Matt Day

From @Mullers1993 and @lukerobertblack: Our challenge to Zack Polanski and Mothin Ali conservativehome.com/2026/04/02/jam…

@_callummurphy_ It’s hard enough to run an industrial business in this country without unnecessary obligations and taxes! @ClaireCoutinho is right!

Britain has lost a third of its refineries, chemicals output is down 60%, and energy-intensive industries are at a 35-year low. 📉 Labour is taxing factories out of existence while celebrating closures to meet climate targets. 🥀 Industrial strength is national strength. 💪🏻 Scrap the Carbon Tax, protect British jobs, and back industry. 🏭 Let’s get Britain working again. 🇬🇧

@lukerobertblack @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives Really poor attitude - young people today are getting a poor deal. Complete misunderstanding of how that state pension works as well.

“compared to a younger generation today, are those who have actually worked” If you are a working person under 60 years old, Reform thinks you are lazy, entitled and a burden Want a party that has an offer for young people? Vote for @KemiBadenoch’s New Deal. Vote @conservatives

Message to young people in the last few months: Conservatives: Abolish stamp duty, cut student loan repayments, more apprenticeships. Reform: You haven’t paid in enough.

Once again this graph has a hold on me

It’s a fair challenge. You could debate an exact figure for debt to GDP %, but broadly when we’re spending £90bn+ on debt interest, we are not in a position to fund this. It is our government’s job to maximise the wealth and wellbeing of British citizens, not global ones. Appreciate that’s a value difference for some people, but it’s one I hold.

@mattdaytech @ben_j_todd Agreed w/ your point about much aid being ineffective! But at what point would you say GB has its own house in order? How rich do we need to be before you would be happy for us to give aid? Worth noting that the average Brit earns over 30x more than the world’s poorest people.

Brutal cuts to UK international aid:

Partnering with the zero growth museum continent. For what? Their cheap abundant energy? Their dominant defence sector? Their trillion dollar tech companies? Oh wait.

@TheMoronHunter1 Famously an excellent way to win people to your side in an argument is to insult them.

@mattdaytech Nobody wants your shitty Brexit anymore, Matty. Only the terminally thick support it.

We should seek closer relationships with other allies in this new world - but has the PM heard of Australia, Canada and New Zealand? Why is this government obsessed with shackling us to low-growth Europe? Reversing Brexit, undemocratically, at the same time.

@_callummurphy_ @Conservatives Great to see you taking the fight forward, Luke! 🚀👏

Across London, we’re seeing a new generation of @Conservatives candidates step forward – I’m proud to be one of them. Join us this Saturday for our Canning to Canary action day and help us reconnect with the voters we need to win again. Let’s get out there and make the difference. 🗳️💙

Yet again, it’s up to the @Conservatives to do the calculations and thinking. Reform unwrapped its latest fag packet tax policy yesterday. Within 24 hours it’s unravelling. Reform are unable to get basic sums right so how could they be trusted to look after one of the biggest economies in the world?

@KemiBadenoch @AEHALL1983 Kemi gets it 👏 Parents must take responsibility, along with a government which is unflinching on crime!

Children smashing up shops in broad daylight, stealing and even filming themselves doing it as if it were a game, is a much bigger problem than is being recognised. This is a total collapse of consequences. To those making snide comments about race or black kids - you do not see scenes like this in Lagos or Nairobi. Not because the children there are different, but because actions have consequences. There are clear boundaries. Parents, communities, and the authorities do not wring their hands or look the other way. Here, we have created a culture where too many young people believe they can do what they like and nothing will happen. That is the problem. And we should be honest about where that leads. If a child loots a shop today, films it for social media, and faces no real consequence, they are going to do much worse tomorrow. This is why under my leadership Conservatives are focusing on ENFORCEMENT, not just making more and more rules. Our Take Back Our Streets Campaign is about getting 10,000 more police officers, immediate justice and immediate punishment. But let’s be honest, this is not just a policing issue. It is a failure of authority at every level. Parents need to know where their children are and what they are doing. Discipline should start at home, not in a courtroom. We have also weakened the system around them. Deterrence is the backbone of criminal justice. Labour have changed the law so anyone receiving a sentence under 12 months will automatically walk free, instead receiving a suspended sentence. When people believe offences like this will not lead to meaningful punishment, we should not be surprised when more of it happens. You get more of what you tolerate. It’s not like we haven’t been here before. In 2011, when riots spread, the Conservative response was swift and visible. People saw consequences. And behaviour rapidly changed. That is what is missing now. This all comes down to fairness. Law-abiding people should not feel like fools while gangs smash and grab without consequence. The sad truth is the communities most damaged by this behaviour are often the very ones these young people come from. Only one approach will fix this: clear rules, real consequences, and the confidence to enforce them. It’s time to Take Back Our Streets and bring back a culture of enforcement.

@dan_djs_ @Conservatives If you’re not getting things like this right, you can’t be trusted on the big economic questions and public spending!

@shaunjosephisme We can be biased! 🇬🇧🤝🇦🇺

@mattdaytech As an Aussie living here in the UK, I'm a little biased, but I couldn't agree more!

Really pleased to read this - lots of great ideas in here. Free speech in the UK has undoubtedly been on the slide and it is the most precious thing a democracy has. Whether various bits of legislation over the years meant to chip away at it or not - the reality is they have. We need to fix it.

Net zero can’t come at the expense of keeping the country warm and secure 🇬🇧 Europe could start running low on oil from mid April - as reported by @CNN’s @MaxFosterCNN Yet @Ed_Miliband is still blocking new North Sea oil and gas. Our energy security is being jeopardised. Why?

In the 2024 election, Labour were absolutely unequivocal: “Would you ever rejoin the EU or the single market?” “No.” Less than two years into Government, and they are taking us back into large parts of the Single Market, this time entirely as a rule-taker.