government or by social distancing i caught up with the author lesley university academic dr kim milburn i began by asking why children no longer voted the same way as their parents' generation leftist explains a phenomenon that's emerged over the really of the last 5 years in which a huge generation gap has opened up a political generation gap has opened up young people attend to them up to vote for the left. and also to take on leftwing opinions and older people particularly over 50 five's agenda to vote for the right not always been like them well actually in the 1000 a 3 election the conservatives got more votes among 18 to 30 year olds in it than the labor party so it's not always like there is a general post-war trend right that people tend to get more conservative as they get older but that's been interrupted over the last 5 years and one of the one of the strange things is that the so there's some really really quickly. so it's not really visibly in the 2010 general election here the conservatives just one point below labor in that in a vote share sort of visible in 2015 but not