If the Conservatives want to win the hearts and minds of the under-25s they’d do better by incentivising vaccination
The Conservative party has a problem with the young. In the last general election fewer than one in six of the under-25s voted for Boris Johnson, and it is unlikely that the pandemic has improved matters.
While it’s the case that the elderly have been most at risk of contracting Covid-19 and dying from it, the economic cost has been highest for teenagers and those in their 20s. It is the young, whose jobs are disproportionately concentrated in the retailing and hospitality sectors, that have been most likely to be furloughed or made redundant.