The Tories have a young person problem

Tbh, mainly surprised that so many young people think highly of Tory economics. They've been amazingly effective at pursuading the population that they are good economists and anti-immigration.

How does this compare to previous YouGov polls?

Tories need to focus on housing. It's a key issue and worry for young people

Because the young oiks are just blinded by all the "free stuff" promised by Labour. If they actually thought about what would be best for them and the country then they'd be moving towards the right.

Of course, different parties offer different things to different groups of people, and thus results in a more popular vote for a party from certain age groups. What labour offer, on a whole, is more appealing to the younger age groups (such as university being free, and brexit negotiations.) The conservatives on the other hand appear more appealing to the more older age groups as their points in their manifesto are more appealing to people who have a comfortable, healthy income. It's obviously subjective, but yes, labour won the age group represented by a long shot. From what many of my friends have said, it was the free university education and brexit negotiations that were the key deciders in who they voted for. Interesting post, and good for a discussion.

And Labour have an old people problem. What's the difference?

I'm not sure what's worse. The fact that it seems as though only Labour and the Conservatives were includes in the survey or that you think Thatcher was on the right side of history. The latter is so ridiulous it's almost comical.

Children are idiots. What do you expect.

She ushered in a new political consensus. How is that not on the right side of history?

The problem is that the young are no longer flipping to voting Conservative as they get older. All the usual things that help facilitate the move "you move rightwards as you get older" cliche no longer exist as much as they used to. Home ownership, a well paying middle class job or a good trade are all on the decline and rents are sky rocketing. People don't like seeing a large chunk of their pay check go to rent in the same way they don't like it when it goes to tax. You can't sell capitalism to people if you don't offer them any capital.

Also not to mention young people are socially liberal and this tends to stay the same throughout life, something Theresa May totally took for granted when she came out with all this citezens of nowhere stuff.

Just because you happen to foster an environment for political consensus doesn't mean it's good or bad.

By right side of history I mean being on the side that history flows in. Good or bad has nothing to do with it.

As a leftist I obviously do not like thatcher. I'm hoping what is happening now is the coming of a new consensus which is more in light with what I want.