Rightwing movements are struggling to gain support among graduates as education emerges as the most important dividing line in British attitudes towards politics, diversity and immigration, research has found.

A study from the independent National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) found people with qualifications below A-level were more than twice as likely to support rightwing parties compared with those with qualifications above.

The Demographic Divides report says: “A person with no educational qualifications had around 2 times the odds of voting for either the Conservatives or Reform UK than someone with a university degree or higher. This is independent of other factors, including financial precarity, so those without a degree are more likely to support rightwing parties in the UK even after adjusting for their financial situation.

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The findings are to some extent mirrored in the US, where people with a high school education or lower were twice as likely as college graduates to support Donald Trump over Kamala Harris in 2024.

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Education divides attitudes on race, diversity and immigration more strongly in the UK than in the US, according to the study.

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When asked how far white people benefited from advantages in society that Black people did not have, 60% of people with a university or college degree in both countries said “a great deal” or “a fair amount”. Only 30% of those with qualifications below A-levels or less thought this in the UK, and 50% of high school graduates or lower in the US.

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