In whose interest is this country run?
That's what this election is about.
It's about whether we have a society
that is rigged in favour
of these arrogant vested interests
that are responsible for plunging this country,
over and over again, into crisis.
Or is it a country run in the interests of the real wealth creators?
The people who create the wealth but see so little of it.
Because, yeah, we're talking about who runs Britain.
I don't just mean about Labour or the Conservatives.
It's about the people who are always in charge, whichever party is in office.
And that's what has to change.
Let's talk about the sort of society that we could build instead.
We will look back in horror one day at the idea that anybody
had to earn their poverty through their work
whilst the taxpayer had to pay billions of pounds of money
to top up those wages, to give them just a chance to live.
All because of the arrogance of these big businesses
who don't think they have to pay their workers.
And that's why we have to have a genuine living wage.
It's about a society where we build the housing that people need.
Let's have a radical house-building program,
whereby we can build decent homes, which create decent skilled jobs
for the next generation – backed up with apprenticeships –
and we don't have to spend that money instead on private landlords
who are charging rents you can't afford to pay.
What about those small businesses, with their entrepreneurial flare,
doing the best they can?
Those local coffee shops, those local book shops,
driven out of business by large companies not paying their taxes.
You have to pay your taxes.
You don't have a choice.
That's how it works.
It comes out of your pay packet.
If you're a small business, you get your taxes a bit wrong,
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs will knock on your door pronto.
These big corporate giants who fund the Conservative party.
They don't think they have to pay those taxes.
They have accountancy firms who are sent to government
to help draw up the laws on tax,
then they tell there clients how to avoid the very laws
they themselves have written in the first place.
That has to change.
These small businesses should pay less tax.
But as well as that, they should be paid on time, properly,
by these big arrogant businesses who think they're above
having to pay the little guys.
The self-employed: I know from speaking to self-employed people
how they like their independence but not the insecurity.
They're poorer than they were many years ago.
That's why they should have proper rights to pensions,
paid sick leave
and paid maternity leave as well.
What about education?
If you don't invest in the next generation,
then you don't invest in your country's own future.
And that's what we've seen for the last few years.
We should have universal school meals,
Good quality, healthy school meals, not junk food.
Universal free school meals paid for by making private schools
play by the same rules as everybody else:
having to pay VAT like a private business should.
Our National Health Service: it is the crown jewel of this country,
the envy of the world.
But it's been run down. It's been privatised.
We've not invested in it and we need to.
We've got an ageing population.
And that's why, instead of giving huge tax cuts to multi-billionaires,
if that money was invested into our National Health Service
think of what we could do.
Think of the waiting lists that would be shortened.
I've got relatives at the moment, like many of you,
in desperate need of care.
But that care is being undermined not because of the lack
of dedication of our doctors and nurses,
who commit their whole lives to looking after
my family and your families as well
but because our government is running down our National Health Service ...
'Morning, Mr Hunt.'
'Morning.'
And allowing private profiteers who aren't interested in patients,
like my relatives or yours, but in making a quick buck.
So let's make those at the top of society pay a bit more tax
so we can have a National Health Service that we're proud of.
Now, we're told that this is just an election on Brexit
and, yeah, Brexit is a biggie.
But what sort of Brexit do we have?
'Actually, we want a red, white and blue Brexit.'
The Brexit the Tories will come up with will be in the interests
of those who fund the Conservative party.
'Hear, hear.'
It will be in the interests of those big businesses,
the wealthy individuals, that the Conservative party
fights for and champions so well.
We could have a Brexit instead that puts jobs, living standards
and the economy first.
A Labour Brexit will be about what's in the best interests of working people.
The people in the supermarkets, in the offices, in the factories.
The people who make this country work.
This is a society with so much potential.
It is one of the wealthiest countries that has ever existed
in the history of humanity.
But where does that wealth go?
I think it should go into the pockets of wealth creators who,
through their hard graft, keep this country running
day, after day, after day.
We can vote for a party which is bankrolled by the vested interests
holding this county back
or a party that was literally set up to represent the interests
of working people.
The people who make this country work, who make it in so many ways
the great country that it is.
The Labour party, with every policy, every single policy that it thinks up,
it does it on the basis of one test:
'Is this in the interests of working people?'
This is going to be a tough fight.
It's going to be really hard
and they're going to throw absolutely everything at us.
But this is the vested interests and the establishment
doing everything they can to defend their wealth and power
and have a government that is committed to doing just that.
If you give them that huge majority,
that at the moment they take for granted,
then that will give them a blank cheque
to do all the things they've done in the past
but so much worse.
So let's step up to this challenge in the coming weeks
and let's make the case for a country
not run in the interests of the arrogant vested interests
but run in the interests of you instead.