Anglicans are still the “Tory party at prayer”, but the nation’s Roman Catholics and Muslims tend to favour the Labour Party, according to research.

Analysis of voting data by Theos, a religious think-tank, suggests that self-identifying Anglicans are consistently more likely to vote Conservative.
It says that despite a recent reputation for Church of England bishops to be “beardy lefties”, it is not so much Anglicans as “self-identifying Catholics” who are more likely to vote Labour.

The “nonconformist” or “other Christian” vote is more evenly split between the three main parties.

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