Young Tories Square

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00:00There has been a real lack of attention on the issues that really matter to younger people.

00:05Obviously the exit poll has come out, it's quite likely that the word

00:08disaster is going to get thrown around tonight. How are you feeling right now?

00:11So there's some disappointments, obviously you know

00:15there's no way of dressing it up, it's a bad result.

00:17The small silver lining is that some of the new candidates who have got in for the first time

00:24very much subscribe to the Next Gen Tories worldview. They want to build more homes,

00:28they want to build more critical national infrastructure. I actually think it's inevitable

00:32that the Conservative Party moves in the direction that we want to go in.

00:35You're grinning, so you're happy?

00:37There's a silver lining. I'm not happy, there's a silver lining.

00:40I think the last poll I looked at said it was around 8% of 18 to 24 year olds voting Conservative.

00:44Do you think that the Tory party have failed Gen Z in this campaign?

00:48I think that there has been a real lack of attention on the issues that really matter

00:52to younger people. Issues like housing, the ability to start your own family

00:56and work, making work pay and taxes on work. When you look at that data, that polling data,

01:02people infer from that that younger people aren't Conservative and I don't think that's

01:06necessarily the case. For example, Reform have actually done very well on picking up the younger

01:10vote, particularly the younger male vote, but they think that the Conservative Party

01:14doesn't speak to their issues.

01:15I think some people in central office did, said

01:18everybody who's not a pensioner isn't going to vote for us, let's focus on pensioners.

01:22Even if you get a large proportion of those people voting for you,

01:24of those pensioners, it's still going to be a challenge, right?

01:28It will die eventually.

01:29That's a macabre point. I think we will get to the position we want to get to.

01:33The question now for the Conservative Party is do we do it in five years, do we do it in 10 years

01:36or 15 years? And the quicker we do it, the quicker we'll get into power.