Britain's young people are radicalised and registered. Will this be our election? | Micha Frazer-Carroll

Our generation is even more politicised than in 2017, and the spike in registration is a reason to hope that change is comingIs the "youthquake" of 2017 about to be upstaged? After just a glimpse at the voter registration figures for the upcoming election, it looks as if the next quake might chart even higher on the Richter scale. More than 3 million people registered to vote between the election being called and the deadline - 875,000 more than the same period in 2017 - and two-thirds of them were under 35.There was a lot of debate surrounding 2017's surge in young voting, including whether or not it actually happened. After a "youthquake" was initially declared after the election, a widely reported paper based on the British Election Study claimed that there was no substantial rise in youth turnout - leading many to declare the "youthquake" a myth. But more recent analysis from political scientists Patrick Sturgis and Will Jennings, indicating a large increase in turnout in 2017 among under-30s, suggests it was real after all. There is also much we don't know about how this year's youth registration spike will affect the final result on 13 December. Continue reading...