This morning I went to Buckingham Palace and
I am forming a new government
and on Monday MPs will arrive at
Westminster to form a new parliament and I am proud to say
that
members of our new one nation government – a
people’s government – will set out from constituencies that have
never returned a Conservative MP for 100 years
and yes they will have an overwhelming
mandate, from this election, to get Brexit done
and we will honour that mandate by Jan
31
and so in this moment of national resolution
I want to speak directly to those who made it
possible
and to all those who voted for us, for the
first time,
all those whose pencils may have wavered
over the ballot
and who heard the voices of their parents
and their grandparents whispering anxiously in their
ears
I say thank you for the trust you have
placed in us and in me
and we will work round the clock to repay
your trust and to deliver on your priorities
with a parliament that works for
you
and then I want to speak also to those who
did not vote for us or for me
and who wanted and perhaps still want to
remain in the EU
and I want you to know that we in this one
nation conservative government will never ignore
your good and positive feelings – of warmth
and sympathy towards the other nations of Europe
because now is the moment – precisely as we
leave the EU – to let those natural feelings find renewed
expression
in building a new partnership, which is one
of the great projects for next year
and as we work together with the
EU
as friends and sovereign
equals
in tackling climate change and
terrorism
in building academic and scientific
cooperation, redoubling our trading relationship
I frankly urge everyone on either side of
what after three and a half years after all an increasingly arid
argument I urge everyone to find closure and to let the healing
begin
because I believe, in fact I know, because I
have heard it loud and clear from every corner of the country
that the overwhelming priority of the British people now is that
we should focus above all on the NHS
that simple and beautiful idea that
represents the best of our country with the biggest ever cash
boost
50,000 more nurses, 40 new hospitals as well
as providing better schools, safer streets
and in the next few weeks and months we will
be bringing forward proposals to transform this
country
with better infrastructure, better
education, better technology
and if you ask yourselves what is this new
government going to do, what is he going to do with his
extraordinary majority
I will tell you that is what we are going to
do we are going to unite and level up – unite and level
up
bringing together the whole of this
incredible United Kingdom
England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
together
taking us forward unleashing the potential
of the whole country delivering opportunity across the entire
nation
and since I know that after five weeks
frankly of electioneering this country deserves a break
from
wrangling, a break from politics, and a
permanent break from talking about Brexit
I want everyone to go about their Christmas
preparations happy and secure in the knowledge that here in this
people’s government the work is now being stepped
up
to make 2020 a year of prosperity and growth
and hope and to deliver a Parliament that works for the
people
thank you all very much and happy
Christmas.
