Verdicts

The verdict

Two in three voters backed a performers list for pharmacists, but the generational split tells the real story: the young and mid-career overwhelmingly want the check, while the 55-64s were the only group to turn against it.

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Britain's online defence hawks reached for consensus rarely seen on this platform, with nine in ten voters here agreeing that hardware and readiness matter more than headline spending figures.

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Voters here rejected a mileage tax on EVs from 2028, and the clearest resistance came from those who arguably have most riding on the switch to electric: 25-to-34-year-olds broke almost three to one against it.

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A near-even split on paper resolved into a narrow No, with the chamber's scepticism about new machinery outweighing the case for central grip on the new-towns programme.

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Nearly nine in ten voters here backed opening new markets for British beef, lamb and dairy, with the only real dissent clustered oddly among the 35-44s rather than falling along any obvious ideological line.

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Even the age group most sympathetic to blanket protection, the 55-64s, still broke against it by nearly two to one — a sign that scepticism here was about proportion, not principle, as voters rejected a flat £100m fix by five to one.

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A comfortable if not landslide Yes to a free day off for footballing glory, carried by youthful optimism while the over-65s, perhaps mindful of 1966 heartbreak repeated, were the only group to say no.

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The most striking thing about this vote for a modernising reform to the Lords is who resisted it most: not the young, who might be expected to bristle at gerontocracy, but women, who split almost down the middle while men backed change nine to one.

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A near-even split settled narrowly against Whitehall building homes itself, with the closest thing to a consensus coming from the 35-44s, prime-mortgage-age voters who rejected the idea most firmly of all.

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The chamber backed reform of NHS Continuing Healthcare funding by more than two to one, but the one group most likely to be drawing a state pension proved no more sceptical than anyone else — it was the 45-54s, midlife and often on the sharp end of both work and care duties, who alone split down the middle.

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A narrow win for deregulation dressed up as competitiveness, with the chamber's youngest voters near-unanimous for it while the middle-aged majority split down the middle — a technocratic question that mostly failed to generate a real fight.

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Approval for a technocratic NHS strategy is easy to win among men, who backed it three to two, but women who voted split the other way, against it two to one — a rare gender inversion in a health referendum.

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Britain-on-the-platform is not exactly split on this one: a near-unanimous chamber backed a national strategy to cut business energy costs, with just one dissenting vote out of fifty across every age group and gender.

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Voters here were happy to let someone else pick up the tab for cheaper business power, with only the 45-54s bucking a lopsided verdict that green levies should come off electricity bills.

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Even voters who came of age worrying about screen time balked at this one, with the chamber rejecting a voluntary curfew for teenagers by roughly six to one.

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Rarely does a question about space policy land so firmly on earth: four in five voters here backed prioritising growth and security in orbit, with barely a wobble across the generations.

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A narrow yes conceals a stark generational split: the young were nearly unanimous for preparedness campaigns, while the middle-aged 35-44s rejected the idea outright, and the older middle years stayed split down the middle.

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Some referendums split the country down the middle; this one barely found a country to split, with voters here backing a legal duty of candour for public officials by 62 votes to 3.

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Close enough at national level to look like a coin toss, but the near-unanimity hidden inside it — women here rejecting a settlements ban almost to a person, the 55-64s doing the same — tells a different story than the six-point margin suggests.

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The most striking wrinkle is a generational dip in the middle: this chamber decided a trillion is indeed too much for one man by three to two, yet the 35-44s alone bucked the trend, siding decisively with Musk's fortune while their elders and juniors did not.

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Business-cost arguments rarely unite a chamber this thoroughly, but reforming energy policy did, with four in five voters backing change and only the over-65s showing real hesitation.

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The scheme meant to ease prison overcrowding met a chamber that overwhelmingly rejected it, but the real surprise was who defected — pensioners, not the young, proved its most sympathetic audience.

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The narrowest of mandates for six weeks' paid paternity leave conceals a generational chasm: 25-34s, the age group actually having babies now, backed it almost unanimously, while every under-25 voter here said no.

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Rare consensus on a welfare question: nearly three in four voters here backed scrapping PIP for a new disability benefit, with the old and young most convinced and only the small female sample genuinely split.