“When a government makes its citizens poorer, less safe, and increasingly voiceless, then dismisses their anger as prejudice for daring to notice, it is no longer governing. It is insulting the intelligence of the electorate.

Labour did not lose because of messaging. They lost because people experienced the consequences firsthand. In shrinking pay packets, in unsafe streets, in collapsing public confidence, and at borders that appear to exist purely as decorative suggestions.”