Monday 27 December 2021

Labour voters less likely to get vaccinated

Perhaps counter intuitively, Conservative voters are more likely to get vaccinated against Covid-19 than Labour voters.  Some of this can put down to socio-economic and demographic differences, but there is still an effect after these are controlled for.  Why this should be so is unclear, given that in the US it is Republicans who are less likely to get a jab (and indeed Trump got booed by his own supporters when he revealed that he had had a booster).  It may be that some Labour voters do not trust messages from a Conservative Government: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/conservatives-are-more-likely-to-be-vaccinated-than-labour-supporters/

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