Almost a decade ago after the BNP became the official opposition on Barking & Dagenham LBC, the then Labour government belatedly decided that the white British working class had become disenfranchised and needed some TLC.

In fact, Labour locally was remarkably successful in routing the BNP in the 2010 London elections, but the issue of how to meet the needs of the white working class, politically and economically, continues to this day. It was this grouping which provided the core membership for Ukip, which voted for Brexit, left Labour baffled nationally as to how to reach out again to what had been its traditional electoral base and is now on Theresa May's radar as ‘the left behind.'