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Voters want Gove to clean up his act on air pollution

Our Researcher, Eamonn Ives, has written for Red Box in the Times, on Bright Blue's recently released air pollution polling. In his article, he mentions how younger respondents were more likely to agree that a party pledging to cut air pollution would be more likely to get their votes. 

Here's an excerpt:

This anxiety about the impact of air pollution is not without political ramifications. Our polling found that a significant minority of adults (40%) were of the opinion that they would be more likely to vote for a political party which promised to cut air pollution. When looking at voters aged under 40 years old, however, this rises to 54%. In fact, generally, the younger a respondent was, the more likely they were to agree about the political importance of air pollution.

Read the full article here.