THERE is a wind of change blowing.

It may only be a gentle breeze in Ludlow, south Shropshire and Tenbury and Teme Valley but expect it to stiffen across the country and who knows what it might blow away before it’s done.

As the sun came up on Friday, June 9 all was very much as expected in Ludlow and West Worcestershire where Philip Dunne and Harriett Baldwin had predictably been returned to Parliament with resounding majorities.

But the real story was with the runner-up spot that went by a margin to Labour, albeit still miles behind the Conservatives, but clearly second in constituencies where they would be expected to come nowhere.

Accepted wisdom had been that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour would be trounced and humiliated nationally perhaps resulting in a realignment of the centre-left of British politics.

But not a bit of it, Labour achieved 40 per cent of the vote and its biggest increase since 1945, again albeit from a low base. But this was achieved with the most radical manifesto since the post-war Government of Clement Attlee that created the National Health Service.

Perhaps the worm has turned and people are have finally had enough of growing inequality, a country where the dice seem to have been increasingly loaded in favour of the privileged few who appear to be able to play by different rules than the rest of us.

This wind of change cannot just be put down to the usual suspects – the hard left - but is down to ordinary people such as those that can be found in the People for Ludlow movement, Churches Together in Ludlow and the Campaign for Fairness in the town.

Visit meetings of any of these groups but don’t expect to see a collection of Marxist revolutionaries but ordinary decent people, many of whom have done okay in life but have a social consciences and sense of fairness.

In the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London, the Queen and the Duke of Cambridge, who lives a short walk from the tower block, in Kensington Palace, paid a visit.

It may be a short walk but the people who lived in Grenfell Tower may just as well be in a different universe when it comes to their life chances.

This, of course, has nothing to do with ability, talent, work ethic or character but a simple matter of accident of birth.

Of course, no-one can be held to blame for the circumstances into which they are born.

But the massive inequalities that are found in the richest borough, in the fifth-largest economy in the world are a metaphor for the country in which we live.

Life is a relay-race and not a sprint and some people will always be dealt a better hand than others in this great game of chance that is life.

But is it so wrong that people like some of those in Ludlow should want something fairer and more equitable?

It looks as if more people in the country are starting to agree.