Exclusive: Labour 'Risks Losing A Generation Of Young Voters' To Greens And Reform, MP Warns |
Exclusive: Labour 'Risks Losing A Generation Of Young Voters' To Greens And Reform, MP Warns
Luke Charters issued his warning as the party braces itself for the elections on May 7.
Political Correspondent
Labour risks losing “a generation of young voters” to the Greens and Reform, according to one of its own MPs.
Luke Charters told HuffPost UK that Labour has always been the “party young people backed when it mattered”.
But he warned: “If we don’t show we’re serious about delivering, we risk losing a generation to populists peddling false hope.”
His remarks come less than two weeks before voters head to the polls for local elections in England, and elections in the Welsh Senedd and Holyrood.
Polls suggest Labour are on course to potentially lose up to 2,000 English councillors, be defeated in Wales for the first time and see the SNP triumph in Scotland once again.
YouGov’s latest polls show the Greens are the most popular party among 18-24 year-olds on 36%, while Labour behind on 24% and Reform UK sit at 7%.
All three parties are much closer when it comes to 25-49-year-olds, though Greens still have a lead on 25%, Reform on........