Should the UK tighten rules on overseas political donations?

This was as close to consensus as this platform gets. Yes carried every age bracket and both genders, turning what could have been a partisan scrap over party funding into something closer to settled opinion — a 68-point margin that leaves little room to argue the result was a fluke of who turned up.

The only texture is in degree, not direction. The 35-44s (75% yes) and 55-64s (70% yes) were the most sceptical cohorts, each still voting yes by a wide margin but with the highest concentration of no votes in the whole sample, while the youngest and oldest groups on record — 16-24 and 65+ — were unanimous.

That shape fits the politics: donor scandals and questions about foreign money in Westminster have dogged all parties since well before 2016, and tightening the rules taps a rare seam of cross-generational agreement on electoral integrity, even as trust in politics generally fractures along other lines. Men and women moved together too, with women slightly less unanimous (75% yes) but still decisively on side.

When a governance question draws near-unanimity from teenagers and pensioners alike, it says less about generational politics than about how thin the case for the status quo had become.