If you want to understand why so much of the "red wall" fell and what is happening to the once profound connection between Labour and parts of the working class, take a look at this piece I made in Leigh with @LouisDegenhardt at the end of last week.
All the signs were there if you looked for them. Mansfield etc last time were the canaries down the mine. This rot has been setting in for many years, it’s bigger than Brexit AND Corbyn.
If you want to read more about what’s been going wrong for Labour with much of its historic working class base, a process which has been long in the making and to which Corbynism was itself a response, I wrote a book about it, Left for Dead, out now...
