Aditya Chakrabortty

If you were in London and I went out with the Greens in South London and what really struck me was the Green campaigners, the Green activists I was with, they were knocking on doors, but they weren't actually saying anything.

It was the voters who were volunteering their opinions about what they thought.

And there it was three things.

Gaza, why is this government complicit in the bombing of children?

Shabana McMood and immigration.

London's obviously about half visible ethnic minority now.

And so in South London, you were getting black and brown voters who were saying, I'm not voting for a party that's going to racially profile me out.

And that's a pretty big thing.

It struck me that people were talking about her in particular.

One of the key constituents of the Labour Party vote has been black and brown voters for the past 50 years.

And clearly black and brown voters are saying you can't count us anymore.

And then the third thing was housing, which is a big issue in London in all big cities.

If you get away from London, the people who...

Five, six years ago would have said they'd vote for Boris Johnson.

Now they're saying they're voting Nigel Farage.

And it's in the same spirit of everyone is a liar.

And if Nigel Farage is a liar, he can't be as bad as all the other liars we've already got.

So it's a kind of nihilism about the political process.

You're quite right to say that he basically came to power

both in the Labour Party and in the country by saying, look, I'm a grown up.