From excited to disillusioned: under-30s on politics and voting in UK elections

Some are optimistic about a change of government after the next general election while others are frustrated with both main parties

Joshua Holmes, 29, from Barton Hill, Bristol, went out to vote in the local elections on Thursday afternoon.

“The polling station was pretty quiet,” he said, “I was probably the youngest person there, and the only person in my shared house that voted.”