Verdicts

The verdict

Four decades on, the chamber's verdict split almost exactly along the fault line the question itself describes, with three in five voters here judging that Thatcherism unduly punished Britain outside the south east, even as the very cohort who lived through the pit closures firsthand proved the most divided of all.

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On mandating solar and storage in every new build, the chamber reached rare cross-generational agreement, with roughly seven in ten backing the requirement and only the 35-44 bracket showing any real wobble.

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A narrow but real majority backed Burnham's proportional representation push, with the chamber's oldest and youngest voters oddly aligned against the middle-aged sceptics who dominate British politics' working years.

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The instinct against tinkering with the historical record cut across generations that usually disagree, as the chamber rejected the case for diversity-first casting by better than six to one, with barely one in eight voters siding yes even among the group most associated with progressive cultural politics.

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A referendum that produced no consensus at all, only a coin-flip verdict that the state has overreached, carried by the narrowest of margins on a question that has haunted Britain since the sugar tax and the smoking ban alike.

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Across every age band and both sexes the chamber reached almost total agreement, with the vote to deport foreign nationals convicted of any imprisonable offence within five years of arrival passing by more than four to one — a rare moment of near-unanimity on an immigration question that usually splits the floor down familiar lines.

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A chamber that mirrors a live European trend rather than resists it: with France, Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands already there, and Portugal now moving, voters here backed a UK burka ban by three to two, treating the Continental drift as a cue rather than a warning.

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A chamber wary of handing the state a new power over political life rejected a German-style ban on extremist parties by a clear 22-point margin, with the youngest voters alone warming to the idea.

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Voters here backed further nuclear investment by a solid but not overwhelming margin, with the sharpest resistance coming not from the young but from the oldest cohort in the chamber, who alone tipped against it.

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Voters here backed expansion by a landslide, but the ambivalence in the No camp's own top-rated comment suggests this was less a fight over whether to grow the line than over which direction growth should take.

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This vote reads less like a fight over judicial review than an exasperated shrug at planning delay: four in five voters, across nearly every age band, said get on with it.

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Younger voters embraced the low-carbon retrofit almost on instinct, while a solid Yes nationally masked a striking gender gulf, with men roughly two to one in favour and women turning against it three to one.

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Scepticism, not enthusiasm, carried this one: two-thirds of voters here reckon Burnham's "most radical change in 40 years" will look a lot like the last regime, with the loudest Yes voice essentially calling him Starmer in different clothes.

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A vote on a routine adolescent jab still carries the scars of the last vaccine debate: three in four voters backed extending MenB cover to 15-year-olds, but the one demographic that split clean down the middle was the 45-54s, the group most likely to be parents of teenagers themselves.

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The generational split was stark: under-35s backed a new tier of regional assemblies by roughly two to one, while the over-55s dug in against it, leaving Yes to scrape home by four points out of 158 votes.

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A near dead-heat nationally conceals the real split: this was the young against everyone else, with the under-25s alone recoiling from data centres while every other generation, up to the eldest voters, leaned narrowly in favour.

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A generational line rather than a class one decided this: the young and middle-aged backed a sovereign baby-bond model that would only pay off decades hence, while those closer to retirement, who would never see it, shrugged it off — voters here backed the idea 58 to 42.

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A clear national-taxation mandate emerged, with yes carrying nearly two to one, but the vote split sharply by gender in a way that cuts against the usual assumption that women, as the majority of both care recipients and unpaid carers, would be the natural champions of a state-run system.

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Housing bids squeaked through rather than sailed, with a narrow majority for immediate confirmation exposing a chamber more divided by age and sex than by any settled view on housing policy itself.

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Three in five voters backed rerouting Britain's housing billions into council ownership, but the chamber's men and women read the plan in almost mirror opposite ways — a nearly two-to-one gender gulf that the topline hides entirely.

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Lewisham's proposed sanctuary-borough experiment ran into a wall on the floor, with No winning by nearly four to one and Yes struggling to muster support in any age group bar the very youngest.

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Rare consensus on pensions, with the chamber backing red-to-green performance ratings by roughly six to one, and barely a flicker of the tribal splits that usually attend welfare reform.

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A near-even split on funding elite universities more heavily, carried by a narrow yes as the 55-64s backed concentration while the youngest and oldest voters resisted it most firmly.

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The Seventh Carbon Budget fell on a fault line as old as the target itself: younger voters warmed to it, older voters buried it, and the chamber rejected the 87% goal by a two-to-one margin.