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‘I’m ashamed to be a Brexit voter – it never occurred to me that my holidays would be affected’ (inews.co.uk)

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[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

How do you figure? I'm seeing that voter turnout was 72%, which is higher than even the general election, and it's unlikely that improving that even among young voters probably wouldn't have made a difference.

https://academic.oup.com/economicpolicy/article/32/92/601/4459491?login=true

We also carry out a back-of-the-envelope calculation regarding turnout. Young people voted overwhelmingly in favour of Remain but had a lower turnout than older age groups. We find that a higher turnout of young voters would have been very unlikely to result in a different referendum outcome, partly because their turnout was already elevated compared with previous UK-wide elections.