Alastair Campbell
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is the most believing that we need to do a lot more on mental health.
81% are rooted patriots.
So what that says to me is that the red wall that we often get portrayed as homogenous, it's all about farrage, populism, Brexit, etc.,
Probably because of their lived experience of family or self, they are the keenest or the strongest believers that we have to do moral mental health.
I thought it was really interesting.
Yeah.
No, I thought it was really interesting.
And what it says to me, and look, I've been saying this ever since the election, that I think the government should be doing way more on mental health.
And I keep hearing that something is coming and let's hope that that's true.
What that polling says to me is that politically,
This is a much stronger and more important issue than people realize.
And it also relates, a lot of it, to young people as well who are feeling a bit kind of let down by the government.
Yeah, I guess the question is there is how much of this is a consequence and how much is a cause.
Look, you've got to deal with all of those things, but I think on its own terms, and you will get people still who will say, although I hope this polling might actually get people to dial down on the kind of woke, you know, generation, Gen Z, just everything is terrible and anxiety.
There's no doubt anxiety is a real thing and has grown particularly amongst young women.
Well, it's the things that we've already done.
It's talking therapy.
And there is the data there to show how effective it is.
It's not always effective, and it's not effective for everybody.
If you can get talking therapies for people who are starting to feel anxious, depressed...