The Conservatives have a youth problem. The average age of a Tory party member is 57, Labour leads by 35 points among 18 – 24-year-old voters and – to add the cherry on the cake – those young conservatives who do wish to get involved have no obvious party youth organisation to join. So, surely it must have been a case of warm prosecco at the ready in CCHQ when the winner of this year’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here was announced.
The newly crowned queen of the ITV reality show – which boasts viewing figures over 12m – is not only a Tory but a young one at 23-years-old. Georgia ‘Toff’ Toffolo first made her name on Made in Chelsea, the E4 reality show, before charming the nation in the jungle. On Coffee House, The Spectator‘s resident ‘young person’ Nick Hilton describes her as Boris in a bikini (a compliment she describes in turn as ‘the most wonderful thing I’ve ever heard’) and heralds her as proof that millennials are, deep down, conservative.
Only there’s a problem, it appears that the brains at CCHQ think they have this one covered without her help.
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