The Tory vote might be tanking among the under-40s but don’t despair: Michael Gove is here to save the day once more. The Levelling Up Secretary did the media round on Sunday morning, talking up his plans to get young people on the housing ladder. It came after his interview in the Sunday Times in which Gove intoned gravely that:
If people think that markets are rigged and a democracy isn’t listening to them, then you get an increasing number of young people saying: “I don’t believe in democracy. I don’t believe in markets.” And you can see that in polling.
Worrying stuff. So, who exactly constitutes this dire threat to democracy? Well, er, it seems that it’s the Conservative party. For while Gove was out declaring that helping young people access new homes was Rishi Sunak’s top priority, the Tory candidate in the Kingswood by-election revealed that he is running a single-issue campaign to stop 6,000 new homes being built.
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