Tory leader David Cameron holds question time session in Brighouse

Aug 20 2009 By Nick Lavigueur

He also admitted if elected he would cut public expenditure but gave his "cast iron guarantee" that he would protect the NHS.

On the MPs’ expenses scandal he said: "You are all owed an apology. It’s our responsibility to clean up the expenses system."

Mr Cameron said he believed every claim should be published on the internet and added that the salaries of all public sector workers who earned more than £150,000 and the details of all public sector projects costing £25,000 or more, should also be published online.

One questioner asked Mr Cameron what he was going to do about illegal immigrants that were "bleeding us dry".

He said: "A lot of them have brought a huge amount to this country. They were welcome in the past and they should be welcome in the future.

"But the first thing to do is to secure our borders...we would introduce some sort of border police."

Mr Cameron also said there should be some sort of limit on immigration especially for countries that were new joiners to the European Union.