Julian Gallie: The mass desertion of working-age voters is an existential danger for the Tories | Conservative Home

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Blocking housing, boosting the triple lock, locking down to protect the old, funnelling money into the NHS, and increasing taxes on young aspirational workers to fund the benefits pensioners enjoy has led to a complete abandonment of the Party's working voters and a retired age group feeling ever more entitled to, and expectant of, government protection of their incomes and assets.
48% : But the polling shows that it will take more than a few gimmicks or tinkering with National Insurance to win back the trust of working-age voters and reverse the current, existentially-dangerous trend.
46% : In the most recent budget, Jeremy Hunt again cut National Insurance, a tax cut that exclusively benefits those of working age.

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