Both Corbynism and Labour’s pro-second referendum position are merely symptoms of a much more complex and more deeply entrenched cause: the capture of public institutions, particularly those aligned with or sympathetic to the wider Left movement such as universities, think tanks, and trade unions, by a liberal class with an almost libertarian social intention. A class who, after the economic liberalisation of the 1980s, misunderstood its own organised resistance to the more conservative-minded as a project rooted in the aims and objectives of working people.

In doing so they exhibited the perhaps unavoidable tendency of elites throughout history to universalise their particular interests. This bourgeois liberalism, in both its Blairite and Corbynite forms, which so precisely addressed the socio-economic anxiety of the upper-middle class, was projected onto a working class who did not benefit from its consequences.

High levels of population churn threatened community cohesion, an encroaching globalised economy destroyed decent work, while family breakdown and an attendant mental health crisis overwhelmingly affected the poorest families and children.

As with the vote to leave the EU three and a half long years ago, the working-class Tory vote in this election was, perversely, a vote for sanctuary from this ongoing economic and cultural war. A war which many on the liberal Left, both ‘centrist’ and Corbynite, didn’t realise they were fighting, having considered their side of the argument an objective presentation of the facts rather than a policy choice. A vote to ‘Get Brexit Done’ was to vote against the malaise of this progressive inevitability. So in the upcoming Labour leadership election, remember this: shiny centrism, worn smooth with presumptive power, has as little to say to these voters as the supposedly radical Left.