Collapse of the Labour 'Youthquake' - Support for Corbyn's party drops 14 points since July 2017

Support for Jeremy Corbyn‘s Labour party among 18 to 24 year olds has dropped by 14 points since July 2017 a new poll has shown.

The Yougov poll, conducted for the Times Red Box, has shown support for the party among young people has dropped from 73% in July 2017 to 59%, according to a poll this month.

In the same period Conservative support has grown from 15% to 20%, while support for alternative parties, including the Greens, has risen from 4% to 14%.

The Liberal Democrats have seen no change with just 7% of young voters planning on supporting the party which famously did a u-turn on abolishing tuition fees when the party entered a coalition government with David Cameron‘s Tories in 2010.

A senior Labour figure told the Times: “Corbyn is a fashion item, and the problem with fashion items is they go out of fashion.”

‘What could possibly be turning off millions of young Europhile millennials who hoped Magic Grandpa would save their futures from the jaws of Brexit?’

The popularity of the Labour leader has led to chants of ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’ everywhere from Glastonbury to screenings of the 2018 World Cup but the so-called ‘youthquake‘ failed to help the veteran into office.

Support among young people for Corbyn led to the term ‘youthquake’ being added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

However, a British Election Study report published earlier this year claimed that there was no evidence to support an increase in voter turnout among young people and the term was based partly on assumption and partly on flawed post-ballot polling.