Voters in west divided more by identity than issues, survey finds

Exclusive: Political clans in UK and elsewhere profess mutual loathing but often align on substance of debates

People are divided more deeply by identity than by issues, according to a survey that suggests culture wars are fuelled mostly by partisanship and that voters have more in common than many think.

The YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project found that in particularly polarised countries including the US and UK, political clans that profess mutual loathing often align on the substance of debates, even in highly charged areas such as sexism and racism.