Verdicts

The verdict

What's notable here is less the size of the win than its shape: this is a rout that cuts clean across age, with the oldest voters on the platform - the cohort you'd expect to side with farmers on rural pest control - backing an end to the badger cull by roughly the same margin as the under-25s, three to one against the status quo.

The verdict

A rerun of Britain's oldest economic argument split the chamber without falling along any predictable line — Burnham's break with Thatcherism carried the day, 37 votes to 27, but the coalition behind it scrambled the usual generational script.

The verdict

Nearly two to one against, voters here rejected the idea that science can simply be filed under business, treating DSIT's abolition less as machinery-of-government tidying and more as a demotion of a portfolio they think deserves its own seat at the cabinet table.

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Consensus, not controversy, turned out to be the story here: on a question engineered to sound like a culture-war flashpoint, voters closed ranks behind uniform enforcement, with Yes carrying the chamber by 110 votes to 8.

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Consensus rather than culture-war combat was the story here: across every age band bar the youngest, roughly seven in ten backed criminal penalties for false racism claims, a chamber otherwise prone to fracture on identity questions closing ranks instead.

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On a question the government's own 10-year plan treats as settled policy, the chamber largely agreed with the planners: two to one for shifting NHS care out of hospitals and into the community, with barely a flicker of generational disagreement.

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The instinct to fix higher education's finances by charging students more found almost no takers here, with voters rejecting a tuition fee rise by three to one even as they were told the sector's current model is collapsing.

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Consensus is rare on energy policy, but here it was near-total: reforming the marginal-pricing rule that lets gas set the cost of every unit on the grid carried by roughly ten to one, with barely a murmur of dissent across age or gender.

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The chamber's verdict landed close to a coin toss among the young but hardened into real scepticism among women, with No prevailing overall as voters weighed whether taking a peerage to fix Scottish Labour's record low undoes years of anti-Lords rhetoric.

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Andy Burnham's overture to Holyrood found little appetite among voters here, who rejected further devolution by a two-to-one margin, with women especially unconvinced that more power should flow north.

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The chamber's scepticism about scrapping digital ID turned out to be scepticism about the scrapping itself: two-thirds of voters here reckon the infrastructure will become de facto national ID whatever ministers call it, a verdict on function creep rather than on Burnham's climbdown.

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Devolution survived its most direct challenge yet on the platform, with abolition rejected by a clear if not overwhelming margin, even as the Holyrood majority that just voted for a second independence referendum sits awkwardly alongside voters' evident irritation with the institution itself.

The verdict

The young wanted it almost outright, the middle-aged pushed back hardest, and what emerged from that tug-of-war was a narrow chamber verdict for Yes, 74 votes to 59, on taxing extreme fortunes to fund public services.

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Rarely does a road-safety question produce anything like consensus, but this one did — voters backing strict enforcement of e-bike and e-scooter speed limits by nine to one, with barely a dissenting age band in sight.

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Voters here backed cuts to the DWP benefits bill by a solid but not overwhelming margin, with those in their prime working years the most convinced and the youngest cohort the most resistant, in a chamber that split three to two for Yes.

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The chamber backed extending student finance to the cockpit, with almost two in three voters ready to let loans cover flight school, a verdict that reads less as generosity than as arithmetic about which degrees actually pay their own debt back.

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Nearly everyone who turned out wanted the numbers checked, but the sharpest tell was who didn't quite believe checking would change anything — a scepticism that ran deeper among women than men, in a chamber otherwise close to unanimous.

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The chamber backed mandatory litter-picking for benefit claimants by a clear if not overwhelming margin, but the age pattern scrambles the usual welfare script: it was the youngest voters, the group closest to the claimant experience, who recoiled from it, while pensioners and those in their prime working years backed it most firmly.

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Devolving power to chase growth in every postcode carried comfortably, with the chamber backing Burnham's local-power pitch two to one — though the enthusiasm was far from evenly spread, with women unpersuaded even as men swung firmly behind it.

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This was a narrow win dressed up as a mandate: a chamber split down the middle on paper reaching a verdict that would strip translation from every language except Welsh and Braille, with the young the only group to resist it in any numbers.

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Nearly two-thirds of those who voted here read the wealth squeeze as a socialist pipeline, but the sharpest thing about the yes vote is that it was strongest among the under-45s who actually face the housing arithmetic, and thinnest among their elders who mostly cleared it decades ago.

The verdict

The chamber that grew up on streaming was the one least bothered by it: under-25s were the group most convinced there isn't too much sex on screen at all, as voters decisively rejected the "too many sex scenes" complaint by two to one.

The verdict

The clearest signal here isn't the topline but the age curve: the middle-aged middle of the chamber, those 35 to 64, decided this comfortably, while the youngest and oldest voters split down the middle — suspicion of "hate speech" as a chilling label won out, with yes carrying 55 of 85 votes.

The verdict

Enforcement, not principle, sank this one: the closest thing to a consensus among the 128 voters here was that a ban would be unenforceable, tipping the chamber to No by a narrow eight points on a question where age itself barely moved the needle.