Jessica Elgot is joined by Will Tanner, Katy Balls and Rebecca Lowe to discuss a raft of new Conservative thinktanks formulating plans to connect with young voters. Plus author David Graeber discusses meaningless work and his new book Bullshit Jobs
At the launch of a new Tory thinktank, Ruth Davidson summed up one of the biggest problems her party faces at the next election: “Sometimes the Tories just look a bit dour. A bit joyless. A bit authoritarian.” This observation and the fact that the Conservatives are trailing Labour in every age group under 50 means there is an appetite for a major rethink. But can the Tories convince young voters to give them a hearing at the next election? How worried should Labour be?
Joining Jessica Elgot is Will Tanner, thedirector of Onward, Rebecca Lowe of Freer, a new free market pressure group, and Katy Balls of the Spectator.
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