How do you solve a problem like the Conservative youth vote?

How do you solve a problem like the dwindling Conservative youth vote? That’s the question Tories have been grappling with today at the Bright Blue conference. As party members gathered at the liberal Conservative think tank event, one remarked that what the party needed was a Tory version of Momentum – ‘we’ll only be fine when a Conservative politician can go to Glastonbury and not be booed’.

While that seems a rather ambitious feat, Damian Green did manage to set out some of the changes he thinks the party needs to make in order to win back young metropolitan voters at the next election. With the Tories lagging behind Labour by 30pc among 18- to 35-year-olds, the First Secretary of State said his party could not just ‘stay calm and carry on’. Instead, they need to ‘change hard’. In a sign that this sentiment is echoed across the government, it’s telling that many of the lines from Green’s speech were pre-briefed out by No 10.