An overwhelming majority of the public (87%) have never read either a political manifesto or Liz Truss’s latest book ‘Ten Years to Save the West’

• Only one in ten (11%) of the population have ever read a political manifesto

• There is a clear gender divide between those who choose to read manifestos and those who do not, with 14% of men having read one and only nine percent of women having done so, a difference of five points

• Only one percent of the public have read Liz Truss’s book ‘Ten Years to Save the West’. It is worth noting that trnslates to 17 people in a sample of 2,000

• Men are twice as likely to have read Liz Truss’s latest book than women, with 12 of the 17 being men, and the remaining five being women

• Green Party voters are by far the most likely to have read a political manifesto, with one in four (26%) having done so

• Labour voters are more likely to have read a manifesto than Conservative voters, with 14% of Labour voters having read one compared to only five percent of Conservatives

• Younger voters are more politically versed than their older counterparts, with 12% of 18–24-year-olds having read a manifesto, compared to five percent of those over 65