Did the student vote skew the election?

TWO issues determined the outcome of the General Election: Labour’s bribing of students by promising to cancel tuition fees and the Conservative failure to communicate to the same generation that the ‘dementia tax’ would protect them from being saddled with the escalating cost of care for the elderly through higher taxation in the future. The increased political engagement of the young is welcome, but it is a pity they weren’t better educated to allow them to differentiate between short-term and long-term gain.

EVE GILLMON, Hale, Hants.

TUITION fees are a terrible debt for any young person. Of course they would take the chance to get rid of them — I would if I were 18. Why did the Conservatives do so well in Scotland? They don’t have tuition fees there, so the Labour pledge was irrelevant

ELIZABETH PRICE, address supplied. IT WAS the younger generation who set the narrative for the Election. They see everyone with social issues as a victim, the old as out of touch and a drain on resources, and Middle England as full of heartless Tories. In a few years they may come to a different conclusion.

TERENCE MURPHY, London SE3.

SO IT’S all right for the young to vote to spend, spend, spend through Jeremy Corbyn’s policies. But did any of them stop to think who, in the future, will be paying for it?

TERRY MANIFOLD, Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts. WHY are students allowed to vote in the town or city in which they are studying, rather than at their home address? Just look at the effect of the student vote on Canterbury, which had been a Conservative seat since 1918. The town will be stuck with a Labour MP long after the students who voted her in have graduated and moved away. GEOFFREY SMITHARD,

Hawkinge, Kent.