Merton Conservatives

Conservatives are on the side of hard working people. On the side of people who contribute to making our country great. On the side of people who want to get on. The Conservative party are on your side. So on May 7th, vote Conservative and get Britain working again.

Only the @Conservatives have a plan to get Britain working again. Let’s get to it 🚀

It’s time to Take Back Our Streets.

Britain cannot accept rising crime as the norm. Our Take Back Our Streets plan will restore order, catch criminals and give the police the support they need. @KemiBadenoch

From @nick_cannonhill: Merton Council is one of 12 Labour-run councils in London that they are at risk of losing control of conservativehome.com/2026/03/09/nic…

My plan to use welfare savings to boost the number of troops👇

Zack Polanski thought it was acceptable to laugh at Churchill's statue being desecrated - and @Councillorsuzie wasn't having any of it. Watch the moment she called him out 👇

The @Conservatives will end identity politics in the state, full stop.

Graduates are being ripped off with their student loans. The @Conservatives are the only Party who’ll do anything about it. Here’s the breakdown.

🛣️ We found £15m worth of savings in Sadiq Khan's budget, and tried to allocate it to fixing London's pot holes. But Labour, the Lib Dems & Greens voted down our amendment 👇

The #Conservatives will protect #Merton businesses and stop #Labour’s industry destroying rate hikes!

Left wing policies always lead to high taxes and poor-quality services. Unfortunately, this is true in #Merton. Only the #Conservatives offer real change!

Only residents can trust the #Conservatives to protect motorists in #Merton says @DanHolden85

The #Conservatives will let you keep more of your own money and allow you to decide how you lead your life.

Only the Conservatives offer hope, aspiration, and common sense for #Merton

.@Nick_CannonHill: only the #Conservatives can bring real change to #Merton

#Labour have cut #Merton’s grant funding – this will mean deep cuts in services and maximum #CouncilTax rises

The Labour gov has cut funding for #Merton. Residents are right to demand an answer on how this will affect the borough.

Four years on from Putin’s illegal invasion, we stand united with the people of Ukraine. Now and always. 🇬🇧🇺🇦

During my leadership campaign, someone asked me to summarise my economic objectives in one sentence. I replied: “To deliver a high-growth, low-immigration economy.” Right now, Britain has the opposite: a low-growth, high-immigration economy. It’s young people who are paying the price. That’s why we’re launching our New Deal for Young People. We’re the only party that’s even thinking about them, because we understand that our economic and cultural problems are intertwined. You can’t solve one without the other. Reform UK has tried to copy a lot of our immigration policy without doing the difficult thinking. They agree with us that deporting people who should not be here is a priority. But Conservatives know that alone does not turn Britain into a high-growth economy. It reduces public spending, it does not increase productivity – but our New Deal for Young People will. The blame for our productivity problem can be laid at the feet of the Blairite settlement. For too long, politics has been run as if we’re still in the late 1990s. Politicians hoping the world would stay the same: stable graduate jobs, stable career ladders, stable institutions, and a conveyor belt from school to university to a middle-class life. Blair pushed for 50 per cent of young people to go to university, and the Oxbridge-educated political class was too embarrassed to say no for fear of looking like hypocrites. We didn’t get a nation of engineers and mathematicians. We hit the target by creating loads of useless courses. The result is obvious: young people loaded with debt and employers complaining about basic skills gaps. And while standards fell, parts of our university system started feeding the cultural rot. You cannot build a high-growth economy on institutions that train young people to distrust reality and sneer at the society they are meant to inherit. Our New Deal for Young People is going to scrap the pointless courses, provide better offers and tackle the insidious debt trap. I started my degree in 1999, not long after tuition fees had been introduced. I am horrified at what graduates today are dealing with, and this is one of the reasons millions of young people feel they’ve been stitched up. Plan 2 student loans, the system most people who started university from 2012 to 2023 are on, increasingly feel like a scam. Under Plan 2, the interest on your loan is 3 per cent above inflation, so your loan can grow so fast that you can be paying the appropriate amount every month yet see the balance go up. It’s an infuriating situation – you’re paying money back, but every time you look at the outstanding amount, it’s rising. It just isn’t fair. In 2012, when the policy came in, inflation and interest rates were low. It needs to be changed now, but the Labour Government is deliberately making money off the backs of graduates, and Rachel Reeves made it worse at her Budget by freezing the repayment thresholds, pulling more of a young person’s salary into repayments. That is not what student loans were designed for. Our New Deal for Young People fixes that unfairness, backs work, and restores real choice. We scrap the extra 3 per cent and cap Plan 2 interest at RPI, so the balance stops racing upwards. Then comes the £5,000 First Job Bonus, so when a young person starts their first job the first £5,000 of National Insurance they would have paid goes into a personal savings pot for a first home deposit or future savings. The third leg (my favourite) is the Apprenticeship Guarantee. It fixes the messy apprenticeship levy, providing fully funded training and college places for 100,000 extra 18 to 21-year-olds a year, so apprenticeships become a real alternative to university. This is where we need to deal with the snobbery against apprenticeships.