It is increasingly said that the public are ‘disenfranchised’ with politics because of ‘liberal elitism’ over issues such as Europe and immigration. There is undoubtedly a degree of truth to this. Outside of London, the ubiquity in politics of what the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington has termed ‘Davos man’ – rich, cosmopolitan and intensely bourgeois in his tastes – has left many who still value concepts like national identity feeling alienated.
