It is often assumed that Britain’s Conservatives are on the same journey as the US Republicans, shifting their voter base and political priorities downwards from the comfortable to the coping. There are certainly overlaps but the Republican shift seems driven more by culture, even ethnicity, than it is here. Indeed, the difference can be summed up in those two words Boris Johnson keeps repeating: levelling up.
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David Goodhart works at the Policy Exchange think tank and is author of Head, Hand, Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century (Penguin) now out in paperback.
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