u/upthetruth1

This comes from Verian, a pollster:https://www.veriangroup.com/hubfs/UK/polling/method-and-tables/march-2026-.pdf who recently gave out this voting intention

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 25% (-2)
GRN: 20% (+7)
CON: 18% (-3)
LAB: 15% (-3)
LDM: 14% (+1)
SNP: 2% (-1)

Their data also says that Greens lead with 18-44yo, Reform leads with 45-64yo and Conservatives lead with 65yo+, which closely maps how important they consider immigration to be as you can see in the data. Younger people care more about the NHS, economic growth and housing. Older people care more about immigration and the NHS. The oldest age group care more than any other group about social care.

This is not to say Labour shouldn't deal with immigration, but clearly many young people care less about immigration and care more about affordable housing and the NHS, and since Greens lead with 18-24yo at 45%, evidently it seems many trust the Greens on this.

This also relates to Persuasion UK who suggested that Labour is losing left-of-centre voters on its rhetoric around immigration, especially "legal immigration", although many of them do agree about dealing with small boats, but small boats are a small proportion of total immigration.

It does seem Labour might soften when it comes to "legal immigration", at least how they might affect current immigrants with retroactive policies, but I also think they need to consider things like affordable housing which is the most important issue to 18-24yo and second most important issue to 25-34yo after the NHS. For example through building more council housing, because obviously the private sector is inept at building affordable housing.