Verdicts

The verdict

Consensus on hard power, but not quite uniform: the over-55s backed higher defence spending to a person, while the 45-54s were the only age group to recoil from it, splitting three to one against.

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A rare generational island: the 25-34s alone leaned toward a 2030 net zero deadline, while every other age band from 35 up rejected it almost to a person, sinking the plan three to one.

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A near dead heat that hides real fracture lines: the youngest voters overwhelmingly wanted an election Burnham has ruled out, while the 45-54s backed his caution most strongly of any group.

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Nearly a dead heat on UBI conceals a jagged age pattern that has nothing to do with generation: the young mostly said no, the 45-54s and over-65s said yes, and the 55-64s dug in hardest against it.

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Beavers turn out to be one of the least polarising creatures in British politics: voters here backed expanding licensed rewilding by roughly six to one, with the over-45s and women coming closest to unanimity.

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Nearly forty years after Margaret Thatcher sold off the pipes and wires, the verdict lands with unusual unity: privatisation has failed, said better than three in four voters, with barely a flicker of the age divide that usually splits these debates.

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A rare consensus crossed generations and genders alike, with every age band from twentysomethings to pensioners landing within a few points of each other on the City's outsized grip over Britain, YES prevailing 62-49.

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A licensing regime for every dog owner carried three to two here, but the real story is generational: support climbed almost in lockstep with age, from a young cohort that mostly said no to over-55s who said yes to a person.

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Trust in Whitehall to loosen its own purse strings turned out to be an age thing: only the under-35s were persuaded, before a wall of older sceptics buried the idea two to one.

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Voters here reached for sunlight over secrecy, backing a full lobbying register by better than three to one, though the youngest in the room were the only ones genuinely split on it.

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Nearly four in five voters here backed changing the law to deport the Rochdale ringleader, but the consensus cracked hardest along gender lines, not age, with women split evenly while men swung heavily behind removal.

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A modest majority for clipping ministers' wings on ambassadorial patronage, but the coalition behind it is anything but modest — women backed a parliamentary veto three to one while men were split down the middle.

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A modest win for extending auto-enrolment down to the lowest earners masked a generational dip: it was the youngest and the near-retired who backed it, while workers in their late thirties and early forties, presumably watching their own payslips shrink, pushed back hardest.

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A war bonds scheme for Britain's rearmament squeaked through by a single vote, the kind of margin that says the country hasn't made up its mind so much as split it clean down the middle.

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Even a nation famous for its licensing pedantry can find consensus when England are in the last 16: voters backed extending pub hours to 1am by four to one, with only the youngest holding out.

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A majority verdict that cut across almost every generation but one: voters here backed the claim of institutional bias against white British people by three to one among the middle-aged and over-55s, only for the over-65s to break the other way entirely.

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A verdict that looks decisive on paper but fractures oddly by generation: Labour's sharpest critics on this chamber's evidence weren't the greying voters of Tory folklore but the youngest cohort, while the 25-34s were the one group to actually back the government.

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Two to one, voters here sided with borrowers over the Treasury's ledger, reversing the freeze on repayment thresholds by a margin that held firm across almost every age group under 65.

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Close as the topline looks, this was no consensus: the 25-34s broke hard against Farage keeping his seat while every other working-age bracket from 35 to 54 backed him staying, a generational pincer that decided the thing.

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The clearest split here is not old versus young but the 35-44s marooned against everyone else: a solid national YES for a state housebuilding drive on social rented homes, carried by 45-54s voting unanimously and mid-career families alone dissenting.

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Nearly three to one, voters here declared the UK too London-centric, a verdict so evenly spread across generations that it looks less like a grievance and more like settled consensus.

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Yes carried 59 of 87 votes, but the headline hides a stark gender split: men backed the vocational shift three-to-one, women rejected it, 10 to 6.

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A near dead-heat: abolition edges it by two points on 86 votes, with the 25-34 bracket carrying the yes vote while older and younger groups pulled in opposite directions.

The verdict

A clear if not overwhelming win for codification: 62% Yes on a 24-point margin, with support holding up across every age band from 25 to 65+.