a government that recognises we have got nurture genius and ambition of our children to be as imaginative and artistic as possible in school and life and elsewhere, in order to achieve the very best. and a society that genuinely cares for all. and the government that is serious about industrial development, sustainable industrial development, sustainable industrial development, sustainable industrial development, and running an economy that works for all. we

have low levels of investment, we have low levels of investment, we have low levels of investment, we have low levels of pay and we have insufficiently the.. insufficiency of reef search into the future. so a labour government will be very, very different. —— research into the future. to ensure that public ownership comes back for the national grid, rail etc and we will invigorate poor and remote communities by broadband to every pa rt communities by broadband to every part of the uk within ten years. because that is the modern way of communications. everyone in this room i should imagine has a computer or smartphone or three phones or goodness as what. but you communicate with each other... i didn't hear what you said but i'm sure you're right! it is about how we build that strength between

communities. so let's go absolutely flat out between now and 10pm on thursday night, to listen to what people say. to listen to their concerns, listen to their interests. an offer them the hope of something very different. not a society where young people are told you are going to be poorer than your parent's generation and your children are going to get poorer, public services are going to disappear, the concept ofa are going to disappear, the concept of a welfare state won't last forever. you know the subliminal message that is given to young people. it is disempowering, demotivating and suggesting that those... those with special needs, that those with special needs or disabilities are somehow or other less valuable than other members of society. don't you want a government that actually values everybody in our society? that doesn't pass by on the other side. applause. and so we

build on the great traditions of our movement, the movement that fought for the right to vote, that fought for the right to vote, that fought for a national insurance system, that fought for education, for council housing, for the right of women to vote. to end racism and discrimination within our society. a movement that has achieved so much andi movement that has achieved so much and i think our crowning achievement has been the national health service. but let's build on that. and so when you are working, knocking on doors in the rain, yes, i'm sure it's raining again. 0ver the next few days, remember what you we re the next few days, remember what you were doing it for. you are doing it for the next generation. you are doing it to change the course of political history in britain. go flat out until 10pm on thursday... jeremy corbyn, the labour leader talking there in banga. —— bangor.

more on the election campaign throughout the afternoon here on bbc news but now it's time for a look at the weather. we are looking at some stormy conditions of the next 24 hours. the first storm to reach the british isles this year is reaching the uk. this bit of clout here racing towards ireland. if you look at the pressure pattern, the pressure is what makes the wind blow in the first place this is a trough thatis in the first place this is a trough that is going to accelerate the wins but the ice bars open up a little bit. so in other words most ferocious of these wins won't last for a long and they will be quite localised but still potentially very damaging with the strongest winds forecast across the south—west of ireland, it will get windy in the uk overnight. a day of sunshine and

showers, most frequent across northern ireland and scotland, hail and thunder mixing with these. eastern england seeing fewer showers but no is immune. as far as the winds go, red weather warning out for gusts potentially in excess of 80 miles an hour. tonight, wales, south—west england, may the west midlands, gus in the way of 65, 75 miles an hour. wind is perfectly capable of bringing down tree branches and so because of these severe gales there is chance of disruption to transport and also power supplies overnight. as we head into monday, the worst of those strong winds will blow away to the near continent but at the same time we will get the strong northerly winds following across the uk. they will bring showers in across the channel, some reaching north wales and england and frequent showers in scotland, coming down the north sea. for most of us a sunny day,

temperatures five to 10 degrees. factor in the wins and it will feel quite bitter around the coast. the rest of the week, temperature roller—coasters as mild south—westerly winds interspersed with cooler north—westerly winds. the temperatures in the weather will change on a day by day basis. tuesdayis change on a day by day basis. tuesday is the turn of south—westerly winds. we looking at a cloudy day with, rain will be heavy and squally as it pushes eastwards a cross heavy and squally as it pushes eastwards across the country. mild, temperatures ten to 12 celsius. wednesday, we swap the south—westerly winds for a north—westerly wind and so temperatures will be going back down. in the short—term, strong winds on the way tonight across wales and south—west england in 00:28:45,534 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 particular. take care.