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A voter placing a ballot paper in the ballot box at the polling station at Market Hall in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, May 6, 2010
YOUNG people are increasingly unlikely to vote in the general election expected this year, a new survey has found.
A belief that their vote would make no difference and a feeling that the parties did not represent them may keep nearly half of the so-called “Gen Z” — voters aged 18 to 27 — at home on polling day.
About 43 per cent of the nearly 2,300 young people surveyed by research company Prograd said that they either would not vote or were unsure whether to do so.
Starmer struggles to save leadership amid polling calamity
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
