00:00So my question is, how do you plan to tackle the rise in theft and abuse against shop workers?
00:08This is such an important issue, it's already come up this morning, it's come up in other
00:12places. We have to crack down on it and there are two or three things I think we can do
00:15straight away. Firstly, a more accurate defence to protect those working in retail, in our
00:23shops, because it's not just the shoplifting, it's also the abuse and the threats that come
00:28with it if you try to intervene.
00:30We need to get a grip on the cost of living. The numbers for inflation came down today
00:36but those higher prices seem to be locked in and we need to bring some stability back
00:40to the economy so that people, particularly on lower incomes and fixed incomes, including
00:44pensions, that the money goes as far as it needs to to cover things.
00:48Do you have any plans to help out any students in terms of anything?
00:55Firstly, on student fees, they're very high, they don't really work well for students or
01:01for universities. Now, I'm not going to pretend to you that we've got a sort of magic wand
01:07for you to bring out the day after the election and to make all the troubles go away, but
01:12we do need to look for a better way of doing that. Many students say to me that we're
01:17suspected by the cost of living prices of everybody else. We've got to pay our energy
01:20bills, we've got to get our food, we've got to pay all our other things. So, stabilising
01:26the economy, which is Rachel's number one mission, so that we never have to go through
01:31a cost of living crisis again, will massively help students.
01:34How do you plan to tackle illegal immigration?
01:37We need to stop the boats coming across the channel.
01:40How do you plan to do it?
01:42We need to take down the gangs that are running this. So, the people who are getting in those
01:46boats are paying a lot of money to criminal gangs who are making a fortune getting them
01:53there and getting them in the boats. And those gangs need to be taken down. If we take those
01:58gangs down, we can stop this.
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