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If Theresa May wants to make this election about leadership then let’s make it about leadership.

If she wants to make it about trust then let’s put that trust to the test.

Yet the Prime Minister does not even trust herself to face voters. She spent last week hiding from them.

I have been up and down the country looking voters in the eye. I tell them that if they put their trust in me I will guarantee a government for the many not the few.

And I tell them exactly how Labour will do it. This is more than we have heard from Mrs May. She talks of leadership, but won’t say what she will do with it.

She asks the people of Britain to follow her but will not say where she is going.

If she trusted herself she would face me in a TV debate. I will meet her anytime, any place, anywhere.

The only certain outcome of this election is that one of us will be prime minister at the end of it. That choice is for the British people alone.

So they have the right to question us, to scrutinise us, to judge us on our integrity. That is to put our trust in the British people. That is true leadership.