#youth-vote

#youth-vote

Pollster Luke Tryl, from More in Common, told a Tory conference fringe meeting: "At the last election the average age someone started voting Conservative was in their 60s. It's now even later. "The Conservatives are basically only being kept afloat in the polls at the moment by the over 75 age category. Obviously, for demographic reasons, that is not a sustainable place to be."

Tonight, we will celebrate the best result of all time, and my goal is for this to be just the beginning," party leader Sylvi Listhaug told her jubilant supporters on election night.

To keep chasing a youth vote that simply isn't there for Fine Gael, at the expense of loyal older voters, makes no sense.