00:00What happened in the United States is horrendous.
00:02The Prime Minister has been pleased to be able to speak with President Trump
00:06to express his sympathies, both to President Trump and his family
00:10and also to the victims of the attack.
00:13Violence has no place in our politics.
00:15And if we're going to stamp out the toxicity that we've seen in recent years,
00:20not just in the United States, in the political discourse, but here in the UK,
00:25then it's important that government leads.
00:27And that's firmly what we intend to do, to model the sort of behaviour
00:31that we want to see in our political debate.
00:33We've had a decade and a half that is the darkest and most divisive
00:37that I can remember in my lifetime.
00:39We've found multiple ways to divide ourselves from one another
00:42and we've had political leaders that haven't just failed to try and calm that situation,
00:48but at times have wholly engaged in culture wars that pit us against one another.
00:53As a new government, we're determined that that era should be over
00:57and that we'll show better leadership than that
01:00and give voice to the better country that is out there,
01:02but so often doesn't have that voice.
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