Conservative ‘myth’ dispelled as Tory vote collapses

“The Tories in the past have relied on that sort of myth that people are left wing when they're young and they grow into being conservatives.”

The Conservative Party risks its future vote “collapsing” if it doesn’t put in the work now to appeal to young voters by promising to deliver on issues such as housing. Manveen Rana and Matthew Bell join Matt Chorley.

[simonfernandes]

'Wrongly blamed the government for interest rises'?!

No, Liz Truss - disaster in human form - is responsible for high mortgage rates.

[marklewis]

I can assure you as a 36 year old, myself and others below 40 will never vote tories. The utter shambles they have done in 14 years compared to when we had a labour government stark. The myth of assute financial management under a conservative government is just that.

They have lost a voting block completely.

[sfactory]

Did he just claim the Tories couldn't be blamed for interest rate rises ? Did I hear that right ?

[richmaniow]

Just 7% of children go to private school and yet nearly 70% of Rishi's cabinet were private school educated and yet the Tories still can't figure out why they were seen as out of touch with voters..

[musicman]

When you are young you have no money so you vote Labour. When you are old you don't want to keep tripping over people sleeping rough in doorways and you don't want to wait 2 weeks for a GP appointment so you still vote Labour.

[BrokenHill]

Only a fool could very think about voting for the Tories. Awful people, awful party.

[RealDareel]

12:54 The biggest problem with cashless is we don’t have our own payment system. Every single transaction we make a small amount is extracted from our economy.

[SFRZRD]

I’m 31, British, and left the UK to travel the Americas in 2021, was supposed to be for 1 year, but I never came back and I’ve settled now in Chile. I can’t believe how much the country has declined since I left, my family back there are at their wits end, their mortgage has doubled too. It’s unforgivable.

[Cherrytune]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 They lost, get over it. #ToryLiars

[grahamkearnon]

Did you know, from 2010 to July 4th this year the Tories were able to reduce the economic engines value 18% AND, take the tax burden from Labour's 2009 22% to a Tory high of 33% for all but, the tax dodging wealthy.

[HessionDrasha]

The conservative myth of trickledown economics? I hope so.

[GrahamMNewton]

Is Matthew demonstrating what not owning your own home looks like?

[kevinlim]

Just wanted to share that in Singapore, practically everyone has moved on to cashless payments, whether it’s paywave cards or payment apps. Old and young alike. There isn’t anything about it that’s inherently confounding for the elderly

[joshuachapman]

Sad to see you leave Matt, congrats on your new show with the BBC. Will have to check it out in September. Thank you for all your hard work and coverage of British news and politics.

[colin]

Wrongly blamed the conservative government for interest rate rises, eh? What planet was that on, Liz Truss was responsible for about 1/2 the rise. She was also responsible for knocking 30% off defined contribution pensions, gees, it’s not good when your pension drops 30%, it means you have less money, why would a pensioner vote for a party that wants to do that?

[glostergloster]

'Wrongly blamed the govt for interest rate rises'. Absolutely correctly blamed the govt for interest rate rises. They caused the issue with Truss and are also in charge of the BoE inflation target. They could have changed it and kept rates lower.

[georgeroybooth]

They need to rebuild themselves totally before they can regain any respect.

[TertiaryScroat]

What has 100 legs and 3 chins?




50 young conservatives.

[stephenkearney]

If you're talking about "the property ladder" instead of a place to live, you're part of the problem, not part of the solution.

[MrBomuch]

young people said..how do you like them 'avocados'