Progress made and help for hardworking people

The last four years have been hugely challenging for many as the government has sought to repair the financial damage and to pay down the deficit left by Labour. 

We are starting to see real progress:

• UK Deficit down a third.
• Balancing benefits reducing tax burden on hardworking people.
• Biggest ever cash rise in the basic State Pension.
• By April 2014 we will have seen an average tax cut of £705 for 25 million people.
• 2.7 million people with the lowest incomes taken out of tax altogether.
• Supported people and businesses who have created 1.4 million new jobs and 300,000 more small businesses.
• Record numbers have started apprenticeships – half a million in the last year alone.

A cut in the EU budget and a treaty vetoed because it wasn’t in Britain’s national interest