Blackpool South MP Chris Webb ask Prime Minister Keir Starmer to reaffirm his commitment to delivering good, secure and well-paid jobs for young people in Blackpool and across the Fylde Coast, as part of the Government’s broader national security and economic growth agenda.
00:00It's the role of any government and Prime Minister, and it's their first duty to keep this country safe.
00:04I know it's a role that our Prime Minister takes incredibly seriously, which is in stark comparison to what we've seen today from the Leader of the Opposition.
00:12The Prime Minister will know when he visited Blackpool, and he has visited Blackpool many times since he's been the Leader of our party,
00:18that young people told him at my sixth-form college they're crying out for local jobs in the Blackpool area to keep them there.
00:24Will he ensure that this defence increase of 5%, which is welcome, will create the decent well-paid jobs on the Fylde Coast so that young people in Blackpool can get those jobs where they live?
00:36Well, I'm grateful for his question. I've visited Blackpool many times, as he knows.
00:40I know firsthand just how important it is for young people to see money going into their economy with jobs in Blackpool for them.
00:49And I remember profoundly at a sixth-form college in Blackpool asking the group of, I think, 17-year-olds how many of them were proud to be from Blackpool,
00:58and they all put their hand up. And when I asked them how many of them thought that their jobs in the future would be in Blackpool,
01:04only one of them put their jobs up because they all thought that they would have to leave Blackpool to get the jobs that they wanted.
01:10We need to turn that around. This gives us an opportunity to start doing that.
