OVER the last five years the Conservatives had a long-term economic plan to put Britain on the right track.

Across the country unemployment has fallen, families have bought their first homes using Help to Buy, beer duty has been cut, cider duty has been frozen, the state pension has been increased and the tax-free personal allowance has taken over three million people out of tax altogether.

And in Herefordshire funding was increased by £137 per pupil, a total of £2.6 million extra for local schools.

A Conservative government will increase the tax-free personal allowance to £12,500, commit to no increases in VAT, National Insurance contributions or income tax whilst cracking down on tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance.

We will help businesses create two million new jobs and three million new apprenticeships.

We will increase spending on the NHS by £8 billion and ensure you can see a GP and receive the hospital care you need, seven days a week by 2020.

We will deliver 275,000 additional affordable homes by 2020, introduce a new Help to Buy ISA to support people saving for a deposit and we will extend the Right to Buy to tenants of housing associations.

We will continue to increase the state pension through our triple lock, so it rises by at least 2.5 per cent, inflation or earnings, whichever is highest, and I will support spending at least two per cent on defence.

A Conservative government is also the only way to ensure the whole of the UK is given a choice on Europe in an in/out referendum by 2017.

If elected I will fight for North Herefordshire’s interests: for more beds for Hereford Hospital, for improved mobile and broadband connections, for a better economy, for a stronger defence and for all those living and working here.