The MP appointed by Theresa May to improve the Conservatives' appeal to young voters wrote a blog post claiming the UK would drown "in a vast sea of unemployed wasters" if people on benefits had too many children.

Ben Bradley, who was appointed the vice chair for youth last week, used a 2012 blog post to support the controversial benefit cap introduced by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition.

“Vasectomies are free,” Bradley wrote on his personal blog, consbradders32, in a post arguing that welfare cuts were vital to preserving British culture.

“Families who have never worked a day in their lives having 4 or 5 kids and the rest of us having 1 or 2 means it's not long before we’re drowning in a vast sea of unemployed wasters that we pay to keep!” Bradley continued. “Iain Duncan Smith’s cap proposal is spot on!”

When approached by BuzzFeed News about the post on Tuesday, Bradley deleted his blog and provided an apology through Conservative headquarters.