{"id":967,"date":"2017-09-08T12:07:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/?p=967"},"modified":"2017-09-08T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:07:29","slug":"did-the-youth-sway-the-uk-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"Did the youth sway the UK election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-969\" src=\"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/gramzon-Ballot-box-2400px.png\" alt=\"gramzon-Ballot-box-2400px\" width=\"2143\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/gramzon-Ballot-box-2400px.png 2143w, https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/gramzon-Ballot-box-2400px-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/gramzon-Ballot-box-2400px-914x1024.png 914w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2143px) 100vw, 2143px\" \/>When Theresa May called a snap election this summer, she was on track to cement her\u00a0parliamentary\u00a0majority and strengthen her hand in the Brexit negotiations to come. But for her, and for the Conservative party, the election was a train crash \u2013 returning her as head of a minority government. Since then, politicians and analysts\u00a0have been\u00a0scratching their heads to figure out how her seemingly unassailable lead was largely eaten up by the opposition Labour Party. Could it have been a surge in young anti-Brexit, anti-austerity voters? I\u00a0went to Northern England to find out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/gramzon-Ballot-box-2400px.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"audioBoom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/6281317-did-the-youth-vote-swing-the-uk-elections\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAADZ2slll2F8A\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Theresa May called a snap election this summer, she was on track to cement her\u00a0parliamentary\u00a0majority and strengthen her hand in the Brexit negotiations to come. But for her, and for the Conservative party, the election was a train crash \u2013 returning her as head of a minority government. Since then, politicians and analysts\u00a0have been\u00a0scratching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}