And in the streets around the town’s Victoria Park, there isn’t much enthusiasm for Johnson’s party.

Selma, who doesn’t want to give her full name, is unimpressed with Johnson and won’t be voting for his party. “He keeps going on about letterboxes,” she said. “I know a lot of people hate him, I’ve had a lot of discussions, they just don’t like him.”

Rosama Nawaz, 22, is a politics graduate who works for a mental health access project. She is voting Labour. “I want a Jeremy Corbyn government,” she said, adding that Islamophobia is “a problem with Muslims who vote Conservative.”

“They think if they ignore it enough it’ll go away,” she said.

Zenab, who doesn’t want to give her full name, is also voting Labour. “I want someone with a bit of credibility representing us on an international stage and I don’t trust Boris Johnson at all.”

She thinks the Tory Islamophobia issue is well known here and that it will lose them votes among Muslims who have supported them in the past. “I know a few,” she said.

According to research from the Runnymede Trust, Muslim voters were overwhelmingly backing Labour by the time of the last general election. The organisation found: “Labour did especially well among Muslim voters in 2017; in 2015, Labour received 74% of votes from British Muslims — in 2017, this had risen to 87%.”

This was put down to a number of factors, including former Lib Dem voters who had opposed the Iraq War switching back to Labour and Conservative austerity measures hitting ethnic minority voters.

However, there is still a margin for the Conservatives to lose more votes. Following an unprecedented intervention by the chief rabbi, who criticised Labour’s record on anti-Semitism, the MCB issued its own unprecedented statement, saying: “the Conservative Party [have] approached Islamophobia with denial, dismissal and deceit.”

“British Muslims — whilst from the most disadvantaged communities and rarely allowed a voice in the public space — will listen to the Chief Rabbi and agree on the importance of voting with their conscience,” it added.

