A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Underdogs is a compelling, myth-busting account of white working-class Britain.
''Few books bring so much fresh thinking to tired arguments'' - Robert Ford, author of Brexitland
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No large group of people in Britain is as badly misunderstood as the white working class. Its members have been caricatured as grumpy and backward-looking, as incorrigibly xenophobic, even racist - a tired and simplistic narrative perpetuated by commentators and the media. The truth is entirely different.
Thirty years ago, almost nobody talked about the white working class: in the House of Commons and the House of Lords the term had been used just three times in the previous two decades. Brexit helped to turn the group into a towering social and political force. But, in the aftermath, one-third of the population has been reduced to a cartoon. A shrewder analysis is badly needed. Underdogs p
