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Political economy, comparative politics, welfare states, basic income @UniofBathIPR @mssp_uk
May 13, 2021 14 tweets 5 min read
It is often said that the main dividing lines in British politics now are age, education and home-ownership. Labour voters are younger graduates that pay rent to landlords, while Conservative voters are older homeowners that didn’t go to university. But how true is this? /THREAD Using @BESResearch data to create 8 sub-groups of *voters* by interacting binary indicators of their age, housing tenure and education, results seem to confirm this narrative. 63% of older owner non-graduates voted Conservative while 54% of younger renter graduates voted Labour Image