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Essays Magazine June General Election

Was 8th June the revenge of the millennials?

No party can ignore the concerns of the young—they're angry and now they're voting

By Shiv Malik  
June 21, 2017
July 2017

Early on 9th June, the BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg pronounced the great lesson of 2017: “This is the election where young people started voting. And it may seem that for all the political parties, the demographics of who they have to please might be shifting.” Or, to put it more bluntly, ignore the generational divide at your peril.

Theresa May never addressed them, at least not coherently, and she has suffered the consequences. Just ask Rob Wilson, the parliamentary under secretary for civil…

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Shiv Malik

Shiv Malik is co-founder of the think tank The Intergenerational Foundation. He is also the co-author of "Jilted Generation: How Britain Bankrupted its Youth." His latest book "The Messenger," (Guardian/Faber) will be published in January

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