Foreign Sec: Sunak announcing exciting policies for future

Well, we're, we're putting in our budgets over a billion pounds guaranteed for farmers over the next Parliament and that's something no other party is prepared to do. So we've got a really good strategy for farming with a food security target for the first time ever, backing farmers with that money and also helping them diversify. I mean, here we are at the Eustace's farm where they've built farm shops, farm restaurants. We're going to introduce the Clarkson clause, named after my neighbour in Oxfordshire to make sure farmers can convert barns into farm shops much more easily than they can now. So a really good farming manifesto compared with just 87 words from Labour and no mention of fish whatsoever. I think the biggest thing that we've done to help people like that is actually the increase in the minimum wage when I was Prime Minister, when I became Prime Minister it was down at, you know, 5 lbs ninety or so. It's now £11.44 and of course we've taken many people out of tax altogether. Now we're cutting their National Insurance. So if you're working on a minimum wage 3540 hour week, you're actually facing a lower tax rate than at any time you've faced for the last 30 years and you've got a higher minimum wage. I think that really is an improvement. Then crucially, we're going to keep on expanding the apprenticeships because giving people the chance to learn a skill, learn a trade, earn those wages while they're learning. I think that's incredibly powerful. I'm just talking to some some apprenticeship butchers here at the farm shop. Well, what we've done is allow councils to charge 100% more on the council tax from second homeowners. And I think that's right. You know, we supported that. We're bringing that in, that's coming in in Cornwall and that money will be used for affordable housing. But we've got to make sure we keep a simple planning system which we did introduce. We're building 200,000 homes a year now. We want to do more, but actually we have got those homes built in the last few years. You've seen huge energy from Rishi Senak. You've seen every day the announcement of exciting policies for the future, whether it's abolishing National Insurance for the self-employed, whether it's making sure that pensioners will never see their basic state pension taxed, whether maintaining the triple lock so it always goes up by 2 1/2 percent or all wages or inflation. That's really important to people here in Cornwall. So lots of energy from the Conservative campaign, lots of energy from Rishi Sunak and it's all about having a plan for the future from us or having more taxes with Labour. That's the choice and I'm enjoying campaigning down here in the West Country.