The truth is that many white working class people no longer have a natural political home. They see a political class in Westminster which now looks the same, dresses the same way, and speaks the same strange language.

Against a prevailing headwind of so much authoritative opinion about the importance of EU membership to their own livelihoods, people from these working class communities overwhelmingly decided on something different.

The key of course is community. It is within close-knit communities that shared experiences and outlook are formed, where private conversations touch on far more sensitive issues and have more passion than we politicians dare. And so Britain’s working classes decided quietly and collectively that the change they wanted was bigger than anything we at Westminster were offering.

Immigration of course tops the list. Even in places with low levels of immigration, this issue trumped all others on the doorsteps. For many people who don’t feel a part of this new age of globalization, who are stuck in jobs paying barely more than minimum wage, who despair at their hollowed-out town centres, immigration is a proxy for all their concerns: opportunity, wages, housing, the future.

In communities which have changed rapidly over two decades or less as a direct result of immigration then feelings can run even stronger.