Too Many People Are Stuck On Sickness

What Churchill Described As The Twin Marauders Of War And Tyranny Have Been Almost Entirely Banished From Our Continent. Today, Hundreds Of Millions Dwell In Freedom, From The Baltic To The Adriatic, From The Western Approaches To The Aegean.

We Cannot Go On As We Are With 2.6 Million People On Incapacity Benefit, 500,000 Of Them Are Under 35. Are We Really Saying There Are Half A Million People In This Country Under 35 Who Are Simply Too Ill To Work? I Don’t Think That’s Right.

I Mean, I'm A Conservative. I Believe That, You Know, If You Borrow Too Much, You Just Build Up Debts For Your Children To Pay Off. You Put Pressure On Interest Rates. You Put At Risk Your Economy. That's The Case In Britain. We're Not A Reserve Currency, So We Need To Get On And Deal With This Issue.

What We’re Putting Forward Is The Most Radical Reform Of The Welfare State… For 60 Years. I Think It Will Have A Transformative Effect In Making Sure That Everyone Is Better Off In Work And Better Off Working Rather Than On Benefits.

The Driving Force Behind Today's Terrorist Threat Is Islamist Fundamentalism. The Struggle We Are Engaged In Is, At Root, Ideological. During The Last Century A Strain Of Islamist Thinking Has Developed Which, Like Other Totalitarianisms, Such As Nazism And Communism, Offers Its Followers A Form Of Redemption Through Violence.