Thatis on everything. And i do not know if that is new politics or whether its a return to the bare minimum you should expect but if you vote for the labour party you will get this. And if you do not believe me after 14 years of broken promises from the tories, that is understandable but as the Chief Prosecutor for the country i smashed terrorist gangs and i know we can smash the people smuggling gangs. I dragged my party away from the allure of Gesture Politics and i will do exactly the same to westminster. No more gimmicks, the character of politics will change. And through that, we will change. And through that, we will deliver higher growth, safer streets, and nhs back on its feet, more opportunity in your community, cheaper bills in your home and secure borders for our nation. An Asylum System rebuilt, criminal gangs smashed, the exploitation of some of the most Vulnerable People in the world prevented. An end to the chaos, turning of the page, politics returned to service and a careful, patient, determined, renewal of our country. That is the future you can choose, that is what serious government can deliver. Thank you very much. Applause. Thank you. Thank you all very much. I am now going to take a number of questions from the media. Starting with beth rigby. From the media. Starting with beth rib. ~ from the media. Starting with beth rib. ~. , from the media. Starting with beth rib. , ~. , from the media. Starting with beth rib. , ~ a, a, rigby. Thank you. You say you are auoin to rigby. Thank you. You say you are going to end rigby. Thank you. You say you are going to end the rigby. Thank you. You say you are going to end the big rigby. Thank you. You say you are going to end the big talked rigby. Thank you. You say you are going to end the big talked of, rigby. Thank you. 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Last week, you told me you would notl continue the Reminder Scheme but you did not continue the Reminder Scheme but you did not commit continue the Reminder Scheme but you did not commit to continue the Reminder Scheme but you did not commit to stopping continue the Reminder Scheme but you did not commit to stopping flights did not commit to stopping flights on day did not commit to stopping flights on day one did not commit to stopping flights on day one of did not commit to stopping flights on day one of a did not commit to stopping flights on day one of a labour did not commit to stopping flights. On day one of a labour government. So will on day one of a labour government. So will you on day one of a labour government. So will you commit on day one of a labour government. So will you commit to on day one of a labour government. So will you commit to that on day one of a labour government. So will you commit to that right so will you commit to that right now . 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And i absolutely refuse to accept that its not possible to take those gangs down. I spent five years working with others on operations to take down terrorist gangs and to take down terrorist gangs and to take down terrorist gangs and to take down gangs that were running guns and drugs. I do not believe for one second that these gangs are more sophisticated than the gangs that we took down so i refused to accept it is impossible for is why i want to set up this command. I refuse to accept the work cannot be done in the boats which are being made to order cannot be intercepted. They are being held on the continent and brought to the north coast of france in one absolutely convinced this can done to get the numbers down. We will scrap the Reminder Scheme and i said that to you when we met last week, or the time before last. That means ending the scheme absolutely, flights and all. It is not going to work, it is an absolute waste of money and a gimmick not a solution. 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Her conclusion, without a huge amount of thought. Her conclusion, having without a huge amount of thought. Her conclusion, having thought i without a huge amount of thought. I her conclusion, having thought about this profoundly is that rishi sunak has effectively lost control of the borders, that the tory party is characterised by incompetence and the labour party has changed and i think that is a very powerful thing to say. Its testament to the hard work we have put in on the labour party and this Change Labour Party or to be a place for reasonably minded people whichever way they have voted in the past, feel that they can join with our project to change the country for the better. It is an invitation that we should be less tribal in the pursuit of a better country. And invite people to our party who want to join in better country. And invite people to our party who want tojoin in our project of National Renewal and i am very pleased to be able to extend that invitation notjust to labour voters but to people who have voted for other parties in the past because i genuinely believe that reasonable minded people want their country to do better, one progress for themselves, their families and communities and they will want to join the hard work, not the gimmicks, that this Change Labour Party will bring. Thank you. I am not going to go into. That the last person i think you would want tojoin the labour last person i think you would want to join the labour party but a list of names does not help. Nigel farage will not want to join labour but there is a serious Point Underpinning this, if we are to renew our country we need to ensure renew oui country we need to ensure we carry as many renew our country we need to ensure we carry as many people with us as possible and i genuinely think most reasonably minded people across the country who may or may not be into politics, we think about it all the time but most people do not, do want a better country for their family and their community and they want the country to go forward and what i want is a decade of National Renewal. People say maybe i have always voted for the labour party but this is a serious proposition about improving the country and i make no bones about that, maybe because i came into politics later in life, i did and spent my formative years in the tribal politics of westminster but it matters to me we are able to have a project that reasonable people feel i can get behind. Thank you. 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