Corbyn’s 2017 Electoral ‘Youthquake’ Didn’t Happen, Study Says
Crowds cheer Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2017.
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The “youthquake” that helped opposition Labour Party leader wipe out U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s majority in the 2017 election perhaps didn’t actually happen.
That is the takeaway from a study based on face-to-face interviews with 2,194 eligible voters between June 26 and Oct. 1. The academics working on the British Election Study dismissed as a “myth” the notion that gained prominence after last year’s vote that Labour had been boosted by a surge in turnout among the youngest voters.