Miriam Cates: You can't expect the young to vote Conservative, if they've never been given a Conservative vision

Miriam Cates: You can't expect the young to vote Conservative, if they've never been given a Conservative vision

Miriam Cates is the former MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge. It is a well-known fact in Conservative circles that the Tory vote is dying out. The only age group in which the Conservative Party polled more than a quarter of the vote in 2024 was the over-70s. Even in 2019, one of the Conservatives’ most successful general elections, the Party won the popular vote only among the over 60s. Just 8 per cent of under-30s voted Conservative last July. …

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