Research shows voters losing faith in traditional centre-left and centre-right to deliver meaningful change
Alternative for Germany supporters attend the party’s election campaign launch in Halle, 25 January 2025. Younger and older voters in Germany were equally likely to be ‘outsiders’, the TBI’s research found.Alternative for Germany supporters attend the party’s election campaign launch in Halle, 25 January 2025. Younger and older voters in Germany were equally likely to be ‘outsiders’, the TBI’s research found.
“Whatever voters are looking for, they increasingly seem to doubt that it can be delivered by the parties they have traditionally elected to office,” the report said. Across the countries surveyed, there was a high degree of economic pessimism among voters, who expected children born today to be worse off than their parents. This feeling was most acute in the UK – where 49% expected children to be worse off, compared with 26% who expected them to be better off – and in Australia and France.
The report concluded that “the key to bringing coalitions back together is effective delivery” and “paradoxically, modern technology can offer part of an answer”. It suggested that, for example, introducing digital IDs, which the UK government has backed, could help assuage concerns about controlling immigration.Reform UK supporters wait for a speech by Nigel Farage in Clacton-on-Sea, England, on the last day of the general election campaign, 3 July 2024.
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