Helen Whately

Too many young people are leaving school and signing straight onto benefits - this is a waste of their potential and a disaster for our economy.

Our welfare system should be a safety net, not a lifestyle choice.

We believe that if you can work, you should. And work should always pay better than benefits.

A strong country needs people to work and contribute. But Labour have made it easier to claim and harder to get a job.

We cannot go on like this – with millions of people living on benefits instead of in work. Britain can’t afford it. It’s not fair on taxpayers footing the bill.

Faced with a choice between spending on military training and spending on benefits... Labour chooses more benefits.

Making Britain your home should be earned by working, paying tax and integrating. It should not come with a free ride on the benefits system. Britain cannot be a cash machine for the world.

The next Conservative government will make foreign nationals ineligible for social housing. Nearly 230,000 homes could go to British families.

Labour has lost control of immigration and lost control of the welfare bill, and it is British families picking up the bill and sitting on waiting lists.

Making Britain your home should be earned by working, paying tax and integrating.