In the third of our interviews, asking some of the candidates from around the region to talk to us about their party's manifesto, we are joined with Steph Harvey from the, who's the Labour candidate in Haven't. Welcome, Steph.

Thank you. Thank you very much for having me on. You are more than welcome. So please do share with our viewers and listeners what you feel are the high points of the Labour Party manifesto.

I'm really excited actually about our manifesto. We believe as a party that everyone deserves a government that will match your ambition and that our manifesto will ensure that no matter what your background, you can thrive.

I'm a teacher, so the big thing for me is education. I believe that education is the greatest leveler.

And now that it gives opportunity to people and actually in a constituency I'm standing in which is haven't

we're looking at 55% of people living in deprived circumstances and so I really am proud of our manifesto

that will push and raise aspirations for people in heaven so we as a party have committed in our manifesto to 6,500 new teachers in specialist areas

because we really think it's important actually that students deserve to be taught by teachers who are

specialists in that subject. We have committed to 3,000 new primary school-based

nurseries. And again, that's really, really important, actually. I was doing knocking on Friday.

I heard actually that there's a local nursery at HSDC that's closing. And so there's a shortage

of nursery spaces to work and parents. So again, I'm really proud that we're championing this because we want to help people go to work.

I want to make life easier for parents and I'm hopeful that I can drive some of those spaces and creation of new nurseries into heaven.

It's also really important that we're going to have free breakfast club spaces for all primary school children.

We're seeing far too many children going to school hungry.

And, you know, it's not acceptable in 2024.

We also want high quality apprenticeships and specialist technology colleges.

And again, this is really important. You know, I've talked about raising

aspirations. Aspirations don't have to look like a levels in university. That's great for many

students. But actually, you know, there's some real shortage of skills that we have in the UK.

We're really proud as a party to be pioneering this. So this, of course, begs the question.

How are we going to pay for this? You may well have heard that we will be closing the tax loophole on private schools, which will

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