Helen Whately: “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.

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. 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.