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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: You’re his-Tory: Why aren’t young people turning Conservative?
Description: There is a generational divide between who votes Conservative and who votes Labour – and it’s a problem for both parties. It used to be thought that as people got older, they naturally became more conservative – but that pattern has broken. Professor Bobby Duffy, director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London joins Marie Le Conte to delve into why.
“Denigrating young people is an absolute constant throughout human history – we always think the current generation of young people are absolutely awful… all the way back to Socrates.”
“There doesn’t seem to be a solution to int...