Is ourfamily. My important. The most important thing is our family. My wife does enormous amount to support me. But our Welfare System and i want to make sure everybody gets the support they need with Mental Health challenges. Our society is more open about talking about Mental Health challenges in a way it wasnt ten years ago. They dont risk over medical housing one of the everyday challenges and anxieties of life that you described. When it comes to the Welfare System, we have seen a massive increase since the pandemic and the number of people who are of working age, but they are not working age, but they are not working because they are deemed to be of ill health and it is driven by Mental Health claims. It is causing an enormous increase in the norm numbers, 800,000 people not working on welfare because of ill health, since the pandemic, just in the last few years. The bill is forecast, the bill for these benefits, pit alone is forecast to grow by 50 in the next four years. And we spent £70 billion, the bill for pip loan is set to grow by 50 in four years if we dont do something about it. We need to get people the support they need to get people the support they need because you know that work is good for you, it puts money in your bank but it gives you purpose, it gives you dignity and hope. We should be supporting people into work and making sure the Welfare System is fair to all of you that are paying for it. I have set out some comprehensive reforms to do that. People will say i am cruel and heartless and dont care about people. Nonsense, Iwant Heartless and dont care about people. Nonsense, i want to get the help of people need and we need a Welfare System supporting people into work because it is good for them and that is the clear choice at them and that is the clear choice at the next election. Yes . Iretith the next election. Yes . With regards the next election. Yes . With regards. Good the next election. Yes . With regards. 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We have already started, we | have started doing the fit notes, we did about 11 million last year. These difficult sick notes and then never change. The idea was, when people say i cannot wait, actually, doctors would be able to say, maybe you can do some work, not all or nothing. But we discovered that they havent worked because 94 of those 10 million fit notes basically sign people off as completely unfit to do anything. We are trialling some new ways to do it and saying, it may be gps shouldnt be the best people to do that. They are busy. It is difficult for them with their Patient Relationship and hopefully you will have a close relationship with your gp and sometimes it puts them in a difficult position. We have already started trialling that and we have started saying to people we can expect more of them. When i was chancellor, if you were on welfare, all you had to do was work Something Like nine hours a week. That was to get all of your benefits, that is all you had to do. I didnt think that was right. You are all working very hard and if people are capable of working, we change that. We have said you have got to be working at least half of a full time job to keep got to be working at least half of a full timejob to keep receiving got to be working at least half of a full time job to keep receiving your benefits. Actually, if after 12 months with all the support we have given you, you are capable of working, you are not accepting the job of the on offer that your work coach has found for you, you will not be able to keep receiving those benefits, because that is not fair. You have had support and a year, you are able to work and at some point if you are not taking the job, that is not fair, so we will stop it after a year. That come in if i am re elected and we have published a reform on pip to explain what were looking at. How does pip treat Mental Health claims in particular . The system, as as you know and you have to be seen online, the system looks like it can be gamed. To many parts of it where people can provide information, it is hard for the assessor. You are nodding, you have seen the videos . It is putting more objectivity, providing evidence of a medical condition as opposed to just saying well, i cant do this, i cant do that and there you go, a check for thousands of pounds. One more left, who has got the last question . Yes. I more left, who has got the last question . Yes. More left, who has got the last cuestion . Yes. ,. ,. , question . Yes. I have been a primary education teacher, question . Yes. I have been a primary education teacher, i question . Yes. I have been a primary education teacher, i want question . Yes. I have been a primary education teacher, i want to question . Yes. I have been a primary education teacher, i want to know education teacher, i want to know how you education teacher, i want to know how you will increase the budget in schools how you will increase the budget in schools and support staff . Thank you for what you schools and support staff . Thank you for what you do. Schools and support staff . Thank you for what you do, what schools and support staff . Thank you for what you do, what year schools and support staff . Thank you for what you do, what year do schools and support staff . Thank you for what you do, what year do you i for what you do, what year do you teach . Two ages six and seven. I love talking about education because it is the most important thing i can do outside of the economy. To transform peoples lives, provide them with an amazing education. People come from different backgrounds but to make sure people have a chance is to provide them with an incredible education. 50 with an incredible education. So thank you for that. I know it isnt easy to juggle. Easy tojuggle. Studio we will leave the Prime Minister in ilkeston, the first of what will be many, Many Campaign rallies, answering questions from the public trying to convince them he is the man for the job. The public trying to convince them he is the man for thejob. His message is something we will get you to in this election campaign, stick with us, the plan is working on the economy is heading in the right direction dealing with immigration. As we said, it is a busy day and we will deal over the story. Keir starmer is at an Election Rally in kent. You can see the banners, they are with the simple word, upper case change, that will define the election campaign. Stick with us, the campaign is working. Labour are saying now is the time for change. My saying now is the time for change. My Labour Party Candidate for chillingham. Applause. I am delighted to say today that a General Election has finally been called. Cheering and applause. Labour has got a plan to get britains future back and in a constituency like this one that mean supporting local businesses in our town centres, places like chillingham can thrive once again. It means investing in our nhs so that we can bring down Waiting Lists to ensure people can get doctors appointments and it means more police on the streets so people feel safe again. This is a real opportunity for change, notjust in opportunity for change, not just in gillingham opportunity for change, notjust in gillingham and rainham, but across our country. So to kick off our campaign, Pleasejoin Me in giving a very warm welcome to the Deputy Leader of the labour party, welcome to gillingham fc, angela rayner. Cheering and applause. Thank you, thank you so much. I know you will thank you, thank you so much. I know you will be thank you, thank you so much. I know you will be such a fantastic voice here you will be such a fantastic voice here in you will be such a fantastic voice here in gillingham and rainham. It is brilliant here in gillingham and rainham. It is brilliant to be here. Good news for the is brilliant to be here. Good news for the country to finally get a say on the for the country to finally get a say on the future of britain. Because we need on the future of britain. Because we need to on the future of britain. Because we need to turn on the future of britain. Because we need to turn the page. We have had 14 years need to turn the page. We have had 14 years of need to turn the page. We have had 14 years of chaos and decline. Excuses 14 years of chaos and decline. Excuses and people just feel their area is excuses and people just feel their area is not excuses and people just feel their area is not getting the support they need area is not getting the support they need. Whatever Service People say, they find need. Whatever Service People say, they find it need. Whatever Service People say, they find it is wading through treacle they find it is wading through treacle. You cannot get a gp appointment, you cannot get treatment when you need it on the nhs to treatment when you need it on the nhs to get back into work. You cant et nhs to get back into work. You cant get home nhs to get back into work. You cant get home. Homelessness in this country get home. Homelessness in this country has gone up significantly. People country has gone up significantly. People are absolutely fed up and they are people are absolutely fed up and they are crying out for change. Applause. And we are a changed labour party. We are and we are a changed labour party. We are here and we are a changed labour party. We are here for the service of this country we are here for the service of this country. And i am absolutely proud of the country. And i am absolutely proud of the work country. And i am absolutely proud of the work our leader, keir starmer, of the work our leader, keir starmer, has done since he has been elected. Starmer, has done since he has been elected. To starmer, has done since he has been elected, to show the public that politicians are not all the same and there politicians are not all the same and there is politicians are not all the same and there is a politicians are not all the same and there is a choice at this General Election there is a choice at this General Election i there is a choice at this General Election. I am there is a choice at this General Election. Iam incredibly there is a choice at this General Election. I am incredibly proud to welcome election. I am incredibly proud to welcome and to give the microphone over to welcome and to give the microphone over to our welcome and to give the microphone over to our leader, keir starmer. Cheering over to our leader, keir starmer. Cheering and applause. Thank you. Thank you for that amazing welcome. It is great to be here in gillingham. The last time under a Labour Government, gillingham was in the same league as manchester city, so that is a good place to start. But look at it, at long last the election has been called, The Time Has Come and the waiting is over. And that means through the power of our democracy and the voters get to choose, the power of the votes. The power each and every one of you has to change of country, our community and future for the better. So whether you are a family that has been battling the cost of living, dealing with Anti Social Behaviour, your business that has been struggling for years against the odds of the economy that is in chaos under this government, you have served your country in whatever way, the selection is for you. Because you now have the power, the chance to end the chaos, to turn the chance to end the chaos, to turn the page and to rebuild britain. Cheering and applause. And we have had 14 years of going round and round in circles, getting absolutely nowhere. Chaos and division, Feeding Chaos and division. And that has a cost. The human cost. In Milton Keynes i met william, a fireman. He has a simple dream, not an unreasonable dream, he wants to own his own home. Hes got two extra jobs on top of being a fireman, but he still cannot afford it because the chaos and division of this government has robbed him of that dream. That is the price that he is playing. In hey hospital, brilliant Childrens Hospital in liverpool, i went to the heart transplant ward. It was incredible but more children aged between six and ten are admitted to alder hey hospital, this brilliant Childrens Hospital to have their teeth taken out because they are rotten than for any other operation. That is unforgivable, they are paying a very heavy price for this government. When i was growing up, my dad was a toolmaker and worked in a factory. My toolmaker and worked in a factory. My mum was a nurse. And they struggled, they struggled financially and they struggle particularly with my mums hell. Sometimes we couldnt pay the bills. But they had a comfort, a belief, confidence that the country would be better for their children. That things would be betterfor the next generation. And thats kept them going, it comforted them, as it did so many other people. But can we still say weve got that confidence in the future of our country after 14 years of this chaos and decline . I dont think so. For a government to leave after 14 years, leave our country with Living Standards worse than when they started is absolutely unforgivable. And what is their plan, rishi sunak� s plan . £46 billion of unfunded tax cuts. They havent learned a thing. And if they get five more years, they will carry on in the same way, nothing will change. So a vote for the labour party is a vote to stop the chaos. But here is the good news, because you dont have to put up with this. You do not have to put up with this, the power of the vote means you can vote labour to turn the page. To make the change this country so desperately, desperately needs. Change is hard, i changed to Public Service when i was running it. We have changed the labour party, to put it back in the service of Working People. All we ask now, humbly is the opportunity to change our country and put it back in the service of Working People. Applause. And with that change we can rebuild our country. Take our country forward so that in five years, ten years we can say, this is a better country we have progressed for you, your family, country we have progressed for you, yourfamily, your country we have progressed for you, your family, your community. Country we have progressed for you, yourfamily, your community. We set our missions for government, the driving sense of purpose that will take us through the difficulties, the difficult decisions to improve our country for everybody, wherever they live and where ever they come from. And we have set out our first steps, starting with a stable economy. And we have set them out in our card that we launched last week. A stable economy, fiscal rules to ensure that we can keep inflation and prices and mortgages low. Tough rules, but for a reason. Because if you lose control of the economy, it is Working People who paid the price. And liz truss lost control of the economy and Working People paid and are paying the price. I went to wolverhampton a week after liz truss crash the economy with the mini budget. I met a family who had a child aged three and they plan to have a further child. They had had their plan, they found a new home where they could have their family, they got a provisional Mortgage Offer that they could afford. Liz truss crash the economy, their Mortgage Offer went through the roof and they couldnt afford it. They had to cancel their home, stay where they were and take a much more profound decision, which is not to have a second child. And they will live with that decision for the rest of their lives. That is the price they are paying for the mess this government made of the economy. So stable economy is the first. An nhs back on its feet with 40,000 appointments and operations each and every week under a Labour Government, to get that waiting list out. There isnt anybody watching or listening to this it isnt themselves on a waiting list or doesnt know someone on a waiting list. We set out our first step to take back control of our borders with a Border Security commands that can smash the gangs that are running the vile trade of putting people in small boats across the channel. And we will go on also to establish Great British energy. Owned by the taxpayer, making money for the taxpay