General Election 2017 Analysis Suggests Young Turnout Wasn't What Produced Shock Result

This has been called the election where young people turned out to deliver a shock result.
The shock result has been attributed to a surge in turnout among the young, which denied the Tories their expected landslide result, humiliating Theresa May with a hung parliament.
The view was encouraged by Labour’s manifesto policies aimed at the young, such as free university tuition.
As the shock result came in, it became conventional wisdom, with celebrities like Lily Allen tweeting “respe