Demography played a role, as did education and the voting system. All provide key lessons for Keir Starmer’s Labour, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
” can be overcome. Unprecedented numbers can be persuaded to vote, including usually reluctant young people.
The politics professor and polling analyst Robert Ford and his Polish wife, Professor Maria Sobolewska, have been watching the Polish election heart in mouth. Ford’s forthcoming report shows how education is becoming the key UK voting marker, as in‘The more educated you are, the more left you go’ … Civic Coalition members outside the Warsaw School of Economics.
Older people are the least educated, most rightwing and the most authoritarian in attitudes to crime, immigration and patriotism. Labour – like Tusk – is rightly wary of its graduate image, remembering Hillary Clinton’s appalling contempt for Trumpites as “deplorables”. But when it comes to the cost of living and Britain’s broken public services, there is far more in common than that which divides.
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