The Tories Could be A Dead Party in My Lifetime

I will not mourn its extinction

It’s “common knowledge” (though one I would challenge) that people get more conservative as they get older because they have something to conserve (like a house, income, pension etc). In a recent piece in the Financial Times called “Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics” research shows that this increased conservatism is slowing in GenX and non-existent among millennials.