- The Conservatives will have an emergency budget within 50 days to set out a credible plan to bring the country's massive debt under control. The debt burden is risking higher mortgage and interest rates, and threatening jobs and investment.
- The Conservatives will scrap Labour's planned increase in National Insurance. We will cut waste to cut Labour's tax on jobs. 7 out of 10
Scots will be better off and no one will be worse off. - The Conservatives will cut Employer National Insurance contributions for the first ten employees of new businesses over the next two years.
- The Conservatives will reduce youth unemployment and reduce the number of children in workless households.
- The Conservatives will ensure the consumer gets a fair deal at the pump by reducing the business rates on rural petrol stations and by looking at the introduction of a fuel price stabiliser.
- The Conservatives support a high speed rail link between Scotland and London to be built in cooperation with the Scottish Government.
- The Conservatives will ensure that by far the largest part of the burden of dealing with the deficit falls on lower spending, rather than higher taxes.
- The Conservatives will cut Whitehall policy, funding and regulation costs by a third, saving £2 billion a year.
- The Conservatives will ensure everyone who is capable of work will be given the choice between engaging in return to work programmes or losing their benefits.
- The Conservatives will ensure people who claim benefits for two out of three years will be made to work for the dole.
- The Conservatives will use private and voluntary organisations to help unemployed people back to work and pay them by results.
