Verdicts

The verdict

A technical fix to close a bureaucratic gap for children already born on British soil still met resistance, as No carried the floor by fourteen points on a question with barely any political charge to speak of.

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When even the CBI's usual sparring partners agree, you get a rout: voters here backed stripping policy costs from business energy bills four to one, a rare cross-generational consensus on where growth is supposed to come from.

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A vote that pits a nearly unanimous BMA ballot against a much more sceptical general public: the 99% of GPs who rejected the contract find little echo among voters here, who split against collective action by a solid 18-point margin.

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Rare for a bureaucratic process question to unite a chamber, but this one nearly did — four in five voters backing UKRI's plan to halve grant processing times, with scepticism confined to a handful of dissenters scattered across every age group.

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Three in four voters here backed tougher sanctions on Russia's FSB and GRU, a rare moment of near-uniform consensus that cut across every age bracket without exception.

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This was less a debate than a near-consensus with one visible fault line: the 25-34s were the only age group to split at all, five of them voting no while every other generation from teenagers to pensioners lined up almost solidly behind designating the IRGC and HAYI as terror groups.

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The under-35s carried this one almost to a person, while their elders split down the middle on committing £3.85bn a year to keep Britain cool — a generational hunch about climate costs, not a national consensus.

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Twelve years on from 2014, the arithmetic barely moved: a chamber that split much like the country did then delivers a clear No, 73 votes to 42, with the 55-64 bracket the most immovable against.

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Nearly two to one for guns before butter, but the enthusiasm belonged almost entirely to the over-25s: the youngest voters, who inherit both the tax bill and the welfare state being weighed against it, were the only age group to say no.

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A near-tie on paper masks a real fracture: the 25-34s broke decisively for the escalation risk while their elders in the 55-64 bracket, Britain's largest bloc here, shrugged it off — a rare case of youth sounding the alarm and the middle-aged staying calm.

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Three in four voters here backed a legal cap on workplace heat, but the loudest consensus came from the group you'd least expect to need it: the 25-34s, who backed a legal cap almost unanimously, while their older colleagues in the 35-44 bracket split clean down the middle.

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Even the people who like the joke didn't back it winning: the chamber decided Count Binface will not defeat Nigel Farage in Clacton, by three to two, sentiment and electoral realism pulling apart.

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Reform's usual profile — young, insurgent, generational — is nowhere to be found here: every age band from 16 to 65-plus backed change, a rare instance of a constitutional question uniting the generations rather than dividing them, as the platform delivered a clear if not overwhelming 59% for proportional representation over first past the post.

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Skeptics narrowly had it on whether Andy Burnham would be Labour's better bet than Keir Starmer, but the topline hides a striking gender gulf: men leaned strongly for Burnham, women decisively against.

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The generational lines here run backwards from the usual script: it was the youngest voters, not the oldest, who pushed back hardest against the "danger to British culture" framing, while the 35-64s carried Yes by close to four to one.

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A decade after the law changed, the chamber has essentially settled the argument in its favour, backing the idea that marriage equality strengthens Britain by two to one, with barely a fracture along the lines that once defined this debate.

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Six in ten voters here judged that diplomacy beat war, but the one age group that came of age watching Iraq and Syria unravel — the 35-44s — were the sole holdouts against that verdict.

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The one age band that broke the other way was 35-44 — the only cohort to reject warfighting readiness reforms, and by nearly two to one, while the rest of the chamber backed them three to one.

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The instinct here was managerial, not martial: voters on refnation preferred converting cash into capability over chasing a bigger GDP number, carrying the question two to one even as men split almost down the middle on it.

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A narrow win for the economists' arithmetic: voters here backed the £40 billion case for international students by 55%, but the closeness suggests the ledger doesn't settle the argument.

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Rarely does Westminster manage to unite the 16-24s and the 65+s, but bills did it: nearly three in four voters here backed tearing up the way energy is charged, a rare cross-generational consensus in a country otherwise split on almost everything else.

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A comfortable win for scepticism about goodwill-based conservation, but the real split runs through gender: men here leaned towards trusting landowners to do right by nature voluntarily, women didn't, by a wide margin.

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Voters here backed a higher pension squeeze on their own pay packets by three to two, with the strongest enthusiasm from the 25-34s who have decades left to feel the deduction and the least from those already mid-career.

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Nearly three to one, and across every age band from Gen Z to pensioners, the chamber concluded that Britain's flagship AI watchdog is a monitor without a muzzle — a verdict on the institution's design as much as its intent.