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on the conservative party s tiktok account. hi, tiktok, sorry to be breaking into your usual politics free feed, but i m making a big announcement today and i ve been told that a lot of you already have some views on it. so, first thing no, i m not sending everyone off to join the army. what i am doing is proposing a bold new model of national service for 18 year olds. well, i want to bring in shona ghosh, from bloomberg. everyone here listening to rishi sunak there. give us the basics, shona, because lots of people will think of tiktok as a platform for kids who clearly don t vote, but who is consuming political content on tiktok? so tiktok itself has been trying to dispel the idea that it is mostly a platform, an app used by children. and that seems to be true. erm, it is also widely used by the elder millennials. ..won t say which camp i m in, and also gen z, erm, you know, which is a pretty big cohort and they can all vote and have often very strong political view ....
looking as though they are credible, their vote potentially is vulnerable. leave voters may well be defecting to the conservatives. but of course what is also intriguing about this is the swing you point out, that 6% swing to the conservatives, is actually bigger than you are currently seeing in a national polls. labour there for might want to say the local circumstances in copeland were particularly difficult but the reason why the local circumstances in copeland were particularly difficulties because of jeremy corbyn s reluctance about the nuclear industry, which in some voters minds is probably also tied to the fact he s also anti nuclear weapons. so although the difficulty might be local, i suspect for the critics of mr corbyn inside the labour party, they will be saying, look, this is exactly the problem withjeremy corbyn s look, this is exactly the problem with jeremy corbyn s leadership, thatis with jeremy corbyn s leadership, that is taking stances on issues th ....