When it comes to the student vote timing is everything, pollsters have said

Close attention will be paid to the student vote during the election campaign. Indeed students appeared to have played a part in the haggling over a date for polling day.

This is due to one of the 2017 general election’s more surprising upsets. Students were blamed for robbing the Conservatives of Canterbury, a solid Tory seat for decades. It went Labour in some style two years ago after the party’s share of the vote almost doubled to 45 per cent.

The previous election in 2015 was held on May 7, a few days before Kent students and staff arrived back for the new term. The 2017 election was on June 8, near the end of term.

Pollsters warn that when it comes to the student