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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson insists the prime minister "does get it" after terrible results in the local elections and will present an "ambitious legislative programme" in the coming week. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The Prime Minister has heard what the voters have told us as a party.
00:03He does get it, and that's why next week, not just in the speech that he is giving,
00:08but also in the big and ambitious legislature programme we'll bring forward in the King's speech,
00:12we will address some of those big, long-standing challenges our country faces,
00:17and where we will show that we can rise to the scale of that challenge,
00:20but where we also set out the positive vision about how we believe our country has its best days ahead
00:25of us.
00:26Not the backward-looking...
00:28Yes, well, it's our job between now and the next general election to make that case
00:33and to demonstrate that things have improved.
00:35Look, for lots of people in our country, life is really hard.
00:39You know, week to week, you know, month to month, they're struggling to get by.
00:43The cost of living has been a huge, huge challenge, not just in the last year or two,
00:46but over an extended period of time.
00:48We're trying to turn around a big legacy of failure.
00:51I'm not going to stand here and just list the Tory failures.
00:54They are manifest, but what people want to see now, as one woman told me in Sunderland,
00:59we know what the last lot were like.
01:00They were terrible, but I want you to do better.
01:02Mm-hmm.
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