This analysis appeared on YouTube shortly after the referendum result, and has subsequently been largely ignored. Although it was being broadcast a few days after the referendum it was based on a lot of study beforehand. So it isn't a political commentator trying to make a story to fill a column. It is a conclusion that the guy had already reached before the votes were counted.
I recommend having a look at it, but if you are short of time the thesis is basically that Tony Blair's highly successful attempt to marginalise the working class input into the Labour Party has left a large number of people feeling marginalised and excluded. Voting for Brexit is the first chance they have had to express an opinion, and they have used it to vote in exactly the opposite way to how the elites wanted them to.
It is quite a compelling case.
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