The Left Behind: Reimagining Britain's Socially Excluded

Examines the ways in which the 'Left Behind' have been used to symbolize and foment social divisions in contemporary Britain. 'The Left Behind' is a defining motif of contemporary British political discourse. It is the thread that knits together the 2016 Brexit referendum, the crumbling of the fabled 'Red Wall' in the North, and the pernicious culture war being waged today. But who are the Left Behind?

James Morrison goes in search of the reality behind the rhetoric, offering the first compr...