Vicky Spratt
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the cost of living, the price of everything.
And after that, immigration.
So cost of living,
Immigration, and then the third in the top three of their concerns, our economy.
So that tells you that Gen Z are plugged in and rightly, I think, worried about what is going on in our economy.
But immigration particularly stood out to me because that's not something you associate with young people.
We've got a bit of a misconception in this country that's something that only older people, perhaps reading the right-wing tabloids, are worried about.
And that's just not the case.
And then finally, really, really sad, but economic optimism, really, really, really low figures.
72% think that this is going to get worse.
This is it, Rory, and I think this is really, really under-reported.
Young women are going to the Greens in big numbers, and they are, by many metrics of polling, not just done in Britain but across the world, more left-wing than men of the same age.
There could be many reasons why that is happening, but the impact on our politics is enormous.
Of course, Andy Burnham is in the news all the time at the moment.
and so is Zach Polanski.
But I suppose to challenge your idea a bit there, Alistair, Nigel Farage is in the news a lot too, and he came out on this polling pretty badly.
So you could argue that young people were looking at who they were being presented with in the
Polanski came after Andy Burnham.
But when you look at it, there are quite a lot of young people who also are dissatisfied with how Zach Polanski is doing.
Keir Starmer comes fairly low down the list, but sitting prime ministers always do.