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Hello and welcome to a Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots,

The Spectators Daily and these days more than daily politics podcast.

So what is the issue that will decide the election?

The Tories want to make it about Brexit.

Labor's rather keen to talk about the NHS.

But there's one issue that has been rising in importance to voters over the past couple of years,

and that is the environment. UGov say that in the most recent poll they did on this, 27% of voters cited

the environment as one of the three top issues behind Brexit and health. Both main parties, as well

as the Liberal Democrats and Greens greens have environment policies that are

keen to push so to work out who has the best plan and who's putting at the top of their agenda

i am joined by grace blakley the author of stolen how to save the world and financialization and

ryan short house the director of Bright Blue.

Ryan, bright blue when it comes to, I know you're not a party-specific think tank, but when it comes to think tanks that are seen to, I suppose, have conversations with conservatives,

you've been ahead, I think, in identifying the environment as an issue that is of a concern to many voters,

particularly young voters. Have you seen over the past couple of years governments and

major parties taking more of an interest in it as an electoral issue? Definitely, yes. I mean,

we did a poll of younger adults just after the 2017 election.

Of course, the big thing there was younger people disproportionately voted for Labour.

And younger people, by the way, the bracket, thankfully, was under 40.

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