I am going to begin by agreeing with the right hon. and learned Gentleman: I think that it does mean a choice, and the choice is very clear. People remember the years before 1997. They remember the people who lost their homes in the recession, who lost their jobs in the recession, who used to end up with mortgages that they could not afford. They remember the winter crises every year in the NHS. They remember the outside toilets and the creaking classrooms in the schools. They remember when the police officers were cut while the right hon. and learned Gentleman was Home Secretary. They remember all that. And between now and polling day we will remind them of what they have now, and what is therefore at risk. What they have now is economic stability, investment in public services and action on crime.

So the choice is indeed very clear. What I say to the British people is this: "Economic stability is at risk, your job is at risk, your mortgage is at risk, the economy is at risk, and therefore when you come to make that choice on 5 May, realise the fundamental nature of it, realise what you experienced under 18 years of Conservative government, realise the progress that we have made under eight years of Labour government, and then go out and realise too that unless you come out and support Labour, that stability, that investment, will no longer happen, the clock will be turned back, and the very self-same crew that you voted to get rid of in 1997 will come back." Yes, it is a big choice, and I cannot wait for the public to make it.