Lord David Cameron says Rishi Sunak has "every day" announced "exciting policies for the future", adding the prime minister has shown "lots of energy" throughout the election campaign. Speaking on a visit to a farm in Cornwall, the foreign secretary adds the choice at the election is all about "having a plan" with the Conservatives or "more taxes with Labour". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well we're putting in our budgets over a billion pounds guaranteed for farmers over the next
00:06parliament and that's something no other party is prepared to do. So we've got a really good
00:11strategy for farming with a food security target for the first time ever, backing farmers
00:16with that money and also helping them diversify. I mean here we are at the Eustace's farm where
00:21they've built farm shops, farm restaurants. We're going to introduce the Clarkson Clause
00:27named after my neighbour in Oxfordshire to make sure farmers can convert barns into farm
00:32shops much more easily than they can now. So a really good farming manifesto compared
00:36with just 87 words from Labour and no mention of fish whatsoever. I think the biggest thing
00:43that we've done to help people like that is actually the increase in the minimum wage.
00:47When I was Prime Minister, when I became Prime Minister it was down at £5.90 or so. It's
00:52now £11.44 and of course we've taken many people out of tax altogether. Now we're cutting
00:58their national insurance. So if you're working on a minimum wage, 35, 40 hour week, you're
01:04actually facing a lower tax rate than at any time you've faced for the last 30 years and
01:09you've got a higher minimum wage. I think that really is an improvement. Then crucially
01:13we're going to keep on expanding the apprenticeships because giving people the chance to learn
01:17a skill, learn a trade, earn those wages while they're learning, I think that's incredibly
01:21powerful. I was just talking to some apprenticeship butchers here at the farm shop. Well what
01:26we've done is allow councils to charge 100% more on the council tax from second home owners
01:32and I think that's right. We've supported that, we're bringing that in, that's coming
01:36in in Cornwall and that money will be used for affordable housing. But we've got to make
01:41sure we keep a simple planning system which we did introduce. We're building 200,000 homes
01:47a year now. We want to do more but actually we have got those homes built in the last
01:51few years. I think you've seen huge energy from Rishi Sunak. You've seen every day the
01:56announcement of exciting policies for the future, whether it's abolishing national insurance
02:00for the self-employed, whether it's making sure that pensioners will never see their
02:04basic state pension taxed, whether it's maintaining the triple lock so it always goes up by 2.5%
02:11or wages or inflation. That's really important to people here in Cornwall. So lots of energy
02:16from the Conservative campaign, lots of energy from Rishi Sunak and it's all about how
02:21we're having a plan for the future from us while having more taxes with Labour. That's
02:25the choice and I'm enjoying campaigning down here in the West Country.