Conservatives ready to force the unemployed back to work

The Conservative blueprint for office will include tearing up the current benefits system, including reviewing all the 2.6 million receiving incapacity benefit who could be told to find work.

But the Conservatives will offer 50,000 new training places and have promised to provide personalised help to get people back to work.

They also intend to introduce a new "Work for Yourself" scheme to encourage people to be entrepreneurs.

The 130-page document will also include well-trailed measures for voters to sack their MP, reverse a proposed hike in National Insurance, and provide far greater transparency on how government spends money.

There will be measures to help people buy their community post office and pub when they are in danger of closure, although this may not apply in Scotland.

However, the manifesto will also confirm that the Conservatives will delay introducing Calman reforms strengthening devolution until the end of the parliament. There will also be moves to stop Scottish MPs voting on English matters.

In his forward to the manifesto Mr Cameron said: "A country is at its best when the bonds between people are strong and when the sense of national purpose is clear.

"Some politicians say: 'Give us your vote and we will sort out all your problems.' We say: 'Real change comes not from government alone. Real change comes when the people are inspired and mobilised, when millions of us are fired up to play a part in the nation's future.'"