There is no reason a green agenda can’t be a winner in the Red Wall, but not if it’s just the usual bundle of middle-class concerns.
There is deprivation and lower educational attainment in the southern new towns, coastal communities, inner cities and rural coldspots.
Stateside narratives have a tendency to be imported into UK politics – one of the knock-on effects of this messy Presidential election outcome.
If they can’t make a real impact on the lives of working class voters in provincial seats, Johnson will meet the same electoral fate as Trump.
I will be returning regularly to this theme: the need to create a mainstream English and Welsh majority from shore to shore.
Each time rioting is ignored by the police, we move one stop closer to allowing a tyrannical Twitter-dwelling minority to become very powerful indeed.
They don’t talk about politics in daily life; don’t write to local or national newspapers; most importantly, they’re not politically active online.
I have decided to write a second volume of my life of Johnson, who has always been an affront to serious-minded people’s idea of politics.
The Tories have an interest in a focus on values. Reports suggest that some in Downing Street are encouraging Johnson to launch a ‘war on woke’.
In many cases, they are ridiculed, stereotyped and portrayed as somewhere between bigoted and racist.
As with Brexit, the fundamentals of the Tory position are much stronger than they may seem to be.
The ideas of that decade are still with us, staggering around like a zombie in a garish “Global Hypercolor” t-shirt.
As a rule, the Conservatives are unclear about the politics of equality and identity. But there’s at least one Minister who isn’t.
It’s not only a matter of highly-skilled jobs for working class people. Firms like these gives cities like Derby a sense of immense civic pride.
Poor, white, working-class children are the group most in need to help. But theirs is not a fashionable cause.