00:00He went to the key event above the British D-Day beaches at our magnificent new commemorative
00:06centre that this government has helped to build and met the veterans there.
00:10Then he didn't go to the international event, which was quite sort of different in many
00:15ways.
00:16I'm not talking about my advice, I'm a part of a team and we act as a team and we defend
00:19each other as a team.
00:20As soon as he got back to the UK he said, I regret my decision, I wish I'd stayed longer.
00:25And that's the sort of person he is, instead of sort of digging in and trying to defend
00:28a difficult position.
00:29He just said, OK, you make lots of decisions as Prime Minister, I know that, and sometimes
00:33you make the wrong one.
00:34And he was very frank about that.
00:35But if anyone's trying to say that this Prime Minister doesn't care about our veterans or
00:39doesn't love his country or doesn't understand how these people served us, that is complete
00:43nonsense.
00:44Prime Ministers have to make decisions all the time.
00:47How long do I spend here?
00:48What do I do?
00:49Which Minister do I meet?
00:50And you get some wrong.
00:52He got this one wrong and he fessed up straight away.
00:54And that's the sort of person he is.
00:55There's been a huge contrast, frankly, with what we saw last night from Keir Starmer saying,
01:00when I said, you know, Jeremy Corbyn would be a great Prime Minister, I only said that
01:03because I thought we were going to lose the election.
01:05So he wasn't being straight with us.
01:06Rishi, I think, has been very straight about this.
01:08I'm satisfied this is a hugely vigorous campaign.
01:11I mean, often at the end of 14 years you find parties that are sort of struggling to come
01:15up with new ideas.
01:16But in this campaign, I would say the contrast is the Conservatives, new idea for national
01:20service, new idea to get the pension out of tax, new idea to cut stamp duty for first
01:25time buyers, new ideas for more apprenticeships.
01:28It's a campaign that's fizzing with new ideas and policy proposals from the Conservatives,
01:33all fully costed, and a pretty blank page from Labour, whose whole campaign seems to
01:39be we need change, but we need change to bring about stability.
01:42Well, change for stability is a pretty odd election strategy.
