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Voter apathy

July 2024

  • Danny Sriskandarajah, British-Australian activist, born in Sri Lanka, who runs the UK thinktank the New Economics Foundation

    The radical who left Oxfam to fight for democracy: ‘Eight men have the same wealth as half the world. Where does this end?’

    Danny Sriskandarajah hoped this would be the century of the citizen. Instead the autocrats and the billionaires are on the march. Can his new book make a difference?
  • HMP Wandsworth prison on July 12, 2024 in London.

    Brief letters
    The crisis in the prison service goes back to a 1952 act nodded through parliament

    Letters: A fundamental review of jails | PR and voter turnout | Early-bird Guardian delivery | MPs on the buses – if they exist

    • The Guardian view on polling day: a moment to cherish and nurture democracy

    • Hold your nose and vote tactically on 4 July

    • Are you suffering from symptoms of hope? Here’s how to cope with the prospect of a Labour victory

      John O'Farrell

June 2024

  • Detail from election artwork by Katharine Hamnett that reads 'your vote is your most powerful tool'

    Anish Kapoor among artists featuring in youth vote billboard campaign

  • Lara Parizotto, fifth from the right, executive director of the Migrant Democracy Project, at the House of Commons.

    ‘Our voices are rarely in the conversation’: apathy rife among UK voters with immigrant roots

  • Mike Leigh at the Mediterrane film festival in Malta.

    Mike Leigh: Peterloo protesters would be ‘horrified’ by voter abstention

  • Karl Turner in a red jacket, holding a white dog and giving the thumbs up sign, in front of his constituency office decorated with Labour campaign posters

    ‘We’re taxing non-doms, not condoms!’: Labour strives to reconnect with disengaged voters

  • To the young people of Britain: if you want change, you need to vote for it

  • Will Gaza affect the election? In Ilford, I saw the ways it already has

    Nesrine Malik

  • Youth Takeover
    I never thought I’d abstain from voting, but many young people will – and can you blame us?

    Shaniya Odulawa

  • Polls predict a Labour win, but what does this mean for voter turnout?

  • UK voters: share if you are still undecided which party to back in the general election

April 2024

  • Elections for the Mayor and London Assembly under eased covid lockdown conditions, in Balham, Wandsworth, London, UK, on 06 May 2021.Covid rules and the desire to vote (with plenty of young people in evidence), led to queues at a polling station in Wandsworth.

    Young people in the UK: how do you feel about voting?

    We’d like to hear how people under 30 in Britain feel about voting in political elections, and whether they are planning to go to the polls this year

January 2024

  • Pre-election campaign in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK<br>COPY BY STEVE MORRIS Pictured: Labour supporter Charlotte Davies, 17. Tuesday 20 April 2020 Re: Pre-election campaign in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK.

    Voters want Labour to spell out its priorities and bring back a glimmer of hope

  • Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak attending the state opening of parliament in November.

    Low general election turnout likely with ‘dull as dishwater’ Sunak and Starmer

October 2023

  • Polly Toynbee

    Why are so many female voters undecided? Labour can engage them with policies, not politics

    Polly Toynbee
    Rachel Reeves’ plans would benefit women all over the country - commmunicating them properly will be key, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

September 2023

  • Polly Toynbee

    The Tories have warped an already crooked electoral system, pushing millions of voters off the roll

    Polly Toynbee
    British people have become disillusioned with democracy, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

May 2023

  • Children research<br>Embargoed to 0001 Friday July 7 File photo dated 03/12/03 of children during a lesson in a primary school. Encouraging pupils to argue and debate in class can help boost their results in English, maths and science, according to research. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday July 7, 2017. Getting primary school children to explain their answers and reason with their classmates can help youngsters to make more progress in these core subjects, it suggests. See PA story EDUCATION Argue. Photo credit should read: Barry Batchelor/PA Wire

    Starting young on the politics of argument

    Letters: John Sommer, Martin Cooper and Lyn A Dade respond to an article by Alastair Campbell on teaching politics in primary school
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