Verdicts

The verdict

A scheme that resurfaces every decade or so found no more favour this time, with 35 to 48 voting it down, but the real fracture was generational, not ideological — the middle-aged flatly rejected it while pensioners embraced it.

The verdict

The clearest verdict came from the middle-aged, not the young: 45-54s and 35-44s swung decisively behind claims of two-tier justice, while it was the 25-34s who nearly split the difference, as this Birmingham flashpoint carried a 24-point yes verdict overall.

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Rarely does a Colombian bus contract produce consensus in Britain, but flexibility clauses did, carrying three in four voters across every age band while the sharpest divide ran between the sexes, not the generations.

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A verdict this close-fought still hides a stark generational split: the over-65s were unanimous that Farage is in deep trouble, while the 45-54s — Reform's electoral heartland — mostly waved the trouble away.

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A near dead-heat that hides a real fracture: the chamber split almost exactly down the middle on state-backed AI tutoring, but women broke for it while men turned firmly against, and parents' own age group, the 35-44s, delivered the most sceptical verdict of anyone.

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Support for tougher attendance rules split less by age than by gender, with men backing the guidance comfortably while women voted narrowly against it, even as the middle-aged 45-54 bracket bucked every other cohort by rejecting it outright.

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The verdict here isn't the three-to-one margin for reform but the generational cliff behind it: every over-55 who voted backed an overhaul, while the 25-34s and 45-54s split clean down the middle.

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A narrow endorsement of a 2050 farming blueprint, carried by younger and middle-aged voters while the oldest cohort here rejected it outright and women split against it.

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Even those most inclined to trust the government with the nuclear deterrent's price tag balked at doing so blind: nearly three in four voters here backed more parliamentary scrutiny of defence spending, with only the youngest voters evenly split.

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A near dead-heat nationally masks a striking generational split: the youngest voters overwhelmingly rejected state-mandated pension investment, while those approaching retirement backed it almost unanimously.

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Nuclear power's usual generational battle lines barely held here: this chamber backed keeping Sizewell B running to 2055 by roughly three to one, with only the youngest voters holding out against it.

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On a question that sounds like pure procedure, the chamber split by generation rather than politics: the 55-64s all but demanded MPs get on with it, while the over-65s, who'll live longest with the bill, turned against a debate by the end of 2026.

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Rejected two to one, further sanctions on Israel ran into a wall of scepticism among women here, who opposed the measure by nearly nine to one, while men were far more evenly split.

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Voters here sided decisively with the contractors' letter, backing continuity on the £725bn pipeline by roughly three to one, but the enthusiasm faded steadily with age, from unanimous support among the under-45s to a coin flip among the over-65s.

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A modest majority for tearing up Palantir's NHS contract, but the closeness masks a real split: the 25-34s, usually first to distrust anything data-related, were exactly torn down the middle.

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A vote this tight on compelling people to the ballot box split almost exactly along generational lines: the young voted it down, their elders voted it through, and the coin-flip national result (49-48) was really two electorates cancelling each other out.

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Voters here treated Burnham's rebrand with the same weary scepticism they'd apply to Johnson's original, delivering a two-to-one no that suggests devolution rhetoric alone no longer moves sceptics of levelling up.

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A near-deadlocked chamber landed on Yes, but the fault line was age rather than sex: the young and the youngest-old both broke decisively for the idea that levelling incomes strengthens democracy, while the middle-aged pulled the other way.

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A clear enough win for tougher HMRC enforcement conceals a striking generational U-turn: it was the youngest and oldest voters who backed the crackdown hardest, while the middle of working life — those actually running or dealing with small companies — split down the middle.

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A near dead-heat on bank taxes split cleanly by age: the young voted almost unanimously to squeeze the banks, older voters dug in against it, and the whole result turned on that generational gap.

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A modest win for community energy on the scoreboard masks a striking gender split: men backed council-funded schemes better than two to one, while women leaned against, 9 to 5.

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The chamber backed electrifying Britain's homes and industry two to one, but conviction thinned sharply with age: the young were near-unanimous, the over-55s the only group to actually resist.

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A future-tax-yourself question split the chamber less by generation than logic might suggest, with only the near-retired 65+ crowd firmly convinced, while voters approaching pension age themselves stayed evenly torn on paying more in now for more later.

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Beneath the comfortable two-to-one win for looser planning rules sits a straightforward generational fault line: almost every voter under 55 backed building, while the 55-64s turned against it nine to two.