Should the UK introduce tougher immigration measures to reduce net migration?

The chamber has voted YES, 19 to 15, on tougher measures to cut net migration — a 12-point margin that is a win but not a mandate, the kind of result that settles nothing in the country's decade-long argument over immigration control that runs back through 2016.

The sharper story sits in gender rather than age. Men voted yes by 13 to 9, a clear if unspectacular majority, while the 8 women who registered a view broke the other way, 5 to 3 against tougher measures. That reversal, small in absolute numbers but consistent in direction, is the one pattern in this data worth dwelling on.

Age tells a messier tale. The two largest cohorts, 16-24 and 25-34, together account for 25 of the 34 profiled votes and pull in different directions: the under-25s lean yes (6 of 10), the 25-34s are close to a coin flip and lean no (7 of 15). Older brackets are too thin to read as anything but noise, though it is notable that neither the single 55-64 voter nor the sole 65+ voter broke with the pattern of a fractured, unsettled electorate.

For a question that touches the rawest nerve in British politics, the verdict here is less a roar than a shrug that happened to lean yes.