There were undoubtedly some Leavers who voted Labour, but the idea that it was Labour’s ‘core’ or ‘traditional’ voters turning against them is largely untrue. The more working class or blue collar Leavers were mostly people who rarely/never voted consistently at all, or they were blue collar Conservatives, who have always made up a significant chunk of the working class but never really voted Labour.

So, they sort of ‘look like’ a concept of traditional Labour voters, but the actual people were not Labour voters. Ironically, the actual Labour Leavers looked a lot more like Jeremy Corbyn: the old-school, often middle-class Bennites!