‘Austerity, That’s What I Know’: The Making of a Young U.K. Socialist - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/world/europe/britain-austerity-socialism.html
The general election of 2017 exposed the starkest generation gap in the recent history of British politics. Young voters broke dramatically for the Labour Party, whose socialist leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has promised to rebuild the welfare state and redistribute wealth. Hardened against the centrists of their parents’ generation, they have tugged the party to the left, opening up rifts that are now fracturing Labour.