Analysis: Comparisons between President Trump and Boris Johnson tend to be superficial. But British politics may start to feel a lot more American after this week's elections.
In Britain’s uninspiring and relatively uneventful general election campaign, featuring two prospective prime ministers—Conservative incumbent Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn—with low approval ratings and plenty of baggage, one image sticks out. It’sof a dozen or so workmen at an industrial plant in Teesside, a port in the north-east of England where Johnson made a campaign stop a few weeks ago.
As the average Labour voter gets younger and better off, and is more likely to have a college degree and more likely to be non-white than was once the case, the party starts to resemble the Democrats more closely. For Conservatives, the party’s base is trending older and whiter, compared with national demographics, and is less likely than the rest of the electorate to have a college degree. This will ring a bell to observers of the Republican Party in recent years.
, a lecturer at the University of Bristol, shows. Using data from the British Electoral Study, the most authoritative survey of voters in the UK, she demonstrates how voters with economically left-wing views on the merits of redistributive policies, free enterprise and trade unions
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