This calendar week Election Data published an interactive map to visualize the internet migration information for areas of the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland to & from London. The map shows whether to a greater extent than people inwards each local authorisation expanse inwards England motility to London or direct keep moved from London into the area. The map every bit good provides a rather great visualization of why the Conservative Party could hold out inwards problem inwards its traditional heartland of the S east.
Moving inwards to together with out of London, 2013-2016 is a choropleth map of information from the Office for National Statistics. The darker colors demonstrate local authorisation areas where at that topographic point is a internet population make from London. Where to a greater extent than people are moving into the expanse from London than are moving to the capital. The lightest colored areas demonstrate local regime where to a greater extent than people are moving to London than emigrating from London.
In gist the map seems to demonstrate that the S E has had a internet growth inwards people moving from London spell some areas of the Midlands together with the northward direct keep seen a internet decrease, every bit to a greater extent than people direct keep moved from these areas to the capital. It is every bit good provides a rather great visualization of an Election Data article published this calendar week inwards the Guardian newspaper, How the Conservatives lost their domicile counties heartland.
In the Guardian article Election Data's Ian Warren argues that the exodus of people inwards their 30s together with 40s from London to the S E is bad intelligence for the Conservative Party, because immature people tend to vote to a greater extent than for the Labour Party. According to the Economist "Conservatives overtake Labour every bit the political party of alternative from roughly the historic menstruum of fifty inwards virtually polls". An influx of immature families into the traditional Tory heartland could so testify disastrous for the Conservative Party.
