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To our top story this morning, the Prime Minister has laid out his stall with his keynote speech wrapping up the conservative conference conservative Party Conference wide policy wide range of policy announcements scrapping announcements from scrapping a levels to the hs2 link to manchester tower, as well as outlawing cigarettes for future generations. But there was less talk about rishi sunak self declared five priorities on inflation, the economy, debt waiting lists and illegal migration. Plenty of reaction coming up, but first, what do young people who will be voting for the first time in the next general election make of this speech . Theyve been our studio yesterday. They watched his speech. Reaction. Speech. Is their reaction. There was one section where he was sort of just going off on a little rant by himself. This conservative party, the party that legislated for same sex marriage and is investing record amounts in child care. We know that. What matters is that love cascades down the generations. Generations. Is love cascading down your family like just yeah, thats just a really weird way of flowery way of saying something which i dont. Thats another thing. I dont think he actually got to a point with that. I think it was a bit cringe here and there like some things he said. I feel like he was making statement. Thats where he felt like, oh, this is like a really good statement. But it wasnt giving that. I think tried quite hard i think he tried quite hard to all the people in the to impress all the people in the conference us. Conference under us. No more rip off degrees. No more rip off degrees. Students dont spend enough time in the classroom. Im a quarter in the classroom. Im a quarter of our children leave education without the basic literacy and numeracy. We they need to fulfil numeracy. We they need to fulfil their potential all and our students study too narrow a range of subjects. Yeah so that that really annoys me. Yeah. Yeah. I think gcse is are really good because it teaches us how to study a broad range of subjects and it gets us into some a lot of Different Things which we might be interested in and obviously things that we might not be interested in. But i think once your a levels, its lot more your a levels, its a lot more personal and your thats personal and thats your thats actually first steps actually your first steps towards an towards university or an apprenticeship Something Like apprenticeship or Something Like you go down everything you want to go down everything i learnt i was in learnt up until i was 16 in terms is all i needed terms of maths is all i needed to know. I dont need any more numeracy skills. Im happy with the ive those who the skills. Ive got those who teach key subjects in schools and the first time in our and for the first time in our further education colleges two will receive special bonuses of up to £30,000, tax free over the first five years of their career. Ca reer. Career. You know, this whole bonus thing for teachers in credible, i think teachers are like the best people ever. And i think they deserve all the money in the world. But i think if youre only offering that money to teachers that are teaching essential subjects, it will off from will put teachers off from teaching the other, more artistic subjects. Patients should know when hospitals are talking about men or and we shouldnt get or women, and we shouldnt get bullied into believing that people can be sex they want people can be any sex they want to be. They cant. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. Thats just common sense. Hes thats just common sense. Hes got sex and gender completely mixed up with gender. Its your social identity. Let people express themselves however they feel like they want to be. What this lacks is compassion i smoking places huge pressures on the nhs and costs our country. £17 billion a year. We have a chance to cut cancer deaths by a quarter , deaths by a quarter, significantly ease those pressures and protect our children. And we should take it. Hes right in saying, you know, we need to stop it. But like the cause of , you know, like the cause of, you know, kids and stuff isnt cigarettes. Its definitely a cigarettes is vaping, especially around like a university campus. University campus. Like youll go just around and see everyone just having a vape instead of cigarettes. Now smoking has been a very big problem in the past, but its not that prevalent anymore. I mean, the marketing for it as well is ridiculous. They come out with new flavours like unicorn shake and vapes that look like ice creams , and its just its blatantly made for teenagers. So do you still vape a lot then . Yeah, in the long term, i think it is a good thing that were phasing out smoking and that, yeah, he has the right idea. I just im not really sure raising the age gap. Raising the age gap. What would you say is, is a better solution then . No idea. Thats for them to figure out. Not me. Well, there you go. Well, there you go. Yeah. You just tired there. Yeah. You just tired there. What . Our first time voters thought about smoking and vaping. Heres john dunn jones, the director general, uk vaping industry association. Its industry association. Its interesting, john, that the young people didnt see cigarette smoking as the threat. They they saw you and your industry dodi as the threat. Industry dodi as the threat. Well, first of all, its important to understand that smoking rates are the lowest they have been in since records were being kept. And thats primarily because of vaping. Weve got 4. 6 Million People vaping in this country. It is the most successful way that adult smokers quit cigarettes, but i absolutely agree with the government. It is important that we make sure that these products are not getting in the hands of children, but we also need to strike that balance of not discouraging adult smokers from switching as well. So now we switching as well. So now we have plenty of laws in this country, but they arent being enforced properly. The fines enforced properly. The fines that stores get that are caught selling to minors are ridic low. Now it is encouraging that the government is talking about increasing those two on the spot fines of 2500 pounds, which actually is our idea that weve had for the past four years. But we want those fines to be a minimum of £10,000 per instance. And i also am encouraged to see that the government is talking about licencing or restricting where these products can be sold. Again, thats one can be sold. Again, thats one of our ideas. So were quite of our ideas. So were quite willing to work with the government. Were not trying to get a new generation hooked on on vaping or smoking. Were here to make sure that adults have a product that works to make sure that they switch away from a deadly product that kills 550 people every day. You dont think then that unicorn vapes or vanilla shake vapes are aimed at youngsters . They are for adults. In your view, you dont think that you are explicitly targeted young people . No what i believe is that that these products should not be allowed on the market. And one of the things that weve pointed out to the government is that the mhra, who regulates nicotine vapes in this country, does not look at these naming crimes area. They dont look at the packaging, they dont look at the design of the products. And the design of the products. And they should be doing that during their initial review of the product, not when it actually gets into the market. And then its up to trading standards to try and, you know, cut this out from from store to store. So we know where the loopholes are here. The legitimate industry is not trying to put these products out there. These products are generally coming in in a legal vapes that arent even allowed to be sold in this country. But theres inadequate steps being taken to stop them getting into the country. And thats where we need to work very closely with the to stop that. The government to stop that. You to be a big yeah, so you seem to be a big growth industry, john, and benefiting from what the Prime Minister said there. Minister said there. I cant help but seeing everywhere in the high street vape shops popping right, vape shops popping up right, left and centre there, i just want to know from people watching or listening whats their experience of vaping . Have they switched from cigarettes to what believe . What john what they believe . What john says a much safer option or says is a much safer option or vaping . Us know this morning vaping . Let us know this morning or did vaping get you in to stronger stuff like cigarettes . Stronger stuff like cigarettes . Yeah. And im interested , you yeah. And im interested, you know, youre talking about wanting to work closely with the government. Were heading into an year next year. If an Election Year next year. If the polls are to be believed and you know, the polls have been wrong in the past, but it looks like labour will probably win next year. Theyve come out and said they would actually said that they would actually because free because this would be a free vote put fonnard by rishi sunak. They actually have they would actually have no objection clamping down objection to him clamping down on then eventually on smoking and then eventually on smoking and then eventually on so is that way on vaping. So is that the way you think the wind is blowing and you from a and therefore, you know, from a business got to Business Model, youve got to start is actually start thinking this is actually going be impinging on our going to be impinging on our business the future. Business model in the future. Well i dont believe so. Still have 6 million we still have 6 Million People this country that people in this country that smoke. Now what need to do is smoke. Now what we need to do is encourage those smokers to move away smoking, which will away from smoking, which will eventually kill them to a product that far safer and product that is far safer and i dont care whether thats vaping, whether thats nicotine patches, gums , whatever moves patches, gums, whatever moves them away is the important thing. But what we know is that in the uk and worldwide vaping is the uk and worldwide vaping is the most successful way for people to do that. And the reason that is , is because reason that is, is because people enjoy it, but be it replicates that smoking experience and thats why it works. So we need to be very careful that we dont disturb that or the government has no hope of it getting anywhere close to its 2030 smoke free britain. We have to increase britain. We have to increase vaping by about 40 to get anywhere close to that, but we do need to balance that to make sure that young people dont get the hold of these products. And thats we thats really important. And we are willing to work are absolutely willing to work with government on any with the government on any solution that gets them to that point. That doesnt disturb that fine balance between adults getting these and getting these products and products that they actually want to. To use. Okay, john, thank you for your there. John your contribution there. John from uk vaping industry from the uk vaping industry association. Thank you very much association. Thank you very much indeed. Association. Thank you very much indeed. And i suppose the thing indeed. And i suppose the thing that slightly disturbs me about vaping is the enthusiasm people have when they grasp one of those vapes or or smoke them and you watch people doing it and they like it and its like pregnant women on on gas and air dunng pregnant women on on gas and air during labour. Its like, you know , the elixir of youth. Its know, the elixir of youth. Its like, oh , i need this. And when like, oh, i need this. And when you stand back, i mean, were not smokers. So, you know, it doesnt doesnt affect us. But you stand back and you you look at people doing this and its like its like weve got to have this right now. I mean, that seems addiction to me, adult dummies, dont they . Which i think sometimes a bit derogatory. But but actually, thats what it looks like. What is our need as adults to kind of have some sort of tactile mouth contact . But its all a have some sort of tactile mouth contact . But its all a bit dummy again , we can talk. Dummy again, we can talk. Youve experienced the whole situation. What have you got to say about this . I mean, would you be vaping this morning as youre watching us . I often think, you know people i think youre in a bad way if you start the day with a cigarette or you start day with alcohol , the day with a cigarette or you start day with alcohol, um, start the day with alcohol, um, you may not, you may not think that, but also do you feel as a smoker that this is a bit authoritarian from rishi . Liz truss came straight out and said she wouldnt be voting in favour of these proposals. In favour of these proposals. Shes very much a libertarian. Shes very much a libertarian. Perhaps you have had enough of all of this and you feel as though with the marketing that they talked about with the sort of what you see cancerous of what is it you see cancerous lungs and the rest of it all over the packs, maybe you youve just had enough. Just had enough. I was sitting i was sitting with smokers last week and on the table, i lifted up the pack that had this. I couldnt even make out what it was. I think it was a lung turned inside out, sliced open , turned inside out, sliced open, whatever. But i was trying to work out what it was. Did it have any effect on any of those people around that table . No, it people around that table . No, it did. Did not. It did not. Did. It did not. It did not. Three years after the pandemic. Three years after the pandemic. No, lets not talk about that. Lets talk about regional airport. Its lets talk about regional airport. Its right. So Regional Airports, i am personally a big fan of regional air benefited from Bristol Airport for many years. Yeah i think small is better. Southampton newcastle , better. Southampton newcastle, belfast. Not a fan of the gatwicks and whatever of this world, but there we go. So world, but there we go. So theyre about connecting the country north, south east and west. Not only nationally, but internationally. Yeah. And sadly well some are closed because theyre no longer financially viable. Sheffield sheffield. Yeah. Sheffield. Yeah. I was worried about Dougie Beattie in Northern Ireland theres an airport called city of derry in the north west periphery of europe. As it turns out, not only Northern Ireland, theyve got new routes to heathrow and dougie finds out how the airlines , local government and airlines, local government and the airport are working together to keep the flights going. And the airport going and the employment that it brings. Employment that it brings. Londonderry is the uks most north city. It borders the repubuc north city. It borders the republic of ireland and only recently has had an update on its road networks. Selina its road networks. Selina hershey is the president of the chamber of commerce and believes derry is on the up. Derry is on the up. The last couple of years, derry is doing really very well, but over the decades before that, this was historically an area of serious economic deprivation and high levels of economic inactivity. Now were economic inactivity. Now were in a situation where we are drawing international companies. We are upskilling in local businesses , and were at the businesses, and were at the verge of becoming a real player within the island of ireland. Tony foster represents business from the other side of the border , but were very the border, but were very porous. Porous. The border is irrelevant. We the border is irrelevant. We dont even notice it. So our dont even notice it. So our business Work Together with other businesses in derry on a northwest, we have a northwest city region and its very important to us that that region works well. So connectivity out works well. So connectivity out of that region is really important. Important. Derry city airport is a lifeline for the area and steve fraser says how airports create revenue is changing. Revenue is changing. So airports will make money from two sources of revenue. Commercial and aviation. Thats the fees that the airlines will pay the fees that the airlines will pay the airport to come in, which are becoming less and less. And often theyre looking incentivised. And then the incentivised. And then the commercial from your car parking and your and thats how and your shops. And thats how we make but as you we would make money. But