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49%

Only 49% of people in England said they had enough information on candidates to make an informed choice in May 2025 polling.

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34%

Turnout in the May 2025 local elections in England stood at 34%.

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7.7x

In 2024, the median home in England cost 7.7 times the median annual earnings of a full-time employee.

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£15k

Resolution Foundation framed British workers as living through a two-decade wage stagnation costing around £15,000.

Receipt 01

49%

Claim

Only 49% of people in England said they had enough information on candidates to make an informed choice in May 2025 polling.

The democratic gap is not only turnout. It is information quality, local media weakness, and whether voters can see who is asking for power.

Source

Electoral Commission (Internet Archive copy)

Source date

9 July 2025

Checked

4 July 2026

Confidence

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Do not stretch this to the whole UK, to general elections, or to a claim that voters know nothing about candidates. It is one survey question about the May 2025 local elections in England.

Receipt 02

34%

Claim

Turnout in the May 2025 local elections in England stood at 34%.

Low turnout is not a reason to sneer at voters. It is a product-design failure in democracy: unclear stakes, low trust, and weak local information.

Source

Electoral Commission (Internet Archive copy)

Source date

9 July 2025

Checked

4 July 2026

Confidence

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Do not quote this as UK-wide turnout or general-election turnout, and do not use it to claim a single cause. It covers the May 2025 local elections in England only.

Receipt 03

7.7x

Claim

In 2024, the median home in England cost 7.7 times the median annual earnings of a full-time employee.

Housing scarcity is not abstract ideology. It is the everyday price of a country that lets veto power outrank future households.

Source

Office for National Statistics

Source date

24 March 2025

Checked

4 July 2026

Confidence

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Do not present this as a London figure, a UK-wide ratio, or a deposit calculation. It is the England-wide median home price against median full-time earnings for 2024.

Receipt 04

£15k

Claim

Resolution Foundation framed British workers as living through a two-decade wage stagnation costing around £15,000.

The pro-growth argument needs to connect national stagnation to personal lost capacity, not just GDP abstractions.

Source

Resolution Foundation

Source date

18 November 2022

Checked

4 July 2026

Confidence

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Do not treat the £15,000 as an official statistic or as money deducted from anyone's pay. It is Resolution Foundation's 2022 counterfactual: real wages around £15,000 a year lower by 2027 than if pre-2008 growth had continued.

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