As a 22-year-old first-time voter, I have been considering who to vote for.

As a student, paying top-up fees, I have not always been enamoured of Labour, neither of the other parties hold much appeal. Leaving aside the Lib Dems, neither the Greens nor the Tories are that attractive.

The Greens appear opportunistic; especially in the way they unceremoniously dumped Keith Taylor. The Tories still seem to be stuck in the 1980s with their out-of-date attitudes to families, and their protection and extension of wealth through further inheritance tax concessions to the rich.

So I was pleasantly surprised when a young woman approached my door and said she was there on behalf of the Conservative Party. How, I wondered, had the Conservatives shed their elitist image and finally widened their demographic to engage the support of such a person? What could they offer to young people, students, sexual and ethnic minorities and women?

“I should tell you that I’m almost certainly voting Labour,” I began. To my surprise my visitor merely smiled. “Me, too,” she said. “But these guys are paying me.”

Jack Kiffin
Friar Road, Brighton