Queen Mary’s Mile End Institute have released their latest (and largest) survey of party members and as ever it reveals a great deal, confirming some perceptions and confounding others. Here what I think the most interesting findings.
As I’ve written before, one of the biggest and most enduring myths about the people who have joined Labour under Jeremy Corbyn is that they are young: they’re not. The average age of a Labour party member is 53 – the average age in the United Kingdom is 40, a thirteen-year gap. (The youngest political party is actually the Liberal Democras, at 52, while the SNP’s members have a year on Labour’s at 54.)
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