ChrisMayLA6 , 4 months ago

Why have young people turned away from the #Tories?

John Burn-Murdoch (FT) suggests (not implausibly) that two factors loom large:

1. the #housingcrsis & the increased difficulty the young have owning their own home;

2. #Brexit

which also goes some way to explaining while the abandonment of the right by the young is more extreme in the Uk than elsewhere (even it is a broad global trend).

the right-wing gerontocracy may have gone too far & taken too much?

Chart: Brexit appears to have acted as a trigger fro young Britons souring on the Tories. % of Britons aged 18-34 saying they 'strongly dislike' the Conservative Party. Shows before the EU Referendu, proportion was relatively stable at 20%, but since it has risen from that level to around 40% (i.e. doubled)