A more secure future for britons, ahead of an election expected later this year. It comes days after the conservatives� bleak showing in local elections. We can cross live to westminster and our Political Correspondent hannah miller. Its been a difficult time in the last couple of weeks for the government because of those election results. Presumably hell want to change the subject now. Yet another change the subect now. Yet another attem t to change the subject now. Yet another attempt to reset change the subject now. Yet another attempt to reset the change the subject now. Yet another attempt to reset the dial change the subject now. Yet another attempt to reset the dial and change the subject now. Yet another attempt to reset the dial and talk. Attempt to reset the dial and talk about what people can expect if conservatives get another term in office. Rishi sunak is not even hiding that this beach is about a General Election. He will stand there as Prime Minister and has the power to make changes and do the things he wants to do, but he is talking about the five years beyond whenever that General Election will be held. We are not aware of any new policy that we are expecting to hear from him when he makes this speech in the next few minutes, but it is more about the framing of the state of the country, domestically and internationally. He wants to be seen as the person who can offer security. Downing street have offered some parts of the speech in advance to get people talking about it and capture the headlines. He will say that almost every aspect of our lives is going to change over the next few years and pointed dangers at home and abroad and an increasing global immigration. And also talk about what he sees as a threat to the countrys shared values. We are also expecting him to try and paint something of a Dividing Line between the conservatives and the labour party when it comes to Defence Spending. Rishi sunak has pledged a few weeks ago now to increase Defence Spending to 2. 5 of National Income by 2030. Labour have also said that that will be their aspiration, to meet that target, but they crucially havent set a date as to when that is likely to be. I think we can expect to hear rishi sunak talking about that painting himself as the person who is going to make National Security a priority. Labour is saying security cannot fix the countrys problems because they are saying they are the problem. This is one of the arguments that rishi sunak will want to take to the General Election when it comes. � ,. ,. ,. , it comes. Besides the national icture, it comes. Besides the national picture. Do it comes. Besides the national picture, do met it comes. Besides the national picture, do met domestically l it comes. Besides the national| picture, do met domestically it it comes. 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At some point, in the second half of this year, we will all go to the polls and make a choice, notjust about conservatives versus labour or rishi sunak versus kier starmer. It will be a choice about the future in the past. I remain confident that my party will prevail. Not because of our record, but but because we will be the only party really talking about the future, and not with vague lofty platitudes, but with bold ideas and a clear plan that will change our society for the better and restore people because with confidence and pride in our country. Ifeel a profound sense of urgency, because normal change in the next five years than in them that last 30. Im convinced that the length next few years will be some of the most dangerous yet most transformational that our country has ever known. The question we face today is this, who has the clear plan and bold ideas to deliver a secure future for you and your family . Deliver a secure future for you and yourfamily . The danger is deliver a secure future for you and your family . The danger is that threaten our country are real. They are increasing in number. Access of authority in states like russia, north korea and china is working together to undermine us and our values. While his return to europe, with our nato allies warning that if putin succeeds in ukraine, they might be next. Israel defends itself against not only the terrorists of hamas, but the barrage of missiles fired directly from iran. Right now in africa, conflicts are being fought in 18 different countries. Put ins recklessness has taken us closer to Dangerous Nuclear esque x collation at any point since the cold war crisis. Disrupting goods destined for our high street. Here at home, china has conducted Cyber Targeting of a democratically elected mps. But she has pointing to people with chemical weapons. When putin cut off the gas supplies, it had a devastating impact on peoples lives and threatened our Energy Security. And in this world of greater conflict and danger, 100 Million People are now displaced globally. Countries like russia are weapon amazing immigration for their own ends. Criminal gangs keep finding new routes to crust european borders. Illegal migration is placing an intolerable strain security and sense of fairness. We act now and act boldly this is going to grow. Extremists are also exploiting these global conflicts to divide us. People are abusing our liberal democratic values, the freedom of speech, right to protest, to intimidate, threaten and assault others, to sing anti semitic chants on our streets and to weaponised the evils of anti semitism or anti Muslim Hatred in a divisive and ideological attempt to separatism in britain. To Gender Activists Hijacking children Sex Education to cancel culture, groups are trying to impose their views on the rest of us. They are trying to make it morally unacceptable to believe Something Different and undermine peoples confidence and pride in our own history and identity. Scottish nationalists are even trying to tear our United Kingdom apart. But for all the dangers ahead, few are felt more acutely than peoples sense of financial insecurity. We have been panned by a series of once in a generation shucks, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s. The first Global Pandemic since the spanish view flow, the third Biggest Energy shack since the 1940s. Yet they are hitting our Living Standards here and at home. They must be met with robust plans and Greater National resilience to meet this time of instability with strength. People sense of insecurity is only heightened by the fears about new technologies like aia. The imf says 40 ofjobs could be affected hundreds of leading experts say the risk could be on a par with pandemics or nuclear war, where children are exposed to bullying, sexualised context or even self harm online. People want to know they have got someone in charge who understands these dangers, because only if you understand what is happening can you be trusted to keep us safe. But the paradox of our age is that the role of the profound dangers we face, right now, we also hold in our hands and opportunity for Human Progress that could surpass the Industrial Revolution in speed and breadth. Technologies like ai will do for their 21st century what the steam engine and electricity did for the 19th. They will accelerate Human Progress by Complimenting What Doing and speeding up the discovery of new ideas and assisting almost every aspect of human life. Think of the investment they will bring, the jobs they will create, and the increase in all our Living Standards they will deliver. Credible estimates suggest ai alone could double our productivity in the next decade. In doing so, it could help us create a world of less suffering, more freedom, choice. Just imagine every child in school with their own personalised tutor and every teacher free to spend more time personally developing each student. New frontiers in medical diagnostics or a single picture of your eyes cannot only detect blindness but predict other diseases like Heart Attacks or parkinsons. Counterintuitive as it may seem, throughout human history, the greater breakthroughs in learning have often come at them greatest moments of danger. At first Electronic Computers were developed by british codebreakers in the second world war. Solar technology went from powering Pocket Calculators to a viable commercial Technology Following the Energy Crisis of the 19705. The fastest development and deployment of a vaccine in history came during the covert pandemic covid 19 pandemic. It is incumbent upon us to make this period notjust a period of great danger but of great progress as well. That is why we launched a bold plan to make 5cience launched a bold plan to make science and technology are new national purpose. We are rightly proud of britains 5pirit purpose. We are rightly proud of britains spirit of productivity and entrepreneurship that made us the leading nation that might be can be just as proud, optimi5tic of our future and our pro5pect5 just as proud, optimi5tic of our future and our prospects to lead again in this new industrial age. In doing so, we will enrich our lives and create good well paying jobs here at home. At the same time, new and fast growing economic superpowers and fast growing economic 5uperpower5 like india, and fast growing economic superpowers like india, indonesia, nigeria as significantly reshaping the global economy. Just as this ever more interconnected world creates new dangers, it also creates new possibilities. The United Kingdom is uniquely placed to benefit. We have always been an open, Trading Maritime Nation and brexit has given us the opportunity to trade even more. We prevent discover and produce new products and services that the world wants to buy. To Financial Services, to incredible cultural exports like film, music and tv spots like the premier league. Everywhere from morocco near to the cityscapes of south korea, people stay up at all times of the day and night to watch their favourite british team. Times of the day and night to watch Theirfavourite British team. Its no wonder that Brexit Britain has leapt above france, japan and the netherlands to become the four worlds fourth biggest exporter. The more we export, the better our businesses will do, the morejobs will create, the more wells will generate right across our country. This is the opportunity before us. A world transformed by technological progress, huge Global Markets hungry for goods and services. We can see it all around us. Two brothers from Merseyside Sat around the Kitchen Table and built car store, £1 billion sportswear business, taking on global giants like nikkei and adidas, their kit now worn by formula 1. British companies and workers across the country are pioneering offshore wind and exporting it around the world. Already we have built the worlds first floating offshore wind farm, and our interventions have helped reduce the cost of wind energy by around two thirds and increase the side of the the sides of the turbines with blades bigger than big ben. You can see the opportunity as well in health care, giving people longer, healthier lives. In denmark, the sm pic drug was created, not only helping to tackle Chronic Disease globally, but single handedly grew denmarks entire economy last year. All of this progress should show us that while this is one of the most dangerous period weve ever known, it will also be one of the most transformational. If we make the right choices, if we have a bold and efficient, then we should feel confident, proud and optimistic that britains future is secure. 0ur britains future is secure. Our country stands at a crossroads. 0ver country stands at a crossroads. Over the next few years, from our democracy to our society to our economy to the highest questions of war and peace, almost every aspect of our lives is going to change. How we act in the face of those changes, not only to keep people safe and secure, but to realise the opportunities as well, well this term and whether or not britain will succeed in the years to come. And there is an important choice facing there is an important choice facing the country. Because despite having 14 the country. Because despite having 1a years with nothing to do but think about the future, labour have almost nothing to say about it. They have no plans for our border, no plans for our Energy Security, our economy neither. And their principles neither. He has gone from supporting Jeremy Corbyn to natalie elphicke. Labour have no ideas, what they did have that you turned on. They have just one thing. A calculation that they can make you feel so bad about your country that you wont have the energy to ask what they might do with the incredible power that they seek to yield. Im not saying the past does not matter. I know people are feeling anxious and uncertain, that their sense of confidence and pride in this country has been knocked. I understand that. I accept it and i want to change it. But what i cannot accept is labour� s idea that all the worries you have are because of 1a years of conservative government. That all you need to do is change the people in office and these problems will magically disappear. It is just not true. In the last 1a years, we have made progress in the most difficult conditions any government has faced since the second world war, a world leading economy. We see in the third highest growth rate in the g7 and created 4 million jobs, growth rate in the g7 and created 4 millionjobs, 800 a day. We took difficult decisions to restore our countrys National Security and control National Debt which allowed us to support their country through covid 19, deliver the fastest vaccine roll out in the world and protect pensions with the triple lock. Weve reformed welfare by capping benefits and introducing universal credit by helping people into work. Weve reduced absolute positive absolute poverty, child poverty. Weve maintained our position as nato was like second defence power. With halved violence in Neighbourhood Crime and british Schoolchildren Notjust the best readers in the uk but in the western world. Weve legislated for equal marriage and it is now not even surprising that people from ethnically diverse backgrounds to lead scotland, wales and the United Kingdom. The economy now decisively has momentum. Inflation down from over 11 to 3 . Wages are rising faster than prices, and over the First Quarter of this year, we grew faster than france, italy, japan and even america. The plan is working so we must stick to it and not go back to square one. And when labour ignores the achievements of the last 14 ignores the achievements of the last 1a years, or try to reduce the last 14 years, or try to reduce the last 14 years, or try to reduce the last 14 years, or try to reduce the last 14 years to 49 days, remember what they are actually doing is trying to distract you from the thing that matters most, the future. Im playwright enough to admit that yes maybe they can depress their way to victory, with all their talk of doom loops and gas lighting and scaremongering about pensions. But i dont think it will work, because at heart, we are a nation of optimists. We are not blind to the challenges and threats we face. We just have an innate belief that whatever they are we can overcome them. As we have to in so many times in our history. And create a secure future for you and your family. Create a secure future for you and yourfamily. So let me create a secure future for you and your family. So let me tell you more about my vision for how i would lead this country through this time of danger and transformation. The highest priority of a conservative government is to keep our country safe. We have proudly taken the generational decision to increase Defence Spending to a new baseline of 2. 5 of gdp by 2030. Yet labour