Next UK election set to be most unequal in 60 years, study finds

Voter turnout gap between top and bottom earners growing since 60s, says IPPR thinktank

The next election is set to be the most unequal in 60 years thanks to a rising gap in voter turnout based on age, income, class, home ownership and ethnicity, a new study has found.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a centre-left thinktank, found that the turnout gap was negligible between social groups in the 1960s, but that it had grown by 2010 to 18 percentage points between the top set of earners - who are more likely to vote - and the bottom set.