Education and Ideological Variance

Interesting British finding about how people vary within the left or right by education. In this poll, economic views vary across the horizontal line, while social views vary vertically. Leftists broadly agree about economics, but vary a lot on social issues; more educated leftists are generally more socially liberal than less-educated leftists.

Among conservatives (the blue dots across the top), there is much agreement about social issues. The variance is mainly about economic issues, with more educated rightists having more conservative economic views.

In this poll many less educated Brits of the left and right are in the upper left political quadrant, socially conservative and economically liberal. But there is no strong party representing that position because party leaders are drawn from the college educated, who are in the lower left or upper right quadrant.

Via Tom Harwood on Twitter/X.