When will there be another right-wing insurgency?

Almost the whole of the British political class failed to understand that the rise of Ukip after the 2010 general election was not some fringe irrelevance but was in fact likely to have major consequences.

Academics Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin were two of a select band of political futurologists who were onto the Ukip advance early. By the time their insightful book Revolt on the Right was published, Ukip had already forced an EU referendum pledge out of David Cameron and the book was therefore read by many dumbfounded Westminster insiders as if it were a crammer for a module that had unaccountably not been covered in the standard curriculum.

Ukip’s arc rose and then fell away just as rapidly, and its brand is surely now too tarnished to allow it to be the vehicle for any new ‘Revolt on the Right’.

But the absence to date of any such sequel is both a curiosity and an important part of the contours of our politics.