Thank you for that kind welcome.

It is great to be here in Worcester.

It’s great to be here with Joy Squires who I know will make a fantastic MP for Worcester, standing up for working people here.

And I also want to welcome Sally Prentice our candidate in North Herefordshire.

I am here with a simple message today.

To remind you what the stakes are in this election.

And to make a firm pledge about how I will govern this country if you elect me your Prime Minister in just four days’ time.

Because this election is about how we run the country.

Do we run Britain for the richest and most powerful or do we run the country for working families?

Do we carry on with one set of rules for the many and a different set rules for a few or do we have fair rules for everyone in Britain?

Do we give a future to a few or to all of our brilliant young people?

And what are the risks facing our country in the years ahead?

It is huge tax cuts for the wealthy and the most extreme spending cuts we have seen, deeper in the next few years than in the last five years.

It is the risk of a recovery that stops at the City of London and doesn’t reach your front door.

Britain can do better than this.

Britain must do better than this.

Britain will do better than this.

That’s why we need a Labour government.

But we know that our task is not simply to set out a plan for working people but to show we can deliver.

We have made six pledges.

Six commitments.

The fundamentals of our plan.

And let me set them out for you:

First, we will build a strong economic foundation for our country.

Balancing the books.

Cutting the deficit every year.

No additional borrowing to fund our commitments.

But never adopting extreme Tory spending plans that would devastate our public services.

Second, we will secure higher living standards for working families.

Raising the minimum wage to more than £8 an hour.

Freezing energy bills until 2017.

Giving the regulator the power to cut bills.

25 hours of free childcare for 3 and 4 year olds.

And fighting against that horrific epidemic of zero hours contracts.

Legislating for the principle that if you work regular hours you get a regular contract.

Third, we will save our health service and rebuild an NHS with time to care.

Joining up services from home to hospital.

A GP appointment within 48 hours.

Cancer test results within one week.

And 20,000 more nurses, 8,000 more GPs, 5,000 more careworkers and 3,000 more midwives.

And unlike other parties, I can tell you where every penny of it is coming from: a mansion tax on properties above £2m, money from the tobacco companies and cracking down on tax avoidance by the hedge funds.

Because this party believes that those with broadest shoulders should bear the greatest burden.

Our fourth pledge is for controls on immigration.

I know immigration can benefit our country.

My own parents came as refugees.

But there have to be controls.

So we will make sure that people who come here won’t be able to claim benefits for at least two years.

And we will make it illegal for employers to undercut wages by exploiting workers.

One thing people should know about this party is that we will stamp out exploitation wherever we find it.

Fifth, we are going to build a country where the next generation can do better than the last.

It is what I call the ‘Promise of Britain’.

But it is a promise betrayed by this government.

We will restore it.

Smaller class sizes for 5, 6, and 7 year-olds.

An apprenticeship for every young person who gets the grades.

And tuition fees reduced from £9,000 to £6,000.

Because we must reduce the crushing burden of debt on the young people of this country.

Our sixth pledge also speaks directly to our young people.

We will make sure there are homes to buy and action on rents.

We will make sure there is security for everyone who rents their home.

Three year tenancies as standard.

And rent rises capped at inflation.

Priority for first time buyers.

Right at the front of the queue for new homes.

And their stump duty cut to zero.

The biggest house building programme for a generation.

200,000 homes a year by the end of the Parliament.

So these are our pledges.

This is our plan.

And we have carved them in stone.

For a simple reason.

So you can remind me of them.

Point to them.

Insist on them.

And because we will deliver on them.

I expect to be held to account on all six of Labour’s pledges.

Five years ago Nick Clegg promised to scrap tuition fees.

He betrayed that promise and raised them higher.

And now, both he and David Cameron are at it again. They’re promising things they can’t pay for and have no intention of delivering.

An NHS funded with an IOU written by two men who have broken their promises before.

I won’t break my word as Nick Clegg did.

If I had done what he did five years ago, I don’t think I could ask you for your trust again.

I will cut tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000. And I tell you this, if I fail in this task, I won’t be standing here again in 2020 making more promises.

I won’t be standing for the office of Prime Minister at all.

Because there should be consequences when people’s trust is let down.

Because there should be consequences when young people have their trust betrayed.

Because I am determined to restore people’s faith, young people’s faith, in politics.

I’m not going to repeat what Nick Clegg has done - putting myself in front of the British public in 5 years time if I’ve broken my pledge on tuition fees.

And they’re at it again today

Five times today he was asked to rule out another rise in tuition fees.

Five times he refused because he has not changed.

He is planning to betray the younger generation again.

And if he gets half a chance so will David Cameron because today William Hague refused to rule it out too.

Today, I don’t just ask you to think about our promises and our plan.

I ask you to think about the alternative.

The Tory plan.

It is a huge risk for working families.

To know what they’re offering, we just have to look at their record.

We’ve seen five years of falling living standards.

Five years of an NHS going backwards.

Five years of food banks and bank bonuses.

Five years of broken promises on immigration.

But the Tories don’t believe it has been a failure.

They think this has been a success.

And now they want to go even further.

They believe we can compete on low pay and zero hours contracts.

Which will mean falling living standards for working families.

They want to double the cuts next year.

And they are planning to devastate family finances.

Tax credits for working families: cut.

Child benefit for millions: cut.

Your family finances are on the ballot paper at this election.

So this election is Britain’s big chance to make a big choice.

A choice between putting working families first with Labour.

Or putting the wealthiest and most powerful first with the Tories.

A choice between investing in the NHS and our children’s education.

Or a Tory plan for cuts even more extreme in the next few years than in the last.

A choice between a better plan and a better future with Labour.

Or a Tory plan where the recovery never reaches your front door.

Ours is a better plan.

For a better future.

Britain succeeds when working people succeed.

In just four days’ time you have a chance.

A chance that doesn’t come along very often.

A chance that won’t be back for another five years.

A chance to vote Labour to put working families first.

To vote Labour to put the NHS first.

To vote Labour to put your family first

Let’s change our country together.

ENDS